12 “And during that time Miʹcha·el*+ will stand up,+ the great prince*+ who is standing in behalf of the sons of your people.+ And there will certainly occur a time of distress such as has not been made to occur since there came to be a nation until that time.+ And during that time your people will escape,+ every one who is found written down in the book.+

2 It is a day of darkness and gloominess,+ a day of clouds and thick gloom, like light of dawn spread out upon the mountains.+

“There is a people numerous and mighty;+ one like it has not been made to exist from the indefinite past,+ and after it there will be none again to the years of generation after generation.

14 So right away I said to him: “My lord, you are the one that knows.” And he said to me: “These are the ones that come out of the great tribulation,+ and they have washed their robes and made them white+ in the blood+ of the Lamb.