For those will be days of tribulation unseen from the beginning of God’s creation until now, and never to be seen again.
KJV
For [in] those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.
ASV
For those days shall be tribulation, such as there hath not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never shall be.
If the Lord had not cut short those days, nobody would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, whom He has chosen, He has cut them short.
KJV
And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect’s sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.
ASV
And except the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the elect’s sake, whom he chose, he shortened the days.