¹² Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by?^(A)
Look and see!
Is there any pain like mine,
which was dealt out to me,
which the Lord made me suffer
on the day of his burning anger?^(B)

Michael,^(A) the great prince
who stands watch over your people, will rise up.
There will be a time of distress^(B)
such as never has occurred^(C)
since nations came into being until that time.^(D)
But at that time all your people
who are found written in the book^(E) will escape.^(F)

² Hear this,^(A) you elders;
listen, all you inhabitants of the land.
Has anything like this ever happened in your days^(B)
or in the days of your ancestors?