Tribulation (see Matthew 24.9) belongs to the vocabulary of apocalyptic literature; the noun is first used in 13.21. “Trouble” (Good News Translation) and “suffering” are the most common ways to translate it. In some languages, however, it is not possible to use these terms in the abstract, and translators have to say “people will suffer more than at any other time since the beginning of the world.”

No, and never will be may be translated “and nothing as terrible as this will ever happen again.”

Quoted with permission from Newman, Barclay M. and Stine, Philip C. A Handbook on the Gospel of Matthew. (UBS Handbook Series). New York: UBS, 1988. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .