Daniel 5 Cross References - MKJV

¹ Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. ² When tasting the wine, Belshazzar commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem, that the king and his rulers, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them. ³ Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God in Jerusalem. And the king, and his rulers, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them. ⁴ They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, and of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone. ⁵ At that moment fingers of a man's hand came out and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace across from the lampstand. And the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. ⁶ Then the king's face was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosened, and his knees knocked against one another. ⁷ The king cried aloud to bring in the conjurers, the Chaldeans, and the fortune-tellers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever shall read this writing, and show me its meaning, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold around his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom. ⁸ Then all the king's wise men came in. But they could not read the writing, nor make the meaning known to the king. ⁹ Then King Belshazzar was greatly troubled, and his face was changing in him, and his lords were perplexed. ¹⁰ The queen came into the banquet house because of the king's words, and his nobles. And the queen spoke and said, O king, live forever. Do not let your thoughts trouble you, nor let your face be changed. ¹¹ There is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods. And in the days of your father there was found in him light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods. Your father, King Nebuchadnezzar, your father the king, appointed him master of the horoscopists, conjurers, Chaldeans, and fortune-tellers, ¹² because an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, explaining of dreams, and revealing of hard sentences, and the unraveling of knots, were found in this Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will reveal the meaning. ¹³ Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king spoke and said to Daniel, Are you that Daniel who is of the exiled sons of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Judah? ¹⁴ I have even heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you. ¹⁵ And now the wise men and the conjurers have been brought in before me, that they might read this writing and make the meaning known to me. But they could not declare the meaning of the thing. ¹⁶ And I have heard of you that you can interpret meanings and unravel knots. Now if you can read the writing, and reveal its meaning to me, you shall be clothed with scarlet and have a chain of gold around your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom. ¹⁷ Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let your gifts be to yourself, and give your rewards to another. Yet I will read the writing to the king, and make the meaning known to him. ¹⁸ O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honor. ¹⁹ And for the majesty that He gave him, all people, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. He killed whom he would, and whom he would he kept alive. And whom he would, he set up; and whom he would, he put down. ²⁰ But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was put down from the throne of his kingdom, and they took his glory from him. ²¹ And he was driven from the sons of men. And his heart was made like the animals, and his dwelling was with the wild asses. They fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the heavens, until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that He appoints over it whomever He will. ²² And you his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this. ²³ But you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of Heaven. And they have brought the vessels of His house before you; and you, and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver, and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see, nor hear, nor know. And you have not glorified the God in whose hand is your breath and all your ways. ²⁴ Then the part of the hand was sent from Him. And this writing was written. ²⁵ And this is the writing that was written, A MINA, A MINA, A SHEKEL, AND HALF-MINAS. ²⁶ This is the meaning of the thing: A MINA, God has numbered your kingdom and finished it. ²⁷ A SHEKEL, You are weighed in the balances and found wanting. ²⁸ HALF-MINAS, Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians. ²⁹ Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet and a golden chain around his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom. ³⁰ In that night Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans was killed. ³¹ And Darius the Mede took the kingdom, being a son of sixty-two years.

⁷ And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

¹⁹ And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of Heaven and earth.

²³ that I will take from all that is yours, not from a thread even to a shoestring, lest you say, I have made Abram rich.

¹⁷ And it happened when she was in hard labor in her bearing, the midwife said to her, Do not fear, you shall have this son also. ¹⁸ And it happened as her soul was departing (for she died) that she called his name Benoni. But his father called him Benjamin.

⁸ And they said to him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said to them, Do not interpretations belong to God? Now tell it to me.

²⁰ And it happened on the third day, Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast to all his servants. And he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer, and of the chief baker, among his servants.

⁸ And it happened in the morning that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men of it. And Pharaoh told them his dream, but there was none who could interpret them to Pharaoh.

¹¹ And we dreamed a dream one night, he and I. We dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream. ¹² And there was there with us a young man, a Hebrew, a slave to the chief of the executioners. And we told him, and he interpreted our dreams to us. He interpreted to each man according to his dream. ¹³ And it happened, as he interpreted to us, so it was. He restored me to my office, and he hanged him. ¹⁴ Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph. And they hurried him out of the dungeon. And he shaved and changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh. ¹⁵ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and none can interpret it. And I have heard it about you, saying, you can understand a dream to interpret it.

⁴² And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand. And he dressed him with fine linen robes, and put a gold chain around his neck. ⁴³ And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had, and they cried before him, Bow the knee! And he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt. ⁴⁴ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without a word from you, no man shall lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.

¹⁴ For I am going to send at this time all My plagues upon your heart, and upon your servants, and upon your people, so that you may know that there is none like Me in all the earth. ¹⁵ For now I will stretch out My hand, that I may strike you and your people with plagues, and you shall be cut off from the earth. ¹⁶ And for this I have made you stand, to make you see My power, to declare My name in all the land. ¹⁷ Do you still exalt yourself against My people, that you will not let them go?

³ And Moses and Aaron came in to Pharaoh and said to him, So says Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may serve Me.

¹¹ Now I know that Jehovah is greater than all gods; for in the thing in which they were proved against them.

⁷ And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian pulled up stakes with the rewards of divination in their hand. And they came to Balaam and spoke the words of Balak to him.

¹⁷ For I will raise you up to very great honor, and I will do whatever you say to me. Please come then and curse this people for me.

¹¹ Therefore now flee to your place. I thought to lift you up to great honor, but lo, Jehovah has kept you back from honor.

⁸ When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when He separated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the people according to the number of the sons of Israel.

²³ Then the lords of the Philistines gathered in order to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice. For they said, Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.

²³ Then the lords of the Philistines gathered in order to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice. For they said, Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand. ²⁴ And the people saw him and praised their god. For they said, Our god has delivered our enemy into our hand, and the destroyer of our country, who killed many of us.

²⁰ And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said to her, Do not fear, for you have borne a son. But she did not answer, nor set her heart. ²¹ And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory has departed from Israel, because the ark of God had been taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband. ²² And she said, The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God is taken.

¹ And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod. ² And the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it beside Dagon. ³ And when those of Ashdod arose early on the next day, behold, Dagon had fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of Jehovah. And they took Dagon and set him in his place again. ⁴ And when they arose early on the next morning, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the earth before the ark of Jehovah. And the head of Dagon, and both the palms of his hands, were cut off upon the threshold. Only the stump of Dagon was left to him. ⁵ And neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon's house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day. ⁶ And the hand of Jehovah was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and He destroyed them and struck them with hemorrhoids, Ashdod and its borders. ⁷ And the men of Ashdod saw that it was so. And they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not stay with us. For His hand is sore upon us and upon Dagon our god. ⁸ And they sent and gathered all the lords of the Philistines to them. And they said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried around to Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel around. ⁹ And it happened after they had carried it around, the hand of Jehovah was against the city with a very great destruction. And He struck the men of the city, both small and great, and hemorrhoids broke forth in them.

⁶ And why do you harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When He had worked wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and did they not depart?

²⁵ And the men of Israel said, Have you seen this man that has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel. And it shall be, the king will enrich the man who kills him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel.

⁷ And David said to him, Do not fear, for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father's sake, and will restore you all the land of Saul your father. And you shall eat bread at my table forever.

¹⁷ And your handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comforting. For as an angel of God, so is my lord the king, to see what is good and bad. And Jehovah your God will be with you.

³¹ And Bathsheba bowed her face to the earth, even kneeling to the king, and said, Let my lord King David live forever.

¹ And the queen of Sheba heard of Solomon's fame concerning the name of Jehovah, and she came to test him with hard questions. ² And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bore spices, and very much gold, and precious stones. And she came to Solomon, and she told him all that was in her heart. ³ And Solomon answered all her questions for her. There was not a thing hidden from the king, which he did not tell her.

¹³ And Elisha said to the king of Israel, What do I have to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father and to the prophets of your mother. And the king of Israel said to him, No, for Jehovah has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.

¹⁶ But he said, As Jehovah lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it, but he refused.

²⁶ And he said to him, Did not my heart go with you when the man turned again from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive silver and to receive clothing and olive-yards and vineyards and sheep and oxen and menservants and maidservants?

²⁵ In the twelfth year of Jehoram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, began to reign. ²⁶ Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel. ²⁷ And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of Jehovah, as the house of Ahab, for he was the son-in-law of the house of Ahab.

¹⁰ You have indeed stricken Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Rejoice and stay at home, for why should you meddle to your harm, so that you should fall, you and Judah with you?

¹⁴ But they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like the neck of their fathers who did not believe in Jehovah their God.

¹³ And he carried out from there all the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of Jehovah, as Jehovah had said.

¹⁵ And the chief of the executioners took away the fire-pans, and the bowls, that were all of gold, and all of silver;

¹ And the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, and came to test Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that carried spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones. And she came in to Solomon and spoke with him of all that was in her heart. ² And Solomon told her all her questions. And there was nothing hidden from Solomon which he did not tell her.

²⁰ And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom, who bore Abijah to him, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.

¹⁶ And also as to Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen mother, because she had made an idol in a grove. And Asa cut down her idol and stamped it and burned it at the torrent Kidron.

²³ And he did not bow before Jehovah, like the humbling of his father Manasseh. For Amon himself multiplied guilt.

¹⁰ And when the year had ended, King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the valuable vessels of the house of Jehovah. And he made his brother Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.

¹² And he did the evil in the sight of Jehovah his God. He was not humbled before Jeremiah the prophet, from the mouth of Jehovah. ¹³ And he also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. But he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart from turning to Jehovah, the God of Israel.

¹⁸ And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king, and of his rulers, he brought all these to Babylon.

⁷ And Cyrus the king brought out the vessels of the house of Jehovah, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought out of Jerusalem and had put them in the house of his gods. ⁸ Even those Cyrus king of Persia brought out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them to Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah. ⁹ And this is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, a thousand platters of silver, twenty-nine knives, ¹⁰ thirty basins of gold, four hundred and ten silver basins of a second kind, and a thousand other vessels. ¹¹ All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these Sheshbazzar brought up, when the exiles were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.

¹ And when the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the sons of the captivity built the temple to Jehovah, the God of Israel,

¹⁶ And the sons of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the sons of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy.

¹⁹ And the sons of the captivity kept the Passover on the fourteenth of the first month. ²⁰ For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them pure. And they slaughtered the passover lamb for all the sons of the captivity, and for their brothers the priests, and for themselves.

⁷ And they made a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the sons of the captivity, to gather themselves to Jerusalem,

¹⁶ And the sons of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain heads of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by names, were separated. And they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.

³ in the third year of his reign, he made a feast to all his princes and his servants. The power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, were before him.

¹ After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.

² And all the acts of his power and of might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, with which the king made him great, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia? ³ For Mordecai the Jew was next to King Ahasuerus and great among the Jews, and pleasing to the multitude of his brothers, seeking the wealth of his people and speaking peace to all his seed.

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

⁴ But you are imputers of lies; you are all worthless healers.

¹⁴ If a man die, shall he revive? All the days of my warfare I will wait, until my change comes.

²⁰ The wicked man labors in pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden for the ruthless one. ²¹ A dreadful sound of things is in his ears; the destroyer shall come to him in peace. ²² He does not believe in a return from darkness, but he is awaited by the sword. ²³ He wanders for bread, saying, Where is it? He knows that the day of darkness is ready at hand. ²⁴ Trouble and pain shall terrify him; they shall overpower him, as a king ready for the battle; ²⁵ because he stretches out his hand against God, and sets himself against the Almighty. ²⁶ He runs at him, with a stiff neck, with the thick layers of his shields, ²⁷ because he has covered his face with fat; he has put fat on his loins.

¹¹ Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall dash him at his feet. ¹² His strength shall be hunger-bitten, and trouble shall be ready at his side. ¹³ It shall devour the parts of his skin; the first-born of death consumes his parts. ¹⁴ His hope shall be rooted out of his tent, and you marched to the king of terrors.

⁵ that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly is for a moment?

¹⁹ For he pressed down and forsook the poor; he stole a house, but he had not built it. ²⁰ Surely he shall not know quietness in his belly; he will not escape with the things of desire. ²¹ None of his food shall be left; therefore his good will not last. ²² In the fullness of his plenty he shall be in trouble; every wretched one shall come on him. ²³ It shall happen at the filling of his belly, God shall cast the fury of His wrath on him, and He shall rain on him while he is eating. ²⁴ He shall flee from the iron weapon, a bow of bronze shall pierce him. ²⁵ One draws it, and treads it from behind, even lightning from his gall; terror is on him. ²⁶ All darkness shall be hidden in his secret places; a fire not blown shall consume him; those left in his tent shall be broken. ²⁷ The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth rise up against him.

³⁴ How then do you comfort me in vain? Yea, in your answers remains transgression.

³ They are dried up with want and famine; they who gnaw the dry ground, which was before waste and ruin, ⁴ those plucking mallows by the bushes, and broom roots for their food. ⁵ They are driven forth from the midst; they cried against them as a thief. ⁶ They dwell in the chasms of the valleys, in holes of the earth and in rocks. ⁷ They bray among the bushes; they huddle together under the nettles;

⁴ Does He not see my ways, and count all my steps?

⁶ let me be weighed in an even balance so that God may know my uprightness.

¹⁴ If He sets His heart on man, if He gathers to Himself his spirit and his breath, ¹⁵ all flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again to dust.

¹¹ Pour forth the rage of your wrath; and behold everyone who is proud, and abase him. ¹² Look on everyone who is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.

¹⁷ I will praise Jehovah according to His righteousness, and will sing praise to the name of Jehovah most high.

² I will be glad and rejoice in You; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.

³ As to the saints in the earth, they are the excellent, in whom is all my delight.

¹⁴ Yea, He sent out His arrows and scattered them; and He shot out lightnings and crushed them.

² For Jehovah Most High is awesome, a great king over all the earth.

⁶ Fear took hold on them there, and pain, like a woman in labor.

⁹ Surely the sons of men are vanity; the sons of men are a lie; they go up in the scales; they are altogether lighter than vanity.

²³ Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see; and make their loins shake without ceasing.

¹⁸ Surely You set them in slippery places; You cast them down into ruin. ¹⁹ How have they been brought into grief, as in a moment! They are fully eaten up with terrors, ²⁰ like a dream when one awakens; so, O Jehovah, when You awake, You shall despise their image.

³⁰ They were not turned away from their lust, but while their food was still in their mouths, ³¹ the wrath of God came on them and killed the fattest of them, and struck down the chosen of Israel.

¹⁷ Let them be ashamed and troubled forever; yea, let them be put to shame, and lost; ¹⁸ so that men may know that Your name is JEHOVAH, that You alone are the Most High over all the earth.

⁸ but You, Jehovah, are high forever.

²⁹ You hide Your face, they are troubled; You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

⁴ Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. ⁵ They have mouths, but they do not speak; they have eyes, but they do not see; ⁶ they have ears, but they do not hear; they have noses, but they do not smell; ⁷ they have hands, but they do not handle; they have feet, but they do not walk; they do not mutter through their throat. ⁸ The ones who make them are like them, and everyone who trusts in them.

¹⁶ The heavens, even the heavens, are Jehovah's; but the earth He has given to the sons of men.

⁴⁶ I will speak of Your testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.

¹⁵ The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

¹⁵ The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. ¹⁶ They have mouths, but they do not speak; they have eyes, but they do not see;

¹⁶ They have mouths, but they do not speak; they have eyes, but they do not see; ¹⁷ they have ears, but they do not hear, nor is there breath in their mouths.

¹⁷ they have ears, but they do not hear, nor is there breath in their mouths. ¹⁸ Those who make them are like them, everyone who trusts in them.

³ You search my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

⁴ His breath goes forth; he returns to the earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

⁹ for they shall be an ornament of grace to your head and chains around your neck.

²⁶ The righteous is more excellent than his neighbor, but the way of the wicked seduces them.

⁵ Everyone proud in heart is hateful to Jehovah; though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

¹⁴ The wrath of a king is as messengers of death, but a wise man will quiet it.

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

²⁷ He who has knowledge uses few words; a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.

²⁴ Man's steps are of Jehovah; how can a man then understand his own way?

¹ A man who hardens his neck when reproved shall be suddenly broken, and there will be no healing.

¹⁰ Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments, your neck with chains.

¹² For the day of Jehovah of Hosts shall be on every proud and lofty one, and on every lifted up one; and he shall be brought low,

²⁷ None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the waistcoat of their loins be loosened, nor the thong of their sandals be broken;

¹ The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw: ² Lift up a banner on a bare mountain, exalt the voice to them, shake the hand, so that they may go into the gates of the nobles. ³ I have commanded My holy ones, I have also called My mighty ones for anger, those who rejoice in My highness. ⁴ The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together; Jehovah of Hosts gathers an army for the battle. ⁵ They come from a far country, from the end of the heavens, Jehovah and the weapons of His indignation, to destroy all the land. ⁶ Howl! For the day of Jehovah is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

⁶ Howl! For the day of Jehovah is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. ⁷ Therefore all hands shall be faint, and every man's heart shall melt;

⁷ Therefore all hands shall be faint, and every man's heart shall melt; ⁸ and they shall be afraid. Pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them. They shall be in pain like a woman who travails. They shall be amazed at one another, their faces like flames.

⁸ and they shall be afraid. Pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them. They shall be in pain like a woman who travails. They shall be amazed at one another, their faces like flames. ⁹ Behold, the day of Jehovah comes, cruel and with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land waste; and He shall destroy its sinners out of it. ¹⁰ For the stars of the heavens and their constellations shall not give light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not reflect its light. ¹¹ And I will visit evil on the world, and their iniquity on the wicked. And I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the pride of tyrants. ¹² I will make a man more precious than gold; even a man than the fine gold of Ophir. ¹³ So I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall move out of its place, in the wrath of Jehovah of Hosts, and in the day of His fierce anger. ¹⁴ And it shall be as a driven gazelle, and as a sheep that no man takes up; each man shall look to his own people, and each one flee into his own land.

¹⁷ Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not value silver; and they shall not delight in gold.

¹² How you are fallen from the heavens, O shining star, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations! ¹³ For you have said in your heart, I will go up to the heavens, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north. ¹⁴ I will go up above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High. ¹⁵ Yet you shall be brought down to hell, to the sides of the Pit. ¹⁶ Those who see you shall stare and closely watch you, saying, Is this the man who made the earth to tremble; who shook kingdoms; ¹⁷ who made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed its cities; who did not open the house for his prisoners?

¹ The burden against the desert of the sea: As tempests in the south pass, it comes from the desert, from a terrible land. ² A harsh vision is revealed to me; the deceiver deceives, and the plunderer plunders. Go up, O Elam; besiege, O Media! I have caused all her sighing to cease.

² A harsh vision is revealed to me; the deceiver deceives, and the plunderer plunders. Go up, O Elam; besiege, O Media! I have caused all her sighing to cease.

² A harsh vision is revealed to me; the deceiver deceives, and the plunderer plunders. Go up, O Elam; besiege, O Media! I have caused all her sighing to cease. ³ Therefore my loins are filled with pain; pangs have taken hold on me like the pangs of a woman who travails; I was bowed down from hearing; I was troubled from seeing.

³ Therefore my loins are filled with pain; pangs have taken hold on me like the pangs of a woman who travails; I was bowed down from hearing; I was troubled from seeing. ⁴ My heart wanders, terror overwhelms me; He has turned the twilight of my pleasure into trembling.

⁴ My heart wanders, terror overwhelms me; He has turned the twilight of my pleasure into trembling.

⁴ My heart wanders, terror overwhelms me; He has turned the twilight of my pleasure into trembling.

⁴ My heart wanders, terror overwhelms me; He has turned the twilight of my pleasure into trembling. ⁵ Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink; arise, rulers. Anoint the shield.

⁵ Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink; arise, rulers. Anoint the shield.

⁵ Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink; arise, rulers. Anoint the shield. ⁶ For so Jehovah has said to me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he sees.

⁶ For so Jehovah has said to me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he sees. ⁷ And he saw a chariot with a pair of horsemen, a chariot of an ass, and a chariot of a camel. And let him listen, very attentively.

⁷ And he saw a chariot with a pair of horsemen, a chariot of an ass, and a chariot of a camel. And let him listen, very attentively. ⁸ And he cried, A lion! My lord, without ceasing, I stand on the watchtower by day, and I am stationed at my post all the nights.

⁸ And he cried, A lion! My lord, without ceasing, I stand on the watchtower by day, and I am stationed at my post all the nights. ⁹ And, behold, here comes a chariot of a man, a pair of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon has fallen, has fallen! And all the graven images of her gods He has smashed to the ground.

⁹ And, behold, here comes a chariot of a man, a pair of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon has fallen, has fallen! And all the graven images of her gods He has smashed to the ground. ¹⁰ O my threshing, and the grain of my floor! That which I have heard of Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.

¹² And in that day Jehovah of Hosts called to weeping and mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth.

¹⁴ And it was revealed in my ears by Jehovah of Hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you until you die, says the Lord Jehovah of Hosts.

¹⁰ Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness he will deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of Jehovah.

¹⁰ For Jehovah has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes; He has covered the prophets and your heads, the seers. ¹¹ And the vision of all has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which they give to one who knows books saying, Please read this; and he says, I cannot, for it is sealed. ¹² And the book is delivered to him who does not know books, saying, Please read this; and he says, I do not know books.

¹⁰ Now I will rise, says Jehovah; now I will be exalted; now I will lift up Myself.

³ Make the weak hands strong and make the feeble knees sure.

¹⁹ and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; so they have destroyed them.

²³ Whom have you mocked and blasphemed? And against whom have you raised your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Even against the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁹ The workman melts a graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold, and casts silver chains. ²⁰ He too poor for that offering chooses a tree that will not rot; he looks for a skillful workman to prepare a graven image that will not totter.

⁵ So says Jehovah God, He who created the heavens and stretched them out, spreading out the earth and its offspring; He who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it.

⁸ I am Jehovah; that is My name; and My glory I will not give to another, nor My praise to graven images.

¹⁷ They are turned back, they are greatly ashamed, those who trust in graven images and who say to the images, You are our gods.

²⁵ who brings to nothing the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns the wise backward, and makes their knowledge foolish; ²⁶ who makes the word of His servant sure, and makes good the counsel of His messengers; who says to Jerusalem, She shall have people; and to the cities of Judah, You shall be built, and I will raise up the waste places of it;

¹ So says Jehovah to His anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have made strong in order to humble nations before him. And I will loosen the loins of kings, to open before him the two-leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut. ² I will go before you, and make hills level. I will break in pieces the bronze gates, and cut the iron bars in two.

⁶ They pour gold out of the bag, and weigh silver out of the measuring rod, and hire a goldsmith; and he makes it a god; they fall down, yea, they bow down. ⁷ They carry it on the shoulder, they carry it and set it in its place, and it stands; it shall not move from its place. Yes, one shall cry to it, yet it cannot answer, nor save him out of his trouble.

¹ Come down, and sit on the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground. There is no throne for you, O daughter of the Chaldeans. For you shall no more be called tender and delicate.

¹ Come down, and sit on the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground. There is no throne for you, O daughter of the Chaldeans. For you shall no more be called tender and delicate. ² Take the millstones and grind meal. Push back your veil, draw up your skirt, uncover your leg, pass over the rivers. ³ Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, your shame shall be seen; I will take vengeance and I will not meet you as a man. ⁴ Our Redeemer, Jehovah of Hosts is His name, the Holy One of Israel. ⁵ Sit silent, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called the mistress of kingdoms. ⁶ I was angry with My people, I have polluted My inheritance, and given them into your hand. You showed them no mercy; you have very heavily laid your yoke on the aged. ⁷ And you said, I shall be a mistress forever; so you did not lay these things to your heart, nor remembered the latter end of it. ⁸ Now then hear this, O pleasure seeker, who lives carelessly; who says in her heart, I am, and none else is; I shall not sit as a widow, nor shall I know the loss of children. ⁹ But these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood. They shall come on you in their fullness for the multitude of your sorceries, and for the great power of your enchantments.

⁹ But these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood. They shall come on you in their fullness for the multitude of your sorceries, and for the great power of your enchantments. ¹⁰ For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, No one sees me. Your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you; and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is no one else. ¹¹ But evil shall come on you; you shall not know its origin. And mischief shall fall on you; you shall not be able to put it off. And desolation shall come on you suddenly, you shall not know. ¹² Stand now with your spells, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have wearied yourself since your youth. Perhaps you will be able to profit; perhaps you may bring terror.

¹² Stand now with your spells, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have wearied yourself since your youth. Perhaps you will be able to profit; perhaps you may bring terror. ¹³ You are exhausted by your many plans; now let the astrologers stand up and save you, the stargazers, making known what is coming on you into the new moons.

¹³ You are exhausted by your many plans; now let the astrologers stand up and save you, the stargazers, making known what is coming on you into the new moons. ¹⁴ Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame; there shall not be a coal to warm them; nor fire, to sit before it. ¹⁵ So they are to you with whom you labored, your merchants from your youth. Each one wanders to his own way; none shall save you.

²⁴ We have heard the rumor of it; our hands become feeble; anguish has taken hold of us, and pain, like a woman in labor.

³⁰ Reprobate silver they call them, because Jehovah has rejected them.

⁴ They adorn it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and hammers, so that it will not wobble. ⁵ They are like a rounded post, and they cannot speak. They must surely be lifted, because they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them; for they cannot do evil nor good, for it is not in them. ⁶ There is none like You, O Jehovah; You are great, and Your name is great in might. ⁷ Who would not fear You, O King of nations? For fear belongs to You, because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like You. ⁸ But they are all at once foolish and animal-like; the tree is an example of vanities. ⁹ Silver beaten into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the goldsmith. Violet and purple is their clothing; they are all the work of skillful ones.

²³ O Jehovah, I know that the way of man does not belong to man; it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

¹⁸ Say to the king and to the queen mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for your greatness shall come down, even the crown of your glory.

¹⁵ So says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have spoken against it, because they have hardened their necks so that they might not hear My Words.

⁹ behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says Jehovah, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant; and will bring them against this land, and against its people, and against all these nations all around. And I will completely destroy them, and make them a waste, and a hissing, and everlasting ruins. ¹⁰ And I will take from them the voice of rejoicing and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the candle. ¹¹ And this whole land shall be a ruin and a waste. And these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

¹¹ And this whole land shall be a ruin and a waste. And these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. ¹² And it shall be, when seventy years are fulfilled I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, and the land of the Chaldeans, says Jehovah, for their iniquity, and I will make it an everlasting ruin.

¹² And it shall be, when seventy years are fulfilled I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, and the land of the Chaldeans, says Jehovah, for their iniquity, and I will make it an everlasting ruin. ¹³ And I will bring on that land all My Words which I have spoken against it, all that is written in this book which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations. ¹⁴ For many nations and great kings shall lay service on them also. And I will repay them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.

⁵ I have made the earth, man, and the animals on the face of the earth, by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and have given it to whom it seemed right to Me. ⁶ And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant. And I have also given him the beast of the field to serve him. ⁷ And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his own land comes. And then many nations and great kings shall enslave him.

⁷ And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his own land comes. And then many nations and great kings shall enslave him.

¹⁶ Also I spoke to the priests and to all the people, saying, So says Jehovah, Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of Jehovah's house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon. For they prophesy a lie to you. ¹⁷ Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon and live. For why should this city be laid waste? ¹⁸ But if they are prophets, and if the Word of Jehovah is with them, let them now pray to Jehovah of Hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of Jehovah, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, may not go to Babylon. ¹⁹ For so says Jehovah of Hosts, concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the rest of the vessels which remain in this city, ²⁰ which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take when he exiled Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem; ²¹ yes, so says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that remain in the house of Jehovah and in the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem: ²² They shall be carried to Babylon, and they shall be there until the day that I visit them, says Jehovah. Then I will bring them up and give them back to this place.

⁶ Ask now, and see whether a man is giving birth? Why do I see every man with his hands on his loins, like a woman in labor, and all faces are turned into paleness?

¹⁸ O dweller, daughter of Dibon, come down from your glory and sit in thirst. For the ravager of Moab shall come on you; he shall destroy your strongholds.

¹ The Word that Jehovah spoke against Babylon, against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet. ² Declare among the nations, and cause them to hear, and lift up a banner. Cause them to hear, do not hide it; say, Babylon is captured, Bel is ashamed, Merodach is broken in pieces; her images are shamed, her idols are broken in pieces. ³ For out of the north a nation comes up against her, which shall make her land a desert, and none shall dwell in it. They shall flee, they shall depart, both man and beast. ⁴ In those days, and at that time, says Jehovah, the sons of Israel shall come, they and the sons of Judah together, going and weeping. They shall go and seek Jehovah their God. ⁵ They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces there, saying, Come and let us join ourselves to Jehovah in an everlasting covenant never to be forgotten. ⁶ My people have been lost sheep; their shepherds have caused them to go astray; they have turned them away on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting place. ⁷ All who have found them have devoured them. And their enemies said, We do not offend, because they have sinned against Jehovah, the habitation of righteousness, even Jehovah, the hope of their fathers. ⁸ Flee from the midst of Babylon, and go out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he-goats before the flocks. ⁹ For, lo, I am stirring up and bringing up against Babylon a company of great nations from a northern land. And they shall array themselves against her. She shall be captured there. Their arrows shall be as those of a skillful, mighty man; none shall return in vain. ¹⁰ And Chaldea shall be a prize; all who plunder her shall be satisfied, says Jehovah. ¹¹ Because you were glad, because you rejoiced, O destroyers of My inheritance; because you are fat like the heifer in grass, and bellow like bulls; ¹² your mother shall be deeply ashamed; she who bore you shall turn pale. Behold, the last of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. ¹³ Because of the wrath of Jehovah it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly a waste. Everyone who goes by Babylon shall be amazed and hiss at all her plagues. ¹⁴ Put yourselves in order against Babylon all around; all you who bend the bow, shoot at her. Hold back no arrows, for she has sinned against Jehovah. ¹⁵ Shout against her all around. She has given her hand; her foundations have fallen, her walls have been thrown down; for it is the vengeance of Jehovah. Take vengeance on her. As she has done, do to her. ¹⁶ Cut off the sower from Babylon, and the one who handles the sickle in the time of harvest. For fear of the pressing sword they shall turn, each one to his people; and they shall flee, each one to his own land. ¹⁷ Israel is a scattered sheep, driven away by lions. First the king of Assyria devoured him, and last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon crunched his bones. ¹⁸ So Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, says this: Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria. ¹⁹ And I will again bring Israel to his home, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied on Mount Ephraim and Gilead. ²⁰ In those days, and at that time, says Jehovah, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and it shall not be found; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found; for I will pardon those whom I leave as a remnant. ²¹ Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it and against the people of Pekod. Waste and destroy after them, says Jehovah, and do according to all that I have commanded you. ²² A sound of battle is in the land, and of great ruin. ²³ How the hammer of the whole earth is cut off and broken! How Babylon has become a ruin among the nations! ²⁴ I have laid a trap for you, and you are also captured, O Babylon, and you did not know. You were found and also caught, because you have fought against Jehovah. ²⁵ Jehovah has opened His armory, and has brought forth the weapons of His fury. For this is the work of the Lord Jehovah of Hosts in the land of the Chaldeans. ²⁶ Come against her from the border; open her storehouses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her completely. Let nothing of her be left. ²⁷ Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their punishment. ²⁸ The voice of those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Jehovah our God, the vengeance of His temple. ²⁹ Make the archers hear against Babylon. All you who tread a bow, camp against it all around; let none of them escape. Repay her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do to her. For she has been proud against Jehovah, against the Holy One of Israel.

²⁹ Make the archers hear against Babylon. All you who tread a bow, camp against it all around; let none of them escape. Repay her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do to her. For she has been proud against Jehovah, against the Holy One of Israel. ³⁰ So her young men shall fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be silenced in that day, says Jehovah. ³¹ Behold, I am against you, O proud ones, says the Lord Jehovah of Hosts; for your day has come, the time that I will judge you. ³² And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up. And I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall burn up everything all around him. ³³ So says Jehovah of Hosts: The sons of Israel and the sons of Judah were oppressed together. And all who captured them held them fast; they refused to let them go. ³⁴ Their Redeemer is strong; Jehovah of Hosts, is His name. He shall thoroughly plead their cause, so that he may give rest to the land, and give trouble to the people of Babylon. ³⁵ A sword is on the Chaldeans, says Jehovah, and on the people of Babylon, and on her rulers, and on her wise men. ³⁶ A sword is on the liars, and they shall become fools. A sword is on her mighty men, and they shall be afraid. ³⁷ A sword is on their horses and their chariots, and on all the mixed people in her midst; and they shall become as women. A sword is to her treasuries, and they shall be robbed. ³⁸ A drought is on her waters; and they shall be dried up. For it is the land of idols, and they act madly with idols. ³⁹ So the beasts of the desert shall dwell there with jackals. And the daughters of the ostrich shall dwell in her again. And it shall not again have anyone in it forever; it shall not be lived in until generation and generation. ⁴⁰ As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors, says Jehovah, no man shall live there; nor shall any son of man live in it. ⁴¹ Behold, a people shall come from the north, even a great nation; and many kings shall be stirred up from the farthest parts of the earth. ⁴² They lay hold on a bow and spear; they are cruel and will not show mercy. Their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride on horses arrayed like a man for the battle against you, O daughter of Babylon. ⁴³ The king of Babylon has heard the report of them, and his hands became feeble. Anguish took hold of him, and pangs like those of a woman in labor. ⁴⁴ Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan to the home of the strong. But I will make them suddenly run away from her. And who is a chosen one whom I will appoint over her? For who is like Me? And who will set Me the time? And who is that shepherd who will stand before Me? ⁴⁵ Therefore hear the counsel of Jehovah that He has taken against Babylon; and His purposes which He has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans. Surely the least of the flock shall drag them; surely He shall make their dwelling a desert with them. ⁴⁶ At the sound of the capture of Babylon the earth shall tremble, and a cry is heard among the nations.

¹¹ Sharpen the arrows; gather the shields; Jehovah has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes. For His plan is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of Jehovah, the vengeance of His temple.

³¹ A runner shall run to meet a runner, and a herald to a herald, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city is captured from end to end;

³⁹ In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunk so that they may rejoice and sleep a never-ending sleep, and never awaken, says Jehovah.

⁵⁷ And I will make her rulers drunk, also her wise ones, her governors, and her rulers, and her mighty men. And they shall sleep a never-ending sleep and not awaken, says the King whose name is Jehovah of Hosts.

¹⁹ And the chief of the executioners took away the basins, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the pots, and the lampstands, and the spoons, and the cups; what was gold, in gold; and what was silver, in silver.

³⁵ to turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High;

³⁸ From the mouth of the Most High does not go out the evil and the good.

¹⁷ All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall go weak as water.

¹¹ And I adorned you with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands and a chain on your neck.

²⁴ And all the trees of the field shall know that I Jehovah have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish. I Jehovah have spoken and acted.

⁷ And it will be when they say to you, Why do you groan? You shall answer, Because of the news that it is coming; and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water. Behold, it comes, and it shall be, says the Lord Jehovah.

¹⁸ Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are bronze, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the middle of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver. ¹⁹ Therefore so says the Lord Jehovah: Because you have all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the middle of Jerusalem. ²⁰ As they gather silver, and bronze, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the middle of the furnace, to blow the fire on it to melt it, so I will gather you in My anger and in My fury, and I will leave you there and melt you.

² Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre. So says the Lord Jehovah: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet you are a man and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of gods;

⁵ By your great wisdom and by your trade you have multiplied your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches.

¹⁷ Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you have spoiled your wisdom because of your brightness. I will cast you to the ground; I will put you before kings, that they may behold you.

⁶ So says Jehovah: Those who uphold Egypt shall also fall, and the pride of her power shall come down. From Migdol to Syene they shall fall in it by the sword, says the Lord Jehovah.

¹⁰ So the Lord Jehovah says this: Because you have lifted yourself up in height, and he set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

² And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God, which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god. And he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.

⁷ to whom the ruler of the eunuchs gave names. For he called Daniel, Belteshazzar; and Hananiah, Shadrach; and Mishael, Meshach; and Azariah, Abednego.

²¹ And Daniel continued to the first year of King Cyrus.

¹ And in the second year of the reign of King Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, with which his spirit was troubled and his sleep left him. ² And the king commanded to call to the horoscopists, and to the conjurers, and to the sorcerers, and to the Chaldeans, to tell to the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king. ³ And the king said to them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream. ⁴ And the Chaldeans spoke to the king in Aramaic, O king, live forever. Tell your servants the dream, and we will reveal the meaning.

⁴ And the Chaldeans spoke to the king in Aramaic, O king, live forever. Tell your servants the dream, and we will reveal the meaning. ⁵ The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing has gone from me. If you will not make known to me the dream, with its meaning, you will be made into mere members, and your houses shall be made an outhouse. ⁶ But if you make known the dream and its meaning, you shall receive gifts and a present and great honor from me. Therefore reveal to me the dream and its meaning.

⁶ But if you make known the dream and its meaning, you shall receive gifts and a present and great honor from me. Therefore reveal to me the dream and its meaning. ⁷ They answered again and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will reveal its meaning. ⁸ The king answered and said, For I know that you surely want to gain time, because you see the thing is gone from me. ⁹ But if you will not make the dream known to me, there is only one judgment for you. For you have prepared lying and deceiving words to speak before me, until the time has changed. Therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that you can reveal to me its meaning. ¹⁰ The Chaldeans answered before the king and said, There is not a man on the earth who can reveal the king's matter, because not any king, lord, nor ruler has asked such a thing from any horoscopist or conjurer or Chaldean. ¹¹ And it is a rare thing that the king asks, and there is no other who can reveal it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.

¹¹ And it is a rare thing that the king asks, and there is no other who can reveal it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh. ¹² For this cause the king was enraged and angered, and commanded all the wise men of Babylon to be destroyed. ¹³ And the law went out that the wise men should be killed. And they sought Daniel and his fellows to be killed.

²⁵ Then Arioch quickly brought Daniel in before the king, and said this to him, I have found a man of the captives of Judah who will make the meaning known to the king.

²⁷ Daniel answered before the king and said, The secret which the king has demanded cannot be shown to the king by the wise men, the conjurers, the horoscopists, or the fortune-tellers.

³⁷ You, O king, are a king of kings. For the God of Heaven has given you a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. ³⁸ And wherever the sons of men, the beasts of the field, and the birds of the heavens live, He has given them into your hand, and has made you ruler over them all. You are this head of gold.

⁴⁷ The king answered Daniel and said, It is true that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, since you could reveal this secret. ⁴⁸ Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over all the province of Babylon, and chief of the prefects over all the wise men of Babylon.

⁴⁸ Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over all the province of Babylon, and chief of the prefects over all the wise men of Babylon.

¹ Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits, and its breadth six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. ² Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the satraps, the prefects, the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the justices, and all the officials of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. ³ Then were gathered the satraps, the prefects, the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the justices, and all the officials of the provinces, to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. And they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up. ⁴ Then a herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages,

⁴ Then a herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages, ⁵ at the time you hear the sound of the horn, the pipe, zither, the lyre, harp, bagpipe, and all kinds of music, you shall fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up. ⁶ And whoever does not fall down and worship, at that moment they will be thrown into the middle of a burning fiery furnace.

⁶ And whoever does not fall down and worship, at that moment they will be thrown into the middle of a burning fiery furnace. ⁷ Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the horn, the pipe, zither, the lyre, harp, and all kinds of music, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshiped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. ⁸ Then at that time certain Chaldeans came near and accused the Jews. ⁹ They spoke and said to King Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live forever.

⁹ They spoke and said to King Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live forever. ¹⁰ You, O king, have made a decree that every man who shall hear the sound of the horn, the pipe, zither, the lyre, harp, and the bagpipe, and all kinds of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image. ¹¹ And whoever does not fall down and worship, he should be thrown into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. ¹² There are men, Jews, whom you have set over the business of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These men, O king, do not heed you. They do not serve your gods nor worship the golden image which you have set up. ¹³ Then Nebuchadnezzar in anger and wrath commanded them to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then they brought these men before the king. ¹⁴ Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said to them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego? Do you not serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up? ¹⁵ Now if you are ready, at the time you hear the sound of the horn, the pipe, zither, the lyre, harp, and bagpipe, and all kinds of music, fall down and worship the image which I have made. But if you do not worship, in that moment you shall be thrown into the middle of a burning fiery furnace. And who is that god who shall deliver you out of my hand? ¹⁶ Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to return a word to you on this matter. ¹⁷ If it is so that our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, then He will deliver us out of your hand, O king. ¹⁸ But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods nor worship the golden image which you have set up. ¹⁹ Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with wrath, and the form of his face was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He spoke and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated. ²⁰ And he commanded mighty men in his army to tie up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to throw them into the burning fiery furnace. ²¹ Then these men were tied up in their slippers, their tunics, and their mantles, and their other clothes, and were thrown into the middle of the burning fiery furnace.

²⁹ And a decree is given by me, that every people, nation, and language, who speak anything amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be made into mere members, and his house shall be made an outhouse. Because there is no other God who can deliver in this way.

² It seemed good before me to declare the signs and wonders that the Most High God has done with me.

⁵ I saw a dream and it terrified me, and the thoughts on my bed and the visions of my head troubled me. ⁶ So I made a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known to me the meaning of the dream. ⁷ Then the horoscopists, the conjurers, the Chaldeans, and the fortune-tellers came in. And I told the dream before them, but they did not make its meaning known to me.

⁷ Then the horoscopists, the conjurers, the Chaldeans, and the fortune-tellers came in. And I told the dream before them, but they did not make its meaning known to me. ⁸ But at last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods. And I told the dream before him, saying,

⁸ But at last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods. And I told the dream before him, saying, ⁹ O Belteshazzar, master of the horoscopists, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and no secret troubles you, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and its meaning.

¹⁴ He cried aloud and said this, Cut down the tree, and cut off its branches; shake off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the animals get away from under it, and the birds from its branches.

¹⁷ This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones, so that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever He will, and sets up over it the lowest of men. ¹⁸ I, King Nebuchadnezzar, have seen this dream. Now you, O Belteshazzar, declare its meaning, because all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make the meaning known to me. But you are able, for the spirit of the holy gods is in you. ¹⁹ Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was stunned for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. The king spoke and said, Belteshazzar, do not let the dream or its meaning trouble you. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, the dream is to those who hate you, and its meaning to your foes.

²² it is you, O king, for you have become great and strong, for your greatness has grown and reached to the heaven, and your rule to the end of the earth.

²² it is you, O king, for you have become great and strong, for your greatness has grown and reached to the heaven, and your rule to the end of the earth. ²³ And as the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from Heaven, and saying, Cut the tree down and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots of it in the earth, even with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the animals of the field, until seven times pass over him; ²⁴ this is the meaning, O king, and this the decree of the Most High, which has come on my lord the king. ²⁵ They shall drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field, and they shall make you eat grass like oxen. And they shall wet you with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever He will.

²⁵ They shall drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field, and they shall make you eat grass like oxen. And they shall wet you with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever He will.

³⁰ The king spoke and said, Is this not great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power and for the honor of my majesty? ³¹ While the word was in the king's mouth, a voice fell from Heaven, saying, O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken. The kingdom has departed from you.

³¹ While the word was in the king's mouth, a voice fell from Heaven, saying, O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken. The kingdom has departed from you. ³² And they shall drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. They shall make you eat grass like oxen, and seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever He will.

³² And they shall drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. They shall make you eat grass like oxen, and seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever He will. ³³ The same hour the thing was fulfilled on Nebuchadnezzar. And he was driven from men, and ate grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the heavens, until his hair had grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.

³³ The same hour the thing was fulfilled on Nebuchadnezzar. And he was driven from men, and ate grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the heavens, until his hair had grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.

³⁵ And all the people of the earth are counted as nothing; and He does according to His will in the army of heaven, and among the people of the earth. And none can strike His hand, or say to Him, What are You doing?

³⁷ Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and exalt and honor the King of heaven, all whose works are truth and His ways judgment. And those who walk in pride He is able to humble.

¹ Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. ² When tasting the wine, Belshazzar commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem, that the king and his rulers, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them.

² When tasting the wine, Belshazzar commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem, that the king and his rulers, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them.

² When tasting the wine, Belshazzar commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem, that the king and his rulers, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them. ³ Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God in Jerusalem. And the king, and his rulers, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them. ⁴ They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, and of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

⁴ They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, and of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone. ⁵ At that moment fingers of a man's hand came out and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace across from the lampstand. And the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. ⁶ Then the king's face was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosened, and his knees knocked against one another. ⁷ The king cried aloud to bring in the conjurers, the Chaldeans, and the fortune-tellers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever shall read this writing, and show me its meaning, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold around his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.

⁷ The king cried aloud to bring in the conjurers, the Chaldeans, and the fortune-tellers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever shall read this writing, and show me its meaning, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold around his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom. ⁸ Then all the king's wise men came in. But they could not read the writing, nor make the meaning known to the king.

⁸ Then all the king's wise men came in. But they could not read the writing, nor make the meaning known to the king. ⁹ Then King Belshazzar was greatly troubled, and his face was changing in him, and his lords were perplexed. ¹⁰ The queen came into the banquet house because of the king's words, and his nobles. And the queen spoke and said, O king, live forever. Do not let your thoughts trouble you, nor let your face be changed. ¹¹ There is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods. And in the days of your father there was found in him light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods. Your father, King Nebuchadnezzar, your father the king, appointed him master of the horoscopists, conjurers, Chaldeans, and fortune-tellers,

¹¹ There is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods. And in the days of your father there was found in him light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods. Your father, King Nebuchadnezzar, your father the king, appointed him master of the horoscopists, conjurers, Chaldeans, and fortune-tellers, ¹² because an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, explaining of dreams, and revealing of hard sentences, and the unraveling of knots, were found in this Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will reveal the meaning. ¹³ Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king spoke and said to Daniel, Are you that Daniel who is of the exiled sons of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Judah? ¹⁴ I have even heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you. ¹⁵ And now the wise men and the conjurers have been brought in before me, that they might read this writing and make the meaning known to me. But they could not declare the meaning of the thing. ¹⁶ And I have heard of you that you can interpret meanings and unravel knots. Now if you can read the writing, and reveal its meaning to me, you shall be clothed with scarlet and have a chain of gold around your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.

¹⁸ O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honor.

²³ But you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of Heaven. And they have brought the vessels of His house before you; and you, and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver, and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see, nor hear, nor know. And you have not glorified the God in whose hand is your breath and all your ways. ²⁴ Then the part of the hand was sent from Him. And this writing was written. ²⁵ And this is the writing that was written, A MINA, A MINA, A SHEKEL, AND HALF-MINAS. ²⁶ This is the meaning of the thing: A MINA, God has numbered your kingdom and finished it. ²⁷ A SHEKEL, You are weighed in the balances and found wanting. ²⁸ HALF-MINAS, Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians. ²⁹ Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet and a golden chain around his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

³¹ And Darius the Mede took the kingdom, being a son of sixty-two years.

¹ It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps, that they might be over the whole kingdom. ² And over them were three presidents (Daniel was one of them), so that these satraps might give account to them, and the king should have no loss. ³ Then this Daniel was made overseer of the presidents and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him. And the king was planning to set him over all the kingdom.

³ Then this Daniel was made overseer of the presidents and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him. And the king was planning to set him over all the kingdom.

⁶ Then these presidents and rulers assembled to the king, and said this to him: King Darius, live forever.

¹³ Then they answered and said before the king, Daniel, who is of the exiled sons of Judah, has not respected you, O king, nor the ban that you have signed, but makes his prayer three times a day.

²¹ Then Daniel said to the king, O king, live forever. ²² My God has sent His Angel, and has shut the lions' mouths, and they have not hurt me, because before Him purity was found in me. And also before you, O king, I have done no harm.

²⁸ And this Daniel was blessed in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

²⁸ Here is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my thoughts troubled me much, and my face changed on me. But I kept the matter in my heart.

¹ In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, to me, Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first.

³ Then I lifted up my eyes, and looked. And behold, a ram with two horns stood before the canal having two horns, and the two horns were high, but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last. ⁴ I saw the ram pushing westward and northward and southward; so that no beasts could stand before him, nor any that could deliver out of his hand. But he did according to his will, and became great.

²⁰ The ram which you saw having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia.

²⁷ And I Daniel fainted, and was sick for days. Afterward I rose up, and did the king's business. And I was amazed at the vision, but there was no understanding.

¹ In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans, ² in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood the number of the years by books, which came of the Word of Jehovah to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

⁸ Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me. For my beauty was turned within me to corruption, and I kept no strength.

⁸ For she did not know that I gave her grain, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal. ⁹ So I will return and take away My grain in its time, and my wine in its season, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness. ¹⁰ And now I will uncover her shamefulness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand. ¹¹ I will also cause all her joy to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her appointed feasts. ¹² And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, of which she has said, They are my rewards that my lovers have given me. And I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them. ¹³ And I will visit on her the days of the Baals, in which she burned incense to them, and she adorned herself with her nose-rings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers and forgot Me, says Jehovah.

¹⁰ For as thorns are woven together, and as their drunkards are drunken, they shall be devoured like stubble fully dry.

¹⁰ She is empty and void and waste; and the heart melts, and the knees knock, and trembling is on all the loins; and all their faces collect heat.

⁴ Behold, the soul of him is lifted up, and is not upright; but the just shall live by his faith. ⁵ And also wine indeed betrays a proud man, and he is not content. He widens his soul like Sheol, and he is like death, and is not satisfied, but gathers all nations to himself, and heaps to himself all the peoples.

¹⁸ What does an image profit, for its maker has carved it; a molten image, and a teacher of lies? For does the maker trust in his work on it, to make dumb idols? ¹⁹ Woe to him who says to the wood. Awake! To a dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and no breath is in its midst.

¹⁹ Woe to him who says to the wood. Awake! To a dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and no breath is in its midst.

³ But when Herod the king heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

⁴ For John said to him, It is not lawful for you to have her.

³² For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him. But the tax-collectors and the harlots believed him. And when you had seen it, you did not repent afterwards so that you might believe him.

¹¹ And the king coming in to look over the guests, he saw a man there who did not have on a wedding garment. ¹² And he said to him, Friend, how did you come in here without having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.

²¹ And a convenient day came, when Herod made a supper to great men on his birthday, and to the chiliarchs, and to the first ones of Galilee. ²² And when the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced and pleased Herod, and those who reclined with him, the king said to the girl, Ask me whatever you desire from me, and I will give it to you.

⁵¹ He has worked power with His arm, He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their heart. ⁵² He has put down rulers from their seats and exalted the lowly,

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat drink and be merry. ²⁰ But God said to him, Fool! This night your soul shall be required of you, then whose shall be those things which you have prepared?

⁴⁷ And that servant who knew his lord's will and did not prepare, nor did according to His will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

¹⁴ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself shall be abased, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted.

¹ After these things Jesus walked in Galilee, for He did not desire to walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill Him.

³ Therefore His brothers said to Him, Move away from here and go into Judea, so that Your disciples also may see the works that You do.

¹⁷ If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

¹¹ Jesus answered, You could have no authority against Me unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered Me to you has the greater sin.

⁸ Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, Rulers of the people and elders of Israel, ⁹ if we are examined today on a good work for an infirm man, by what this one has been healed, ¹⁰ be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, in this name does this man stand before you whole. ¹¹ This is the Stone which you builders have counted worthless, and He has become the Head of the Corner. ¹² And there is salvation in no other One; for there is no other name under Heaven given among men by which we must be saved. ¹³ But seeing the boldness of Peter and John, and perceiving that they were unlearned and uneducated men, they marveled. And they recognized them, that they had been with Jesus.

²⁹ And Peter and the apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men. ³⁰ The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed and hanged on a tree. ³¹ This One God has exalted to be a Ruler and Savior to His right hand in order to give repentance and remission of sins to Israel. ³² And we are His witnesses of these things. And so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey Him. ³³ But those hearing were cut to the heart, and they took counsel to kill them.

⁴⁸ But, the Most High does not dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,

¹⁸ And when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money,

²⁰ But Peter said to him, May your silver perish with you, because you have thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.

²² And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god and not of a man!

¹¹ And seeing what Paul did, the crowd lifted up their voice, saying in Lycaonian, The gods have come down to us, becoming like men.

¹⁸ All His works are known to God from eternity.

¹⁶ And as we went to prayer, it happened that a certain girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by divining.

²⁵ nor is served with men's hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives life and breath and all things to all.

²⁸ For in Him we live and move and have our being, as also certain of your own poets have said, For we are also His offspring. ²⁹ Then being offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like gold or silver or stone, engraved by art and man's imagination.

²⁹ Then being offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like gold or silver or stone, engraved by art and man's imagination.

²⁴ For a certain silversmith named Demetrius was making silver temples of Artemis, providing not a little trade for the craftsmen. ²⁵ And assembling the workmen about such things, he said, Men, you know that from this trade is our wealth. ²⁶ And you see and hear that, not only at Ephesus, but almost all Asia, this Paul having persuaded, he has perverted a huge crowd, saying that those which are made with hands are no gods. ²⁷ And not only is this dangerous to us, our share coming into dispute, but also the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be counted for nothing, and her magnificence is also about to be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worships. ²⁸ And hearing, and becoming full of anger, they cried out, saying, Great is Artemis of the Ephesians.

¹³ at midday, along the highway, O king, I and those with me saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun; shining around me.

¹⁹ After this, king Agrippa, I did not disobey the heavenly vision.

²¹ Because, knowing God, they did not glorify Him as God, neither were thankful. But they became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. ²² Professing to be wise, they became fools ²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.

¹ Let every soul be subject to the higher authorities. For there is no authority but of God; the authorities that exist are ordained by God.

¹³ each one's work shall be revealed. For the Day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try each one's work as to what kind it is.

⁴ Then concerning the eating of the things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one.

²⁹ For which I also labor, striving according to the working of Him who works in me in power.

¹⁴ blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.

² For you yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night. ³ For when they shall say, Peace and safety! Then sudden destruction comes on them, as travail upon a woman with child. And they shall not escape.

⁶ not a novice, lest being puffed up he may fall into the condemnation of the Devil.

¹³ But exhort one another daily, while it is called today, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

¹³ Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight, but all things are naked and opened to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.

¹² Because of this, straighten up the hands which hang down and the enfeebled knees.

⁶ But He gives more grace. Therefore He says, God resists the proud, but He gives grace to the humble.

¹⁷ Therefore to him who knows to do good, and does not do it, to him it is sin.

⁵ Likewise, younger ones, be subject to older ones, and all being subject to one another. Put on humility. For God resists proud ones, but He gives grace to the humble. ⁶ Therefore be humbled under the mighty hand of God, so that He may exalt you in due time,

⁹ Behold, I give out of those of the synagogue of Satan, those saying themselves to be Jews and are not, but lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.

¹⁵ And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every freeman, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains.

²⁰ And the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and golden, and silver, and bronze, and stone, and wooden idols (which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk). ²¹ And they did not repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

⁵ And a mouth speaking great things was given to it, and blasphemies. And authority was given to it to continue forty-two months. ⁶ And it opened its mouth in blasphemy toward God, to blaspheme His name and His tabernacle, and those dwelling in Heaven.

¹² And I saw the dead, the small and the great, stand before God. And books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. ¹³ And the sea gave up the dead in it. And death and hell delivered up the dead in them. And each one of them was judged according to their works. ¹⁴ And death and hell were cast into the Lake of Fire. This is the second death. ¹⁵ And if anyone was not found having been written in the Book of Life, he was cast into the Lake of Fire.