15Let no one on the housetop go down or enter the house to take anything out.16Let no one in the field go back to get their cloak.17How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers!18Pray that this will not take place in winter,
19because those will be days of distress unequaled from the beginning, when God created the world, until now—and never to be equaled again.20“If the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would survive. But for the sake of the elect, whom he has chosen, he has shortened them.