Matthew 24:21-22 For there will then be great affliction, such as hath not happened from the beginning of the world till now: no, nor ever shall be.

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ²¹ For there will then be great affliction, such as hath not happened from the beginning of the world till now: no, nor ever shall be. ²² Indeed if those days were not shortened, no flesh could escape. But for the sake of the chosen, those days will be shortened.