³ So Joshua and all the fighting men arose to go up to Ai. And Joshua chose 30,000 mighty men of valor and sent them out by night.

² For you yourselves are fully aware that ^(A)the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

⁶ But ^(A)at midnight there was a cry, ‘Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’

⁵⁰ the master of that servant will come ^(A)on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know

³⁹ and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, ^(A)so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

¹⁰ But ^(A)the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then ^(B)the heavens will pass away with a roar, and ^(C)the heavenly bodies^[a] will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.^[b]