³ So Joshua and the whole army moved out to attack Ai. He chose thirty thousand of his best fighting men and sent them out at night

² for you know very well that the day of the Lord^(A) will come like a thief in the night.^(B)

⁶ “At midnight the cry rang out: ‘Here’s the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’

⁵⁰ The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of.

³⁹ and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.^(A)

¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come like a thief.^(A) The heavens will disappear with a roar;^(B) the elements will be destroyed by fire,^(C) and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare.^[a](D)