³¹ And you saw in the wilderness how the Lord your God carried you as a man carries his son all along the way you traveled until you reached this place.

⁷ For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands.^(A) He has watched over your journey through this immense wilderness. The Lord your God has been with you these past forty years, and you have lacked nothing.’^(B)

¹¹ From the time the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination of desolation^(A) is set up,^(B) there will be 1,290 days.

² But exclude the courtyard outside the temple.^(A) Don’t measure it, because it is given to the nations,^[a](B) and they will trample the holy city^(C) for forty-two months.^{(D) 3} I will grant^[b] my two witnesses authority to prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth.”^(E)

¹⁴ The woman was given two wings of a great eagle,^(A) so that she could fly from the serpent’s presence to her place in the wilderness, where she was nourished for a time, times, and half a time.^(B)

⁵ The beast was given a mouth to utter boasts and blasphemies.^(A) It was allowed to exercise authority^[a][b] for forty-two months.^(B)