Daniel 4 Cross References - BBE

¹ Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all the peoples, nations, and languages living in all the earth: May your peace be increased. ² It has seemed good to me to make clear the signs and wonders which the Most High God has done with me. ³ How great are his signs! and how full of power are his wonders! his kingdom is an eternal kingdom and his rule goes on from generation to generation. ⁴ I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my place, and all things were going well for me in my great house: ⁵ I saw a dream which was a cause of great fear to me; I was troubled by the images of my mind on my bed, and by the visions of my head. ⁶ And I gave orders for all the wise men of Babylon to come in before me so that they might make clear to me the sense of my dream. ⁷ Then the wonder-workers, the users of secret arts, the Chaldaeans, and the readers of signs came in to me: and I put the dream before them but they did not make clear the sense of it to me. 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, ⁹ O Belteshazzar, master of the wonder-workers, because I am certain that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and you are troubled by no secret; this is the dream which I saw: make clear to me its sense. ¹⁰ On my bed I saw a vision: there was a tree in the middle of the earth, and it was very high. ¹¹ And the tree became tall and strong, stretching up to heaven, and to be seen from the ends of the earth: ¹² Its leaves were fair and it had much fruit, and in it was food enough for all: the beasts of the field had shade under it, and the birds of heaven were resting in its branches, and it gave food to all living things. ¹³ In the visions of my head on my bed I saw a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven, ¹⁴ Crying out with a loud voice; and this is what he said: Let the tree be cut down and its branches broken off; let its leaves be taken off and its fruit sent in every direction: let the beasts get away from under it and the birds from its branches: ¹⁵ But keep its broken end and its roots still in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass; let him have the young grass of the field for food, and let him be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his part be with the beasts. ¹⁶ Let his heart be changed from that of a man, and the heart of a beast be given to him; and let seven times go by him. ¹⁷ This order is fixed by the watchers, and the decision is by the word of the holy ones: so that the living may be certain that the Most High is ruler over the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure, lifting up over it the lowest of men. ¹⁸ This dream I, King Nebuchadnezzar, saw; and do you, O Belteshazzar, make clear the sense of it, for all the wise men of my kingdom are unable to make the sense of it clear to me; but you are able, for the spirit of the holy gods is in you. ¹⁹ Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was at a loss for a time, his thoughts troubling him. The king made answer and said, Belteshazzar, do not be troubled by the dream or by the sense of it. Belteshazzar, answering, said, My lord, may the dream be about your haters, and its sense about those who are against you. ²⁰ The tree which you saw, which became tall and strong, stretching up to heaven and seen from the ends of the earth; ²¹ Which had fair leaves and much fruit, and had in it food for all; under which the beasts of the field were living, and in the branches of which the birds of heaven had their resting-places: ²² It is you, O King, who have become great and strong: for your power is increased and stretching up to heaven, and your rule to the end of the earth. ²³ And as for the vision which the king saw of a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven, saying, Let the tree be cut down and given to destruction; ²⁴ This is the sense of it, O King, and it is the decision of the Most High which has come on my lord the king: ²⁵ That they will send you out from among men, to be with the beasts of the field; they will give you grass for your food like the oxen, and you will be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven times will go by you, till you are certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure. ²⁶ And as they gave orders to let the broken end and the roots of the tree be, so your kingdom will be safe for you after it is clear to you that the heavens are ruling. ²⁷ For this cause, O King, let my suggestion be pleasing to you, and let your sins be covered by righteousness and your evil-doing by mercy to the poor, so that the time of your well-being may be longer. ²⁸ All this came to King Nebuchadnezzar. ²⁹ At the end of twelve months he was walking on the roof of his great house in Babylon. ³⁰ The king made answer and said, Is this not great Babylon, which I have made for the living-place of kings, by the strength of my power and for the glory of my honour? ³¹ While the word was still in the king's mouth, a voice came down from heaven, saying, O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is said: The kingdom has gone from you: ³² And they will send you out from among men, to be with the beasts of the field; they will give you grass for your food like the oxen, and seven times will go by you, till you are certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure. ³³ That very hour the order about Nebuchadnezzar was put into effect: and he was sent out from among men, and had grass for his food like the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hair became long as eagles' feathers and his nails like those of birds. ³⁴ And at the end of the days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifting up my eyes to heaven, got back my reason, and, blessing the Most High, I gave praise and honour to him who is living for ever, whose rule is an eternal rule and whose kingdom goes on from generation to generation. ³⁵ And all the people of the earth are as nothing: he does his pleasure in the army of heaven and among the people of the earth: and no one is able to keep back his hand, or say to him, What are you doing? ³⁶ At the same time my reason came back to me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my honour and my great name came back to me; and my wise men and my lords were turned to me again; and I was made safe in my kingdom and had more power than before. ³⁷ Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, give worship and praise and honour to the King of heaven; for all his works are true and his ways are right: and those who go in pride he is able to make low.

¹⁸ Then the spirit came on Amasai, who was chief of the captains, and he said, We are yours, David, we are on your side, O son of Jesse: may peace be with you and peace be with your helpers; for God is your helper. Then David took them into his army and made them captains of the band.

¹⁷ Then the king sent an answer to Rehum, the chief ruler, and Shimshai the scribe, and their friends living in Samaria, and to the rest of those across the river, saying, Peace to you:

⁷ They sent him a letter saying, To Darius the king, all peace:

¹² Then on the thirteenth day of the first month, the king's scribes were sent for, and they put in writing Haman's orders to all the king's captains and the rulers of every division of his kingdom and the chiefs of every people: for every division of the kingdom in the writing commonly used there, and to every people in the language which was theirs; it was signed in the name of King Ahasuerus and stamped with the king's ring.

⁹ Then at that time, on the twenty-third day of the third month, which is the month Sivan, the king's scribes were sent for; and everything ordered by Mordecai was put in writing and sent to the Jews and the captains and the rulers and the chiefs of all the divisions of the kingdom from India to Ethiopia, a hundred and twenty-seven divisions, to every division in the writing commonly used there, and to every people in their language, and to the Jews in their writing and their language.

⁴ Then one of the king's criers said in a loud voice, To you the order is given, O peoples, nations, and languages,

²⁹ And it is my decision that any people, nation, or language saying evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, will be cut to bits and their houses made waste: because there is no other god who is able to give salvation such as this.

²⁵ Then King Darius sent a letter to all the peoples, nations, and languages, living in all the earth: May your peace be increased.

²⁷ He gives salvation and makes men free from danger, and does signs and wonders in heaven and earth, who has kept Daniel safe from the power of the lions.

¹⁴ And to him was given authority and glory and a kingdom; and all peoples, nations, and languages were his servants: his authority is an eternal authority which will not come to an end, and his kingdom is one which will not come to destruction.

²³ This is what the Lord of armies has said: In those days, ten men from all the languages of the nations will put out their hands and take a grip of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for it has come to our ears that God is with you.

⁶ And when this sound came to their ears, they all came together, and were greatly surprised because every man was hearing the words of the disciples in his special language.

⁷ To all those who are in Rome, loved by God, marked out as saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

² Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

² To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

² Who, through the purpose of God, have been made holy by the Spirit, disciples of Jesus, made clean by his blood: May you have grace and peace in full measure.

¹⁹ And Joshua said to Achan, My son, give glory and praise to the Lord, the God of Israel; give me word now of what you have done, and keep nothing back from me.

¹⁴ Be my saviour from violent death, O God, the God of my salvation; and my tongue will give praise to your righteousness.

¹⁶ Come, give ear to me, all you God-fearing men, so that I may make clear to you what he has done for my soul.

¹⁸ Now when I am old and grey-headed, O God, give me not up; till I have made clear your strength to this generation, and your power to all those to come.

¹ A Psalm. A Song for the Sabbath. It is a good thing to give praise to the Lord, and to make melody to your name, O Most High; ² To make clear your mercy in the morning, and your unchanging faith every night;

²⁶ Then Nebuchadnezzar came near the door of the burning and flaming fire: he made answer and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, you servants of the Most High God, come out and come here. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego came out of the fire.

³ I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia by birth, but I had my education in this town at the feet of Gamaliel, being trained in the keeping of every detail of the law of our fathers; given up to the cause of God with all my heart, as you are today. ⁴ And I made attacks on this Way, even to death, taking men and women and putting them in prison. ⁵ Of which the high priest will be a witness, and all the rulers, from whom I had letters to the brothers; and I went into Damascus, to take those who were there as prisoners to Jerusalem for punishment. ⁶ And it came about that while I was on my journey, coming near to Damascus, about the middle of the day, suddenly I saw a great light from heaven shining round me. ⁷ And when I went down on the earth, a voice came to my ears saying to me, Saul, Saul, why are you attacking me so cruelly? ⁸ And I, answering, said, Who are you; Lord? And he said to me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are attacking. 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. ¹⁰ And I said, What have I to do, Lord? And the Lord said to me, Get up, and go into Damascus; and it will be made clear to you what you have to do. ¹¹ And because I was unable to see because of the glory of that light, those who were with me took me by the hand, and so I came to Damascus. ¹² And one Ananias, a God-fearing man, who kept the law, and of whom all the Jews in that place had a high opinion, ¹³ Came to my side and said, Brother Saul, let your eyes be open. And in that very hour I was able to see him. ¹⁴ And he said, You have been marked out by the God of our fathers to have knowledge of his purpose, and to see the Upright One and to give ear to the words of his mouth. ¹⁵ For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and of what has come to your ears. ¹⁶ And now, why are you waiting? get up, and have baptism, for the washing away of your sins, giving worship to his name.

⁹ For I, truly, was of the opinion that it was right for me to do a number of things against the name of Jesus of Nazareth. ¹⁰ And this I did in Jerusalem: and numbers of the saints I put in prison, having had authority given to me from the chief priests, and when they were put to death, I gave my decision against them. ¹¹ And I gave them punishment frequently, in all the Synagogues, forcing them to say things against God; and burning with passion against them, I went after them even into far-away towns. ¹² Then, when I was journeying to Damascus with the authority and orders of the chief priests, ¹³ In the middle of the day, on the road I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining round me and those who were journeying with me. ¹⁴ And when we had all gone down on the earth, a voice came to me, saying in the Hebrew language, Saul, Saul, why are you attacking me so cruelly? It is hard for you to go against the impulse which is driving you. ¹⁵ And I said, Who are you, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom you are attacking. 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;

³⁴ Has God ever before taken a nation for himself from out of another nation, by punishments and signs and wonders, by war and by a strong hand and a stretched-out arm and great acts of wonder and fear, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes?

² Rule and power are his; he makes peace in his high places.

⁷ He is ruling in power for ever; his eyes are watching the nations: may his haters have no strength against him. Selah.

¹⁹ Your righteousness, O God, is very high; you have done great things; O God, who is like you? ²⁰ You, who have sent great and bitter troubles on me, will give me life again, lifting me up from the deep waters of the underworld.

¹⁸ Praise be to the Lord God, the God of Israel, the only doer of wonders.

¹⁹ Your way was in the sea, and your road in the great waters; there was no knowledge of your footsteps.

¹⁰ For you are great, and do great works of wonder; you only are God.

⁵ O Lord, how great are your works! and your thoughts are very deep.

²⁴ O Lord, how great is the number of your works! in wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of the things you have made.

²⁷ He let his signs be seen among the people, and his wonders in the land of Ham.

¹³ Your kingdom is an eternal kingdom, and your rule is through all generations.

⁷ Of the increase of his rule and of peace there will be no end, on the seat of David, and in his kingdom; to make it strong, supporting it with wise decision and righteousness, now and for ever. By the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.

¹ O Lord, you are my God; I will give praise to you, I will give honour to your name; for you have done great acts of power; your purposes in the past have been made true and certain in effect.

²⁹ This comes from the Lord of armies, purposing wonders, and wise in all his acts.

¹⁰ But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and an eternal king: when he is angry, the earth is shaking with fear, and the nations give way before his wrath.

⁴⁴ And in the days of those kings, the God of heaven will put up a kingdom which will never come to destruction, and its power will never be given into the hands of another people, and all these kingdoms will be broken and overcome by it, but it will keep its place for ever.

¹⁷ This order is fixed by the watchers, and the decision is by the word of the holy ones: so that the living may be certain that the Most High is ruler over the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure, lifting up over it the lowest of men.

³⁴ And at the end of the days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifting up my eyes to heaven, got back my reason, and, blessing the Most High, I gave praise and honour to him who is living for ever, whose rule is an eternal rule and whose kingdom goes on from generation to generation. ³⁵ And all the people of the earth are as nothing: he does his pleasure in the army of heaven and among the people of the earth: and no one is able to keep back his hand, or say to him, What are you doing?

²⁶ It is my order that in all the kingdom of which I am ruler, men are to be shaking with fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, unchanging for ever, and his kingdom is one which will never come to destruction, his rule will go on to the end. ²⁷ He gives salvation and makes men free from danger, and does signs and wonders in heaven and earth, who has kept Daniel safe from the power of the lions.

²⁷ And the kingdom and the authority and the power of the kingdoms under all the heaven will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High: his kingdom is an eternal kingdom, and all powers will be his servants and do his pleasure.

³² He will be great, and will be named the Son of the Most High: and the Lord God will give him the kingdom of David, his father: ³³ He will have rule over the house of Jacob for ever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.

³³ O how deep is the wealth of the wisdom and knowledge of God! no one is able to make discovery of his decisions, and his ways may not be searched out.

¹⁷ Now to the King eternal, ever-living, unseen, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. So be it.

⁸ But of the Son he says, Your seat of power, O God, is for ever and ever; and the rod of your kingdom is a rod of righteousness.

⁴ And God was a witness with them, by signs and wonders, and by more than natural powers, and by his distribution of the Holy Spirit at his pleasure.

¹¹ If anyone has anything to say, let it be as the words of God; if anyone has the desire to be the servant of others, let him do it in the strength which is given by God; so that in all things God may have the glory through Jesus Christ, whose are the glory and the power for ever.

¹⁵ And at the sounding of the seventh angel there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ, and he will have rule for ever and ever.

⁶ When things went well for me I said, I will never be moved. ⁷ Lord, by your grace you have kept my mountain strong: when your face was turned from me I was troubled.

⁷ And you said, I will be a queen for ever: you did not give attention to these things, and did not keep in mind what would come after. ⁸ So now take note of this, you who are given up to pleasure, living without fear of evil, saying in your heart, I am, and there is no one like me; I will never be a widow, or have my children taken from me.

¹² Come, they say, I will get wine, and we will take strong drink in full measure; and tomorrow will be like today, full of pleasure.

¹¹ From his earliest days, Moab has been living in comfort; like wine long stored he has not been drained from vessel to vessel, he has never gone away as a prisoner: so his taste is still in him, his smell is unchanged.

² Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, This is what the Lord has said: Because your heart has been lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I am seated on the seat of God in the heart of the seas; but you are man and not God, though you have made your heart as the heart of God: ³ See, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret which is deeper than your knowledge: ⁴ By your wisdom and deep knowledge you have got power for yourself, and put silver and gold in your store-houses: ⁵ By your great wisdom and by your trade your power is increased, and your heart is lifted up because of your power:

¹⁷ Your heart was lifted up because you were beautiful, you made your wisdom evil through your sin: I have sent you down, even to the earth; I have made you low before kings, so that they may see you.

³ Say to them, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great river-beast stretched out among his Nile streams, who has said, The Nile is mine, and I have made it for myself.

¹² And it will come about at that time, that I will go searching through Jerusalem with lights; and I will send punishment on the men who have become like wine stored over-long, who say to themselves, The Lord will not do good and will not do evil.

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy. ²⁰ But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?

² For you yourselves have the knowledge that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. ³ When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.

¹ Now after two years had gone by, Pharaoh had a dream; and in his dream he was by the side of the Nile;

¹³ When I say, In my bed I will have comfort, there I will get rest from my disease; ¹⁴ Then you send dreams to me, and visions of fear;

¹ In the second year of the rule of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; and his spirit was troubled and his sleep went from him.

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: ²⁹ As for you, O King, the thoughts which came to you on your bed were of what will come about after this: and the unveiler of secrets has made clear to you what is to come.

⁵ In that very hour the fingers of a man's hand were seen, writing opposite the support for the light on the white wall of the king's house, and the king saw the part of the hand which was writing. ⁶ Then the colour went from the king's face, and he was troubled by his thoughts; strength went from his body, and his knees were shaking.

¹⁰ The queen, because of the words of the king and his lords, came into the house of the feast: the queen made answer and said, O King, have life for ever; do not be troubled by your thoughts or let the colour go from your face:

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 the seven thin heads made a meal of the good heads. And when Pharaoh was awake he saw it was a dream. ⁸ And in the morning his spirit was troubled; and he sent for all the wise men of Egypt and all the holy men, and put his dream before them, but no one was able to give him the sense of it.

¹⁹ And when they say to you, Make request for us to those who have control of spirits, and to those wise in secret arts, who make hollow bird-like sounds; is it not right for a people to make request to their gods, to make request for the living to the dead?

¹² Go on now with your secret arts, and all your wonder-working, to which you have given yourself up from your earliest days; it may be that they will be of profit to you, or by them you may put fear into your attackers. ¹³ But your mind is troubled by the number of your guides: let them now come forward for your salvation: the measurers of the heavens, the watchers of the stars, and those who are able to say from month to month what things are coming on you. ¹⁴ Truly, they have become like dry stems, they have been burned in the fire; they are not able to keep themselves safe from the power of the flame: it is not a coal for warming them, or a fire by which a man may be seated.

² Then the king gave orders that the wonder-workers, and the users of secret arts, and those who made use of evil powers, and the Chaldaeans, were to be sent for to make clear to the king his dreams. So they came and took their places before the king.

⁸ And in the morning his spirit was troubled; and he sent for all the wise men of Egypt and all the holy men, and put his dream before them, but no one was able to give him the sense of it.

²⁵ Who makes the signs of those who give word of the future come to nothing, so that those who have knowledge of secret arts go off their heads; turning the wise men back, and making their knowledge foolish:

⁹ And you are not to give attention to your prophets or your readers of signs or your dreamers or those who see into the future or those who make use of secret arts, who say to you, You will not become servants of the king of Babylon: ¹⁰ For they say false words to you, so that you may be sent away far from your land, and so that you may be forced out by me and come to destruction.

¹ In the second year of the rule of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; and his spirit was troubled and his sleep went from him. ² Then the king gave orders that the wonder-workers, and the users of secret arts, and those who made use of evil powers, and the Chaldaeans, were to be sent for to make clear to the king his dreams. So they came and took their places before the king.

⁷ A second time they said in answer, Let the king give his servants an account of his dream, and we will make clear the sense.

¹⁰ Then the Chaldaeans said to the king in answer, There is not a man on earth able to make clear the king's business; for no king, however great his power, has ever made such a request to any wonder-worker or user of secret arts or Chaldaean.

²⁷ Then Daniel said in answer to the king, No wise men, or users of secret arts, or wonder-workers, or readers of signs, are able to make clear to the king the secret he is searching for;

⁸ And as James and Jambres went against Moses, so do these go against what is true: men of evil minds, who, tested by faith, are seen to be false. ⁹ But they will go no farther: for their foolish behaviour will be clear to all men, as theirs was in the end.

¹⁷ And I will come down and have talk with you there: and I will take some of the spirit which is on you and put it on them, and they will take part of the weight of the people off you, so that you do not have to take it by yourself. ¹⁸ And say to the people, Make yourselves clean before tomorrow and you will have flesh for your food: for in the ears of the Lord you have been weeping and saying, Who will give us flesh for food? for we were well off in Egypt: and so the Lord will give you flesh, and it will be your food; ¹⁹ Not for one day only, or even for five or ten or twenty days; ²⁰ But every day for a month, till you are tired of it, turning from it in disgust: because you have gone against the Lord who is with you, and have been weeping before him saying, Why did we come out of Egypt? ²¹ Then Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you have said, I will give them flesh to be their food for a month. ²² Are flocks and herds to be put to death for them? or are all the fish in the sea to be got together so that they may be full? ²³ And the Lord said to Moses, Has the Lord's hand become short? Now you will see if my word comes true for you or not. ²⁴ And Moses went out and gave the people the words of the Lord: and he took seventy of the responsible men of the people, placing them round the Tent. ²⁵ Then the Lord came down in the cloud and had talk with him, and put on the seventy men some of the spirit which was on him: now when the spirit came to rest on them, they were like prophets, but only at that time. ²⁶ But two men were still in the tent-circle one of them named Eldad and the other Medad: and the spirit came to rest on them; they were among those who had been sent for, but they had not gone out to the Tent: and the prophet's power came on them in the tent-circle. ²⁷ And a young man went running to Moses and said, Eldad and Medad are acting as prophets in the tent-circle. ²⁸ Then Joshua, the son of Nun, who had been Moses' servant from the time when he was a child, said, My lord Moses, let them be stopped. ²⁹ And Moses said to him, Are you moved by envy on my account? If only all the Lord's people were prophets, and the Lord might put his spirit on them! ³⁰ Then Moses, with the responsible men of Israel, went back to the tent-circle.

¹ Bel is bent down, Nebo is falling; their images are on the beasts and on the cattle: the things which you took about have become a weight to the tired beast.

¹¹ Then the early days came to their minds, the days of Moses his servant: and they said, Where is he who made the keeper of his flock come up from the sea? where is he who put his holy spirit among them,

² Give it out among the nations, make it public, and let the flag be lifted up; give the word and keep nothing back; say, Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is broken, her images are put to shame, her gods are broken.

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.

¹¹ The king's request is a very hard one, and there is no other who is able to make it clear to the king, but the gods, whose living-place is not with flesh.

⁹ O Belteshazzar, master of the wonder-workers, because I am certain that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and you are troubled by no secret; this is the dream which I saw: make clear to me its sense.

¹⁸ This dream I, King Nebuchadnezzar, saw; and do you, O Belteshazzar, make clear the sense of it, for all the wise men of my kingdom are unable to make the sense of it clear to me; but you are able, for the spirit of the holy gods is in you.

¹¹ There is a man in your kingdom in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your father, light and reason like the wisdom of the gods were seen in him: and King Nebuchadnezzar, your father, made him master of the wonder-workers, and the users of secret arts, and the Chaldaeans, and the readers of signs; 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.

¹⁴ And I have had news of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and reason and special wisdom have been seen in you.

⁶ And the Lord said, See, they are all one people and have all one language; and this is only the start of what they may do: and now it will not be possible to keep them from any purpose of theirs. ⁷ Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another. ⁸ So the Lord God sent them away into every part of the earth: and they gave up building their town.

⁹ Then the chief wine-servant gave Joseph an account of his dream, and said, In my dream I saw a vine before me; ¹⁰ And on the vine were three branches; and it seemed as if it put out buds and flowers, and from them came grapes ready for cutting. ¹¹ And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes and crushing them into Pharaoh's cup, gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand. ¹² Then Joseph said, This is the sense of your dream: the three branches are three days; ¹³ After three days Pharaoh will give you honour, and put you back into your place, and you will give him his cup as you did before, when you were his wine-servant. ¹⁴ But keep me in mind when things go well for you, and be good to me and say a good word for me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison: ¹⁵ For truly I was taken by force from the land of the Hebrews; and I have done nothing for which I might be put in prison. ¹⁶ Now when the chief bread-maker saw that the first dream had a good sense, he said to Joseph, I had a dream; and in my dream there were three baskets of white bread on my head; ¹⁷ And in the top basket were all sorts of cooked meats for Pharaoh; and the birds were taking them out of the baskets on my head. ¹⁸ Then Joseph said, This is the sense of your dream: the three baskets are three days; ¹⁹ After three days Pharaoh will take you out of prison, hanging you on a tree, so that your flesh will be food for birds.

¹⁵ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have had a dream, and no one is able to give me the sense of it; now it has come to my ears that you are able to give the sense of a dream when it is put before you. ¹⁶ Then Joseph said, Without God there will be no answer of peace for Pharaoh. ¹⁷ Then Pharaoh said, In my dream I was by the side of the Nile: ¹⁸ And out of the Nile came seven cows, fat and good-looking, and their food was the river-grass; ¹⁹ Then after them came seven other cows, very thin and poor-looking, worse than any I ever saw in the land of Egypt; ²⁰ And the thin cows made a meal of the seven fat cows who came up first; ²¹ And even with the fat cows inside them they seemed as bad as before. And so I came out of my sleep. ²² And again in a dream I saw seven heads of grain, full and good, coming up on one stem: ²³ And then I saw seven other heads, dry, thin, and wasted by the east wind, coming up after them: ²⁴ And the seven thin heads made a meal of the seven good heads; and I put this dream before the wise men, but not one of them was able to give me the sense of it. ²⁵ Then Joseph said, These two dreams have the same sense: God has made clear to Pharaoh what he is about to do. ²⁶ The seven fat cows are seven years, and the seven good heads of grain are seven years: the two have the same sense. ²⁷ The seven thin and poor-looking cows who came up after them are seven years; and the seven heads of grain, dry and wasted by the east wind, are seven years when there will be no food. ²⁸ As I said to Pharaoh before, God has made clear to him what he is about to do. ²⁹ Seven years are coming in which there will be great wealth of grain in Egypt; ³⁰ And after that will come seven years when there will not be enough food; and the memory of the good years will go from men's minds; and the land will be made waste by the bad years; ³¹ And men will have no memory of the good time because of the need which will come after, for it will be very bitter. ³² And this dream came to Pharaoh twice, because this thing is certain, and God will quickly make it come about. ³³ And now let Pharaoh make search for a man of wisdom and good sense, and put him in authority over the land of Egypt. ³⁴ Let Pharaoh do this, and let him put overseers over the land of Egypt to put in store a fifth part of the produce of the land in the good years. ³⁵ And let them get together all the food in those good years and make a store of grain under Pharaoh's control for the use of the towns, and let them keep it. ³⁶ And let that food be kept in store for the land till the seven bad years which are to come in Egypt; so that the land may not come to destruction through need of food.

³⁸ Then Pharaoh said to his servants, Where may we get such a man as this, a man in whom is the spirit of God?

¹³ When Gideon came there, a man was giving his friend an account of his dream, saying, See, I had a dream about a cake of barley bread which, falling into the tents of Midian, came on to the tent, overturning it so that it was stretched out flat on the earth. ¹⁴ And his friend in answer said, This is certainly the sword of Gideon, the son of Joash, the men of Israel: into their hands God has given up all the army of Midian. ¹⁵ Then Gideon, hearing the story of the dream and the sense in which they took it, gave worship; then he went back to the tents of Israel, and said, Up! for the Lord has given the army of Midian into your hands.

⁸ Trouble is ours! Who will give us salvation from the hands of these great gods? These are the gods who sent all sorts of blows on the Egyptians in the waste land.

¹⁸ Your heart will give thought to the cause of your fear: where is the scribe, where is he who made a record of the payments, where is he by whom the towers were numbered?

¹⁴ All your rights will be made certain to you: have no fear of evil, and destruction will not come near you.

³ See, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret which is deeper than your knowledge:

²⁰ And in any business needing wisdom and good sense, about which the king put questions to them, he saw that they were ten times better than all the wonder-workers and users of secret arts in all his kingdom.

³ And the king said to them, I have had a dream, and my spirit is troubled by the desire to have the dream made clear to me. ⁴ Then the Chaldaeans said to the king in the Aramaean language, O King, have life for ever: give your servants an account of your dream, and we will make clear to you the sense of it. ⁵ The king made answer and said to the Chaldaeans, This is my decision: if you do not make clear to me the dream and the sense of it, you will be cut in bits and your houses made waste.

⁴⁸ Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him offerings in great number, and made him ruler over all the land of Babylon, and chief over all the wise men of Babylon.

⁵ I saw a dream which was a cause of great fear to me; I was troubled by the images of my mind on my bed, and by the visions of my head.

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,

¹¹ There is a man in your kingdom in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your father, light and reason like the wisdom of the gods were seen in him: and King Nebuchadnezzar, your father, made him master of the wonder-workers, and the users of secret arts, and the Chaldaeans, and the readers of signs;

³⁵ I have seen the evil-doer in great power, covering the earth like a great tree. ³⁶ But he came to an end, and there was no sign of him; I made a search for him and he was not there.

³³ See, the Lord, the Lord of armies, is cutting off his branches with a great noise, and his strong ones are falling and his high ones are coming down. ³⁴ And he is cutting down the thick places of the wood with an axe, and Lebanon with its tall trees is coming down.

² They have been planted by you, they have taken root; they go on and give fruit: you are near in their mouths but far from their thoughts.

³ See, a pine-tree with beautiful branches and thick growth, giving shade and very tall; and its top was among the clouds. ⁴ It got strength from the waters and the deep made it tall: its streams went round about its planted land and it sent out its waterways to all the trees of the field. ⁵ In this way it became taller than all the trees of the field; and its branches were increased and its arms became long because of the great waters. ⁶ In its branches all the birds of heaven came to rest, and under its arms all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and great nations were living in its shade. ⁷ So it was beautiful, being so tall and its branches so long, for its root was by great waters. ⁸ No cedars were equal to it in the garden of God; the fir-trees were not like its branches, and plane-trees were as nothing in comparison with its arms; no tree in the garden of God was so beautiful. ⁹ I made it beautiful with its mass of branches: so that all the trees in the garden of God were full of envy of it. ¹⁰ For this cause the Lord has said: Because he is tall, and has put his top among the clouds, and his heart is full of pride because he is so high, ¹¹ I have given him up into the hands of a strong one of the nations; he will certainly give him the reward of his sin, driving him out. ¹² And men from strange lands, who are to be feared among the nations, after cutting him off, have let him be: on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches have come down; his arms are broken by all the waterways of the land; all the peoples of the earth have gone from his shade, and have let him be. ¹³ All the birds of heaven have come to rest on his broken stem where it is stretched on the earth, and all the beasts of the field will be on his branches: ¹⁴ In order that no trees by the waters may be lifted up in their growth, putting their tops among the clouds; and that no trees which are watered may take their place on high: for they are all given up to death, to the lowest parts of the earth among the children of men, with those who go down to the underworld. ¹⁵ This is what the Lord has said: The day when he goes down to the underworld, I will make the deep full of grief for him; I will keep back her streams and the great waters will be stopped: I will make Lebanon dark for him, and all the trees of the field will be feeble because of him. ¹⁶ I will send shaking on the nations at the sound of his fall, when I send him down to the underworld with those who go down into the deep: and on earth they will be comforting themselves, all the trees of Eden, the best of Lebanon, even all the watered ones. ¹⁷ And they will go down with him to the underworld, to those who have been put to the sword; even those who were his helpers, living under his shade among the nations ¹⁸ Whom then are you like? for you will be sent down with the trees of Eden into the lowest parts of the earth: there you will be stretched out among those without circumcision, with those who were put to the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his people, says the Lord.

²⁰ The tree which you saw, which became tall and strong, stretching up to heaven and seen from the ends of the earth; ²¹ Which had fair leaves and much fruit, and had in it food for all; under which the beasts of the field were living, and in the branches of which the birds of heaven had their resting-places: ²² It is you, O King, who have become great and strong: for your power is increased and stretching up to heaven, and your rule to the end of the earth. ²³ And as for the vision which the king saw of a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven, saying, Let the tree be cut down and given to destruction; ²⁴ This is the sense of it, O King, and it is the decision of the Most High which has come on my lord the king: ²⁵ That they will send you out from among men, to be with the beasts of the field; they will give you grass for your food like the oxen, and you will be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven times will go by you, till you are certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure. ²⁶ And as they gave orders to let the broken end and the roots of the tree be, so your kingdom will be safe for you after it is clear to you that the heavens are ruling.

⁴ And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth.

¹ Give ear, O Israel: today you are to go over Jordan, to take the heritage of nations greater and stronger than yourselves, and towns of great size with walls as high as heaven;

²¹ Which had fair leaves and much fruit, and had in it food for all; under which the beasts of the field were living, and in the branches of which the birds of heaven had their resting-places: ²² It is you, O King, who have become great and strong: for your power is increased and stretching up to heaven, and your rule to the end of the earth.

²³ And you, Capernaum, were you not to be lifted up to heaven? you will go down into hell: for if the works of power which were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have been here to this day.

⁶ And now I have given all these lands into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant; and I have given the beasts of the field to him for his use. ⁷ And all the nations will be servants to him and to his son and to his son's son, till the time comes for his land to be overcome: and then a number of nations and great kings will take it for their use.

²⁰ Our breath of life, he on whom the holy oil was put, was taken in their holes; of whom we said, Under his shade we will be living among the nations.

²³ It will be planted on the high mountain of Israel: it will put out branches and have fruit and be a fair cedar: under it all birds of every sort will make their living-place, resting in the shade of its branches.

⁶ In its branches all the birds of heaven came to rest, and under its arms all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and great nations were living in its shade. ⁷ So it was beautiful, being so tall and its branches so long, for its root was by great waters.

³² Which is smaller than all seeds; but when it has come up it is greater than the plants, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of heaven come and make their resting-places in its branches.

³² But of that day or that hour no one has knowledge, not even the angels in heaven, or the Son, but the Father.

¹⁹ It is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his garden, and it became a tree, and the birds of heaven made their resting-places in its branches.

² He said, The Lord came from Sinai, dawning on them from Seir; shining out from Mount Paran, coming from Meribath Kadesh: from his right hand went flames of fire: his wrath made waste the peoples.

⁷ God is greatly to be feared among the saints, and to be honoured over all those who are about him.

²⁰ Give praise to the Lord, you his angels, who are great in strength, doing his orders, and waiting for his voice.

¹⁰ On my bed I saw a vision: there was a tree in the middle of the earth, and it was very high.

²³ And as for the vision which the king saw of a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven, saying, Let the tree be cut down and given to destruction;

¹ In the first year of Belshazzar, king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream, and visions came into his head on his bed: then he put the dream in writing.

¹⁷ These great beasts are four kings who will be cut off from the earth.

²³ This is what he said: The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom which will come on earth, different from all the kingdoms, and it will overcome all the earth, crushing it down and smashing it.

¹³ Then there came to my ears the voice of a holy one talking; and another holy one said to that certain one who was talking, How long will the vision be while the regular burned offering is taken away, and the unclean thing causing fear is put up, and the holy place crushed under foot?

⁵ And the valley will be stopped (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) and you will go in flight as you went in flight from the earth-shock in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah: and the Lord my God will come, and all his holy ones with him.

³¹ But when the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then will he be seated in his glory:

²⁴ Saying, What have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? have you come to put an end to us? I see well who you are, the Holy One of God.

³⁴ Let us be! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? have you come to put an end to us? I have knowledge who you are, the Holy One of God.

¹⁴ The prophet Enoch, who was the seventh after Adam, said of these men, The Lord came with tens of thousands of his saints,

¹⁰ To him will be given of the wine of God's wrath which is ready unmixed in the cup of his wrath and he will have cruel pain, burning with fire before the holy angels and before the Lamb:

⁶ Go in flight out of Babylon, so that every man may keep his life; do not be cut off in her evil-doing: for it is the time of the Lord's punishment; he will give her her reward.

⁹ We would have made Babylon well, but she is not made well: give her up, and let us go everyone to his country: for her punishment is stretching up to heaven, and lifted up even to the skies.

¹² And men from strange lands, who are to be feared among the nations, after cutting him off, have let him be: on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches have come down; his arms are broken by all the waterways of the land; all the peoples of the earth have gone from his shade, and have let him be. ¹³ All the birds of heaven have come to rest on his broken stem where it is stretched on the earth, and all the beasts of the field will be on his branches:

¹² Its leaves were fair and it had much fruit, and in it was food enough for all: the beasts of the field had shade under it, and the birds of heaven were resting in its branches, and it gave food to all living things.

²⁰ But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became hard with pride, he was put down from his place as king, and they took his glory from him:

¹⁰ And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; every tree then which does not give good fruit is cut down, and put into the fire.

¹⁹ Every tree which does not give good fruit is cut down and put in the fire.

⁹ And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; and every tree which does not have good fruit will be cut down and put into the fire.

⁷ And he said to the gardener, See, for three years I have been looking for fruit from this tree, and I have not had any: let it be cut down; why is it taking up space? ⁸ And he said, Lord, let it be for this year, and I will have the earth turned up round it, and put animal waste on it, to make it fertile: ⁹ And if, after that, it has fruit, it is well; if not, let it be cut down.

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.

² And he gave a loud cry, saying, Babylon the great has come down from her high place, she has come to destruction and has become a place of evil spirits, and of every unclean spirit, and a hole for every unclean and hated bird.

⁷ For there is hope of a tree; if it is cut down, it will come to life again, and its branches will not come to an end. ⁸ Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust; ⁹ Still, at the smell of water, it will make buds, and put out branches like a young plant.

¹⁴ I will let the fate of Egypt be changed, and will make them come back into the land of Pathros, into the land from which they came; and there they will be an unimportant kingdom. ¹⁵ It will be the lowest of the kingdoms, and never again will it be lifted up over the nations: I will make them small, so that they may not have rule over the nations.

²⁵ That they will send you out from among men, to be with the beasts of the field; they will give you grass for your food like the oxen, and you will be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven times will go by you, till you are certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure. ²⁶ And as they gave orders to let the broken end and the roots of the tree be, so your kingdom will be safe for you after it is clear to you that the heavens are ruling. ²⁷ For this cause, O King, let my suggestion be pleasing to you, and let your sins be covered by righteousness and your evil-doing by mercy to the poor, so that the time of your well-being may be longer.

¹⁰ Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well.

²⁵ That they will send you out from among men, to be with the beasts of the field; they will give you grass for your food like the oxen, and you will be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven times will go by you, till you are certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure.

³¹ While the word was still in the king's mouth, a voice came down from heaven, saying, O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is said: The kingdom has gone from you: ³² And they will send you out from among men, to be with the beasts of the field; they will give you grass for your food like the oxen, and seven times will go by you, till you are certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure. ³³ That very hour the order about Nebuchadnezzar was put into effect: and he was sent out from among men, and had grass for his food like the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hair became long as eagles' feathers and his nails like those of birds.

²⁵ And he will say words against the Most High, attempting to put an end to the saints of the Most High; and he will have the idea of changing times and law; and the saints will be given into his hands for a time and times and half a time.

¹³ And again the king of the north will get together an army greater than the first; and he will make an attack on him at the end of years, with a great army and much wealth.

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.

⁴ Because he had frequently been prisoned in chains and iron bands, and the chains had been parted and the bands broken by him: and no man was strong enough to make him quiet. ⁵ And all the time, by day and by night, in the place of the dead, and in the mountains, he was crying out and cutting himself with stones.

²⁷ And when he had come to the land, there came to him a certain man from the town who had evil spirits; and for a long time he had had no clothing on, and was not living in a house but in the place of the dead. ²⁸ And when he saw Jesus, he gave a loud cry and went down on the earth before him and in a loud voice said, What have I to do with you, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? Do not be cruel to me. ²⁹ For he gave an order to the evil spirit to come out of the man. For frequently it would take a grip of him: and he was kept under control, and prisoned with chains; but parting the chains in two, he would be sent by the driving of the evil spirit into waste places.

¹¹ They will come to their end; but you are for ever; they will become old as a robe;

¹⁴ And there were given to the woman two wings of a great eagle, so that she might go in flight into the waste land, to her place, where she is given food for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the snake.

¹⁶ But, for this very reason, I have kept you from destruction, to make clear to you my power, and so that my name may be honoured through all the earth.

⁸ Lifting the poor out of the dust, and him who is in need out of the lowest place, to give them their place among rulers, and for their heritage the seat of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's and he has made them the base of the world.

²⁵ {\I There was no one like Ahab, who gave himself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, moved to it by Jezebel his wife.

¹⁹ And he said, Give ear now to the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord seated on his seat of power, with all the army of heaven in their places round him at his right hand and at his left. ²⁰ And the Lord said, How may Ahab be tricked into going up to Ramoth-gilead to his death? And one said one thing and one another.

⁶ And he made his son go through the fire, and made use of secret arts and signs for reading the future; he gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers; he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath. ⁷ He put the image of Asherah which he had made in the house of which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever. ⁸ And never again will I send the feet of Israel wandering from the land which I gave to their fathers; if only they will take care to do all my orders, and keep all the law which my servant Moses gave them. ⁹ But they did not give ear; and Manasseh made them do more evil than those nations did, whom the Lord gave up to destruction before the children of Israel. ¹⁰ And the Lord said, by his servants the prophets, ¹¹ Because Manasseh, king of Judah, has done these disgusting things, doing more evil than all the Amorites before him, and making Judah do evil with his false gods, ¹² For this cause, says the Lord, the God of Israel, I will send such evil on Jerusalem and Judah that the ears of all to whom the news comes will be burning. ¹³ And over Jerusalem will be stretched the line of Samaria and the weight of Ahab; Jerusalem will be washed clean as a plate is washed, and turned over on its face. ¹⁴ And I will put away from me the rest of my heritage, and give them up into the hands of their haters, who will take their property and their goods for themselves; ¹⁵ Because they have done evil in my eyes, moving me to wrath, from the day when their fathers came out of Egypt till this day. ¹⁶ More than this, Manasseh took the lives of upright men, till Jerusalem from one end to the other was full of blood; in addition to his sin in making Judah do evil in the eyes of the Lord. ¹⁷ Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all he did, and his sins, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah? ¹⁸ So Manasseh went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in the garden of his house, in the garden of Uzza; and Amon his son became king in his place.

²² And in the time of his trouble, this same King Ahaz did even more evil against the Lord.

¹⁶ The Lord has given knowledge of himself through his judging: the evil-doer is taken in the net which his hands had made. Higgaion. Selah.

⁸ The sinners are walking on every side, and evil is honoured among the children of men.

⁶ For honour does not come from the east, or from the west, or uplifting from the south; ⁷ But God is the judge, putting down one, and lifting up another.

¹⁷ Let them be overcome and troubled for ever; let them be put to shame and come to destruction; ¹⁸ So that men may see that you only, whose name is Yahweh, are Most High over all the earth.

⁷ He takes the poor man out of the dust, lifting him up from his low position; ⁸ To give him a place among the rulers, even with the rulers of his people.

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.

⁸ And the voice of the Lord came to my ears, saying, Whom am I to send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I, send me.

⁵ I have made the earth, and man and beast on the face of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I will give it to anyone at my pleasure.

²⁴ For this reason I will send the worst of the nations and they will take their houses for themselves: I will make the pride of their strength come to an end; and their holy places will be made unclean.

¹⁷ And I will take great payment from them with acts of wrath; and they will be certain that I am the Lord when I send my punishment on them.

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, ⁹ O Belteshazzar, master of the wonder-workers, because I am certain that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and you are troubled by no secret; this is the dream which I saw: make clear to me its sense.

¹³ In the visions of my head on my bed I saw a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven, ¹⁴ Crying out with a loud voice; and this is what he said: Let the tree be cut down and its branches broken off; let its leaves be taken off and its fruit sent in every direction: let the beasts get away from under it and the birds from its branches:

³² And they will send you out from among men, to be with the beasts of the field; they will give you grass for your food like the oxen, and seven times will go by you, till you are certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure. ³³ That very hour the order about Nebuchadnezzar was put into effect: and he was sent out from among men, and had grass for his food like the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hair became long as eagles' feathers and his nails like those of birds.

¹⁸ As for you, O King, the Most High God gave to Nebuchadnezzar, your father, the kingdom and great power and glory and honour: ¹⁹ And because of the great power he gave him, all peoples and nations and languages were shaking in fear before him: some he put to death and others he kept living, at his pleasure, lifting up some and putting others down as it pleased him. ²⁰ But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became hard with pride, he was put down from his place as king, and they took his glory from him: ²¹ And he was sent out from among the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts', and he was living with the asses of the fields; he had grass for his food like the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he was certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives power over it to anyone at his pleasure.

²¹ And his place will be taken by a low person, to whom the honour of the kingdom had not been given: but he will come in time of peace and will get the kingdom by fair words.

²⁸ And the low things of the world, and the things without honour, did God make selection of, yes, even the things which are not, so that he might make as nothing the things which are:

²¹ I give you orders before God and Christ Jesus and the angels of God's selection, to keep these orders without giving thought to one side more than another.

⁸ And the four beasts, having every one of them six wings, are full of eyes round about and inside: and without resting day and night, they say, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God, Ruler of all, who was and is and is to come.

¹⁵ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have had a dream, and no one is able to give me the sense of it; now it has come to my ears that you are able to give the sense of a dream when it is put before you.

² And Jeroboam said to his wife, Now come, put on different clothing so that you may not seem to be the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh; see, Ahijah is there, the prophet who said I would be king over this people. ³ And take with you ten cakes of bread and dry cakes and a pot of honey, and go to him: he will give you word of what is to become of the child.

³ And the spirit of Egypt will be troubled in her, and I will make her decisions without effect: and they will be turning to the false gods, and to those who make hollow sounds, and to those who have control of spirits, and to those who are wise in secret arts.

²⁶ The king made answer and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, Are you able to make clear to me the dream which I saw and its sense? ²⁷ Then Daniel said in answer to the king, No wise men, or users of secret arts, or wonder-workers, or readers of signs, are able to make clear to the king the secret he is searching for; 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:

⁷ Then the wonder-workers, the users of secret arts, the Chaldaeans, and the readers of signs came in to me: and I put the dream before them but they did not make clear the sense of it to me.

⁸ Then all the king's wise men came in: but they were not able to make out the writing or give the sense of it to the king.

¹⁵ And now the wise men, the users of secret arts, have been sent in before me for the purpose of reading this writing and making clear to me the sense of it: but they are not able to make clear the sense of the thing:

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

³⁵ And she said to her father, Let not my lord be angry because I do not get up before you, for I am in the common condition of women. And with all his searching, he did not come across the images.

⁴ And he gave them orders to say these words to Esau: Your servant Jacob says, Till now I have been living with Laban: ⁵ And I have oxen and asses and flocks and men-servants and women-servants: and I have sent to give my lord news of these things so that I may have grace in his eyes.

¹⁸ Then say to him, These are your servant Jacob's; they are an offering for my lord, for Esau; and he himself is coming after us.

³² But now, if you will give them forgiveness--but if not, let my name be taken out of your book.

¹⁵ And Hannah, answering him, said, No, my lord, I am a woman whose spirit is broken with sorrow: I have not taken wine or strong drink, but I have been opening my heart before the Lord.

¹⁷ And he said, What did the Lord say to you? Do not keep it from me: may God's punishment be on you if you keep from me anything he said to you.

⁸ And after that David came out of the hollow rock, and crying after Saul said, My lord the king. And when Saul gave a look back, David went down on his face and gave him honour.

¹⁵ And David said to Abner, Are you not a man of war? is there any other like you in Israel? why then have you not kept watch over your lord the king? for one of the people came in to put the king your lord to death.

³¹ And then the Cushite came and said, I have news for my lord the king: today the Lord has done right in your cause against all those who took up arms against you. ³² And the king said to the Cushite, Is the young man Absalom safe? And the Cushite said in answer, May all the king's haters and those who do evil against the king, be as that young man is!

⁷ And while Obadiah was on his way, he came face to face with Elijah; and seeing who it was, he went down on his face and said, Is it you, my lord Elijah?

¹⁹ My soul, my soul! I am pained to my inmost heart; my heart is troubled in me; I am not able to be quiet, because the sound of the horn, the note of war, has come to my ears.

⁷ And be working for the peace of the land to which I have had you taken away prisoners, and make prayer to the Lord for it: for in its peace you will have peace.

²⁶ The king made answer and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, Are you able to make clear to me the dream which I saw and its sense?

⁴ I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my place, and all things were going well for me in my great house: ⁵ I saw a dream which was a cause of great fear to me; I was troubled by the images of my mind on my bed, and by the visions of my head.

²⁴ This is the sense of it, O King, and it is the decision of the Most High which has come on my lord the king:

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.

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

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 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.

¹⁰ The mountains saw you and were moved with fear; the clouds were streaming with water: the voice of the deep was sounding; the sun did not come up, and the moon kept still in her place.

³ See, a pine-tree with beautiful branches and thick growth, giving shade and very tall; and its top was among the clouds.

¹⁶ I will send shaking on the nations at the sound of his fall, when I send him down to the underworld with those who go down into the deep: and on earth they will be comforting themselves, all the trees of Eden, the best of Lebanon, even all the watered ones.

¹⁰ On my bed I saw a vision: there was a tree in the middle of the earth, and it was very high. ¹¹ And the tree became tall and strong, stretching up to heaven, and to be seen from the ends of the earth: ¹² Its leaves were fair and it had much fruit, and in it was food enough for all: the beasts of the field had shade under it, and the birds of heaven were resting in its branches, and it gave food to all living things.

¹² And he had a dream, and in his dream he saw steps stretching from earth to heaven, and the angels of God were going up and down on them.

⁷ And Nathan said to David, You are that man. The Lord God of Israel says, I made you king over Israel, putting holy oil on you, and I kept you safe from the hands of Saul;

⁹ But a prophet of the Lord was there, named Oded; and he went out in front of the army which was coming into Samaria and said to them, Truly, because the Lord, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he gave them up into your hands, and you have put them to death in an outburst of wrath stretching up to heaven.

⁵ Your mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens, and your strong purpose is as high as the clouds.

⁴ For your mercy is higher than the heavens: and your unchanging faith than the clouds.

⁶ And now I have given all these lands into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant; and I have given the beasts of the field to him for his use. ⁷ And all the nations will be servants to him and to his son and to his son's son, till the time comes for his land to be overcome: and then a number of nations and great kings will take it for their use. ⁸ And it will come about, that if any nation does not become a servant to this same Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and does not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, then I will send punishment on that nation, says the Lord, by the sword and need of food and by disease, till I have given them into his hands.

³⁷ You, O King, king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory, ³⁸ Wherever the children of men are living; into whose hands he has given the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven, and has made you ruler over them all, you are the head of gold.

¹⁸ As for you, O King, the Most High God gave to Nebuchadnezzar, your father, the kingdom and great power and glory and honour: ¹⁹ And because of the great power he gave him, all peoples and nations and languages were shaking in fear before him: some he put to death and others he kept living, at his pleasure, lifting up some and putting others down as it pleased him. ²⁰ But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became hard with pride, he was put down from his place as king, and they took his glory from him: ²¹ And he was sent out from among the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts', and he was living with the asses of the fields; he had grass for his food like the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he was certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives power over it to anyone at his pleasure. ²² And you, his son, O Belshazzar, have not kept your heart free from pride, though you had knowledge of all this; ²³ But you have been lifting yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have put the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your women, have taken wine in them; and you have given praise to gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron and wood and stone, who are without the power of seeing or hearing, and without knowledge: and to the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not given glory;

⁴ Because John had said to him, It is not right for you to have her.

⁵ For her sins have gone up even to heaven, and God has taken note of her evil-doing.

¹³ In the visions of my head on my bed I saw a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven, ¹⁴ Crying out with a loud voice; and this is what he said: Let the tree be cut down and its branches broken off; let its leaves be taken off and its fruit sent in every direction: let the beasts get away from under it and the birds from its branches: ¹⁵ But keep its broken end and its roots still in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass; let him have the young grass of the field for food, and let him be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his part be with the beasts. ¹⁶ Let his heart be changed from that of a man, and the heart of a beast be given to him; and let seven times go by him.

²¹ And he was sent out from among the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts', and he was living with the asses of the fields; he had grass for his food like the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he was certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives power over it to anyone at his pleasure.

¹² And the Lord said to the Satan, See, I give all he has into your hands, only do not put a finger on the man himself. And the Satan went out from before the Lord. ¹³ And there was a day when his sons and daughters were feasting in the house of their oldest brother, ¹⁴ And a man came to Job, and said, The oxen were ploughing, and the asses were taking their food by their side: ¹⁵ And the men of Sheba came against them and took them away, putting the young men to the sword, and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news. ¹⁶ And this one was still talking when another came, and said, The fire of God came down from heaven, burning up the sheep and the goats and the young men completely, and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news. ¹⁷ And this one was still talking when another came, and said, The Chaldaeans made themselves into three bands, and came down on the camels and took them away, putting the young men to the sword, and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news. ¹⁸ And this one was still talking when another came, and said, Your sons and your daughters were feasting together in their oldest brother's house, ¹⁹ When a great wind came rushing from the waste land against the four sides of the house, and it came down on the young men, and they are dead; and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.

²⁹ This is the reward of the evil man, and the heritage given to him by God.

¹¹ Let your wrath be overflowing; let your eyes see all the sons of pride, and make them low. ¹² Send destruction on all who are lifted up, pulling down the sinners from their places.

⁷ I will make clear the Lord's decision: he has said to me, You are my son, this day have I given you being.

⁴⁰ He puts an end to the pride of kings, and sends them wandering in the waste lands where there is no way.

⁶ He has put them in their places for ever; he has given them their limits which may not be broken.

²⁴ The Lord has taken an oath, saying, My design will certainly come about, and my purpose will be effected: ²⁵ To let the Assyrian be broken in my land, and crushed under foot on my mountains: there will his yoke be taken away from them, and his rule over them come to an end. ²⁶ This is the purpose for all the earth: and this is the hand stretched out over all nations. ²⁷ For it is the purpose of the Lord of armies, and who will make it of no effect? when his hand is stretched out, by whom may it be turned back?

⁹ It was the purpose of the Lord of armies to put pride to shame, to make sport of the glory of those who are honoured in the earth.

¹⁰ Making clear from the first what is to come, and from past times the things which have not so far come about; saying, My purpose is fixed, and I will do all my pleasure; ¹¹ Sending for a bird of strong flight from the east, the man of my purpose from a far country; I have said it, and I will give effect to it; the thing designed by me will certainly be done.

³ They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land. ⁴ They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots. ⁵ They are sent out from among their townsmen, men are crying after them as thieves ⁶ They have to get a resting-place in the hollows of the valleys, in holes of the earth and rocks. ⁷ They make noises like asses among the brushwood; they get together under the thorns. ⁸ They are sons of shame, and of men without a name, who have been forced out of the land.

⁷ But God is the judge, putting down one, and lifting up another.

¹⁸ So that men may see that you only, whose name is Yahweh, are Most High over all the earth.

²⁰ And their glory was changed into the image of an ox, whose food is grass.

⁵ I have made the earth, and man and beast on the face of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I will give it to anyone at my pleasure.

²¹ And he was sent out from among the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts', and he was living with the asses of the fields; he had grass for his food like the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he was certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives power over it to anyone at his pleasure. ²² And you, his son, O Belshazzar, have not kept your heart free from pride, though you had knowledge of all this; ²³ But you have been lifting yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have put the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your women, have taken wine in them; and you have given praise to gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron and wood and stone, who are without the power of seeing or hearing, and without knowledge: and to the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not given glory; ²⁴ Then the part of the hand was sent out from before him, and this writing was recorded. ²⁵ And this is the writing which was recorded, Mene, tekel, peres. ²⁶ This is the sense of the words: Mene; your kingdom has been numbered by God and ended. ²⁷ Tekel; you have been put in the scales and seen to be under weight. ²⁸ Peres; your kingdom has been cut up and given to the Medes and Persians. ²⁹ Then, by the order of Belshazzar, they put a purple robe on Daniel, and a gold chain round his neck, and a public statement was made that he was to be a ruler of high authority in the kingdom. ³⁰ That very night Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldaeans, was put to death. ³¹ And Darius the Mede took the kingdom, being then about sixty-two years old.

³ He was living in the place of the dead: and no man was able to keep him down, no, not with a chain; ⁴ Because he had frequently been prisoned in chains and iron bands, and the chains had been parted and the bands broken by him: and no man was strong enough to make him quiet.

³⁷ You, O King, king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory,

¹⁵ But keep its broken end and its roots still in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass; let him have the young grass of the field for food, and let him be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his part be with the beasts.

³⁴ But I say to you, Take no oaths at all: not by the heaven, because it is the seat of God;

²⁰ And when the disciples saw it they were surprised, saying, How did the fig-tree become dry in so short a time?

¹⁸ I will get up and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have done wrong, against heaven and in your eyes:

²¹ And his son said to him, Father, I have done wrong, against heaven and in your eyes: I am no longer good enough to be named your son.

³³ And now let Pharaoh make search for a man of wisdom and good sense, and put him in authority over the land of Egypt. ³⁴ Let Pharaoh do this, and let him put overseers over the land of Egypt to put in store a fifth part of the produce of the land in the good years. ³⁵ And let them get together all the food in those good years and make a store of grain under Pharaoh's control for the use of the towns, and let them keep it. ³⁶ And let that food be kept in store for the land till the seven bad years which are to come in Egypt; so that the land may not come to destruction through need of food. ³⁷ And this seemed good to Pharaoh and to all his servants.

²⁹ Do you see how Ahab has made himself low before me? because he has made himself low before me, I will not send the evil in his life-time, but in his son's time I will send the evil on his family.

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¹ To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. Happy is the man who gives thought to the poor; the Lord will be his saviour in the time of trouble. ² The Lord will keep him safe, and give him life; the Lord will let him be a blessing on the earth, and will not give him into the hand of his haters. ³ The Lord will be his support on his bed of pain: by you will all his grief be turned to strength.

⁴⁶ So that I may give knowledge of your unchanging word before kings, and not be put to shame.

⁶ By mercy and good faith evil-doing is taken away: and by the fear of the Lord men are turned away from evil.

¹³ He who keeps his sins secret will not do well; but one who is open about them, and gives them up, will get mercy.

⁶ Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near: ⁷ Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.

⁵ Have I given orders for such a day as this? a day for keeping yourselves from pleasure? is it only a question of the bent head, of putting on haircloth, and being seated in the dust? is this what seems to you a holy day, well-pleasing to the Lord? ⁶ Is not this the holy day for which I have given orders: to let loose those who have wrongly been made prisoners, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and every yoke be broken? ⁷ Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh?

¹⁰ And if you give your bread to those in need of it, so that the troubled one may have his desire; then you will have light in the dark, and your night will be as the full light of the sun: ¹¹ And the Lord will be your guide at all times; in dry places he will give you water in full measure, and will make strong your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like an ever-flowing spring. ¹² And your sons will be building again the old waste places: you will make strong the bases of old generations: and you will be named, He who puts up the broken walls, and, He who makes ready the ways for use.

⁷ And has done no wrong to any, but has given back to the debtor what is his, and has taken no one's goods by force, and has given food to him who was in need of it, and clothing to him who was without it;

²¹ But if the evil-doer, turning away from all the sins which he has done, keeps my rules and does what is ordered and right, life will certainly be his; death will not be his fate. ²² Not one of the sins which he has done will be kept in memory against him: in the righteousness which he has done he will have life.

²⁷ Again, when the evil-doer, turning away from the evil he has done, does what is ordered and right, he will have life for his soul. ²⁸ Because he had fear and was turned away from all the wrong which he had done, life will certainly be his, death will not be his fate. ²⁹ But still the children of Israel say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O children of Israel, are my ways not equal? are not your ways unequal? ³⁰ For this cause I will be your judge, O children of Israel, judging every man by his ways, says the Lord. Come back and be turned from all your sins; so that they may not be the cause of your falling into evil. ³¹ Put away all your evil-doing in which you have done sin; and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: why are you desiring death, O children of Israel? ³² For I have no pleasure in the death of him on whom death comes, says the Lord: be turned back then, and have life.

¹⁴ May it not be that he will again let his purpose be changed and let a blessing come after him, even a meal offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God?

⁹ Who may say that God will not be turned, changing his purpose and turning away from his burning wrath, so that destruction may not overtake us?

² Before the Lord sends you violently away in flight like the waste from the grain; before the burning wrath of the Lord comes on you, before the day of the Lord's wrath comes on you. ³ Make search for the Lord, all you quiet ones of the earth, who have done what is right in his eyes; make search for righteousness and a quiet heart: it may be that you will be safely covered in the day of the Lord's wrath.

⁸ Let your change of heart be seen in your works:

⁴¹ But if you give to the poor such things as you are able, then all things are clean to you.

²² Let your heart be changed, and make prayer to God that you may have forgiveness for your evil thoughts.

² A serious-minded man, fearing God with all his family; he gave much money to the poor, and made prayer to God at all times. 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.

²⁵ And while he was talking about righteousness and self-control and the judging which was to come, Felix had great fear and said, Go away for the present, and when the right time comes I will send for you.

²⁰ But I went about, first to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, and through all the country of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, preaching a change of heart, so that they, being turned to God, might give, in their works, the fruits of a changed heart.

¹¹ Having in mind, then, the fear of the Lord, we put these things before men, but God sees our hearts; and it is my hope that we may seem right in your eyes.

⁶ Because in Christ Jesus, having circumcision or not having circumcision are equally of no profit; but only faith working through love.

¹³ Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,

²⁸ Let him who was a thief be so no longer, but let him do good work with his hands, so that he may have something to give to him who is in need.

⁸ Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind. ⁹ Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief. ¹⁰ Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him.

⁸ And most of all be warm in your love for one another; because in love there is forgiveness for sins without number:

¹⁹ God is not a man, to say what is false; or the son of man, that his purpose may be changed: what he has said, will he not do? and will he not give effect to the words of his mouth?

²⁴ The thing feared by the evil-doer will come to him, but the upright man will get his desire.

⁶ But my words and my orders, which I gave to my servants the prophets, have they not overtaken your fathers? and turning back they said, As it was the purpose of the Lord of armies to do to us, in reward for our ways and our doings, so has he done.

³⁵ Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.

³ And the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever, for he is only flesh; so the days of his life will be a hundred and twenty years.

¹¹ Because punishment for an evil work comes not quickly, the minds of the sons of men are fully given to doing evil.

²⁰ Who, in the days of Noah, went against God's orders; but God in his mercy kept back the punishment, while Noah got ready the ark, in which a small number, that is to say eight persons, got salvation through water:

⁹ The Lord is not slow in keeping his word, as he seems to some, but he is waiting in mercy for you, not desiring the destruction of any, but that all may be turned from their evil ways. ¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; and in that day the heavens will be rolled up with a great noise, and the substance of the earth will be changed by violent heat, and the world and everything in it will be burned up.

¹⁵ And be certain that the long waiting of the Lord is for salvation; even as our brother Paul has said in his letters to you, from the wisdom which was given to him;

²¹ And I gave her time for a change of heart, but she has no mind to give up her unclean ways.

¹⁰ And at the first, his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

² And it came about that in their wandering from the east, they came to a stretch of flat country in the land of Shinar, and there they made their living-place. ³ And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth. ⁴ And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth. ⁵ And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building. ⁶ And the Lord said, See, they are all one people and have all one language; and this is only the start of what they may do: and now it will not be possible to keep them from any purpose of theirs. ⁷ Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another. ⁸ So the Lord God sent them away into every part of the earth: and they gave up building their town. ⁹ So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all languages and from there the Lord sent them away over all the face of the earth.

¹² Wealth and honour come from you, and you are ruler over all, and in your hand is power and strength; it is in your power to make great, and to give strength to all. ¹³ So now, our God, we give you praise, honouring the glory of your name. ¹⁴ But who am I and what is my people, that we have power to give so freely in this way? for all things come from you, and what we have given you is yours.

⁵ And the house which I am building is to be great, for our God is greater than all gods. ⁶ But who may have strength enough to make a house for him, seeing that the heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be his resting-place? who am I then to make a house for him? But I am building it only for the burning of perfume before him.

⁴ And for a long time, even a hundred and eighty days, he let them see all the wealth and the glory of his kingdom and the great power and honour which were his.

²⁰ Man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

⁸ Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts.

¹ Give praise to the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, you are very great; you are robed with honour and power.

⁵ My thoughts will be of the honour and glory of your rule, and of the wonder of your works. ⁶ Men will be talking of the power and fear of your acts; I will give word of your glory. ⁷ Their sayings will be full of the memory of all your mercy, and they will make songs of your righteousness. ⁸ The Lord is full of grace and pity; not quickly angry, but great in mercy. ⁹ The Lord is good to all men; and his mercies are over all his works. ¹⁰ All the works of your hands give praise to you, O Lord; and your saints give you blessing. ¹¹ Their words will be of the glory of your kingdom, and their talk of your strength; ¹² So that the sons of men may have knowledge of his acts of power, and of the great glory of his kingdom.

¹⁸ Pride goes before destruction, and a stiff spirit before a fall.

⁸ For he says, Are not all my captains kings? ⁹ Will not the fate of Calno be like that of Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus? ¹⁰ As my hand has come on the kingdoms of the images, whose pictured images were more in number than those of Jerusalem and Samaria; ¹¹ So, as I have done to Samaria and her images, I will do to Jerusalem and her images. ¹² For this cause it will be that, when the purpose of the Lord against Mount Zion and Jerusalem is complete, I will send punishment on the pride of the heart of the king of Assyria, and on the glory of his uplifted eyes. ¹³ For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my knowledge, for I am wise: and I have taken away the limits of the peoples' lands, and the stores of their wealth have become mine; and I have made towns low in the dust, sending destruction on those living in them; ¹⁴ And I have put my hands on the wealth of the peoples, as on the place where a bird has put her eggs; and as a man may take the eggs from which a bird has gone, so I have taken all the earth for myself: and not a wing was moved, and not a mouth gave out a sound. ¹⁵ Will the axe say high-sounding words against him who is using it, or the blade be full of pride against him who is cutting with it? As if a rod had the power of shaking him who is using it, or as if a stick might take up him who is not wood.

²⁴ You have sent your servants with evil words against the Lord, and have said, With all my war-carriages I have come up to the top of the mountains, to the inmost parts of Lebanon; and its tall cedars will be cut down, and the best trees of its woods: I will come up into his highest places, into his thick woods. ²⁵ I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.

¹⁸ As for you, O King, the Most High God gave to Nebuchadnezzar, your father, the kingdom and great power and glory and honour: ¹⁹ And because of the great power he gave him, all peoples and nations and languages were shaking in fear before him: some he put to death and others he kept living, at his pleasure, lifting up some and putting others down as it pleased him. ²⁰ But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became hard with pride, he was put down from his place as king, and they took his glory from him:

¹⁵ He takes them all up with his hook, he takes them in his net, getting them together in his fishing-net: for which cause he is glad and full of joy. ¹⁶ For this reason he makes an offering to his net, burning perfume to his fishing-net; because by them he gets much food and his meat is fat.

⁴ As for the man of pride, my soul has no pleasure in him; but the upright man will have life through his good faith. ⁵ A curse on the cruel and false one! the man full of pride, who never has enough; who makes his desires wide as the underworld! he is like death; he is never full, but he makes all nations come to him, getting all peoples together to himself.

¹¹ For every man who gives himself a high place will be put down, but he who takes a low place will be lifted up.

³¹ So then, if it is a question of food or drink, or any other thing, whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

⁵ And in the same way, let the younger men be ruled by the older ones. Let all of you put away pride and make yourselves ready to be servants: for God is a hater of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low.

¹⁹ And the great town was cut into three parts, and the towns of the nations came to destruction: and Babylon the great came into mind before God, to be given the cup of the wine of his wrath.

⁵ And on her brow was a name, SECRET, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE EVIL WOMEN AND OF THE UNCLEAN THINGS OF THE EARTH.

¹⁰ Watching from far away, for fear of her punishment, saying, Sorrow, sorrow for Babylon, the great town, the strong town! for in one hour you have been judged.

²¹ And a strong angel took up a stone like the great stone with which grain is crushed, and sent it into the sea, saying, So, with a great fall, will Babylon, the great town, come to destruction, and will not be seen any more at all.

²⁴ And the nations will go in its light: and the kings of the earth will take their glory into it. ²⁵ And the doors of it will never be shut by day for there is no night there: ²⁶ And the glory and honour of the nations will come into it:

⁹ Egypt said, I will go after them, I will overtake, I will make division of their goods: my desire will have its way with them; my sword will be uncovered, my hand will send destruction on them. ¹⁰ You sent your wind and the sea came over them: they went down like lead into the great waters.

¹⁴ But now, your authority will not go on: the Lord, searching for a man who is pleasing to him in every way, has given him the place of ruler over his people, because you have not done what the Lord gave you orders to do.

²³ For to go against his orders is like the sin of those who make use of secret arts, and pride is like giving worship to images. Because you have put away from you the word of the Lord, he has put you from your place as king.

²³ God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.

³⁴ And at the end of the days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifting up my eyes to heaven, got back my reason, and, blessing the Most High, I gave praise and honour to him who is living for ever, whose rule is an eternal rule and whose kingdom goes on from generation to generation.

⁴ They took their wine and gave praise to the gods of gold and silver, of brass and iron and wood and stone. ⁵ In that very hour the fingers of a man's hand were seen, writing opposite the support for the light on the white wall of the king's house, and the king saw the part of the hand which was writing.

²⁸ Peres; your kingdom has been cut up and given to the Medes and Persians.

¹⁷ And a voice came out of heaven, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.

²⁰ But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?

²⁸ Father, give glory to your name. Then there came a voice out of heaven, saying, I have given it glory, and I will give it glory again.

³ And while he was journeying, he came near Damascus; and suddenly he saw a light from heaven shining round him; ⁴ And he went down on the earth, and a voice said to him, Saul, Saul, why are you attacking me so cruelly? ⁵ And he said, Who are you, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus, whom you are attacking:

²² And the people, with loud cries, said, It is the voice of a god, not of a man. 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.

³ When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.

⁷ And a voice came from the altar, saying, Even so, O Lord God, Ruler of all, true and full of righteousness is your judging.

¹⁰ And he said, By tomorrow. And he said, Let it be as you say: so that you may see that there is no other like the Lord our God.

¹⁴ For this time I will send all my punishments on yourself and on your servants and on your people; so that you may see that there is no other like me in all the earth.

²⁹ And Moses said, When I am gone outside the town, my hands will be stretched out to the Lord; the thunders and the ice-storm will come to an end, so that you may see that the earth is the Lord's.

²⁴ So that all the peoples of the earth may see that the hand of the Lord is strong; and that they may go in fear of the Lord your God for ever.

¹⁸ He undoes the chains of kings, and puts his band on them; ¹⁹ He makes priests prisoners, overturning those in safe positions; ²⁰ He makes the words of responsible persons without effect, and takes away the good sense of the old; ²¹ He puts shame on chiefs, and takes away the power of the strong;

⁵ They are sent out from among their townsmen, men are crying after them as thieves ⁶ They have to get a resting-place in the hollows of the valleys, in holes of the earth and rocks. ⁷ They make noises like asses among the brushwood; they get together under the thorns.

¹⁵ Through me kings have their power, and rulers give right decisions. ¹⁶ Through me chiefs have authority, and the noble ones are judging in righteousness.

²⁰ But now, O Lord our God, give us salvation from his hand, so that it may be clear to all the kingdoms of the earth that you, and you only, are the Lord.

³ And I will give you the stores of the dark, and the wealth of secret places, so that you may be certain that I am the Lord, who gave you your name, even the God of Israel.

¹⁴ Crying out with a loud voice; and this is what he said: Let the tree be cut down and its branches broken off; let its leaves be taken off and its fruit sent in every direction: let the beasts get away from under it and the birds from its branches: ¹⁵ But keep its broken end and its roots still in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass; let him have the young grass of the field for food, and let him be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his part be with the beasts. ¹⁶ Let his heart be changed from that of a man, and the heart of a beast be given to him; and let seven times go by him. ¹⁷ This order is fixed by the watchers, and the decision is by the word of the holy ones: so that the living may be certain that the Most High is ruler over the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure, lifting up over it the lowest of men.

⁵ That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute?

¹⁴ And he will let it be broken as a potter's vessel is broken: it will be smashed to bits without mercy; so that there will not be a bit in which one may take fire from the fireplace, or water from the spring.

³² And they will send you out from among men, to be with the beasts of the field; they will give you grass for your food like the oxen, and seven times will go by you, till you are certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure.

⁵ In that very hour the fingers of a man's hand were seen, writing opposite the support for the light on the white wall of the king's house, and the king saw the part of the hand which was writing.

² For you yourselves have the knowledge that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

²¹ With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.

¹⁷ I will give praise to the Lord for his righteousness; I will make a song to the name of the Lord Most High.

² I will be glad and have delight in you: I will make a song of praise to your name, O Most High.

¹⁶ The Lord is King for ever and ever; the nations are gone from his land.

¹⁴ Make an offering of praise to God; keep the agreements which you have made with the Most High;

¹ A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, you have been our resting-place in all generations. ² Before the mountains were made, before you had given birth to the earth and the world, before time was, and for ever, you are God.

¹ A Psalm. A Song for the Sabbath. It is a good thing to give praise to the Lord, and to make melody to your name, O Most High;

²⁴ I will say, O my God, take me not away before my time; your years go on through all generations:

¹ Of David. Give praise to the Lord, O my soul; let everything in me give praise to his holy name. ² Give praise to the Lord, O my soul; let not all his blessings go from your memory. ³ He has forgiveness for all your sins; he takes away all your diseases; ⁴ He keeps back your life from destruction, crowning you with mercy and grace.

⁸ Let men give praise to the Lord for his mercy, and for the wonders which he does for the children of men!

¹⁵ Let men give praise to the Lord for his mercy, and for the wonders which he does for the children of men!

²² Let them make offerings of praise, giving news of his works with cries of joy.

³¹ Let men give praise to the Lord for his mercy, and for the wonders which he does for the children of men!

¹ A Song of the going up. My eyes are lifted up to the hills: O where will my help come from?

¹ A Song of the going up. To you my eyes are lifted up, even to you whose seat is in the heavens.

¹ A Song of the going up. Out of the deep have I sent up my cry to you, O Lord. ² Lord, let my voice come before you: let your ears be awake to the voice of my prayer.

¹⁰ The Lord will be King for ever; your God, O Zion, will be King through all generations. Praise be to the Lord.

⁶ For to us a child has come, to us a son is given; and the government has been placed in his hands; and he has been named Wise Guide, Strong God, Father for ever, Prince of Peace. ⁷ Of the increase of his rule and of peace there will be no end, on the seat of David, and in his kingdom; to make it strong, supporting it with wise decision and righteousness, now and for ever. By the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.

¹⁵ Give praise to the Lord in the east, to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, in the sea-lands.

¹⁹ Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison. ²⁰ My soul still keeps the memory of them; and is bent down in me. ²¹ This I keep in mind, and because of this I have hope. ²² It is through the Lord's love that we have not come to destruction, because his mercies have no limit. ²³ They are new every morning; great is your good faith.

³⁸ Do not evil and good come from the mouth of the Most High?

³ How great are his signs! and how full of power are his wonders! his kingdom is an eternal kingdom and his rule goes on from generation to generation.

²⁶ And as they gave orders to let the broken end and the roots of the tree be, so your kingdom will be safe for you after it is clear to you that the heavens are ruling.

²⁶ It is my order that in all the kingdom of which I am ruler, men are to be shaking with fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, unchanging for ever, and his kingdom is one which will never come to destruction, his rule will go on to the end.

² In my trouble I was crying to the Lord, and he gave me an answer; out of the deepest underworld I sent up a cry, and you gave ear to my voice. ³ For you have put me down into the deep, into the heart of the sea; and the river was round about me; all your waves and your rolling waters went over me. ⁴ And I said, I have been sent away from before your eyes; how may I ever again see your holy Temple?

⁷ And I will make her whose steps were uncertain a small band, and her who was feeble a strong nation: and the Lord will be their King in Mount Zion from now and for ever.

³³ He will have rule over the house of Jacob for ever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.

¹³ The tax-farmer, on the other hand, keeping far away, and not lifting up even his eyes to heaven, made signs of grief and said, God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

²⁶ For even as the Father has life in himself, so he has given to the Son to have life in himself.

¹⁶ Who only has life for ever, living in light to which no man may come near; whom no man has seen or is able to see: to whom be honour and power for ever. So be it.

¹⁰ The four and twenty rulers go down on their faces before him who is seated on the high seat, and give worship to him who is living for ever and ever, and take off their crowns before the high seat, saying,

⁶ And took his oath by him who is living for ever and ever, who made the heaven and the things in it, and the earth and the things in it, and the sea and the things in it, that there would be no more waiting:

¹⁸ Then Samuel gave him an account of everything, keeping nothing back. And he said, It is the Lord; let him do what seems good to him.

⁴ He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it?

¹² If he puts out his hand to take, by whom may it be turned back? who may say to him, What are you doing? ¹³ God's wrath may not be turned back; the helpers of Rahab were bent down under him.

¹³ But his purpose is fixed and there is no changing it; and he gives effect to the desire of his soul.

¹² Truly, in saying this you are wrong; for God is greater than man. ¹³ Why do you put forward your cause against him, saying, He gives no answer to any of my words?

¹⁴ If he made his spirit come back to him, taking his breath into himself again, ¹⁵ All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.

¹⁹ Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands. ²⁰ Suddenly they come to an end, even in the middle of the night: the blow comes on the men of wealth, and they are gone, and the strong are taken away without the hand of man. ²¹ For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps. ²² There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover. ²³ For he does not give man a fixed time to come before him to be judged. ²⁴ He sends the strong to destruction without searching out their cause, and puts others in their place.

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² Will he who is protesting give teaching to the Ruler of all? Let him who has arguments to put forward against God give an answer.

⁹ Have you an arm like God? have you a voice of thunder like his? ¹⁰ Put on the ornaments of your pride; be clothed with glory and power:

² I see that you are able to do every thing, and to give effect to all your designs.

⁸ Let the earth be full of the fear of the Lord; let all the people of the world be in holy fear of him. ⁹ For he gave the word, and it was done; by his order it was fixed for ever. ¹⁰ The Lord undoes the designs of the nations; he makes the thoughts of the peoples without effect. ¹¹ The Lord's purpose is eternal, the designs of his heart go on through all the generations of man.

¹⁴ From his house he keeps watch on all who are living on the earth;

¹ Alamoth. To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm. Give attention to this, all you peoples; let your ears be open, all you who are living in the world.

³ But our God is in heaven: he has done whatever was pleasing to him.

⁶ The Lord has done whatever was pleasing to him, in heaven, and on the earth, in the seas and in all the deep waters.

³⁰ Wisdom and knowledge and wise suggestions are of no use against the Lord.

⁹ In the night the desire of my soul has been for you; early will my spirit be searching for you; for when your punishments come on the earth, the people of the world will get the knowledge of righteousness.

¹⁵ See, the nations are to him like a drop hanging from a bucket, and like the small dust in the scales: he takes up the islands like small dust. ¹⁶ And Lebanon is not enough to make a fire with, or all its cattle enough for a burned offering. ¹⁷ All the nations are as nothing before him; even less than nothing, a thing of no value.

²² It is he who is seated over the arch of the earth, and the people in it are as small as locusts; by him the heavens are stretched out like an arch, and made ready like a tent for a living-place. ²³ He makes rulers come to nothing; the judges of the earth are of no value. ²⁴ They have only now been planted, and their seed put into the earth, and they have only now taken root, when he sends out his breath over them and they become dry, and the storm-wind takes them away like dry grass.

¹³ From time long past I am God, and from this day I am he: there is no one who is able to take you out of my hand: when I undertake a thing, by whom will my purpose be changed?

⁹ Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped? ¹⁰ Cursed is he who says to a father, To what are you giving life? or to a woman, What are you in birth-pains with? ¹¹ The Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, says, Will you put a question to me about the things which are to come, or will you give me orders about my sons, and the work of my hands?

²⁵ At that time Jesus made answer and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children. ²⁶ Yes, Father, for so it was pleasing in your eyes.

²⁸ To do that which had been fixed before by your hand and your purpose.

³⁹ But if it is of God, you will not be able to overcome them, and you are in danger of fighting against God.

⁵ And he said, Who are you, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus, whom you are attacking:

¹⁷ If then God gave them, when they had faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the same as he gave to us, who was I to go against God?

¹⁹ But you will say to me, Why does he still make us responsible? who is able to go against his purpose? ²⁰ But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?

³³ O how deep is the wealth of the wisdom and knowledge of God! no one is able to make discovery of his decisions, and his ways may not be searched out. ³⁴ Who has knowledge of the mind of the Lord? or who has taken part in his purposes? ³⁵ Or who has first given to him, and it will be given back to him again? ³⁶ For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever. So be it.

¹⁶ For who has knowledge of the mind of the Lord, so as to be his teacher? But we have the mind of Christ.

²² Or may we be the cause of envy to the Lord? are we stronger than he?

¹¹ In whom we have a heritage, being marked out from the first in his purpose who does all things in agreement with his designs;

¹⁰ So that at the name of Jesus every knee may be bent, of those in heaven and those on earth and those in the underworld, ¹¹ And that every tongue may give witness that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

³⁰ For this reason the Lord God of Israel has said, Truly I did say that your family and your father's people would have their place before me for ever: but now the Lord says, Let it not be so; I will give honour to those by whom I am honoured, and those who have no respect for me will be of small value in my eyes.

¹² And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers, ¹³ And made prayer to him; and in answer to his prayer God let him come back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh was certain that the Lord was God.

¹² Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.

⁴ The reward of a gentle spirit and the fear of the Lord is wealth and honour and life.

³³ But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.

¹⁷ For our present trouble, which is only for a short time, is working out for us a much greater weight of glory;

¹¹ Now I am certain that the Lord is greater than all gods, for he has overcome them in their pride.

⁴ He is the Rock, complete is his work; for all his ways are righteousness: a God without evil who keeps faith, true and upright is he.

³ Say no more words of pride; let not uncontrolled sayings come out of your mouths: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, by him acts are judged.

¹¹ So the Lord sent against them the captains of the army of Assyria, who made Manasseh a prisoner and took him away in chains to Babylon. ¹² And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers,

¹⁹ And the prayer which he made to God, and how God gave him an answer, and all his sin and his wrongdoing, and the places where he made high places and put up pillars of wood and images, before he put away his pride, are recorded in the history of the seers.

⁴ For the word of the Lord is upright, and all his works are certain. ⁵ His delight is in righteousness and wisdom; the earth is full of the mercy of the Lord.

⁴ The king's power is used for righteousness; you give true decisions, judging rightly in the land of Jacob.

⁷⁵ I have seen, O Lord, that your decisions are right, and that in unchanging faith you have sent trouble on me.

¹⁷ The Lord is upright in all his ways, and kind in all his works. ¹⁸ The Lord is near all those who give honour to his name; even to all who give honour to him with true hearts.

¹⁶ But the Lord of armies is lifted up as judge, and the Holy God is seen to be holy in righteousness.

⁵⁶ Was not your sister Sodom an oath in your mouth in the day of your pride,

⁶³ So that, at the memory of these things, you may be at a loss, never opening your mouth because of your shame; when you have my forgiveness for all you have done, says the Lord.

³⁰ The king made answer and said, Is this not great Babylon, which I have made for the living-place of kings, by the strength of my power and for the glory of my honour? ³¹ While the word was still in the king's mouth, a voice came down from heaven, saying, O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is said: The kingdom has gone from you:

⁴ They took their wine and gave praise to the gods of gold and silver, of brass and iron and wood and stone.

²⁰ But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became hard with pride, he was put down from his place as king, and they took his glory from him: ²¹ And he was sent out from among the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts', and he was living with the asses of the fields; he had grass for his food like the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he was certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives power over it to anyone at his pleasure. ²² And you, his son, O Belshazzar, have not kept your heart free from pride, though you had knowledge of all this; ²³ But you have been lifting yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have put the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your women, have taken wine in them; and you have given praise to gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron and wood and stone, who are without the power of seeing or hearing, and without knowledge: and to the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not given glory; ²⁴ Then the part of the hand was sent out from before him, and this writing was recorded.

²⁵ At that time Jesus made answer and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children.

²⁴ The God who made the earth and everything in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, is not housed in buildings made with hands;

⁶ But he gives more grace. So that the Writings say, God is against the men of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low before him. ⁷ For this cause be ruled by God; but make war on the Evil One and he will be put to flight before you.

⁹ But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven. ¹⁰ In the past you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; then there was no mercy for you, but now mercy has been given to you.

⁵ And in the same way, let the younger men be ruled by the older ones. Let all of you put away pride and make yourselves ready to be servants: for God is a hater of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low. ⁶ For this cause make yourselves low under the strong hand of God, so that when the time comes you may be lifted up;

³ And they give the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and full of wonder are your works, O Lord God, Ruler of all; true and full of righteousness are your ways, eternal King.

¹ After these things there came to my ears a sound like the voice of a great band of people in heaven, saying, Praise to the Lord; salvation and glory and power be to our God: ² For true and upright are his decisions; for by him has the evil woman been judged, who made the earth unclean with the sins of her body; and he has given her punishment for the blood of his servants.