³ So Joshua and all the fighting men set out to go up against Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand warriors and sent them out by night

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

⁶ But at midnight there was a shout, ‘Look! Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’

⁵⁰ the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour that he does not know.

³⁹ and they knew nothing until the flood came and swept them all away, so, too, will be the coming of the Son of Man.

¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be destroyed with fire, and the earth and everything that is done on it will be disclosed.^[a](A)