Daniel 10 Cross References - BBE

¹ In the third year of Cyrus, king of Persia, a secret was unfolded to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, even a hard work: and he had knowledge of it, and the vision was clear to him. ² In those days I, Daniel, gave myself up to grief for three full weeks. ³ I had no pleasing food, no meat or wine came into my mouth, and I put no oil on my body till three full weeks were ended. ⁴ And on the twenty-fourth day of the first month I was by the side of the great river; ⁵ And lifting up my eyes I saw the form of a man clothed in a linen robe, and round him there was a band of gold, of the best gold: ⁶ And his body was like the beryl, and his face had the look of a thunder-flame, and his eyes were like burning lights, and his arms and feet like the colour of polished brass, and the sound of his voice was like the sound of an army. ⁷ And I, Daniel, was the only one who saw the vision, for the men who were with me did not see it; but a great shaking came on them and they went in flight to take cover. ⁸ So I was by myself, and I saw this great vision, and all my strength went from me; and the colour went from my face. ⁹ But the sound of his words came to my ears, and on hearing his voice I went into a deep sleep with my face to the earth. ¹⁰ Then a hand gave me a touch, awaking me, and putting me on my knees and my hands. ¹¹ And he said to me, O Daniel, you man dearly loved, take in the sense of the words I say to you and get up on to your feet: for to you I am now sent; and when he had said this to me I got on to my feet, shaking with fear. ¹² Then he said to me, Have no fear, Daniel; for from the first day when you gave your heart to getting wisdom and making yourself poor in spirit before your God, your words have come to his ears: and I have come because of your words. ¹³ But the angel of the kingdom of Persia put himself against me for twenty-one days; but Michael, one of the chief angels, came to my help; and when I came he was still there with the angel of the kings of Persia. ¹⁴ Now I have come to give you knowledge of the fate of your people in the later days; for there is still a vision for the days. ¹⁵ And after he had said these words to me, I kept my face turned to the earth and was unable to say anything. ¹⁶ Then one whose form was like the sons of men put his finger on my lips; and opening my mouth, I said to him who was before me, O my lord, because of the vision my pains have come on me, and I have no more strength. ¹⁷ For how may this servant of my lord have talk with my lord? for, as for me, straight away my strength went from me and there was no breath in my body. ¹⁸ Then again one having the form of a man put his hand on me and gave me strength. ¹⁹ And he said to me, O man greatly loved, have no fear: peace be with you, be strong and let your heart be lifted up. And at his words I became strong, and said, Let my lord say on, for you have given me strength. ²⁰ Then he said, It is clear to you why I have come to you. And now I will give you an account of what is recorded in the true writings: ²¹ But I am going back to make war with the angel of Persia, and when I am gone, the angel of Greece will come. And there is no one on my side against these, but Michael, your angel.

³² And this dream came to Pharaoh twice, because this thing is certain, and God will quickly make it come about.

²² Now in the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, in order that the words which the Lord had said by the mouth of Jeremiah might come true, the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia, was moved by the Lord, and he made a public statement and had it given out through all his kingdom and put in writing, saying,

⁷ And Cyrus the king got out the vessels of the house of the Lord which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from Jerusalem and put in the house of his gods; ⁸ Even these Cyrus made Mithredath, the keeper of his wealth, get out, and he gave them, after numbering them, to Sheshbazzar, the ruler of Judah.

⁷ And they gave money to the stoneworkers and woodworkers; and meat and drink and oil to the people of Zidon and of Tyre, for the transport of cedar-trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, as Cyrus, king of Persia, had given them authority to do.

³ But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the heads of families in Israel said to them, You have no part with us in the building of a house for our God; we ourselves will do the work together for the Lord, the God of Israel, as Cyrus, king of Persia, has given us orders.

⁵ And they gave payment to men who made designs against them and kept them from effecting their purpose, all through the time of Cyrus, king of Persia, till Darius became king.

¹³ But in the first year of Cyrus, king of Babylon, Cyrus the king gave an order for the building of this house of God; ¹⁴ And the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the Temple which was in Jerusalem, and put into the house of his god in Babylon, these Cyrus the king took from the house of his god in Babylon, and gave to one named Sheshbazzar, whom he had made ruler; ¹⁵ And he said to him, Go, take these vessels, and put them in the Temple in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be put up again in its place. ¹⁶ Then this same Sheshbazzar came and put the house of God in Jerusalem on its bases: and from that time till now the building has been going on, but it is still not complete. ¹⁷ So now, if it seems good to the king, let search be made in the king's store-house at Babylon, to see if it is true that an order was given by Cyrus the king for the building of this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send us word of his pleasure in connection with this business.

³ In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made an order: In connection with the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be put up, the place where they make offerings, and let the earth for the bases be put in place; let it be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide;

¹⁴ And the responsible men of the Jews went on with their building, and did well, helped by the teaching of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah, the son of Iddo. They went on building till it was complete, in keeping with the word of the God of Israel, and the orders given by Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes, king of Persia.

²⁸ Who says of Cyrus, He will take care of my sheep, and will do all my pleasure: who says of Jerusalem, I will give the word for your building; and of the Temple, Your bases will be put in place.

⁷ And the captain of the unsexed servants gave them names; to Daniel he gave the name of Belteshazzar, to Hananiah the name of Shadrach, to Mishael the name of Meshach, and to Azariah the name of Abed-nego.

¹⁷ Now as for these four young men, God gave them knowledge and made them expert in all book-learning and wisdom: and Daniel was wise in all visions and dreams.

²¹ And Daniel went on till the first year of King Cyrus.

²¹ By him times and years are changed: by him kings are taken away and kings are lifted up: he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those whose minds are awake:

⁸ But at last Daniel came in before me, he whose name was Belteshazzar, after the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods: and I put the dream before him, saying,

¹² Because a most special spirit, and knowledge and reason and the power of reading dreams and unfolding dark sayings and answering hard questions, were seen to be in him, even in Daniel named Belteshazzar by the king: now let Daniel be sent for, and he will make clear the sense of the writing.

¹⁷ Then Daniel made answer and said to the king, Keep your offerings for yourself, and give your rewards to another; but I, after reading the writing to the king, will give him the sense of it.

²⁸ So this Daniel did well in the kingdom of Darius and in the kingdom of Cyrus the Persian.

¹⁶ And the voice of a man came to my ears between the sides of the Ulai, crying out and saying, Gabriel, make the vision clear to this man.

²⁶ And the vision of evenings and mornings which has been talked of is true: and keep the vision secret; for it has to do with the far-off future.

²² And teaching me and talking to me he said, O Daniel, I have come now to give you wisdom. ²³ At the first word of your prayer a word went out, and I have come to give you knowledge; for you are a man dearly loved: so give thought to the word and let the vision be clear to you.

¹⁴ Now I have come to give you knowledge of the fate of your people in the later days; for there is still a vision for the days.

² And now I will make clear to you what is true. There are still three kings to come in Persia, and the fourth will have much greater wealth than all of them: and when he has become strong through his wealth, he will put his forces in motion against all the kingdoms of Greece.

⁴ But as for you, O Daniel, let the words be kept secret and the book rolled up and kept shut till the time of the end: numbers will be going out of the way and troubles will be increased.

⁹ And he said, Go on your way, Daniel: for the words are secret and shut up till the time of the end;

²⁰ Now, see, you will be without voice or language till the day when these things come about, because you had not faith in my words, which will have effect at the right time.

⁹ And he said to me, Put in the book, Happy are the guests at the bride-feast of the Lamb. And he said to me, These are the true words of God.

⁴ Then everyone who went in fear of the words of the God of Israel, because of the sin of those who had come back, came together to me; and I kept where I was, overcome with grief, till the evening offering. ⁵ And at the evening offering, having made myself low before God, I got up, and with signs of grief, falling down on my knees, with my hands stretched out to the Lord my God,

⁴ Then, after hearing these words, for some days I gave myself up to weeping and sorrow, seated on the earth; and taking no food I made prayer to the God of heaven,

⁹ I will say to God my Rock, Why have you let me go from your memory? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

² You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

¹ By the rivers of Babylon we were seated, weeping at the memory of Zion, ² Hanging our instruments of music on the trees by the waterside. ³ For there those who had taken us prisoners made request for a song; and those who had taken away all we had gave us orders to be glad, saying, Give us one of the songs of Zion. ⁴ How may we give the Lord's song in a strange land? ⁵ If I keep not your memory, O Jerusalem, let not my right hand keep the memory of its art.

¹⁰ Have joy with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you her lovers: take part in her joy, all you who are sorrowing for her:

¹ If only my head was a stream of waters and my eyes fountains of weeping, so that I might go on weeping day and night for the dead of the daughter of my people!

²⁴ Seventy weeks have been fixed for your people and your holy town, to let wrongdoing be complete and sin come to its full limit, and for the clearing away of evil-doing and the coming in of eternal righteousness: so that the vision and the word of the prophet may be stamped as true, and to put the holy oil on a most holy place. ²⁵ Have then the certain knowledge that from the going out of the word for the building again of Jerusalem till the coming of a prince, on whom the holy oil has been put, will be seven weeks: in sixty-two weeks its building will be complete, with square and earthwork. ²⁶ And at the end of the times, even after the sixty-two weeks, one on whom the holy oil has been put will be cut off and have no (UNTRANSLATED TEXT);and the town and the holy place will be made waste together with a prince; and the end will come with an overflowing of waters, and even to the end there will be war; the making waste which has been fixed. ²⁷ And a strong order will be sent out against the great number for one week; and so for half of the week the offering and the meal offering will come to an end; and in its place will be an unclean thing causing fear; till the destruction which has been fixed is let loose on him who has made waste.

¹⁵ And Jesus said to them, Will the friends of the newly-married man be sad as long as he is with them? But the days will come when he will be taken away from them, and then will they go without food.

² That I am full of sorrow and pain without end.

⁹ Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.

⁵ And if any man would do them damage, fire comes out of their mouth and puts an end to those who are working against them: and if any man has a desire to do them damage, in this way will he be put to death.

²⁴ And Mephibosheth, the son of Saul's son, came down for the purpose of meeting the king; his feet had not been cared for or his hair cut or his clothing washed from the day when the king went away till the day when he came back in peace.

²⁰ He has no desire for food, and his soul is turned away from delicate meat;

⁶ For this cause the earth is given up to the curse, and those in it are judged as sinners: for this cause those living on the earth are burned up, and the rest are small in number. ⁷ The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the glad-hearted make sounds of grief. ⁸ The pleasing sound of all instruments of music has come to an end, and the voices of those who are glad. ⁹ There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who take it. ¹⁰ The town is waste and broken down: every house is shut up, so that no man may come in. ¹¹ There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; there is an end of all delight, the joy of the land is gone.

¹⁸ Then the king went to his great house, and took no food that night, and no (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) were placed before him, and his sleep went from him.

⁸ And their gods and their metal images and their fair vessels of silver and gold he will take away into the south; and for some years he will keep away from the king of the north.

¹¹ So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.

⁹ Take silver, take gold; for there is no end to the store; take for yourselves a weight of things to be desired.

¹⁷ But when you go without food, put oil on your head and make your face clean;

²⁷ But I give blows to my body, and keep it under control, for fear that, after having given the good news to others, I myself might not have God's approval.

¹⁴ And the name of the third river is Tigris, which goes to the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

³ The word of the Lord came to me, Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldaeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the Lord was on me there.

² And I saw in the vision; and when I saw it, I was in the strong town Shushan, which is in the country of Elam; and in the vision I was by the water-door of the Ulai.

¹³ Now when Joshua was near Jericho, lifting up his eyes he saw a man in front of him, with his sword uncovered in his hand: and Joshua went up to him and said, Are you for us or against us?

⁵ And righteousness will be the cord of his robe, and good faith the band round his breast.

⁹ Silver hammered into plates is sent from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the expert workman and of the hands of the gold-worker; blue and purple is their clothing, all the work of expert men.

² And six men came from the way of the higher doorway looking to the north, every man with his axe in his hand: and one man among them was clothed in linen, with a writer's inkpot at his side. And they went in and took their places by the brass altar.

⁶ And I said to the man clothed in linen, who was over the waters of the river, How long will it be to the end of these wonders? ⁷ Then in my hearing the man clothed in linen, who was over the river, lifting up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, took an oath by him who is living for ever that it would be a time, times, and a half; and when the power of the crusher of the holy people comes to an end, all these things will be ended.

⁸ I saw in the night a man on a red horse, between the mountains in the valley, and at his back were horses, red, black, white, and of mixed colours.

¹⁴ Take your place, then, having your body clothed with the true word, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness;

¹³ And in the middle of them one like a son of man, clothed with a robe down to his feet, and with a band of gold round his breasts. ¹⁴ And his head and his hair were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; ¹⁵ And his feet like polished brass, as if it had been burned in a fire; and his voice was as the sound of great waters.

⁶ And the seven angels who had the seven punishments came out from the house of God, clothed with linen, clean and bright and with bands of gold about their breasts. ⁷ And one of the four beasts gave to the seven angels seven gold vessels full of the wrath of God, who is living for ever and ever.

²⁰ The fourth, a topaz, a beryl, and a jasper; they are to be fixed in twisted frames of gold.

⁷ And their feet were straight feet; and the under sides of their feet were like the feet of oxen; and they were shining like polished brass.

¹⁴ And the living beings went out and came back as quickly as a thunder-flame.

¹⁶ The form of the wheels and their work was like a beryl; the four of them had the same form and design, and they were like a wheel inside a wheel.

²⁴ And when they went, the sound of their wings was like the sound of great waters to my ears, like the voice of the Ruler of all, a sound like the rushing of an army: when they came to rest they let down their wings.

⁹ And looking, I saw four wheels by the side of the winged ones, one wheel by the side of a winged one and another wheel by the side of another: and the wheels were like the colour of a beryl stone to the eye.

² And he was changed in form before them; and his face was shining like the sun, and his clothing became white as light.

²⁹ And while he was in prayer, his face was changed and his clothing became white and shining.

¹³ And in the middle of them one like a son of man, clothed with a robe down to his feet, and with a band of gold round his breasts. ¹⁴ And his head and his hair were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; ¹⁵ And his feet like polished brass, as if it had been burned in a fire; and his voice was as the sound of great waters. ¹⁶ And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword: and his face was like the sun shining in its strength. ¹⁷ And when I saw him, I went down on my face at his feet as one dead. And he put his right hand on me, saying, Have no fear; I am the first and the last and the Living one;

¹ And I saw another strong angel coming down out of heaven, clothed with a cloud; and an arch of coloured light was round his head, and his face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire;

³ And he gave a loud cry, like the angry voice of a lion: and at his cry the voices of the seven thunders were sounding. ⁴ And when the seven thunders had given out their voices, I was about to put their words down: and a voice from heaven came to my ears, saying, Keep secret the things which the seven thunders said, and do not put them in writing.

¹² And his eyes are a flame of fire, and crowns are on his head; and he has a name in writing, of which no man has knowledge but himself.

²⁰ The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst.

¹⁰ And he said, Hearing your voice in the garden I was full of fear, because I was without clothing: and I kept myself from your eyes.

¹⁷ Then Elisha made a prayer to the Lord, saying, Lord, let his eyes be open so that he may see. And the Lord made the young man's eyes open; and he saw that all the mountain was full of horses and carriages of fire round Elisha. ¹⁸ Now when the Aramaeans came down to Elisha, he made a prayer to the Lord saying, Lord, make this people blind. And he made them blind at Elisha's request. ¹⁹ And Elisha said to them, This is not the way, and this is not the town: come after me so that I may take you to the man you are searching for. And he took them to Samaria. ²⁰ And when they had come into Samaria, Elisha said, Lord, let the eyes of these men be open so that they may see. And the Lord made their eyes open, and they saw that they were in the middle of Samaria.

¹⁰ Go into a hole in the rock, covering yourselves with dust, in fear of the Lord, before the glory of his power.

²⁴ In what secret place may a man take cover without my seeing him? says the Lord. Is there any place in heaven or earth where I am not? says the Lord.

¹⁸ Son of man, take your food with shaking fear, and your water with trouble and care;

⁷ And the men who were with him were not able to say anything; hearing the voice, but seeing no one.

⁹ And those who were with me saw the light, but the voice of him who was talking to me came not to their ears.

²¹ And the vision was so overpowering that even Moses said, I am shaking and full of fear.

²⁴ Then Jacob was by himself; and a man was fighting with him till dawn. ²⁵ But when the man saw that he was not able to overcome Jacob, he gave him a blow in the hollow part of his leg, so that his leg was damaged.

³¹ And while he was going past Peniel, the sun came up. And he went with unequal steps because of his damaged leg.

³ And Moses said, I will go and see this strange thing, why the tree is not burned up,

²⁸ Here is the end of the account. As for me, Daniel, I was greatly troubled by my thoughts, and the colour went from my face: but I kept the thing in my heart.

⁷ And I saw him come right up to the sheep, and he was moved with wrath against him, attacking the sheep so that his two horns were broken; and the sheep had not strength to keep his place before him, but was pushed down on the earth and crushed under his feet: and there was no one to get the sheep out of his power.

²⁷ And I, Daniel, was ill for some days; then I got up and did the king's business: and I was full of wonder at the vision, but no one was able to give the sense of it.

¹⁶ Hearing it, my inner parts were moved, and my lips were shaking at the sound; my bones became feeble, and my steps were uncertain under me: I gave sounds of grief in the day of trouble, when his forces came up against the people in bands.

⁶ And at these words the disciples went down on their faces in great fear.

⁶ Because he was not certain what to say, for they were in great fear.

³² See, a time is coming, yes, it is now here, when you will go away in all directions, every man to his house, and I will be by myself: but I am not by myself, because the Father is with me.

² I have knowledge of a man in Christ, fourteen years back if he was in the body, or out of the body, I am not able to say, but God only, who was taken up to the third heaven. ³ And I have knowledge of such a man if he was in the body, or out of the body, I am not able to say, but God only,

⁷ And because the revelations were so very great, in order that I might not be overmuch lifted up, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, one sent from Satan to give me pain.

¹⁷ And when I saw him, I went down on my face at his feet as one dead. And he put his right hand on me, saying, Have no fear; I am the first and the last and the Living one;

²¹ And the Lord God sent a deep sleep on the man, and took one of the bones from his side while he was sleeping, joining up the flesh again in its place:

¹² Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep came on Abram, and a dark cloud of fear.

¹³ In troubled thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep comes on men,

¹⁵ In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep comes on men, while they take their rest on their beds;

² I am sleeping, but my heart is awake; it is the sound of my loved one at the door, saying, Be open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my very beautiful one; my head is wet with dew, and my hair with the drops of the night.

¹⁸ Now while he was talking to me, I went into a deep sleep with my face to the earth: but touching me, he put me on my feet where I had been.

³² Now Peter and those who were with him were overcome with sleep: but when they were fully awake, they saw his glory and the two men who were with him.

⁴⁵ And, getting up from prayer, he came to the disciples, and saw that they were sleeping for sorrow.

⁹ Then the Lord put out his hand, touching my mouth; and the Lord said to me, See, I have put my words in your mouth:

²¹ Even while I was still in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at first when my weariness was great, put his hand on me about the time of the evening offering.

¹⁶ Then one whose form was like the sons of men put his finger on my lips; and opening my mouth, I said to him who was before me, O my lord, because of the vision my pains have come on me, and I have no more strength.

¹⁸ Then again one having the form of a man put his hand on me and gave me strength.

¹⁴ Fear came on me and shaking, and my bones were full of trouble; ¹⁵ And a breath was moving over my face; the hair of my flesh became stiff: ¹⁶ Something was present before me, but I was not able to see it clearly; there was a form before my eyes: a quiet voice came to my ears, saying:

¹ At this my heart is shaking; it is moved out of its place.

¹¹ So will the king have a great desire for you, seeing how beautiful you are; because he is your lord, give him honour.

¹⁰ I am for my loved one, and his desire is for me.

¹ And he said to me, Son of man, get up on your feet, so that I may say words to you.

¹⁶ And the voice of a man came to my ears between the sides of the Ulai, crying out and saying, Gabriel, make the vision clear to this man. ¹⁷ So he came and took his place near where I was; and when he came, I was full of fear and went down on my face: but he said to me, Let it be clear to you, O son of man; for the vision has to do with the time of the end.

³ I had no pleasing food, no meat or wine came into my mouth, and I put no oil on my body till three full weeks were ended.

¹⁹ And he said to me, O man greatly loved, have no fear: peace be with you, be strong and let your heart be lifted up. And at his words I became strong, and said, Let my lord say on, for you have given me strength.

⁸ And they went out quickly from the place, because fear and great wonder had come on them: and they said nothing to anyone, because they were full of fear that (UNTRANSLATED TEXT)

²³ There was at table one of his disciples, the one dear to Jesus, resting his head on Jesus' breast.

²⁰ Then Peter, turning round, saw the disciple who was dear to Jesus coming after them--the disciple who was resting on his breast at the last meal, and said, Lord, who is it who will be false to you?

⁶ But get up, and go into the town, and it will be made clear to you what you have to do.

¹⁶ But get up on your feet: for I have come to you for this purpose, to make you a servant and a witness of the things in which you have seen me, and of those in which you will see me;

²⁹ And let this be an order to you for ever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day, you are to keep yourselves from pleasure and do no sort of work, those who are Israelites by birth and those from other lands who are living among you:

³¹ It is a special Sabbath for you, and you are to keep yourselves from pleasure; it is an order for ever.

⁷ And on the tenth day of this seventh month there will be a holy meeting; keep yourselves from pleasure, and do no sort of work;

¹⁰ My bitter weeping, and my going without food, were turned to my shame.

⁴ Say to those who are full of fear, Be strong and take heart: see, your God will give punishment; the reward of God will come; he himself will come to be your saviour.

¹⁰ Have no fear, for I am with you; do not be looking about in trouble, for I am your God; I will give you strength, yes, I will be your helper; yes, my true right hand will be your support.

¹⁴ Have no fear, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I will be your helper, says the Lord, even he who takes up your cause, the Holy One of Israel.

⁹ Then at the sound of your voice, the Lord will give an answer; at your cry he will say, Here am I. If you take away from among you the yoke, the putting out of the finger of shame, and the evil word;

²⁴ And before they make their request I will give an answer, and while they are still making prayer to me, I will give ear.

³ And turning my face to the Lord God, I gave myself up to prayer, requesting his grace, going without food, in haircloth and dust. ⁴ And I made prayer to the Lord my God, putting our sins before him, and said, O Lord, the great God, greatly to be feared. keeping your agreement and mercy with those who have love for you and do your orders;

²⁰ And while I was still saying these words in prayer, and putting my sins and the sins of my people Israel before the Lord, and requesting grace from the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God; ²¹ Even while I was still in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at first when my weariness was great, put his hand on me about the time of the evening offering.

² In those days I, Daniel, gave myself up to grief for three full weeks. ³ I had no pleasing food, no meat or wine came into my mouth, and I put no oil on my body till three full weeks were ended.

¹¹ And he said to me, O Daniel, you man dearly loved, take in the sense of the words I say to you and get up on to your feet: for to you I am now sent; and when he had said this to me I got on to my feet, shaking with fear.

⁵ And the angel said to the women, Have no fear: for I see that you are searching for Jesus, who was put to death on the cross.

¹⁰ Then said Jesus to them, Have no fear: go and give word to my brothers to go into Galilee, and there they will see me.

⁶ And he said to them, Do not be troubled: you are looking for Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been put to death on the cross; he has come back from the dead; he is not here: see, the place where they put him!

¹³ But the angel said, Have no fear, Zacharias, for your prayer has come to the ears of God, and your wife Elisabeth will have a son, and his name will be John.

³⁰ And the angel said to her, Have no fear, Mary, for you have God's approval.

¹⁰ And the angel said, Have no fear; for truly, I give you good news of great joy which will be for all the people:

³⁸ And he said to them, Why are you troubled, and why are your hearts full of doubt?

³ He saw in a vision, clearly, at about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of the Lord coming to him and saying to him, Cornelius! ⁴ And he, looking on him in fear, said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Your prayers and your offerings have come up to God, and he has kept them in mind. ⁵ Now send men to Joppa, and get one Simon, named Peter,

³⁰ And Cornelius said, Four days from now I was in my house in prayer at the ninth hour; and I saw before me a man in shining clothing, ³¹ Who said, Cornelius, your prayer has come to the ears of God, and your offerings are kept in his memory.

⁹ And the Lord said to Paul in the night, in a vision, Have no fear and go on preaching: ¹⁰ For I am with you, and no one will make an attack on you to do you damage: for I have a number of people in this town.

²⁴ Saying, Have no fear, Paul, for you will come before Caesar, and God has given to you all those who are sailing with you.

⁴ Then the people of the land made the hands of the people of Judah feeble, troubling them with fear in their building; ⁵ And they gave payment to men who made designs against them and kept them from effecting their purpose, all through the time of Cyrus, king of Persia, till Darius became king. ⁶ And in the time of Ahasuerus, when he first became king, they put on record a statement against the people of Judah and Jerusalem.

²⁴ So the work of the house of God at Jerusalem came to an end; so it was stopped, till the second year of the rule of Darius, king of Persia.

²⁰ Then he said, It is clear to you why I have come to you. And now I will give you an account of what is recorded in the true writings: ²¹ But I am going back to make war with the angel of Persia, and when I am gone, the angel of Greece will come. And there is no one on my side against these, but Michael, your angel.

¹ And at that time Michael will take up his place, the great angel, who is the supporter of the children of your people: and there will be a time of trouble, such as there never was from the time there was a nation even till that same time: and at that time your people will be kept safe, everyone who is recorded in the book.

¹ And he let me see Joshua, the high priest, in his place before the angel of the Lord, and the Satan at his right hand ready to take up a cause against him. ² And the Lord said to the Satan, May the Lord's word be sharp against you, O Satan, the word of the Lord who has taken Jerusalem for himself: is this not a burning branch pulled out of the fire?

¹² For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against authorities and powers, against the world-rulers of this dark night, against the spirits of evil in the heavens.

¹⁰ And you are complete in him, who is the head of all rule and authority:

¹⁸ For which reason we made attempts to come to you, even I, Paul, once and again; but Satan kept us from coming.

²² Who has gone into heaven, and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been put under his rule.

⁹ Now when Michael, one of the chief angels, was fighting against the Evil One for the body of Moses, fearing to make use of violent words against him, he only said, May the Lord be your judge.

⁷ And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels going out to the fight with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels made war,

¹ And Jacob sent for his sons, and said, Come together, all of you, so that I may give you news of your fate in future times.

³⁰ When you are in trouble and all these things have come on you, if, in the future, you are turned again to the Lord your God, and give ear to his voice:

²¹ Then when evils and troubles without number have overtaken them, this song will be a witness to them, for the words of it will be clear in the memories of their children: for I see the thoughts which are moving in their hearts even now, before I have taken them into the land of my oath.

² And it will come about in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord will be placed on the top of the mountains, and be lifted up over the hills; and all nations will come to it.

²⁸ But there is a God in heaven, the unveiler of secrets, and he has given to King Nebuchadnezzar knowledge of what will take place in the last days. Your dreams and the visions of your head on your bed are these:

²² And teaching me and talking to me he said, O Daniel, I have come now to give you wisdom.

¹ In the third year of Cyrus, king of Persia, a secret was unfolded to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, even a hard work: and he had knowledge of it, and the vision was clear to him.

⁵ And after that, the children of Israel will come back and go in search of the Lord their God and David their king; and they will come in fear to the Lord and to his mercies in the days to come.

¹ But in the last days it will come about that the mountain of the Lord's house will be placed on the top of the mountains, and be lifted up over the hills; and peoples will be flowing to it.

³ For the vision is still for the fixed time, and it is moving quickly to the end, and it will not be false: even if it is slow in coming, go on waiting for it; because it will certainly come, it will not be kept back.

¹ But be certain of this, that in the last days times of trouble will come.

³ What will come on us, if we do not give our minds to such a great salvation? a salvation of which our fathers first had knowledge through the words of the Lord, and which was made certain to us by those to whom his words came;

²⁷ In that day your mouth will be open to him who has got away safe, and you will say words to him and your lips will no longer be shut: so you will be a sign to them and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

²² Now the hand of the Lord had been on me in the evening, before the man who had got away came to me; and he made my mouth open, ready for his coming to me in the morning; and my mouth was open and I was no longer without voice.

⁹ But the sound of his words came to my ears, and on hearing his voice I went into a deep sleep with my face to the earth.

¹⁰ And Moses said to the Lord, O Lord, I am not a man of words; I have never been so, and am not now, even after what you have said to your servant: for talking is hard for me, and I am slow of tongue.

¹³ And he said, O Lord, send, if you will, by the hand of anyone whom it seems good to you to send.

¹⁴ And he said, No; but I have come as captain of the armies of the Lord. Then Joshua, falling down with his face to the earth in worship, said, What has my lord to say to his servant?

¹³ Then Gideon said to him, O my lord, if the Lord is with us why has all this come on us? And where are all his works of power, of which our fathers have given us word, saying, Did not the Lord take us out of Egypt? But now he has given us up, handing us over to the power of Midian.

¹⁵ And he said to him, O Lord, how may I be the saviour of Israel? See, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.

⁸ Then Manoah made prayer to the Lord, and said, O Lord, let the man of God whom you sent come to us again and make clear to us what we are to do for the child who is to come.

¹⁸ Because in much wisdom is much grief, and increase of knowledge is increase of sorrow.

⁷ And after touching my mouth with it, he said, See, your lips have been touched with this; and your evil is taken away, and you are made clean from sin.

²⁶ And on the top of the arch which was over their heads was the form of a king's seat, like a sapphire stone; and on the form of the seat was the form of a man seated on it on high.

²⁷ But when I have talk with you I will make your mouth open, and you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Let the hearer give ear; and as for him who will not, let him keep his ears shut: for they are an uncontrolled people.

¹⁵ As for me, Daniel, my spirit was pained because of this, and the visions of my head were troubling me.

¹⁵ And it came about that when I, Daniel, had seen this vision, I had a desire for the sense of it to be unfolded; and I saw one before me in the form of a man.

¹⁷ So he came and took his place near where I was; and when he came, I was full of fear and went down on my face: but he said to me, Let it be clear to you, O son of man; for the vision has to do with the time of the end.

⁵ And lifting up my eyes I saw the form of a man clothed in a linen robe, and round him there was a band of gold, of the best gold: ⁶ And his body was like the beryl, and his face had the look of a thunder-flame, and his eyes were like burning lights, and his arms and feet like the colour of polished brass, and the sound of his voice was like the sound of an army.

⁸ So I was by myself, and I saw this great vision, and all my strength went from me; and the colour went from my face. ⁹ But the sound of his words came to my ears, and on hearing his voice I went into a deep sleep with my face to the earth. ¹⁰ Then a hand gave me a touch, awaking me, and putting me on my knees and my hands.

¹⁷ For how may this servant of my lord have talk with my lord? for, as for me, straight away my strength went from me and there was no breath in my body. ¹⁸ Then again one having the form of a man put his hand on me and gave me strength.

⁸ And the words came to my ears, but the sense of them was not clear to me: then I said, O my lord, what is the sense of these things?

⁶⁴ And straight away his mouth was open and his tongue was free and he gave praise to God.

¹⁵ For I will give you words and wisdom, so that not one of those who are against you will be able to get the better of you, or to put you in the wrong.

²⁸ And Thomas said in answer, My Lord and my God!

⁷ But he made himself as nothing, taking the form of a servant, being made like men; ⁸ And being seen in form as a man, he took the lowest place, and let himself be put to death, even the death of the cross.

¹³ And in the middle of them one like a son of man, clothed with a robe down to his feet, and with a band of gold round his breasts.

²⁰ And you are to say further, Jacob, your servant, is coming after us. For he said to himself, I will take away his wrath by the offering which I have sent on, and then I will come before him: it may be that I will have grace in his eyes.

¹⁰ And they saw the God of Israel; and under his feet there was, as it seemed, a jewelled floor, clear as the heavens. ¹¹ And he put not his hand on the chiefs of the children of Israel: they saw God, and took food and drink.

²⁰ But it is not possible for you to see my face, for no man may see me and still go on living.

²² Then Gideon was certain that he was the angel of the Lord; and Gideon said, I am in fear, O Lord God! for I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face.

²¹ But the angel of the Lord was seen no more by Manoah and his wife. Then it was clear to Manoah that he was the angel of the Lord. ²² And Manoah said to his wife, Death will certainly be our fate, for it is a god whom we have seen. ²³ But his wife said to him, If the Lord was purposing our death, he would not have taken our burned offering and our meal offering, or have given us such orders about the child.

¹ In the year of King Uzziah's death I saw the Lord seated in his place, high and lifted up, and the Temple was full of the wide skirts of his robe. ² Over him were the winged ones: every one had six wings; two for covering his face, two for covering his feed, and two for flight. ³ And one said in a loud voice to another, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of armies: all the earth is full of his glory. ⁴ And the bases of the door-pillars were shaking at the sound of his cry, and the house was full of smoke. ⁵ Then I said, The curse is on me, and my fate is destruction; for I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of armies.

⁴³ He says to them, How then does David in the Spirit give him the name of Lord, saying, ⁴⁴ The Lord said to my Lord, Be seated at my right hand, till I put under your feet all those who are against you?

³⁶ David himself said in the Holy Spirit, The Lord said to my Lord, Be seated at my right hand, till I put those who are against you under your feet.

¹⁸ No man has seen God at any time; the only Son, who is on the breast of the Father, he has made clear what God is.

¹⁵ And David was full of fear, in the knowledge that Saul had come out to take his life; and David was in the waste land of Ziph, in Horesh.

⁵ I might give you strength with my mouth, and not keep back the comfort of my lips.

⁶ Would he make use of his great power to overcome me? No, but he would give attention to me.

³ Make strong the feeble hands, give support to the shaking knees. ⁴ Say to those who are full of fear, Be strong and take heart: see, your God will give punishment; the reward of God will come; he himself will come to be your saviour.

¹⁰ Then a hand gave me a touch, awaking me, and putting me on my knees and my hands.

³² But I have made prayer for you, that your faith may not go from you: and when you are turned again, make your brothers strong.

⁴³ And an angel from heaven came to him, to give him strength.

²³ And having been there for some time, he went through the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, making the disciples strong in the faith.

⁹ And he said to me, My grace is enough for you, for my power is made complete in what is feeble. Most gladly, then, will I take pride in my feeble body, so that the power of Christ may be on me. ¹⁰ So I take pleasure in being feeble, in unkind words, in needs, in cruel attacks, in troubles, on account of Christ: for when I am feeble, then am I strong.

¹⁶ That in the wealth of his glory he would make you strong with power through his Spirit in your hearts;

¹³ I am able to do all things through him who gives me strength.

¹¹ Full of strength in the measure of the great power of his glory, so that you may undergo all troubles with joy;

⁶ Take heart and be strong; for you will give to this people for their heritage the land which I gave by an oath to their fathers. ⁷ Only take heart and be very strong; take care to do all the law which Moses my servant gave you, not turning from it to the right hand or to the left, so that you may do well in all your undertakings.

⁹ Have I not given you your orders? Take heart and be strong; have no fear and do not be troubled; for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go,

²³ But the Lord said to him, Peace be with you; have no fear: you are in no danger of death.

⁹ So Eli said to Samuel, Go back: and if the voice comes again, let your answer be, Say on, Lord; for the ears of your servant are open. So Samuel went back to his bed. ¹⁰ Then the Lord came and said as before, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel made answer, Say on, Lord; for the ears of your servant are open.

³ When my cry came to your ears you gave me an answer, and made me great with strength in my soul.

¹ But now, says the Lord your Maker, O Jacob, and your life-giver, O Israel: have no fear, for I have taken up your cause; naming you by your name, I have made you mine. ² When you go through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not go over you: when you go through the fire, you will not be burned; and the flame will have no power over you.

²³ At the first word of your prayer a word went out, and I have come to give you knowledge; for you are a man dearly loved: so give thought to the word and let the vision be clear to you.

¹¹ And he said to me, O Daniel, you man dearly loved, take in the sense of the words I say to you and get up on to your feet: for to you I am now sent; and when he had said this to me I got on to my feet, shaking with fear. ¹² Then he said to me, Have no fear, Daniel; for from the first day when you gave your heart to getting wisdom and making yourself poor in spirit before your God, your words have come to his ears: and I have come because of your words.

⁴ But now be strong, O Zerubbabel, says the Lord; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest; and be strong, all you people of the land, says the Lord, and get to work: for I am with you, says the Lord of armies:

⁹ This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your hands be strong, you who are now hearing these words from the mouths of the prophets, that is to say, in the days when the base of the house of the Lord of armies has been put in place for the building of the house, that is the Temple.

¹³ And it will come about that, as you were a curse among the nations, O children of Judah and children of Israel, so I will give you salvation and you will be a blessing: have no fear and let your hands be strong.

³⁶ And while they were saying these things, he himself was among them, and said to them, Peace be with you! ³⁷ But they were full of fear, being of the opinion that they were seeing a spirit. ³⁸ And he said to them, Why are you troubled, and why are your hearts full of doubt?

³ So the sisters sent to him, saying, Lord, your dear friend is ill.

⁵ Now Jesus had love in his heart for Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

³⁶ So the Jews said, See how dear he was to him!

²⁷ May peace be with you; my peace I give to you: I give it not as the world gives. Let not your heart be troubled; let it be without fear.

⁹ Even as the Father has given me his love, so I have given my love to you: be ever in my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my laws, you will be ever in my love, even as I have kept my Father's laws, and am ever in his love. ¹¹ I have said these things to you so that I may have joy in you and so that your joy may be complete. ¹² This is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for you. ¹³ Greater love has no man than this, that a man gives up his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do.

³³ I have said all these things to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble: but take heart! I have overcome the world.

²⁶ So when Jesus saw his mother and the disciple who was dear to him, he said to his mother, Mother, there is your son!

¹³ Be on the watch, unmoved in the faith, and be strong like men.

⁹ And he said to me, My grace is enough for you, for my power is made complete in what is feeble. Most gladly, then, will I take pride in my feeble body, so that the power of Christ may be on me.

¹⁰ Lastly, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his power.

¹ So then, my child, be strong in the grace which is in Christ Jesus.

³⁶ And the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men: and when the people got up early in the morning, there was nothing to be seen but dead bodies.

⁶ After this I saw another beast, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings like those of a bird; and the beast had four heads, and the power of a ruler was given to it.

⁵ And while I was giving thought to this, I saw a he-goat coming from the west over the face of all the earth without touching the earth: and the he-goat had a great horn between his eyes. ⁶ And he came to the two-horned sheep which I saw before the stream, rushing at him in the heat of his power. ⁷ And I saw him come right up to the sheep, and he was moved with wrath against him, attacking the sheep so that his two horns were broken; and the sheep had not strength to keep his place before him, but was pushed down on the earth and crushed under his feet: and there was no one to get the sheep out of his power. ⁸ And the he-goat became very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken, and in its place came up four other horns turned to the four winds of heaven.

²¹ And the he-goat is the king of Greece: and the great horn between his eyes is the first king.

¹³ But the angel of the kingdom of Persia put himself against me for twenty-one days; but Michael, one of the chief angels, came to my help; and when I came he was still there with the angel of the kings of Persia.

² And now I will make clear to you what is true. There are still three kings to come in Persia, and the fourth will have much greater wealth than all of them: and when he has become strong through his wealth, he will put his forces in motion against all the kingdoms of Greece. ³ And a strong king will come to power, ruling with great authority and doing whatever is his pleasure. ⁴ And when he has become strong, his kingdom will be broken and parted to the four winds of heaven; but not to his offspring, for it will be uprooted; and his kingdom will be for the others and not for these: but not with the same authority as his.

²³ And straight away the angel of the Lord sent a disease on him, because he did not give the glory to God: and his flesh was wasted away by worms, and so he came to his end.

²² Let the future be made clear to us: give us news of the past things, so that we may give thought to them; or of the things to come, so that we may see if they are true. ²³ Give us word of what will be after this, so that we may be certain that you are gods: yes, do good or do evil, so that we may all see it and be surprised.

⁸ Send out the blind people who have eyes, and those who have ears, but they are shut. ⁹ Let all the nations come together, and let the peoples be present: who among them is able to make this clear, and give us word of earlier things? let their witnesses come forward, so that they may be seen to be true, and that they may give ear, and say, It is true.

²⁵ Have then the certain knowledge that from the going out of the word for the building again of Jerusalem till the coming of a prince, on whom the holy oil has been put, will be seven weeks: in sixty-two weeks its building will be complete, with square and earthwork.

¹ And as for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede I was on his side to make his position safe and make him strong. ² And now I will make clear to you what is true. There are still three kings to come in Persia, and the fourth will have much greater wealth than all of them: and when he has become strong through his wealth, he will put his forces in motion against all the kingdoms of Greece. ³ And a strong king will come to power, ruling with great authority and doing whatever is his pleasure. ⁴ And when he has become strong, his kingdom will be broken and parted to the four winds of heaven; but not to his offspring, for it will be uprooted; and his kingdom will be for the others and not for these: but not with the same authority as his. ⁵ And the king of the south will be strong, but one of his captains will be stronger than he and will be ruler; and his rule will be a great rule. ⁶ And at the end of years they will be joined together; and the daughter of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she will not keep the strength of her arm; and his offspring will not keep their place; but she will be uprooted, with those who were the cause of her coming, and her son, and he who took her in those times. ⁷ But out of a branch from her roots one will come up to take his place, who will come against the army, forcing his way into the strong place of the king of the north, and he will take them in hand and overcome them: ⁸ And their gods and their metal images and their fair vessels of silver and gold he will take away into the south; and for some years he will keep away from the king of the north. ⁹ And he will come into the kingdom of the king of the south, but he will go back to his land. ¹⁰ And his son will make war, and will get together an army of great forces, and he will make an attack on him, overflowing and going past: and he will again take the war even to his strong place. ¹¹ And the king of the south will be moved with wrath, and will come out and make war on him, on this same king of the north: and he will get together a great army, but the army will be given into his hand. ¹² And the army will be taken away, and his heart will be uplifted: he will be the cause of the downfall of tens of thousands, but he will not be strong.

⁷ Certainly the Lord will do nothing without making clear his secret to his servants, the prophets.

¹⁵ And this is in agreement with the words of the prophets, as it is said,

¹⁸ Says the Lord, who has made these things clear from the earliest times.