Y’all must not lose heart faint, and y’all must not fear the reports that will be heard in the land. For reports will come one year, and after that in another year news will come, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.
For one ethnic group will rise up against another ethnic group, and empire against empire. There will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines. These things are the beginning of birth pains.