Daniel 5 Cross References - BBE

¹ Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, drinking wine before the thousand. ² Belshazzar, while he was overcome with wine, gave orders for them to put before him the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar, his father, had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem; so that the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, might take their drink from them. ³ Then they took in the gold and silver vessels which had been in the Temple of the house of God at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, took wine from them. 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. 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. ⁷ The king, crying out with a loud voice, said that the users of secret arts, the Chaldaeans, and the readers of signs, were to be sent for. The king made answer and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever is able to make out this writing, and make clear to me the sense of it, will be clothed in purple and have a chain of gold round his neck, and will be a ruler of high authority in the kingdom. 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. ⁹ Then King Belshazzar was greatly troubled and the colour went from his face, and his lords were at a loss. 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: 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. ¹³ Then they took Daniel in before the king; the king made answer and said to Daniel, So you are that Daniel, of the prisoners of Judah, whom my father took out of Judah. 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. 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: ¹⁶ And I have had news of you, that you have the power of making things clear, and of answering hard questions: now if you are able to make out the writing and give me the sense of it, you will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain round your neck and be a ruler of high authority in the kingdom. ¹⁷ Then Daniel made answer and said to the king, Keep your offerings for yourself, and give your rewards to another; but I, after reading the writing to the king, will give him the sense of it. 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; 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.

²⁰ Now the third day was Pharaoh's birthday, and he gave a feast for all his servants; and he gave honour to the chief wine-servant and the chief bread-maker among the others.

³ In the third year of his rule he gave a feast to all his captains and his servants; and the captains of the army of Persia and Media, the great men and the rulers of the divisions of his kingdom, were present before him;

⁴ My mind is wandering, fear has overcome me: the evening of my desire has been turned into shaking for me. ⁵ They make ready the table, they put down the covers, they take food and drink. Up! you captains; put oil on your breastplates.

¹² And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief:

¹⁴ And the Lord of armies said to me secretly, Truly, this sin will not be taken from you till your death, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.

³⁹ When they are heated, I will make a feast for them, and overcome them with wine, so that they may become unconscious, sleeping an eternal sleep without awaking, says the Lord.

⁵⁷ And I will make her chiefs and her wise men, her rulers and her captains and her men of war, overcome with wine; their sleep will be an eternal sleep without awaking, says the King; the Lord of armies is his name.

¹⁰ For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.

²¹ And the chance came when Herod on his birthday gave a feast to his lords, and the high captains, and the chief men of Galilee; ²² And when the daughter of Herodias herself came in and did a dance, Herod and those who were at table with him were pleased with her; and the king said to the girl, Make a request for anything and I will give it you.

⁷ And David said to him, Have no fear: for truly I will be good to you, because of your father Jonathan, and I will give back to you all the land which was Saul's; and you will have a place at my table at all times.

²⁵ In the twelfth year that Joram, the son of Ahab, was king of Israel, Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, became king; ²⁶ Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for one year. His mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri, king of Israel. ²⁷ He went in the ways of the family of Ahab, and did evil in the eyes of the Lord as the family of Ahab did, for he was a son-in-law of the family of Ahab.

¹³ And he took away all the stored wealth of the Lord's house, and the goods from the king's store-house, cutting up all the gold vessels which Solomon, king of Israel, had made in the house of the Lord, as the Lord had said.

¹⁵ And the fire-trays and the basins; the gold of the gold vessels and the silver of the silver vessels, were all taken away by the captain of the armed men.

²⁰ And after her he took Maacah, the daughter of Absalom; and she had Abijah and Attai and Ziza and Shelomith by him.

¹⁶ And Asa would not let Maacah, his mother, be queen, because she had made a disgusting image for Asherah; and Asa had her image cut down and broken up and burned by the stream Kidron.

¹⁰ In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and took him away to Babylon, with the beautiful vessels of the house of the Lord, and made Zedekiah, his father's brother, king over Judah and Jerusalem.

¹⁸ And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the stored wealth of the Lord's house and the wealth of the king and his chiefs, he took away to Babylon.

⁷ And Cyrus the king got out the vessels of the house of the Lord which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from Jerusalem and put in the house of his gods; ⁸ Even these Cyrus made Mithredath, the keeper of his wealth, get out, and he gave them, after numbering them, to Sheshbazzar, the ruler of Judah. ⁹ And this is the number of them: there were thirty gold plates, a thousand silver plates, twenty-nine knives, ¹⁰ Thirty gold basins, four hundred and ten silver basins, and a thousand other vessels. ¹¹ There were five thousand, four hundred gold and silver vessels. All these were taken back by Sheshbazzar, when those who had been taken prisoner went up from Babylon to Jerusalem.

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.

¹⁶ And I said to the priests and to all the people, This is what the Lord has said: Give no attention to the words of your prophets who say to you, See, in a very little time now the vessels of the Lord's house will come back again from Babylon: for what they say to you is false. ¹⁷ Give no attention to them; become servants of the king of Babylon and keep yourselves from death: why let this town become a waste? ¹⁸ But if they are prophets, and if the word of the Lord is with them, let them now make request to the Lord of armies that the vessels which are still in the house of the Lord and in the house of the king of Judah and at Jerusalem, may not go to Babylon. ¹⁹ For this is what the Lord has said about the rest of the vessels which are still in this town, ²⁰ Which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, did not take away, when he took Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, a prisoner from Jerusalem to Babylon, with all the great men of Judah and Jerusalem; ²¹ For this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said about the rest of the vessels in the house of the Lord and in the house of the king of Judah and at Jerusalem: ²² They will be taken away to Babylon, and there they will be till the day when I send their punishment on them, says the Lord. Then I will take them up and put them back in their place.

¹⁹ And the cups and the fire-trays and the basins and the pots and the supports for the lights and the spoons and the wide basins; the gold of the gold vessels, and the silver of the silver vessels, the captain of the armed men took away.

² And the Lord gave into his hands Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with some of the vessels of the house of God; and he took them away into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he put the vessels into the store-house of his god.

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

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;

¹³ Then they took Daniel in before the king; the king made answer and said to Daniel, So you are that Daniel, of the prisoners of Judah, whom my father took out of Judah.

¹⁸ As for you, O King, the Most High God gave to Nebuchadnezzar, your father, the kingdom and great power and glory and honour:

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;

²³ And the chiefs of the Philistines came together to make a great offering to Dagon their god, and to be glad; for they said, Our god has given into our hands Samson our hater. ²⁴ And when the people saw him, they gave praise to their god; for they said, Our god has given into our hands the one who was fighting against us, who made our country waste, and who put great numbers of us to death.

⁴ Their images are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. ⁵ They have mouths, but no voice; they have eyes, but they see not; ⁶ They have ears, but no hearing; they have noses, but no sense of smell; ⁷ They have hands without feeling, and feet without power of walking; and no sound comes from their throat. ⁸ Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his faith in them.

¹⁵ The images of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. ¹⁶ They have mouths, but no voice, they have eyes, but they do not see; ¹⁷ They have ears, but no hearing; and there is no breath in their mouths. ¹⁸ Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his hope in them.

¹⁹ The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it, and makes silver bands for it. ²⁰ The wise workman makes selection of the mulberry-tree of the offering, a wood which will not become soft; so that the image may be fixed to it and not be moved.

⁸ I am the Lord; that is my name: I will not give my glory to another, or my praise to pictured images.

¹⁷ They will be turned back and be greatly shamed who put their hope in pictured images, who say to metal images, You are our gods.

⁶ As for those who take gold out of a bag, and put silver in the scales, they give payment to a gold-worker, to make it into a god; they go down on their faces and give it worship. ⁷ They put him on their backs, and take him up, and put him in his fixed place, from which he may not be moved; if a man gives a cry for help to him, he is unable to give an answer, or get him out of his trouble.

⁴ They make it beautiful with silver and gold; they make it strong with nails and hammers, so that it may not be moved. ⁵ It is like a pillar in a garden of plants, and has no voice: it has to be lifted, for it has no power of walking. Have no fear of it; for it has no power of doing evil and it is not able to do any good. ⁶ There is no one like you, O Lord; you are great and your name is great in power. ⁷ Who would not have fear of you, O King of the nations? for it is your right: for among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is no one like you. ⁸ But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood. ⁹ Silver hammered into plates is sent from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the expert workman and of the hands of the gold-worker; blue and purple is their clothing, all the work of expert men.

¹ Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, sixty cubits high and six cubits wide: he put it up in the valley of Dura, in the land of Babylon. ² And Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to get together all the captains, the chiefs, the rulers, the wise men, the keepers of public money, the judges, the overseers, and all the rulers of the divisions of the country, to come to see the unveiling of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had put up. ³ Then the captains, the chiefs, the rulers, the wise men, the keepers of public money, the judges, the overseers, and all the rulers of the divisions of the country, came together to see the unveiling of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had put up; and they took their places before the image which Nebuchadnezzar had put up. ⁴ Then one of the king's criers said in a loud voice, To you the order is given, O peoples, nations, and languages, ⁵ That when the sound of the horn, pipe, harp, trigon, psaltery, bagpipe, and all sorts of instruments, comes to your ears, you are to go down on your faces in worship before the image of gold which Nebuchadnezzar the king has put up: ⁶ And anyone not falling down and worshipping will that same hour be put into a burning and flaming fire. ⁷ So at that time, all the people, when the sound of the horn, pipe, harp, trigon, psaltery, and all sorts of instruments, came to their ears, went down on their faces in worship before the image of gold which Nebuchadnezzar the king had put up. ⁸ At that time certain Chaldaeans came near and made a statement against the Jews. ⁹ They made answer and said to Nebuchadnezzar the king, O King, have life for ever. ¹⁰ You, O King, have given an order that every man, when the sound of the horn, pipe, harp, trigon, psaltery, bagpipe, and all sorts of instruments, comes to his ears, is to go down on his face in worship before the image of gold: ¹¹ And anyone not falling down and worshipping is to be put into a burning and flaming fire. ¹² There are certain Jews whom you have put over the business of the land of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego; these men have not given attention to you, O King: they are not servants of your gods or worshippers of the gold image which you have put up. ¹³ Then Nebuchadnezzar in his wrath and passion gave orders for Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego to be sent for. Then they made these men come in before the king. ¹⁴ Nebuchadnezzar made answer and said to them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, that you will not be servants of my god or give worship to the image of gold which I have put up? ¹⁵ Now if you are ready, on hearing the sound of the horn, pipe, harp, trigon, psaltery, bagpipe, and all sorts of instruments, to go down on your faces in worship before the image which I have made, it is well: but if you will not give worship, that same hour you will be put into a burning and flaming fire; and what god is there who will be able to take you out of my hands? ¹⁶ Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answering Nebuchadnezzar the king, said, There is no need for us to give you an answer to this question. ¹⁷ If our God, whose servants we are, is able to keep us safe from the burning and flaming fire, and from your hands, O King, he will keep us safe. ¹⁸ But if not, be certain, O King, that we will not be the servants of your gods, or give worship to the image of gold which you have put up.

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.

⁸ For she had no knowledge that it was I who gave her the grain and the wine and the oil, increasing her silver and gold which they gave to the Baal. ⁹ So I will take away again my grain in its time and my wine, and I will take away my wool and my linen with which her body might have been covered. ¹⁰ And now I will make her shame clear before the eyes of her lovers, and no one will take her out of my hand. ¹¹ And I will put an end to all her joy, her feasts, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her regular meetings. ¹² And I will make waste her vines and her fig-trees, of which she has said, These are the payments which my lovers have made to me; and I will make them a waste of trees, and the beasts of the field will take them for food. ¹³ And I will give her punishment for the days of the Baals, to whom she has been burning perfumes, when she made herself fair with her nose-rings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, giving no thought to me, says the Lord.

¹⁹ A curse on him who says to the wood, Awake! to the unbreathing stone, Up! let it be a teacher! See, it is plated with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all inside it.

²⁹ If then we are the offspring of God, it is not right for us to have the idea that God is like gold or silver or stone, formed by the art or design of man.

²⁴ For there was a certain man named Demetrius, a silver-worker, who made silver boxes for the images of Diana, and gave no small profit to the workmen; ²⁵ Whom he got together, with other workmen of the same trade, and said to them, Men, it is clear that from this business we get our wealth. ²⁶ And you see, for it has come to your ears, that not only at Ephesus, but almost all through Asia, this Paul has been teaching numbers of people and turning them away, saying that those are not gods who are made by men's hands: ²⁷ And there is danger, not only that our trade may be damaged in the opinion of men, but that the holy place of the great goddess Diana may be no longer honoured, and that she to whom all Asia and the world give worship, will be put down from her high position. ²⁸ And hearing this, they were very angry, crying out and saying, Great is Diana of Ephesus.

²⁰ And the rest of the people, who were not put to death by these evils, were not turned from the works of their hands, but went on giving worship to evil spirits, and images of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood which have no power of seeing or hearing or walking: ²¹ And they had no regret for putting men to death, or for their use of secret arts, or for the evil desires of the flesh, or for taking the property of others.

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

³⁰ But they were not turned from their desires; and while the food was still in their mouths, ³¹ The wrath of God came on them, and put to death the fattest of them, and put an end to the young men of Israel.

¹ A man hating sharp words and making his heart hard, will suddenly be broken and will not be made well again.

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:

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.

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:

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.

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?

¹⁴ Having put an end to the handwriting of the law which was against us, taking it out of the way by nailing it to his cross;

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.

¹² And I saw the dead, great and small, taking their places before the high seat; and the books were open, and another book was open, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged by the things which were in the books, even by their works. ¹³ And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and Hell gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged every man by his works. ¹⁴ And death and Hell were put into the sea of fire. This is the second death, even the sea of fire. ¹⁵ And if anyone's name was not in the book of life, he went down into the sea of fire.

²⁰ The evil man is in pain all his days, and the number of the years stored up for the cruel is small. ²¹ A sound of fear is in his ears; in time of peace destruction will come on him: ²² He has no hope of coming safe out of the dark, and his fate will be the sword; ²³ He is wandering about in search of bread, saying, Where is it? and he is certain that the day of trouble is ready for him: ²⁴ He is greatly in fear of the dark day, trouble and pain overcome him: ²⁵ Because his hand is stretched out against God, and his heart is lifted up against the Ruler of all, ²⁶ Running against him like a man of war, covered by his thick breastplate; even like a king ready for the fight, ²⁷ Because his face is covered with fat, and his body has become thick;

¹⁹ Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up; ²⁰ There is no peace for him in his wealth, and no salvation for him in those things in which he took delight. ²¹ He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end. ²² Even when his wealth is great, he is full of care, for the hand of everyone who is in trouble is turned against him. ²³ God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain. ²⁴ He may go in flight from the iron spear, but the arrow from the bow of brass will go through him; ²⁵ He is pulling it out, and it comes out of his back; and its shining point comes out of his side; he is overcome by fears. ²⁶ All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent. ²⁷ The heavens make clear his sin, and the earth gives witness against him.

²³ Let their eyes be blind so that they may not see; let their bodies for ever be shaking.

¹⁸ You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction. ¹⁹ How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction. ²⁰ As a dream when one is awake, they are ended; they are like an image gone out of mind when sleep is over.

²⁷ There is no weariness among them, and no man is feeble-footed: they come without resting or sleeping, and the cord of their shoes is not broken.

⁷ For this cause all hands will be feeble, and every heart of man be turned to water; ⁸ Their hearts will be full of fear; pains and sorrows will overcome them; they will be in pain like a woman in childbirth; they will be shocked at one another; their faces will be like flames.

² A vision of fear comes before my eyes; the worker of deceit goes on in his false way, and the waster goes on making waste. Up! Elam; to the attack! Media; I have put an end to her sorrow. ³ For this cause I am full of bitter grief; pains like the pains of a woman in childbirth have come on me: I am bent down with sorrow at what comes to my ears; I am shocked by what I see. ⁴ My mind is wandering, fear has overcome me: the evening of my desire has been turned into shaking for me.

³ Make strong the feeble hands, give support to the shaking knees.

¹⁷ All hands will be feeble and all knees without strength, like water.

⁷ And when they say to you, Why are you making sounds of grief? then say, Because of the news, for it is coming: and every heart will become soft, and all hands will be feeble, and every spirit will be burning low, and all knees will be turned to water: see, it is coming and it will be done, says the Lord.

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

¹⁹ Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of wrath, and the form of his face was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: and he gave orders that the fire was to be heated up seven times more than it was generally heated.

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.

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.

⁹ Then King Belshazzar was greatly troubled and the colour went from his face, and his lords were at a loss. 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.

¹⁰ Everything has been taken from her, all is gone, she has nothing more: the heart is turned to water, the knees are shaking, all are twisted in pain, and colour has gone from all faces.

¹² For this cause let the hands which are hanging down be lifted up, and let the feeble knees be made strong,

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.

⁴² Then Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and he had him clothed with the best linen, and put a chain of gold round his neck; ⁴³ And he made him take his seat in the second of his carriages; and they went before him crying, Make way! So he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt. ⁴⁴ Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh; and without your order no man may do anything in all the land of Egypt.

⁷ So the responsible men of Moab and Midian went away, taking in their hands rewards for the prophet; and they came to Balaam and said to him what Balak had given them orders to say.

¹⁷ For I will give you a place of very great honour, and whatever you say to me I will do; so come, in answer to my prayer, and put a curse on this people.

¹¹ Go back quickly to the place you came from: it was my purpose to give you a place of honour, but now the Lord has kept you back from honour.

²⁵ And the men of Israel said, Have you seen this man? Clearly he has come out to put shame on Israel: and it is certain that if any man overcomes him, the king will give that man great wealth, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's family free in Israel.

¹ After these things, by the order of the king, Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, was lifted up and given a position of honour and a higher place than all the other captains who were with him.

² And all his acts of power and his great strength and the full story of the high place which the king gave Mordecai, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Media and Persia? ³ For Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews and respected by the body of his countrymen; working for the good of his people, and saying words of peace to all his seed.

⁹ For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck. ¹⁰ Your face is a delight with rings of hair, your neck with chains of jewels.

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: ²⁶ Who makes the word of his servants certain, and gives effect to the purposes of his representatives; who says of Jerusalem, Her people will come back to her; and of the towns of Judah, I will give orders for their building, and will make her waste places fertile again:

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.

¹¹ And I made you fair with ornaments and put jewels on your hands and a chain on your neck.

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.

⁶ But if you make clear the dream and the sense of it, you will have from me offerings and rewards and great honour: so make clear to me the dream and the sense of it.

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.

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.

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:

¹⁶ And I have had news of you, that you have the power of making things clear, and of answering hard questions: now if you are able to make out the writing and give me the sense of it, you will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain round your neck and be a ruler of high authority in the kingdom.

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.

² And over them were three chief rulers, of whom Daniel was one; and the captains were to be responsible to the chief rulers, so that the king might undergo no loss. ³ Then this Daniel did his work better than the chief rulers and the captains, because there was a special spirit in him; and it was the king's purpose to put him over all the kingdom.

⁹ But these two things will come on you suddenly in one day, the loss of children and of husband: in full measure they will come on you, for all your secret arts, and all your wonders.

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. ¹⁵ Small profit have you had from those who, from your earliest days, got great profit out of you; they have gone in flight, every one straight before him, and you have no saviour.

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;

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.

¹¹ He is overcome by fears on every side, they go after him at every step. ¹² His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep. ¹³ His skin is wasted by disease, and his body is food for the worst of diseases. ¹⁴ He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.

¹⁴ He sent out his arrows, driving them in all directions; by his flames of fire they were troubled.

⁶ Shaking came on them and pain, as on a woman in childbirth.

⁶ Send out a cry of grief; for the day of the Lord is near; it comes as destruction from the Most High.

²⁴ The news of it has come to our ears; our hands have become feeble: trouble has come on us and pain, like the pain of a woman in childbirth.

⁶ Put the question and see if it is possible for a man to have birth-pains: why do I see every man with his hands gripping his sides, as a woman does when the pains of birth are on her, and all faces are turned green?

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.

⁸ So I was by myself, and I saw this great vision, and all my strength went from me; and the colour went from my face.

³ And when it came to the ears of Herod the king, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

¹⁵ And the kings of the earth, and the rulers, and the chief captains, and the men of wealth, and the strong, and every servant and free man, took cover in the holes and the rocks of the mountains;

¹⁷ And when her pain was very great, the woman who was helping her said, Have no fear; for now you will have another son. ¹⁸ And in the hour when her life went from her for death came to her, she gave the child the name Ben-oni: but his father gave him the name of Benjamin.

²⁰ And when she was very near death the women who were with her said, Have no fear, for you have given birth to a son. But she made no answer and gave no attention to it. ²¹ And she gave the child the name of Ichabod, saying, The glory has gone from Israel: because the ark of God was taken and because of her father-in-law and her husband. ²² And she said, The glory is gone from Israel, for the ark of God has been taken.

³¹ Then Bath-sheba went down on her face on the earth before the king giving him honour, and said, May my lord King David go on living for ever.

⁴ But you put a false face on things; all your attempts to put things right are of no value.

³⁴ Why then do you give me comfort with words in which there is no profit, when you see that there is nothing in your answers but deceit?

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.

⁹ They made answer and said to Nebuchadnezzar the king, O King, have life for ever.

⁶ Then these chief rulers and the captains came to the king and said to him, O King Darius, have life for ever.

²¹ Then Daniel said to the king, O King, have life for ever.

¹¹ And we had a dream on the same night, the two of us, and the dreams had a special sense. ¹² And there was with us a young Hebrew, the captain's servant, and when we put our dreams before him, he gave us the sense of them. ¹³ And it came about as he said: I was put back in my place, and the bread-maker was put to death by hanging. ¹⁴ Then Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and they took him quickly out of prison; and when his hair had been cut and his dress changed, he came before Pharaoh. 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.

¹⁷ Then your servant said, May the word of my lord the king give me peace! for my lord the king is as the angel of God in his hearing of good and bad: and may the Lord your God be with you!

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.

⁴⁷ And the king made answer to Daniel and said, Truly, your God is a God of gods and a Lord of kings, and an unveiler of secrets, for you have been able to make this secret clear. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

¹¹ And when the people saw what Paul had done, they said in a loud voice, in the language of Lycaonia, The gods have come down to us in the form of men.

¹⁶ And when we were going to the place of prayer, we came across a girl with a spirit which gave knowledge of the future, whose masters made great profit from her power.

⁹ See, I will make those of the Synagogue of Satan who say they are Jews, and are not, but say what is false; I will make them come and give worship before your feet, and see my love for you.

¹ Now the queen of Sheba, hearing great things of Solomon, came to put his wisdom to the test with hard questions. ² And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels weighted down with spices, and stores of gold and jewels: and when she came to Solomon she had talk with him of everything in her mind. ³ And Solomon gave her answers to all her questions; there was no secret which the king did not make clear to her.

¹ Now the queen of Sheba, hearing great things of Solomon, came to Jerusalem to put his wisdom to the test with hard questions; and with her came a very great train, and camels weighted down with spices, and great stores of gold and jewels: and when she came to Solomon she had talk with him of everything in her mind. ² And Solomon gave her answers to all her questions; there was no secret which he did not make clear to her.

³ As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the noble in whom is all my delight.

²⁶ The upright man is a guide to his neighbour, but the way of evil-doers is a cause of error to them.

²⁷ He who has knowledge says little: and he who has a calm spirit is a man of good sense.

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.

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,

³ Then this Daniel did his work better than the chief rulers and the captains, because there was a special spirit in him; and it was the king's purpose to put him over all the kingdom.

²⁹ And for this purpose I am working, using all my strength by the help of his power which is working in me strongly.

¹ Now news came to the haters of Judah and Benjamin that the people who had come back were building a Temple to the Lord, the God of Israel;

¹⁶ And the children of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of those who had come back, kept the feast of the opening of this house of God with joy.

¹⁹ And the children of Israel who had come back kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month. ²⁰ For the priests and the Levites had made themselves clean together; they were all clean: and they put the Passover lamb to death for all those who had come back, and for their brothers the priests and for themselves.

⁷ And they made a public statement through all Judah and Jerusalem, to all those who had come back, that they were to come together to Jerusalem;

¹⁶ So those who had come back did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain heads of families, by their fathers' families, all of them by their names, were marked out; and on the first day of the tenth month they took their places to go into the question with care.

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

²⁵ Then Arioch quickly took Daniel in before the king, and said to him, Here is a man from among the prisoners of Judah, who will make clear to the king the sense of the dream.

² Belshazzar, while he was overcome with wine, gave orders for them to put before him the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar, his father, had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem; so that the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, might take their drink from them.

¹³ Then they made answer and said before the king, Daniel, one of the prisoners of Judah, has no respect for you, O King, or for the order signed by you, but three times a day he makes his prayer to God.

¹ In the third year of the rule of Belshazzar the king, a vision was seen by me, Daniel, after the one I saw at first.

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.

¹ After this, Jesus went from place to place in Galilee. He did not go about in Judaea, because the Jews were looking for a chance to put him to death.

³ So his brothers said to him, Go away from here into Judaea so that your disciples may see the works which you do.

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.

¹⁰ For the Lord has sent on you a spirit of deep sleep; and by him your eyes, the prophets, are shut, and your heads, the seers, are covered. ¹¹ And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book which is shut, which men give to one who has knowledge of writing, saying, Make clear to us what is in the book: and he says, I am not able to, for the book is shut: ¹² And they give it to one without learning, saying, Make clear to us what is in the book: and he says, I have no knowledge of writing.

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.

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. ⁶ But if you make clear the dream and the sense of it, you will have from me offerings and rewards and great honour: so make clear to me the dream and the sense of it. 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. ⁸ The king made answer and said, I am certain that you are attempting to get more time, because you see that my decision is fixed; ⁹ That if you do not make my dream clear to me there is only one fate for you: for you have made ready false and evil words to say before me till the times are changed: so give me an account of the dream, and I will be certain that you are able to make the sense of it clear. 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. 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.

⁷ The king, crying out with a loud voice, said that the users of secret arts, the Chaldaeans, and the readers of signs, were to be sent for. The king made answer and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever is able to make out this writing, and make clear to me the sense of it, will be clothed in purple and have a chain of gold round his neck, and will be a ruler of high authority in the kingdom. 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.

⁸ Then they said to him, We have had a dream, and no one is able to give us the sense. And Joseph said, Does not the sense of dreams come from God? what was your dream?

⁷ The king, crying out with a loud voice, said that the users of secret arts, the Chaldaeans, and the readers of signs, were to be sent for. The king made answer and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever is able to make out this writing, and make clear to me the sense of it, will be clothed in purple and have a chain of gold round his neck, and will be a ruler of high authority in the kingdom.

¹⁸ Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the touch of the Apostles' hands, he made them an offering of money, saying,

²³ That I will not take so much as a thread or the cord of a shoe of yours; so that you may not say, I have given wealth to Abram:

¹³ But Elisha said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with you? go to the prophets of your father and your mother. And the king of Israel said, No; for the Lord has got these three kings together to give them up into the hands of Moab.

¹⁶ But he said, By the life of the Lord whose servant I am, I will take nothing from you. And he did his best to make him take it but he would not.

²⁶ And he said to him, Did not my heart go with you, when the man got down from his carriage and went back to you? Is this a time for getting money, and clothing, and olive-gardens and vine-gardens, and sheep and oxen, and men-servants and women-servants?

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

²⁰ But Peter said, May your money come to destruction with you, because you had the idea that what is freely given by God may be got for a price.

⁸ When the Most High gave the nations their heritage, separating into groups the children of men, he had the limits of the peoples marked out, keeping in mind the number of the children of Israel.

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.

² For the Lord Most High is to be feared; he is a great King over all the earth.

⁸ But you, O Lord, are on high for ever.

³⁵ In his turning away the right of a man before the face of the Most High.

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

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.

² It has seemed good to me to make clear the signs and wonders which the Most High God has done with me.

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.

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.

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.

²² My God has sent his angel to keep the lions' mouths shut, and they have done me no damage: because I was seen to be without sin before him; and further, before you, O King, I have done no wrong.

⁴⁸ But still, the Most High has not his resting-place in houses made with hands, as the prophet says,

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.

¹⁹ So, then, King Agrippa, I did not go against the vision from heaven;

¹⁴ The wrath of the king is like those who give news of death, but a wise man will put peace in place of it.

⁹ See, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, my servant, and make them come against this land, and against its people, and against all these nations on every side; and I will give them up to complete destruction, and make them a cause of fear and surprise and a waste place for ever. ¹⁰ And more than this, I will take from them the sound of laughing voices, the voice of joy, the voice of the newly-married man, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the stones crushing the grain, and the shining of lights. ¹¹ All this land will be a waste and a cause of wonder; and these nations will be the servants of the king of Babylon for seventy years. ¹² And it will come about, after seventy years are ended, that I will send punishment on the king of Babylon, and on that nation, says the Lord, for their evil-doing, and on the land of the Chaldaeans; and I will make it a waste for ever. ¹³ And I will make that land undergo everything I have said against it, even everything recorded in this book, which Jeremiah the prophet has said against all the nations. ¹⁴ For a number of nations and great kings will make servants of them, even of them: and I will give them the reward of their acts, even the reward of the work of their hands.

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. 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.

¹² Because of this the king was angry and full of wrath, and gave orders for the destruction of all the wise men of Babylon. ¹³ So the order went out that the wise men were to be put to death; and they were looking for Daniel and his friends to put them to death.

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

⁶ And anyone not falling down and worshipping will that same hour be put into a burning and flaming fire.

²⁰ And he gave orders to certain strong men in his army to put cords on Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego and put them into the burning and flaming fire. ²¹ Then these men had cords put round them as they were, in their coats, their trousers, their hats, and their clothing, and were dropped into the burning and flaming fire.

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.

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.

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 Jesus gave this answer: You would have no power at all over me if it was not given to you by God; so that he who gave me up to you has the greater sin.

¹ Let everyone put himself under the authority of the higher powers, because there is no power which is not of God, and all powers are ordered by God.

¹⁷ Are you still uplifted in pride against my people so that you will not let them go?

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

⁶ Why do you make your hearts hard, like the hearts of Pharaoh and the Egyptians? When he had made sport of them, did they not let the people go, and they went away?

¹⁴ And they did not give ear, but became stiff-necked, like their fathers who had no faith in the Lord their God.

¹³ And he took up arms against King Nebuchadnezzar, though he had made him take an oath by God; but he made his neck stiff and his heart hard, turning away from the Lord, the God of Israel.

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.

⁵ Everyone who has pride in his heart is disgusting to the Lord: he will certainly not go free from punishment.

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

¹² How great is your fall from heaven, O shining one, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the earth, low among the dead bodies! ¹³ For you said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will make my seat higher than the stars of God; I will take my place on the mountain of the meeting-place of the gods, in the inmost parts of the north. ¹⁴ I will go higher than the clouds; I will be like the Most High. ¹⁵ But you will come down to the underworld, even to its inmost parts. ¹⁶ Those who see you will be looking on you with care, they will be in deep thought, saying, Is this the troubler of the earth, the shaker of kingdoms? ¹⁷ Who made the world a waste, overturning its towns; who did not let his prisoners loose from the prison-house.

¹ Come and take your seat in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; come down from your seat of power, and take your place on the earth, O daughter of the Chaldaeans: for you will never again seem soft and delicate.

¹⁸ Say to the king and to the queen-mother, Make yourselves low, be seated on the earth: for the crown of your glory has come down from your heads.

¹⁵ The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, I will send on this town and on all her towns all the evil which I have said; because they made their necks stiff, so that they might not give ear to my words.

¹⁸ Come down from your glory, O people of Dibon, and take your seat in the place of the waste; for the attacker of Moab has gone up against you, sending destruction on your strong places.

⁶ This is what the Lord has said: The supporters of Egypt will have a fall, and the pride of her power will come down: from Migdol to Syene they will be put to the sword in it, 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: 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.

⁵¹ With his arm he has done acts of power; he has put to flight those who have pride in their hearts. ⁵² He has put down kings from their seats, lifting up on high the men of low degree.

¹⁴ I say to you, This man went back to his house with God's approval, and not the other: for everyone who makes himself high will be made low and whoever makes himself low will be made high.

¹³ But give comfort to one another every day as long as it is still Today; so that no one among you may be made hard by the deceit of sin:

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. ¹⁵ For if I had put the full weight of my hand on you and your people, you would have been cut off from the earth: 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.

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.

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.

²⁴ And it will be clear to all the trees of the field that I the Lord have made low the high tree and made high the low tree, drying up the green tree and making the dry tree full of growth; I the Lord have said it and have done it.

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.

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?

³ Then Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you be lifted up in your pride before me? let my people go so that they may give me worship.

²³ He did not make himself low before the Lord, as his father Manasseh had done, but went on sinning more and more.

¹² He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and did not make himself low before Jeremiah the prophet who gave him the word of the Lord.

¹⁰ Even if you are kind to the evil-doer, he will not go after righteousness; even in the land of the upright he will still go on in his wrongdoing, and will not see the glory of the Lord.

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

³² For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you had no faith in him, but the tax-farmers and the loose women had faith in him: and you, when you saw it, did not even have regret for your sins, so as to have faith in him.

⁴⁷ And the servant who had knowledge of his lord's desires and was not ready for him and did not do as he was ordered, will be given a great number of blows;

¹⁷ If these things are clear to you, happy are you if you do them.

⁸ Then Peter, being full of the Holy Spirit, said to them, O you rulers of the people and men of authority, ⁹ If we are questioned today about a good work done to a man who was ill, as to how he has been made well, ¹⁰ Take note, all of you, and all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you put to death on the cross, whom God gave back from the dead, even through him is this man now before you completely well. ¹¹ He is the stone which you builders had no use for, but which has been made the chief stone of the building. ¹² And in no other is there salvation: for there is no other name under heaven, given among men, through which we may have salvation. ¹³ Now when they saw that Peter and John were without fear, though they were men of no education or learning, they were greatly surprised; and they took note of them that they had been with Jesus.

²⁹ But Peter and the Apostles, answering, said, We have to do the orders of God, not of man. ³⁰ The God of our fathers gave Jesus back to life, whom you had put to death, hanging him on a tree. ³¹ Him God has put on high at his right hand, as a Ruler and a Saviour, to give to Israel a change of heart and forgiveness of sins. ³² And we are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who keep his laws. ³³ But when these words came to their ears, they were cut to the heart, and had a mind to put them to death.

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.

¹⁷ The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

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;

⁷ And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.

¹⁹ And blessing him, said, May the blessing of the Most High God, maker of heaven and earth, be on Abram:

²³ And the chiefs of the Philistines came together to make a great offering to Dagon their god, and to be glad; for they said, Our god has given into our hands Samson our hater.

¹ Now the Philistines, having taken the ark of God, took it with them from Eben-ezer to Ashdod. ² They took the ark of God into the house of Dagon and put it by the side of Dagon. ³ And when the people of Ashdod got up early on the morning after, they saw that Dagon had come down to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord. And they took Dagon up and put him in his place again. ⁴ And when they got up early on the morning after, Dagon had come down to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord; and his head and his hands were broken off on the doorstep; only the base was in its place. ⁵ So to this day no priest of Dagon, or any who come into Dagon's house, will put his foot on the doorstep of the house of Dagon in Ashdod. ⁶ But the hand of the Lord was hard on the people of Ashdod and he sent disease on them through all the country of Ashdod. ⁷ And when the men of Ashdod saw how it was, they said, Let not the ark of the God of Israel be with us, for his hand is hard on us and on Dagon our god. ⁸ So they sent for all the lords of the Philistines to come together there, and said, What are we to do with the ark of the God of Israel? And their answer was, Let the ark of the God of Israel be taken away to Gath. So they took the ark of the God of Israel away. ⁹ But after they had taken it away, the hand of the Lord was stretched out against the town for its destruction: and the signs of disease came out on all the men of the town, small and great.

¹⁰ It is true that you have overcome Edom and your heart is uplifted; let that glory be enough for you, and keep in your country; why do you make causes of trouble, putting yourself, and Judah with you, in danger of downfall?

¹⁰ In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all flesh of man.

⁴ Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered?

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.

²⁹ If your face is veiled, they are troubled; when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust.

¹⁶ The heavens are the Lord's; but the earth he has given to the children of men.

¹⁵ The images of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. ¹⁶ They have mouths, but no voice, they have eyes, but they do not see; ¹⁷ They have ears, but no hearing; and there is no breath in their mouths.

³ You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways.

⁴ Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust; in that day all his purposes come to an end.

²⁴ A man's steps are of the Lord; how then may a man have knowledge of his way?

¹² For the day of the Lord of armies is coming on all the pride of men, and on all who are high and lifted up;

¹⁰ Now will I come forward, says the Lord; now will I be lifted up; now will my power be seen.

¹⁹ And have given their gods to the fire: for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction.

²³ Against whom have you said evil and bitter things? and against whom has your voice been loud and your eyes lifted up? even against the Holy One of Israel.

⁵ God the Lord, even he who made the heavens, measuring them out on high; stretching out the earth, and giving its produce; he who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who go about on it, says:

²³ O Lord, I am conscious that a man's way is not in himself: man has no power of guiding his steps.

²⁹ Send for the archers to come together against Babylon, all the bowmen; put up your tents against her on every side; let no one get away: give her the reward of her work; as she has done, so do to her: for she has been uplifted in pride against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.

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:

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.

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,

² Belshazzar, while he was overcome with wine, gave orders for them to put before him the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar, his father, had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem; so that the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, might take their drink from them. ³ Then they took in the gold and silver vessels which had been in the Temple of the house of God at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, took wine from them. ⁴ They took their wine and gave praise to the gods of gold and silver, of brass and iron and wood and stone.

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.

¹⁸ What profit is the pictured image to its maker? and as for the metal image, the false teacher, why does its maker put his faith in it, making false gods without a voice? ¹⁹ A curse on him who says to the wood, Awake! to the unbreathing stone, Up! let it be a teacher! See, it is plated with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all inside it.

²⁵ And he is not dependent on the work of men's hands, as if he had need of anything, for he himself gives to all life and breath and all things;

²⁸ For in him we have life and motion and existence; as certain of your verse writers have said, For we are his offspring. ²⁹ If then we are the offspring of God, it is not right for us to have the idea that God is like gold or silver or stone, formed by the art or design of man.

²¹ Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark. ²² Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish, ²³ And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth.

⁴ So, then, as to the question of taking food offered to images, we are certain that an image is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

⁶ Not one newly taken into the church, for fear that, through his high opinion of himself, he may come into the same sin as the Evil One.

¹³ And there is nothing made which is not completely clear to him; there is nothing covered, but all things are open to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

⁵ And there was given to him a mouth to say words of pride against God; and there was given to him authority to go on for forty-two months. ⁶ And his mouth was open to say evil against God, and against his name and his Tent, even against those who are in heaven.

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.

¹⁴ If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.

¹ The word of the Lord about Babylon which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw. ² Put up a flag on a clear mountain-top, make a loud outcry to them, give directions with the hand, so that they may go into the doors of the great ones. ³ I have given orders to my holy ones, I have sent out my men of war, those of mine who take pride in their power, to give effect to my wrath. ⁴ The noise of great numbers in the mountains, like the noise of a strong people! The noise of the kingdoms of the nations meeting together! The Lord of armies is numbering his forces for war. ⁵ They come from a far country, from the farthest part of heaven, even the Lord and the instruments of his wrath, with destruction for all the land. ⁶ Send out a cry of grief; for the day of the Lord is near; it comes as destruction from the Most High. ⁷ For this cause all hands will be feeble, and every heart of man be turned to water; ⁸ Their hearts will be full of fear; pains and sorrows will overcome them; they will be in pain like a woman in childbirth; they will be shocked at one another; their faces will be like flames. ⁹ See, the day of the Lord is coming, cruel, with wrath and burning passion: to make the land a waste, driving the sinners in it to destruction. ¹⁰ For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light. ¹¹ And I will send punishment on the world for its evil, and on the sinners for their wrongdoing; and I will put an end to all pride, and will make low the power of the cruel. ¹² I will make men so small in number, that a man will be harder to get than gold, even the best gold of Ophir. ¹³ For this cause the heavens will be shaking, and the earth will be moved out of its place, in the wrath of the Lord of armies, and in the day of his burning passion. ¹⁴ And it will be that, like a roe in flight, and like wandering sheep, they will go every man to his people and to his land.

¹ The word about the waste land. As storm-winds in the South go rushing through, it comes from the waste land, from the land greatly to be feared. ² A vision of fear comes before my eyes; the worker of deceit goes on in his false way, and the waster goes on making waste. Up! Elam; to the attack! Media; I have put an end to her sorrow. ³ For this cause I am full of bitter grief; pains like the pains of a woman in childbirth have come on me: I am bent down with sorrow at what comes to my ears; I am shocked by what I see. ⁴ My mind is wandering, fear has overcome me: the evening of my desire has been turned into shaking for me. ⁵ They make ready the table, they put down the covers, they take food and drink. Up! you captains; put oil on your breastplates. ⁶ For so has the Lord said to me, Go, let a watchman be placed; let him give word of what he sees: ⁷ And when he sees war-carriages, horsemen by twos, war-carriages with asses, war-carriages with camels, let him give special attention. ⁸ And the watchman gave a loud cry, O my lord, I am on the watchtower all day, and am placed in my watch every night: ⁹ See, here come war-carriages with men, horsemen by twos: and in answer he said, Babylon is made low, is made low, and all her images are broken on the earth. ¹⁰ O my crushed ones, the grain of my floor! I have given you the word which came to me from the Lord of armies, the God of Israel.

¹ Come and take your seat in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; come down from your seat of power, and take your place on the earth, O daughter of the Chaldaeans: for you will never again seem soft and delicate. ² Take the crushing-stones and get the meal crushed: take off your veil, put away your robe, let your legs be uncovered, go through the rivers. ³ The shame of your unclothed condition will be seen by all: I will give punishment without mercy, ⁴ Says the Lord who takes up our cause; the Lord of armies is his name, the Holy One of Israel. ⁵ Be seated in the dark without a word, O daughter of the Chaldaeans: for you will no longer be named, The Queen of Kingdoms. ⁶ I was angry with my people, I put shame on my heritage, and gave them into your hands: you had no mercy on them; you put a cruel yoke on those who were old; 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. ⁹ But these two things will come on you suddenly in one day, the loss of children and of husband: in full measure they will come on you, for all your secret arts, and all your wonders. ¹⁰ For you had faith in your evil-doing; you said, No one sees me; by your wisdom and knowledge you have been turned out of the way: and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is no other. ¹¹ Because of this evil will come on you, which may not be turned away for any price: and trouble will overtake you, from which no money will give salvation: destruction will come on you suddenly, without your knowledge.

¹¹ All this land will be a waste and a cause of wonder; and these nations will be the servants of the king of Babylon for seventy years. ¹² And it will come about, after seventy years are ended, that I will send punishment on the king of Babylon, and on that nation, says the Lord, for their evil-doing, and on the land of the Chaldaeans; and I will make it a waste for ever.

¹ The word which the Lord said about Babylon, about the land of the Chaldaeans, by Jeremiah the prophet. 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. ³ For out of the north a nation is coming up against her, which will make her land waste and unpeopled: they are in flight, man and beast are gone. ⁴ In those days and in that time, says the Lord, the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their way weeping and making prayer to the Lord their God. ⁵ They will be questioning about the way to Zion, with their faces turned in its direction, saying, Come, and be united to the Lord in an eternal agreement which will be kept in mind for ever. ⁶ My people have been wandering sheep: their keepers have made them go out of the right way, turning them loose on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, having no memory of their resting-place. ⁷ They have been attacked by all those who came across them: and their attackers said, We are doing no wrong, because they have done evil against the Lord in whom is righteousness, against the Lord, the hope of their fathers. ⁸ Go in flight out of Babylon, go out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and be like he-goats before the flocks. ⁹ For see, I am moving and sending up against Babylon a band of great nations from the north country: and they will put their armies in position against her; and from there she will be taken: their arrows will be like those of an expert man of war; not one will come back without getting its mark. ¹⁰ And the wealth of Chaldaea will come into the hands of her attackers: all those who take her wealth will have enough, says the Lord. ¹¹ Because you are glad, because you are lifted up with pride, you wasters of my heritage, because you are playing like a young cow put out to grass, and you make a noise like strong horses; ¹² Your mother will be put to shame; she who gave you birth will be looked down on: see, she will be the last of the nations, a waste place, a dry and unwatered land. ¹³ Because of the wrath of the Lord no one will be living in it, and it will be quite unpeopled: everyone who goes by Babylon will be overcome with wonder, and make sounds of fear at all her punishments. ¹⁴ Put your armies in position against Babylon on every side, all you bowmen; let loose your arrows at her, not keeping any back: for she has done evil against the Lord. ¹⁵ Give a loud cry against her on every side; she has given herself up, her supports are overturned, her walls are broken down: for it is the payment taken by the Lord; give her payment; as she has done, so do to her. ¹⁶ Let the planter of seed be cut off from Babylon, and everyone using the curved blade at the time of the grain-cutting: for fear of the cruel sword, everyone will be turned to his people, everyone will go in flight to his land. ¹⁷ Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have been driving him away: first he was attacked by the king of Assyria, and now his bones have been broken by Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon. ¹⁸ So this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, I will send punishment on the king of Babylon and on his land, as I have given punishment to the king of Assyria. ¹⁹ And I will make Israel come back to his resting-place, and he will get his food on Carmel and Bashan, and have his desire in full measure on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead. ²⁰ In those days and in that time, says the Lord, when the evil-doing of Israel is looked for, there will be nothing; and in Judah no sins will be seen: for I will have forgiveness for those whom I will keep safe. ²¹ Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the people of Pekod; put them to death and send destruction after them, says the Lord, and do everything I have given you orders to do. ²² There is a sound of war in the land and of great destruction. ²³ How is the hammer of all the earth cut in two and broken! how has Babylon become a waste among the nations! ²⁴ I have put a net for you, and you have been taken, O Babylon, without your knowledge: you have been uncovered and taken because you were fighting against the Lord. ²⁵ From his store-house the Lord has taken the instruments of his wrath: for the Lord, the Lord of armies, has a work to do in the land of the Chaldaeans. ²⁶ Come up against her one and all, let her store-houses be broken open: make her into a mass of stones, give her to the curse, till there is nothing of her to be seen. ²⁷ Put all her oxen to the sword; let them go down to death: sorrow is theirs, for their day has come, the time of their punishment. ²⁸ The voice of those who are in flight, who have got away safe from the land of Babylon, to give news in Zion of punishment from the Lord our God, even payment for his Temple. ²⁹ Send for the archers to come together against Babylon, all the bowmen; put up your tents against her on every side; let no one get away: give her the reward of her work; as she has done, so do to her: for she has been uplifted in pride against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel. ³⁰ For this cause her young men will be falling in her streets, and all her men of war will be cut off in that day, says the Lord. ³¹ See, I am against you, O pride, says the Lord, the Lord of armies, for your day has come, the time when I will send punishment on you. ³² And pride will go with uncertain steps and have a fall, and there will be no one to come to his help: and I will put a fire in his towns, burning up everything round about him. ³³ This is what the Lord of armies has said: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are crushed down together: all those who took them prisoner keep them in a tight grip; they will not let them go. ³⁴ Their saviour is strong; the Lord of armies is his name: he will certainly take up their cause, so that he may give rest to the earth and trouble to the people of Babylon. ³⁵ A sword is on the Chaldaeans, says the Lord, and on the people of Babylon, and on her rulers and on her wise men. ³⁶ A sword is on the men of pride, and they will become foolish: a sword is on her men of war, and they will be broken. ³⁷ A sword is on all the mixed people in her, and they will become like women: a sword is on her store-houses, and they will be taken by her attackers. ³⁸ A sword is on her waters, drying them up; for it is a land of images, and their minds are fixed on false gods. ³⁹ For this reason the beasts of the waste land with the wolves will make their holes there and the ostriches will be living in it: never again will men be living there, it will be unpeopled from generation to generation. ⁴⁰ As when Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbouring towns were overturned by God, says the Lord, so no man will be living in it, and no son of man will have a resting-place there. ⁴¹ See, a people is coming from the north; a great nation and a number of kings will be put in motion from the inmost parts of the earth. ⁴² Bows and spears are in their hands; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice is like the thunder of the sea, and they go on horses; everyone in his place like men going to the fight, against you, O daughter of Babylon. ⁴³ The king of Babylon has had news of them, and his hands have become feeble: trouble has come on him and pain like the pain of a woman in childbirth. ⁴⁴ See, he will come up like a lion from the thick growth of Jordan against the resting-place of Teman: but I will suddenly make them go in flight from her; and I will put over her the man of my selection: for who is like me? and who will put forward his cause against me? and what keeper of sheep will keep his place before me? ⁴⁵ So give ear to the decision of the Lord which he has made against Babylon, and to his purposes designed against the land of the Chaldaeans; Truly, they will be pulled away by the smallest of the flock; truly, he will make waste their fields with them. ⁴⁶ At the cry, Babylon is taken! the earth is shaking, and the cry comes to the ears of the nations.

² In the first year of his rule, I, Daniel, saw clearly from the books the number of years given by the word of the Lord to the prophet Jeremiah, in which the making waste of Jerusalem was to be complete, that is, seventy years.

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

⁶ Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:

⁹ Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath.

³⁰ They will be named waste silver, because the Lord has given them up.

¹⁸ Son of man, the children of Israel have become like the poorest sort of waste metal to me: they are all silver and brass and tin and iron and lead mixed with waste. ¹⁹ For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have all become waste metal, see, I will get you together inside Jerusalem. ²⁰ As they put silver and brass and iron and lead and tin together inside the oven, heating up the fire on it to make it soft; so will I get you together in my wrath and in my passion, and, heating the fire with my breath, will make you soft.

¹¹ But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a guest's robe; ¹² And he says to him, Friend, how came you in here not having a guest's robe? And he had nothing to say.

¹³ Every man's work will be made clear in that day, because it will be tested by fire; and the fire itself will make clear the quality of every man's work.

¹⁷ See, I am driving the Medes against them, who put no value on silver and have no pleasure in gold.

² A vision of fear comes before my eyes; the worker of deceit goes on in his false way, and the waster goes on making waste. Up! Elam; to the attack! Media; I have put an end to her sorrow.

¹ The Lord says to the man of his selection, to Cyrus, whom I have taken by the right hand, putting down nations before him, and taking away the arms of kings; making the doors open before him, so that the ways into the towns may not be shut; ² I will go before you, and make the rough places level: the doors of brass will be broken, and the iron rods cut in two:

³¹ And Darius the Mede took the kingdom, being then about sixty-two years old.

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

³ And lifting up my eyes, I saw, there before the stream, a male sheep with two horns: and the two horns were high, but one was higher than the other, the higher one coming up last. ⁴ I saw the sheep pushing to the west and to the north and to the south; and no beasts were able to keep their place before him, and no one was able to get people out of his power; but he did whatever his pleasure was and made himself great.

²⁰ The sheep which you saw with two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia.

¹ In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldaeans;

⁴ My mind is wandering, fear has overcome me: the evening of my desire has been turned into shaking for me. ⁵ They make ready the table, they put down the covers, they take food and drink. Up! you captains; put oil on your breastplates. ⁶ For so has the Lord said to me, Go, let a watchman be placed; let him give word of what he sees: ⁷ And when he sees war-carriages, horsemen by twos, war-carriages with asses, war-carriages with camels, let him give special attention. ⁸ And the watchman gave a loud cry, O my lord, I am on the watchtower all day, and am placed in my watch every night: ⁹ See, here come war-carriages with men, horsemen by twos: and in answer he said, Babylon is made low, is made low, and all her images are broken on the earth.

¹¹ Make bright the arrows; take up the body-covers: the Lord has been moving the spirit of the king of the Medes; because his design against Babylon is its destruction: for it is the punishment from the Lord, the payment for his Temple.

³¹ One man, running, will give word to another, and one who goes with news will be handing it on to another, to give word to the king of Babylon that his town has been taken from every quarter:

¹ Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, drinking wine before the thousand. ² Belshazzar, while he was overcome with wine, gave orders for them to put before him the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar, his father, had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem; so that the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, might take their drink from them.

¹ Darius was pleased to put over the kingdom a hundred and twenty captains, who were to be all through the kingdom;