Daniel 5 Cross References - MSTC

¹ King Belshazzar made a great banquet to his thousand lords: with all these thousand he made great cheer, ² and when he was drunken with wine, he commanded to bring him the golden and silver vessels, which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple at Jerusalem: that the king and his lords with his queen and concubines might drink thereout. ³ So they brought the golden vessel, that was taken out of the temple of the LORD's house at Jerusalem. Then the king and his lords with his queen and concubines drunk out of them. ⁴ They drunk wine, and praised their Idols of gold, silver, copper, iron, wood and stone. ⁵ In the very same hour there appeared fingers, as it had been of a man's hand writing, right over against the candlestick upon the plain wall in the king's palace: and the king saw the palm of the hand that wrote. ⁶ Then changed the king his countenance, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his body shook, and his knees smote one against another. ⁷ Wherefore the king cried mightily, that they should bring him the charmers, Chaldeans, and the conjurers of devils. The king spake also to the wise men of Babylon, and said, "Whoso can read this writing, and show me the plain meaning thereof: shall be clothed with purple, have a chain of gold about his neck, and rule the third part of my kingdom." ⁸ Upon this, came all the king's wise men: but they could neither read the writing, nor show the king what it signified. ⁹ Then was the king sore afraid in so much, that his color changed, and his lords were sore vexed. ¹⁰ So by reason of this matter, that had happened to the king and his lords, the queen went up herself into the banquet house, and spake unto the king, saying, "O king, God save thy life forever: Let not the thoughts trouble thee, and let not thy countenance be changed. ¹¹ For why? There is a man in thy kingdom, that hath the spirit of the holy gods within him, as it was seen in thy father's days. He hath understanding and wisdom like the gods; Yea, the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father made this man chief of the soothsayers, charmers, Chaldeans and devil conjurers: ¹² because that such an abundant spirit, knowledge and wisdom, to expound dreams, open secrets, and to declare hard doubts, was found in him. Yea, even in Daniel, whom the king named Balteshazzar. Let this same Daniel be sent for, and he shall tell what it meaneth." ¹³ Then was Daniel brought before the king. So the king spake unto Daniel, and said, "Art thou that Daniel, one of the prisoners of Judah whom my father the king brought out of Jewry? ¹⁴ I have heard speak of thee, that thou hast the spirit of the holy gods, experience and understanding, and that there hath been great wisdom found in thee. ¹⁵ Now have there been brought me, wise and conjuring charmers, to read this writing, and to show me the meaning thereof: but they could not tell me, what this matter signified. ¹⁶ Then heard I say, that thou can expound dark things, and declare hard doubts. Well then, if thou can read this writing, and show me the meaning thereof: thou shalt be clothed with purple, have a chain of gold about thy neck, and rule the third part of my kingdom." ¹⁷ Daniel answered, and said before the king, "As for thy rewards, keep them to thyself, or give thy rich gifts to another: yet not the less, I will read the writing unto the king, and show him the interpretation thereof. ¹⁸ O king, God the highest gave unto Nebuchadnezzar, thy father, the dignity of a king, with worship and honor: ¹⁹ So that all people, kindreds and tongues stood in awe and fear of him, by reason of the high estate that he had sent him. For why? He slew whom he would; he smote, whom it pleased him. Again: whom he would, he set up; and whom he list, he put down. ²⁰ But because his heart was so proud, and his stomach set so fast unto wilfulness: he was deposed from his kingly throne, and his majesty was taken from him. ²¹ He was shot out from among men, his heart was like a beast's heart, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: he was fain to eat grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven: till he knew, that the highest had power upon the kingdoms of men, and setteth over them, whom he list. ²² And thou, his son, O Belshazzar, for all this, hast not submitted thine heart, though thou knewest all these things: ²³ but hast magnified thyself above the LORD of heaven, so that the vessels of his house were brought before thee: that thou, and thy lords, with thy queen and concubines, might drink wine thereout: and hast praised the Idols of silver and gold, copper and iron, of wood and stone. As for the God in whose hand consisteth thy breath and all thy ways: thou hast not loved him. ²⁴ Therefore is the palm of this hand sent hither from him, to token up this writing. ²⁵ And this is the scripture that is written up, 'Mene, Tekel, Phares.' ²⁶ Now the interpretation of the thing is this: Mene, God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end. ²⁷ Tekel, thou art weighed in the balance, and art found wanting: ²⁸ Phares, thy kingdom is dealt in parts, and given to the Medes and Persians." ²⁹ Then commanded Belshazzar to clothe Daniel with purple, to hang a chain of gold about his neck, and to make a proclamation concerning him: that he should be the ruler of the third part of his kingdom. ³⁰ The very same night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain, ³¹ and Darius out of Media took in the kingdom, being sixty two years of age.

²⁰ And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants. And he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.

³ in the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and servants. And the mighty men of Persia and Media, the captains also, and rulers of his countries, were before him;

⁴ My heart panted, I trembled for fear. The night of my voluptuousness hath he turned against me into fear. ⁵ While they garnished the table, the watchman looked: and while he was eating and drinking it was said, "Up, ye Captains, take you to your shield."

¹² And at the same time shall the LORD of Hosts call men to weeping, mourning, to baldness and a putting on of sackcloth.

¹⁴ Nevertheless, when the LORD of Hosts heard of it, he said: "Yea, if this wickedness of yours shall be remitted, ye must die for it." This hath the LORD God of Hosts spoken.

³⁹ In their heat I shall set drink before them, and they shall be drunken for joy: Then shall they sleep an everlasting sleep, and never wake, sayeth the LORD.

⁵⁷ Yea, sayeth the LORD, I will make their princes, their wise men, their chief rulers and all their worthies, drunken: so that they shall sleep an everlasting sleep and never wake. Thus sayeth the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.

¹⁰ For like as the thorns that stick together, and as the dry straw, so shall the drunkards be consumed together, even when they be full.

²¹ But when a convenient day was come: Herod on his birthday made a supper to the Lords, captains, and chief estates of Galilee. ²² And the daughter of the said Herodias came in and danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat at board also. Then the king said unto the maiden, "Ask of me what thou wilt, and I will give it thee."

⁷ And David said, "Fear not, for I will surely show thee kindness for Jonathan's sake and will restore thee all the fields of Saul thy father, and thou shalt eat meat on mine own table always."

²⁵ The twelfth year of Jehoram son of Ahab, king of Israel, did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign. ²⁶ Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and reigned one year in Jerusalem; his mother's name was Athaliah daughter of Omri king of Israel. ²⁷ And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: for he was a son-in-law to the house of Ahab.

¹³ And he carried out thence all the treasure of the house of the LORD, and the treasure of the king's house, and brake all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made, in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said.

¹⁵ And the firepans, and basins that were either of gold or silver, them took the chief Marshal away

²⁰ And after her, he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom which bare him Abijah, Attai, Ziza and Shelomith.

¹⁶ And thereto king Asa put Maacah his mother out of authority, because she had made an idol in a grove: and brake down her idol and stamped it and burnt it by the brook Kidron.

¹⁰ And when the year was out, king Nebuchadnezzar sent and fetched him to Babylon with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.

¹⁸ And all the vessels of the house of God both great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king and his lords he carried to Babylon, every whit.

⁷ And king Cyrus brought forth the vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of Jerusalem and put in his god's house. ⁸ Those did Cyrus the king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah. ⁹ And this is the number of them: thirty basins of gold, and a thousand basins of silver, nine and twenty knives, ¹⁰ thirty cups of gold, and of other silver cups four hundred and ten, and of other vessels a thousand. ¹¹ So that all the vessels both of gold and silver, were five thousand and four hundred. Sheshbazzar brought them all up, with them that came up out of the captivity of Babylon unto Jerusalem.

⁷ And all people shall serve him, and his son, and his child's children, until the time of the same land be come also: Yea, many people and great kings shall serve him.

¹⁶ I spake to the Priests also, and to all the people, "Thus sayeth the LORD: Hear not the words of those Prophets, that preach unto you, and say, 'Behold, the vessels of the LORD's house shall shortly be brought hither again from Babylon.' For they prophesy lies unto you. ¹⁷ Hear them not, but serve the king of Babylon, that ye may live. Wherefore will ye make this city to be destroyed? ¹⁸ But if they be true Prophets in very deed, and if the word of the LORD be committed unto them, then let them pray the LORD of Hosts that the remnant of the ornaments, which are in the house of the LORD, and remain yet in the house of the king of Judah and at Jerusalem, be not carried to Babylon also. ¹⁹ For thus hath the LORD of Hosts spoken concerning the pillars, the laver, the seat and the residue of the ornaments that yet remain in this city, ²⁰ which Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon took not, when he carried away Jechoniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the power of Judah and Jerusalem, from Jerusalem unto Babylon, captive. ²¹ Yea thus hath the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel spoken, as touching the residue of the ornaments of the LORD's house of the king of Judah's house, and of Jerusalem: ²² They shall be carried unto Babylon, and there they shall remain until I visit them, sayeth the LORD. Then will I bring them hither again."

¹⁹ with the basins, coal pans, sprinklers, pots, candlesticks, spoons and cups; whereof some were of gold, and some of silver.

² and the LORD delivered Jehoiakim the king of Judah into his hand, with certain ornaments of the house of God, which he carried away into the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and there brought them into his god's treasury.

⁴ They drunk wine, and praised their Idols of gold, silver, copper, iron, wood and stone.

¹¹ For why? There is a man in thy kingdom, that hath the spirit of the holy gods within him, as it was seen in thy father's days. He hath understanding and wisdom like the gods; Yea, the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father made this man chief of the soothsayers, charmers, Chaldeans and devil conjurers:

¹³ Then was Daniel brought before the king. So the king spake unto Daniel, and said, "Art thou that Daniel, one of the prisoners of Judah whom my father the king brought out of Jewry?

¹⁸ O king, God the highest gave unto Nebuchadnezzar, thy father, the dignity of a king, with worship and honor:

²³ but hast magnified thyself above the LORD of heaven, so that the vessels of his house were brought before thee: that thou, and thy lords, with thy queen and concubines, might drink wine thereout: and hast praised the Idols of silver and gold, copper and iron, of wood and stone. As for the God in whose hand consisteth thy breath and all thy ways: thou hast not loved him.

²³ Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together, for to offer a solemn offering unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, "Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hands." ²⁴ And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, "Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, that destroyed our country and slew many of us."

⁴ Their images are but silver and gold, even the work of men's hands. ⁵ They have mouths, and speak not; eyes have they, but they see not. ⁶ They have ears, and hear not; noses have they, but they smell not. ⁷ They have hands, and handle not; feet have they, but they walk not; neither speak they through their throat. ⁸ They that make them, are like unto them; and so are all such as put their trust in them.

¹⁵ As for the images of the heathen, they are but silver and gold, the work of men's hands. ¹⁶ They have mouths, and speak not; eyes have they, but they see not. ¹⁷ They have ears, and yet they hear not; neither is there any breath in their mouths. ¹⁸ They that make them are like unto them; and so are all they that put their trust in them.

¹⁹ Shall the carver make him a carved image? And shall the goldsmith cover him with gold, or cast him into a form of silver plates? ²⁰ Moreover, shall the image maker, that the poor man which is disposed may have something to set up also, seek out and choose a tree, that is not rotten, and carve thereout an image, that moveth not?

⁸ Even I am the LORD, and this is my name: and my glory will I give to none other, neither mine honour to graven images.

¹⁷ And therefore let them convert, and be ashamed earnestly, that hope in Idols and say to fashioned images, "Ye are our gods."

⁶ Ye fools, no doubt, will take out silver and gold out of your purses, and weigh it, and hire a goldsmith to make a god of it, that men may kneel down and worship it. ⁷ Yet must he be taken on men's shoulders and borne, and set in his place, that he may stand and not move. Alas that men should cry unto him, which giveth no answer; and delivereth not the man that calleth upon him, from his trouble.

⁴ they cover it over with gold or silver; they fasten it with nails and hammers, that it move not. ⁵ It standeth as stiff as the palm tree, it can neither speak nor go, but must be borne. Be not ye afraid of such, for they can do neither good nor evil." ⁶ But there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and great is the name of thy power. ⁷ Who would not fear thee? Or what King of the Gentiles would not obey thee? For among all the wise men of the Gentiles, and in all their kingdoms, there is none that may be likened unto thee. ⁸ They are altogether unlearned and unwise. All their cunning is but vanity: ⁹ namely, wood; silver, which is brought out of Tarshish, and beaten to plates; and gold from Ophir, a work that is made with the hand of the craftsman and the caster, clothed with yellow silk and scarlet: even so is the work of their wise men altogether.

¹ Nebuchadnezzar the king caused a golden Image to be made, which was sixty cubits high, and six cubits thick. This he made to be set up in the field of Dura, in the land of Babylon ² and sent out to gather together the dukes, lords and nobles, the judges and officers, the deputies and sheriffs, with all the rulers of the land: that they might come to the dedication of the Image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. ³ So the dukes, lords and nobles, the judges and officers, deputies and sheriffs, with all the rulers of the land gathered them together, and came unto the dedicating of the Image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. Now when they stood before the Image, which Nebuchadnezzar had set up, ⁴ the herald cried out with all his might, "O ye people, kindreds and tongues: to you be it said, ⁵ that when ye hear the noise of the trumpets, which shall be blown, with harps, shawmes, Psalteries, Symphonies and all manner of Music: ye fall down and worship the golden Image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up. ⁶ Whoso then falleth not down and boweth himself, shall even the same hour be cast in to a hot burning oven." ⁷ Therefore, when all the folk heard the noise of the trumpets, that were blown, with the harps, shawmes, Psalteries, Symphonies and all kind of Melody: then all the people, kindreds and nations fell down, and bowed themselves unto the golden Image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. ⁸ Now were there certain men of the Chaldeans that went even then and accused the Jews, ⁹ and said unto the king Nebuchadnezzar, "O king, God save thy life forever. ¹⁰ Thou being king hast given a commandment, that all men when they hear noise of the trumpets, harps, shawmes psalteries, symphonies and all the other melodies: shall fall down and bow themselves toward the golden Image. ¹¹ Whoso then fell not down and worshipped not, that he should be cast in to a hot burning oven. ¹² Now are there certain Jews, whom thou hast set over the offices of the land of Babylon: namely, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These men, O king, regard not thy commandment; yea they will not serve thy gods, nor bow themselves to the golden Image, that thou hast set up." ¹³ Then Nebuchadnezzar in a cruel wrath and displeasure, commanded that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego should be brought unto him. So these men were brought before the king. ¹⁴ Then Nebuchadnezzar spake unto them, and said, "What? O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: will not ye serve my gods? Nor bow yourselves to the golden Image, that I have set up? ¹⁵ Well, be ready hereafter, when ye hear the noise of the trumpets blow with the harps, shawmes psalteries, symphonies and all the other melodies: that ye fall down, and worship the Image which I have made. But if ye worship it not, ye shall be cast immediately in to a hot burning oven. Let's see what God is there, that may deliver you out of my hands!" ¹⁶ Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king, an said, "O Nebuchadnezzar, we ought not to consent unto thee in this matter. For why? ¹⁷ Our God whom we serve, is able to keep us from the hot burning oven, O king, and can right well deliver us out of thy hands: ¹⁸ And if he will not, yet shalt thou know, O king, that we will not serve thy Gods, nor do reverence to the Image which thou hast set up."

³⁷ Then did I, Nebuchadnezzar, love, magnify and praise the King of heaven: for all his works are true, and his ways right. As for those that go on proudly, he is able to bring them down.

⁸ And she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold: which they bestowed upon Baal. ⁹ Wherefore now will I go take my corn and wine again in their season, and fet again my wool and my flax, which I gave her to cover her shame. ¹⁰ And now will I discover her foolishness, even in the sight of her lovers, and no man shall deliver her out of my hands. ¹¹ Moreover, I will take away all her mirth, her holidays, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts: ¹² I will destroy her vineyards and fig trees, though she sayeth, 'Lo, here are my rewards, that my lovers have given me.' I will make it a wood, and the wild beasts shall eat it up. ¹³ I will punish her also for the days of Baal, wherein she censed him, decking him with her earrings and chains: when she followed her lovers, and forgat me, sayeth the LORD.

¹⁹ Woe unto him, that sayeth unto a piece of wood, "Arise," and to a dumb stone, "Stand up." For what instruction may such one give? Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath in it.

²⁹ Forasmuch then as we are the generation of God, we ought not to think that the godhead is like unto gold, silver, or stone, graven by craft and imagination of man.

²⁴ For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith which made silver shrines for Diana, was not a little beneficial unto the craftsmen: ²⁵ which he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, "Sirs ye know that by this craft we have vantage. ²⁶ Moreover, ye see and hear that not alone at Ephesus: but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be not gods which are made with hands: ²⁷ so that not only this our craft cometh into peril to be set at nought: but that also the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised. And her magnificence should be destroyed, which all Asia, and the world worshippeth." ²⁸ When they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out saying, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians."

²⁰ And the remnant of the men which were not killed by these plagues repented not of the deeds of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and images, of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood, which neither can see, neither hear, neither go. ²¹ Also they repented not of their murder, and of their sorcery, neither of their fornication, neither of their theft.

⁵ the praise of the ungodly hath been short, and that the joy of the hypocrites continued but the twinkling of an eye?

³⁰ And they were not disappointed of their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths, ³¹ the heavy wrath of God came upon them, and slew the wealthiest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.

¹ He that is stiff necked and will not be reformed, shall suddenly be destroyed without any help.

³¹ While these words were yet in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, "O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee be it spoken, 'Thy kingdom is departed from thee.

³³ The very same hour was this matter fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: so that he was cast out of men's company, and ate grass like an ox; His body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were as great as Eagle's feathers, and his nails like bird's claws.

⁸ Upon this, came all the king's wise men: but they could neither read the writing, nor show the king what it signified.

¹⁵ Now have there been brought me, wise and conjuring charmers, to read this writing, and to show me the meaning thereof: but they could not tell me, what this matter signified.

²⁴ Therefore is the palm of this hand sent hither from him, to token up this writing. ²⁵ And this is the scripture that is written up, 'Mene, Tekel, Phares.' ²⁶ Now the interpretation of the thing is this: Mene, God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end. ²⁷ Tekel, thou art weighed in the balance, and art found wanting: ²⁸ Phares, thy kingdom is dealt in parts, and given to the Medes and Persians."

¹⁹ and I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up in store for many years, take thine ease: eat, drink and be merry.' ²⁰ But God said unto him, 'Thou fool, this night will they fetch away thy soul again from thee. Then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?'

¹⁴ and hath put out the handwriting that was against us, contained in the law written, and that hath he taken out of the way, and hath fastened it to his cross,

² for ye your selves know perfectly, that the day of the Lord shall come even as a thief in the night. ³ For when they shall say, "Peace, no danger," then cometh on them sudden destruction, as the travailing of a woman with child, and they shall not escape.

¹² And I saw the dead, both great and small, stand before God: And the books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the book of life, and the dead were judged of those things which were written in the books according to their deeds. ¹³ And the sea gave up her dead, which were in her, and death and hell delivered up the dead, which were in them: and they were judged every man according to his deeds. ¹⁴ And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is that second death. ¹⁵ And whosoever was not found written in the book of life, was cast into the lake of fire.

²⁰ The ungodly despaireth all the days of his life, and the number of a tyrant's years is unknown. ²¹ A fearful sound is ever in his ears, and when it is peace yet feareth he destruction. ²² He believeth never to be delivered out of darkness; the sword is always before his eyes. ²³ When he goeth forth to get his living, he thinketh plainly, that the day of darkness is at hand. ²⁴ Sorrow and carefulness make him afraid, and compass him round about, like as it where a king with his host ready to the battle. ²⁵ For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and armed himself against the Almighty. ²⁶ He runneth proudly upon him, and with a stiff neck fighteth he against him: ²⁷ whereas he covereth his face with fatness, and maketh his body well liking.

¹⁹ And why? He hath oppressed the poor, and not helped them: houses hath he spoiled, and not builded them. ²⁰ His belly could never be filled; therefore shall he perish in his covetousness. ²¹ He devoured so greedily that he left nothing behind; therefore his goods shall not prosper. ²² Though he had plenteousness of everything, yet was he poor, and therefore he is but a wretch on every side. ²³ "For though the wicked have never so much to fill his belly, yet God shall send his wrath upon him, and cause his indignation to rain over him: ²⁴ so that if he flee the iron weapons, he shall be shot with the steel bow. ²⁵ The arrow shall be taken forth, and go out at his back; and a glistering sword through the gall of him. Fear shall come upon him. ²⁶ There shall no darkness be able to hide him. An unkindled fire shall consume him; and look, what remaineth in his house, it shall be destroyed. ²⁷ The heaven shall declare his wickedness, and the earth shall take part against him.

²³ Let their eyes be blinded, that they see not; and ever bow down their backs.

¹⁸ Namely, how thou hast set them in a slippery places, that thou mayest cast them down headlong and destroy them. ¹⁹ O how suddenly do they consume, perish and come to a fearful end! ²⁰ Yea, even like as a dream when one awaketh, so makest thou their image to vanish out of the city.

²⁷ There is not one faint or feeble among them, no not a sluggish nor slippery person. There shall not one of them put off the girdle from his loins, nor loose the latchet of his shoe.

⁷ Then shall all hands be letten down, and all men's hearts shall melt away; ⁸ they shall stand in fear, carefulness and sorrow shall come upon them, and they shall have pain, as a woman that travaileth with child. One shall ever be abashed of another, and their faces shall burn like the flame.

² Whoso may deceive, said the voice, let him deceive: Who so may destroy, let him destroy. Up Elam, besiege it O Media, for I will still all their groanings. ³ With this, the reins of my back were full of pain: Pangs came upon me, as upon a woman in her travail. It made me stoop when I heard it, and it vexed me when I saw it. ⁴ My heart panted, I trembled for fear. The night of my voluptuousness hath he turned against me into fear.

³ And therefore strengthen the weak hands, and comfort the feeble knees.

¹⁷ All hands shall be let down, and all knees shall be weak as the water;

⁷ And if they say, 'Wherefore mournest thou?' Then tell them, 'For the tidings that cometh, at the which all hearts shall melt, all hands shall be letten down, all stomachs shall faint, and all knees shall wax feeble.' Behold, it cometh, and shall be fulfilled, sayeth the LORD God.'"

¹ In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, had Nebuchadnezzar a dream, wherethrough his spirit was vexed, and his sleep brake from him.

¹⁹ Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of indignation, so that the countenance of his face changed upon Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Therefore he charged and commanded, that the oven should be made seven times hotter, than it was wont to be:

⁵ saw a dream, which made me afraid: and the thoughts that I had upon my bed, with the visions of mine head, troubled me.

¹⁹ Then Daniel, whose name was Balteshazzar, held his peace by the space of a hour and his thoughts troubled him. So the king spake, and said, "O Balteshazzar, let neither the dream nor the interpretation thereof fear thee." Balteshazzar answered saying, "O my lord, this dream happen to thine enemies, and the interpretation to thine adversaries!

⁹ Then was the king sore afraid in so much, that his color changed, and his lords were sore vexed. ¹⁰ So by reason of this matter, that had happened to the king and his lords, the queen went up herself into the banquet house, and spake unto the king, saying, "O king, God save thy life forever: Let not the thoughts trouble thee, and let not thy countenance be changed.

²⁸ Thus far extend the words. Nevertheless, I Daniel was so vexed in my thoughts, that my countenance changed, but the words I kept still in my heart."

¹⁰ Thus must she be spoiled, emptied and clean stripped out: that their hearts may be melted away, their knees tremble, all their loins be weak, and their faces black as a pot.

¹² Stretch forth therefore again the hands which were let down, and the weak knees,

⁸ When the morning came, his spirit was troubled. And he sent and called for all the soothsayers of Egypt and all the wise men thereof, and told them his dream: but there was none of them that could interpret it unto Pharaoh.

⁴² And he took off his ring from his finger, and put it upon Joseph's finger, and he arrayed him in raiment of byss, and put a golden chain about his neck, ⁴³ and set him upon the best chariot that he had, save one. And they cried before him "Abrech!" And that Pharaoh had made him ruler over all the land of Egypt. ⁴⁴ And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, "I am Pharaoh; without thy will, shall no man lift up either his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt."

⁷ And the elders of Moab went with the elders of Midian, and the reward of the soothsaying in their hands. And they came unto Balaam and told him the words of Balak.

¹⁷ for I will greatly promote thee unto great honour, and will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me! Come therefore I pray thee, curse me this people.'"

¹¹ and now get thee quickly unto thy place. I thought that I would promote thee unto honour, but the LORD hath kept thee back from worship."

²⁵ And every man of Israel said, "See ye this man that is come forth; even to revile Israel is he come. And to him that beateth him will the king give great riches, and will give him his daughter thereto: yea and make his father's house free in Israel."

¹ After these acts did the king promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and set him high, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.

² As for all the work of his power and authority, and the great worship of Mordecai, which the king gave him, behold, it is written in the Chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia. ³ For Mordecai the Jew was the second next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted among the multitude of his brethren, as one that seeketh the wealth of his people, and speaketh the best for all his seed.

⁹ for that shall bring grace unto thy head, and shall be a chain about thy neck. ¹⁰ Then shall thy cheeks and thy neck be made fair, and hanged with spangles and goodly jewels:

²⁵ I destroy the tokens of witches, and make the Soothsayers go wrong. As for the wise, I turn them backward, and make their cunning foolishness. ²⁶ But I set up the purpose of my servants, and fulfill the counsel of my messengers. I say unto Jerusalem, "Turn again," and to the cities of Judah, "Be ye builded again," and I repair their decayed places.

¹³ Thou hast hitherto had many counsels of them; so let the heaven gazers and the beholders of stars come on now and deliver thee: yea, and let them show when these new things shall come upon thee.

¹¹ I decked thee with costly apparel; I put rings upon thy fingers,

² Then the king commanded to call together all the soothsayers, charmers, witches and Chaldeans, for to show the king his dream. So they came, and stood before the king.

⁶ But if ye tell me the dream and the meaning thereof, ye shall have of me gifts, rewards and great honour. Only, show me the dream, and the signification of it."

⁴⁸ So the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many and great gifts. He made him ruler of all the countries of Babylon, and lord of all the nobles, that were at Babylon.

⁶ Then sent I out a commission, that all they which were of wisdom at Babylon should be brought before me, to tell me the interpretation of the dream. ⁷ So there came the soothsayers, charmers, Chaldeans and conjurers of devils: to whom I told the dream. But what it betokened, they could not show me:

¹⁴ and cried mightily, saying, 'Hew down the tree, break off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit abroad: that all the beasts may get them away from under him, and the fowls from his branches.

¹⁶ Then heard I say, that thou can expound dark things, and declare hard doubts. Well then, if thou can read this writing, and show me the meaning thereof: thou shalt be clothed with purple, have a chain of gold about thy neck, and rule the third part of my kingdom."

²⁹ Then commanded Belshazzar to clothe Daniel with purple, to hang a chain of gold about his neck, and to make a proclamation concerning him: that he should be the ruler of the third part of his kingdom.

² Above these he set three princes - of whom Daniel was one - that the lords might give accounts unto them, and the king to be undiseased. ³ But Daniel exceeded all these princes and lords, for the spirit of God was plenteous in him: so that the king was minded to set him over the whole realm.

⁹ And yet both these things shall come to thee upon one day, in the twinkling of an eye: Namely widowhood, and desolation. They shall mightily fall upon thee, for the multitude of thy witches, and for the great heap of thy conjurers.

¹² Now go to thy conjurers, and to the multitude of thy witches, whom thou hast been acquainted with from thy youth, if they may help thee, or strengthen thee. ¹³ Thou hast hitherto had many counsels of them; so let the heaven gazers and the beholders of stars come on now and deliver thee: yea, and let them show when these new things shall come upon thee. ¹⁴ Behold, they shall be like straw, which if it be kindled with fire, no man may rid it for the vehemence of the flame: And yet it giveth no cinders to warm a man by, nor clear fire to sit by. ¹⁵ Even so shall they be unto thee whom thou hast used and occupied from thy youth. Every one shall show thee his erroneous way, yet shall none of them defend thee.

²⁷ Daniel answered the king to his face, and said, "As for this secret, for the which the king maketh inquisition: it is neither the wise, the sorcerer, the charmer nor the devil conjurer, that can certify the king of it:

⁷ So there came the soothsayers, charmers, Chaldeans and conjurers of devils: to whom I told the dream. But what it betokened, they could not show me:

¹¹ "Fearfulness shall make him afraid on every side, that he shall not know where to get out. ¹² Hunger shall be his substance, and misfortune shall hang upon him. ¹³ He shall eat the strength of his own skin; the firstborn of death shall eat his members. ¹⁴ All his comfort and hope shall be rooted out of his dwelling, and shall bring him unto the king of fear.

¹⁴ He sent out his arrows and scattered them, he cast forth lightnings, and destroyed them. {TYNDALE: And he shot arrows and scattered them, and hurled lightning and turmoiled them.}

⁶ Fear came there upon them, and sorrow as upon a woman in her travail.

⁶ Mourn therefore, for the day of the LORD is at hand, and cometh as a destroyer from the Almighty.

²⁴ Then shall this cry be heard, "Our arms are feeble! Heaviness and sorrow is come upon us, as upon a woman travailing with child!

⁶ For what else doth this signify, that I see? Namely, that all strong men smite every man his hand upon his loins, as a woman in the pain of her travail. Who ever saw a man travail with child? Enquire thereafter, and see. Yea, all their faces are marvelous pale.

⁶ Then changed the king his countenance, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his body shook, and his knees smote one against another.

⁸ I was left there myself alone, and saw this great vision, so long till there remained no more strength within me: Yea I lost my colour clean, I wasted away, and my strength was gone.

³ When Herod the king had heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

¹⁵ And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in dens, and in rocks of the hills,

¹⁷ And as she was in pains of her labour, the midwife said unto her, "Fear not, for thou shalt have this son also." ¹⁸ Then as her soul was departing, that she must die: she called his name Benoni. But his father called him Benjamin.

²⁰ And about the time of her death, the women that stood about her, said unto her, "Fear not for thou hast borne a son." But she answered not, nor regarded it. ²¹ And she named the child Ichabod saying, "Honour is departed from Israel" — Because the ark of God was taken, and her father-in-law and her husband were dead. ²² And therefore she said, "Honour is gone from Israel," because the ark of God was taken.

³¹ And Bathsheba bowed on her face to the earth and did obeisance unto the king, and said, "I pray God my lord king David may live ever."

⁴ As for you, ye are workmasters of lies, and unprofitable physicians altogether.

³⁴ How vain, then, is the comfort that ye give me? Are not your answers clean contrary to right and truth?"

⁴ Upon this the Chaldeans answered the king in the Syrians' speech, "O king, God save thy life forever. Show thy servants the dream, and we shall show thee, what it meaneth."

⁹ and said unto the king Nebuchadnezzar, "O king, God save thy life forever.

⁶ Upon this, went the princes and lords together unto the king, and said thus unto him, "King Darius, God save thy life forever.

²¹ Daniel said unto the king, "O king, God save thy life for ever.

¹¹ And we dreamed both of us in one night and each man's dream of a sundry interpretation. ¹² And there was with us a young man, an Hebrew-born servant unto the chief marshal. And we told him, and he declared our dreams to us according to either of our dreams. ¹³ And as he declared them unto us, even so it came to pass. I was restored to mine office again, and he was hanged." ¹⁴ Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph. And they made him haste out of prison. And he shaved himself and changed his raiment, and went in to Pharaoh. ¹⁵ And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, "I have dreamed a dream and no man can interpret it, but I have heard say of thee that as soon as thou hearest a dream, thou dost interpret it."

¹⁷ Then thine handmaid said, 'I pray God that the word of my lord the king may be immutable. For my lord the king is as an angel of God, in hearing of good or bad.' And therefore the LORD thy God be with thee."

¹¹ for it is a very hard matter, that the king requireth. Neither is there any that can certify the king thereof, except the gods: whose dwelling is not among the creatures."

⁴⁷ The king answered Daniel, and said, "Yea, of a truth your God is a God above all gods, and LORD above all kings, and an opener of secrets: seeing thou canst discover this mystery." ⁴⁸ So the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many and great gifts. He made him ruler of all the countries of Babylon, and lord of all the nobles, that were at Babylon.

⁸ till at the last, there came one Daniel, otherwise called Balteshazzar, according to the name of my God, which hath the spirit of the holy gods, in him: to whom I told the dream, saying, ⁹ "O Balteshazzar, thou prince of soothsayers: Forsomuch as I know that thou hast the spirit of the holy gods, and no secret is hid from thee. Tell me therefore, what the vision of my dream that I have seen may signify.

¹⁸ This is the dream, that I, king Nebuchadnezzar, have seen. Therefore O Balteshazzar, tell thou me what it signifieth: forsomuch as all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to show me, what it meaneth. But thou canst do it, for the spirit of the holy gods is in thee."

¹⁴ I have heard speak of thee, that thou hast the spirit of the holy gods, experience and understanding, and that there hath been great wisdom found in thee.

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

¹¹ And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lift up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, "Gods are come down to us in the likeness of men."

¹⁶ And it fortuned as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit that prophesied met us, which brought her master and masters much vantage with prophesying.

⁹ Behold, I make them of the congregation of Satan — which call themselves Jews and are not, but do lie -Behold, I will make them that they shall come and worship before thy feet: and shall know that I love thee.

¹ And the queen of Sheba heard of the wisdom of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, and came to prove him with riddles. ² And she came to Jerusalem with a mighty great multitude of Camels that bare sweet odours and gold exceeding much, and precious stones. And when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart. ³ And Solomon expounded her all her questions, that there was not one thing hid from the king which he expounded her not.

¹ And the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon and came to prove him with riddles at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and with camels that bare sweet odours and plenty of gold and precious stone. And when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart. ² And Solomon told her all her questions, that there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not.

³ All my delight is upon the saints that are in the earth, and upon such as excel in virtue.

²⁶ The righteous is liberal unto his neighbour, but the way of the ungodly will deceive themselves.

²⁷ He is wise and discreet that tempereth his words; and he is a man of understanding, that maketh much of his spirit.

⁷ Unto these the chief chamberlain gave other names, and called Daniel, Balteshazzar; Hananiah, Shadrach; Mishael, Meshach; and Azariah, Abednego.

⁸ till at the last, there came one Daniel, otherwise called Balteshazzar, according to the name of my God, which hath the spirit of the holy gods, in him: to whom I told the dream, saying,

³ But Daniel exceeded all these princes and lords, for the spirit of God was plenteous in him: so that the king was minded to set him over the whole realm.

²⁹ Wherein I also labour and strive, even as far forth as his working worketh in me mightily.

¹ But when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the LORD God of Israel,

¹⁶ And the children of Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the other children of the captivity held the dedication of the house of God with joy,

¹⁹ And the children of the captivity held Passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month: ²⁰ for the priests and Levites had purified themselves, so that they were all clean as one man, and killed Passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.

⁷ And they caused a proclamation be made throughout Judah and Jerusalem, unto all the children which had been in captivity, that they should gather themselves together unto Jerusalem:

¹⁶ And the children of the captivity did even so. And Ezra the priest, and the ancient heads through the house of their fathers, and all that were now rehearsed by name, separated themselves; and sat them down on the first day of the tenth month to examine this matter.

²¹ And Daniel abode still, unto the first year of king Cyrus.

²⁵ Then Arioch brought Daniel into the king in all the haste, and said unto him, "I have found a man among the prisoners of Judah, that shall show the king the interpretation."

² and when he was drunken with wine, he commanded to bring him the golden and silver vessels, which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple at Jerusalem: that the king and his lords with his queen and concubines might drink thereout.

¹³ Then answered they, and said unto the king, "Daniel one of the prisoners of Judah, O king, regardeth neither thee nor thy statute that thou hast made, but maketh his petition three times a day."

¹ In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar, there appeared a vision unto me Daniel, after that I had seen the first.

²⁷ Upon this was I, Daniel, very faint, so that I lay sick certain days: but when I rose up, I went about the king's business, and marveled at the vision. Nevertheless, no man knew of it.

¹ After that Jesus went about into Galilee, and would not go about in Jewry, for the Jews sought to kill him.

³ His brethren therefore said unto him, "Get thee hence and go into Jewry that thy disciples may see thy works that thou doest.

¹¹ For why? There is a man in thy kingdom, that hath the spirit of the holy gods within him, as it was seen in thy father's days. He hath understanding and wisdom like the gods; Yea, the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father made this man chief of the soothsayers, charmers, Chaldeans and devil conjurers: ¹² because that such an abundant spirit, knowledge and wisdom, to expound dreams, open secrets, and to declare hard doubts, was found in him. Yea, even in Daniel, whom the king named Balteshazzar. Let this same Daniel be sent for, and he shall tell what it meaneth."

¹⁰ For the LORD shall give you a hard-sleeping spirit, and close your eyes. Your Prophets also, and heads which should see; them shall he cover. ¹¹ And all visions shall be unto you, as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, "Read thou, in it." And he sayeth, "I cannot read it, for it is shut." ¹² But if it be given to one that is not learned, saying, "Read thou, in it." Then sayeth he, "I cannot read."

¹² Now go to thy conjurers, and to the multitude of thy witches, whom thou hast been acquainted with from thy youth, if they may help thee, or strengthen thee.

³ And the king said unto them, "I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was so troubled therewith, that I have clean forgotten what I dreamed." ⁴ Upon this the Chaldeans answered the king in the Syrians' speech, "O king, God save thy life forever. Show thy servants the dream, and we shall show thee, what it meaneth." ⁵ The king gave the Chaldeans their answer, and said, "It is gone from me: If ye will not make me understand the dream with the interpretation thereof, ye shall die, and your houses shall be prised. ⁶ But if ye tell me the dream and the meaning thereof, ye shall have of me gifts, rewards and great honour. Only, show me the dream, and the signification of it." ⁷ They answered again, and said, "The king must show his servants the dream, and so shall we declare what it meaneth." ⁸ Then the king answered, saying, "I perceive of a truth, that ye do but prolong the time: forsomuch as ye see, that the thing is gone from me. ⁹ Therefore, if ye will not tell me the dream, ye shall all have one judgment: But ye feign and dissemble with vain words which ye speak before me, to put off the time. Therefore tell me the dream, and so shall I know - if ye can show me - what it meaneth." ¹⁰ Upon this, the Chaldeans gave answer before the king, and said, "There is no man upon earth that can tell the thing, which the king speaketh of: Yea, there is neither king, prince, nor lord that ever asked such things at a soothsayer, charmer, or Chaldean: ¹¹ for it is a very hard matter, that the king requireth. Neither is there any that can certify the king thereof, except the gods: whose dwelling is not among the creatures."

⁷ Wherefore the king cried mightily, that they should bring him the charmers, Chaldeans, and the conjurers of devils. The king spake also to the wise men of Babylon, and said, "Whoso can read this writing, and show me the plain meaning thereof: shall be clothed with purple, have a chain of gold about his neck, and rule the third part of my kingdom." ⁸ Upon this, came all the king's wise men: but they could neither read the writing, nor show the king what it signified.

⁸ They answered him, "We have dreamed a dream, and have no man to declare it." And Joseph said unto them, "Interpreting belongeth to God, but tell me yet."

⁷ Wherefore the king cried mightily, that they should bring him the charmers, Chaldeans, and the conjurers of devils. The king spake also to the wise men of Babylon, and said, "Whoso can read this writing, and show me the plain meaning thereof: shall be clothed with purple, have a chain of gold about his neck, and rule the third part of my kingdom."

¹⁸ When Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands on them, the holy ghost was given: he offered them money, saying,

²³ that I will not take of all that is thine, so much as a thread or a shoe latchet, lest thou shouldest say 'I have made Abram rich.'

¹³ And Elisha said to the king of Israel, "What have I to do with thee? Get thee to the prophets of thy father and of thy mother." And the king of Israel said unto him, "Oh nay, but hath the LORD called these three kings to deliver them into the hands of the Moabites?"

¹⁶ But he said, "As surely as the LORD liveth before whom I stand, I will receive none." And the other would have constrained him to receive: but he would not do it.

²⁶ And he said, "Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned and came of his chariot against thee? Is it a time to receive silver and to receive garments, olive trees, vineyards, oxen, sheep, menservants and maidservants?

⁴⁶ I will speak of thy testimonies even before kings, and will not be ashamed.

²⁰ Then said Peter unto him, "Thy money perish with thee, because thou wenest that the gift of God may be obtained with money.

⁸ When the most highest gave the nations an inheritance, and divided the sons of Adam, he put the borders of the nations fast by the multitude of the children of Israel.

¹⁷ As for me, I will give thanks unto the LORD according to his righteousness; and I will praise the name of the LORD most high.

² I will be glad and rejoice in thee; yea, my songs will I make of thy name, O thou most highest.

² For the LORD is high, and to be feared; he is the great King upon all the earth.

⁸ But thou, LORD, art the most highest for evermore.

³⁵ To move the judgment of man before the most highest.

³⁸ out of the mouth of the most Highest goeth not evil and good"?

³⁷ O king, thou art a king of kings: For the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, riches, strength, and majesty: ³⁸ And hath delivered thee all things that are among the children of men: the beasts of the field, and the fowls under the heaven, and given thee dominion over them all. Thou art that golden head.

² I thought it good to show the tokens and marvelous works that the high God hath wrought upon me.

¹⁷ This errand of the watcher, is a commandment grounded and sought out, in the counsel of him that is most holy: to learn men for to understand, that the highest hath power over the kingdoms of men; and giveth them to whom it liketh him, and bringeth the very outcasts of men over them.'

²² Even thou, O king, art the tree: great and strong. Thy greatness increaseth, and reacheth unto the heaven, so doth thy power to the ends of the earth. ²³ But whereas the king saw a watcher, even a holy angel, that came down from heaven, and said, 'Hew down the tree, and destroy it: yet leave the ground of the root in the earth, and bind him upon the plain field with chains of iron and steel: He shall be wet with the dew of heaven, and his part shall be with the beasts of the field, till seven years be come and gone upon him.' ²⁴ This, O king, is the interpretation: yea, it is the very device of him that is highest of all, and it toucheth my lord the king. ²⁵ Thou shalt be cast out from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: with grass shalt thou be fed like an ox. Thou must be wet with the dew of the heaven: yea, seven years shall come and go upon thee, till thou know that the highest hath power upon the kingdoms of men, and giveth them to whom he list.

³² Thou shalt be cast out of men's company: thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, so that thou shalt eat grass like as an ox, till seven years be come and gone over thee: even until thou knowest, that the highest hath power upon the kingdoms of men, and that he may give them, unto whom it pleaseth him.'"

²² My God hath sent his angel, which hath shut the lions' mouths, so that they might not hurt me. For why? Mine unguiltiness is found out before him. And as for thee, O king, I never offended thee."

⁴⁸ Howbeit, he that is highest of all dwelleth not in temples made with hands, as saith the prophet,

¹³ even at mid day, o King, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shine round about me and them, which journeyed with me.

¹⁹ "Wherefore king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:

¹⁴ The king's displeasure is a messenger of death; but a wise man will pacify him.

⁹ Lo, I will send out, and call for all the people that dwell in the North, sayeth the LORD, and will prepare Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon my servant, and will bring them upon this land, and upon all that dwell therein, and upon all the people that are about them, and will utterly root them out. I will make of them a wilderness, a mockage, and a continual desert. ¹⁰ Moreover, I will take from them the voice of gladness and solace, the voice of the bridegroom and the bride, the voice of the anointed, with the cressets: ¹¹ and this whole land shall become a wilderness, and they shall serve the said people and the king of Babylon, three score years and ten. ¹² When the seventy years are expired, I will visit also the wickedness of the king of Babylon and his people sayeth the LORD: yea, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it a perpetual wilderness, ¹³ and will fulfill all my words upon that land which I have devised against it - yea, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied of all people - ¹⁴ so that they also shall be subdued unto divers nations and great kings, for I will recompense them according to their deeds and works of their own hands.'

⁵ I am he that made the earth, the men, and the cattle that are upon the ground, with my great power and outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it pleased me. ⁶ And now will I deliver all these lands into the power of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant. The beasts also of the field shall I give him to do him service. ⁷ And all people shall serve him, and his son, and his child's children, until the time of the same land be come also: Yea, many people and great kings shall serve him.

¹² For the which cause the king was wroth with great indignation, and commanded to destroy all the wise men at Babylon: ¹³ and the proclamation went forth that the wise men should be slain. They sought also to slay Daniel with his companions.

⁴ the herald cried out with all his might, "O ye people, kindreds and tongues: to you be it said,

⁶ Whoso then falleth not down and boweth himself, shall even the same hour be cast in to a hot burning oven."

²⁰ and spake unto the strongest worthies that were in his house, for to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them in to the hot burning oven. ²¹ So these men were bound in their coats, hosen, shoes with their other garments, and cast into the hot burning oven.

²⁹ Therefore I will and command, that all people, kindreds and tongues, which speak any blasphemy against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall die and their houses shall be prised: Because, there is no God that may save, as this."

²² Even thou, O king, art the tree: great and strong. Thy greatness increaseth, and reacheth unto the heaven, so doth thy power to the ends of the earth.

⁵ Like as the wine deceiveth the drunkard, even so the proud shall fail and not endure. He openeth his desire wide up as the hell, and is as insatiable as death. All Heathen gathereth he to him, and heapeth unto him all people."

¹¹ Jesus answered, "Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given unto thee from above. Therefore he that delivered me unto thee, is more in sin."

¹ Let every soul submit himself unto the authority of the higher powers. For there is no power, but of God. The powers that be, are ordained of God.

¹⁷ If it be so that thou stoppest my people, that thou wilt not let them go:

¹¹ Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods, for because that they dealt proudly with them."

⁶ Wherefore should ye harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? Which for all that, when he had played his pageants with them, were fain to let the people go and depart.

¹⁴ Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the necks of their fathers that did not believe the LORD their God.

¹³ And thereto he rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar which had received an oath of him by God, and was too stiff necked and too hard hearted to turn unto the LORD God of Israel.

¹¹ pour out thy indignation of thy wrath; see that thou cast down all the proud, ¹² look well, that thou makest all such as be stubburn, to obey; tread all the ungodly under thy feet,

⁵ The LORD abhorreth all presumptuous and proud hearts; there may neither strength nor power escape.

¹⁸ Pride goeth before destruction; and after a proud stomach there followeth a fall.

¹² How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, thou fair morning child! How hast thou gotten a fall, even to the ground; thou that didst subdue the people? ¹³ For thou thoughtest in thine heart, "I will climb up into heaven, and make my seat above the stars of God; I will sit also upon the holy mount toward the North; ¹⁴ I will climb up above the clouds; and will be like the highest of all." ¹⁵ Yet dare I say, that thou shalt be brought down to the deep of hell. ¹⁶ They that seek thee, shall narrowly look upon thee, and think in themselves, saying, "Is this the man, that brought all lands in fear, and made the kingdoms afraid? ¹⁷ Is this he that made the world in a manner waste, and laid the cities to the ground, which let not his prisoners go home?"

¹ But as for thee O daughter, thou virgin Babylon, thou shalt sit in the dust. Thou shalt sit upon the ground, and not in a throne, O thou maiden of Chaldea. Thou shalt no more be called tender and pleasant.

¹⁸ Tell the king and the rulers, "Humble yourselves, set you down low, for the crown of your glory shall fall from your head."

¹⁵ "Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon every town about it, all the plagues that I have devised against them: for they have been obstinate, and would not obey my warnings."

¹⁸ And thou, daughter Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in poverty. For he that destroyeth Moab, shall come up to thee also, and break down thy strongholds.

⁶ Thus sayeth the LORD: The maintainers of the land of Egypt shall fall, the pride of her power shall come down: even unto the tower of Syene shall they be slain down with the sword, sayeth the LORD God.

³⁰ and said, "This is the great city of Babylon, which I myself, with my power and strength, have made a king's court, for the honour of my majesty." ³¹ While these words were yet in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, "O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee be it spoken, 'Thy kingdom is departed from thee. ³² Thou shalt be cast out of men's company: thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, so that thou shalt eat grass like as an ox, till seven years be come and gone over thee: even until thou knowest, that the highest hath power upon the kingdoms of men, and that he may give them, unto whom it pleaseth him.'" ³³ The very same hour was this matter fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: so that he was cast out of men's company, and ate grass like an ox; His body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were as great as Eagle's feathers, and his nails like bird's claws.

⁵¹ He showeth strength with his arm, he scattereth them that are proud in the imagination of their hearts. ⁵² He putteth Down the mighty from their seats, and hath exalted them of low degree.

¹⁴ I tell you, This man departed home to his house justified more than the other. For every man that exalteth himself, shall be brought low: And he that humbleth himself, shall be exalted."

¹³ but exhort one another daily, while it is called today, lest any of you wax hard hearted through the deceitfulness of sin.

¹⁴ or else I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart and upon thy servants and on thy people, that you mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth. ¹⁵ For now I will stretch out my hand and will smite thee and thy people with pestilence: so that thou shalt perish from the earth. ¹⁶ Yet in very deed for this cause have I stirred thee up, for to show my power in thee, and to declare my name throughout all the world.

³ For very misery and hunger, they went about in the wilderness like wretches and beggars, ⁴ plucking up herbs from among the bushes, and the Juniper's root was their meat. ⁵ And when they were driven forth, men cried after them, as it had been after a thief. ⁶ Their dwelling was beside foul brooks, yea in the caves and dens of the earth. ⁷ Upon the dry heath went they about crying, and under the thorns they gathered themselves together.

¹⁷ Let them be confounded and vexed ever more and more; let them be put to shame and perish. ¹⁸ And they shall know that thou, whose name is Jehovah, art only the most highest over all the earth.

²⁴ And all the trees of the field shall know, that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, and set the low tree up: that I have dried up the green tree, and made the dry tree to flourish: Even I the LORD that spake it, have also brought it to pass.'"

²⁵ Thou shalt be cast out from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: with grass shalt thou be fed like an ox. Thou must be wet with the dew of the heaven: yea, seven years shall come and go upon thee, till thou know that the highest hath power upon the kingdoms of men, and giveth them to whom he list.

³⁵ in comparison of whom, all they that dwell upon the earth are to be reputed as nothing. He handleth according to his will, among the powers of heaven and among the inhabiters of the earth - and there is none that may resist his hand, or say, 'What doest thou?'

³ Then Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, "Thus sayeth the LORD God of the Hebrews, 'How long shall it be, or thou wilt submit thyself unto me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

²³ and meekened not himself before the LORD as Manasseh his father had meekened himself: But Amon trespassed greatly.

¹² And he did that displeased the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet at the mouth of the LORD.

¹⁰ But the ungodly, though he have received grace, yet learneth he not righteousness: but in that place where he is punished, he offendeth, and feareth not the glory of the LORD.

⁴ For John said unto him, "It is not lawful for thee to have her."

³² For John came unto you, in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not. But the publicans and the harlots believed him. And yet ye, though ye saw it, were not yet moved with repentance; that ye might afterward have believed him.

⁴⁷ The servant that knew his master's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

¹⁷ If ye understand these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

⁸ Then Peter, full of the holy ghost, said unto them, "Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, ⁹ if we this day are examined of the good deed done to the sick man by what means he is made whole: ¹⁰ be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, and whom God raised from death again, even by him doth this man stand here present before you whole. ¹¹ This is the stone cast aside of you builders which is set in the chief place of the corner. ¹² Neither is there salvation in any other. Nor yet also is there any other name given to men wherein we must be saved." ¹³ When they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and understood that they were unlearned men and lay people, they marveled: and they knew them, that they were with Jesus.

²⁹ Peter and the other apostles answered, and said, "We ought more to obey God than men. ³⁰ The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on tree. ³¹ Him hath God lift up with his right hand, to be a ruler and a saviour: for to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. ³² And we are his records as concerning these things: and also the holy ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him." ³³ When they heard that, they clave asunder, and sought means to slay them.

⁶ but giveth more grace?

¹⁷ Therefore to him that knoweth how to do good, and doth it not: to him, it is sin.

⁵ Likewise, ye younger submit yourselves unto the elder. Submit yourselves every man, one to another. Knit yourselves together in lowliness of mind. For God resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble. ⁶ Submit yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you, when the time is come.

⁷ Then the LORD God shope man, even of the mold of the earth, and breathed into his face the breath of life. So man was made a living soul.

¹⁹ "Blessed be Abram unto the most highest God, possessor of heaven and earth.

²³ Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together, for to offer a solemn offering unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, "Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hands."

¹ And the Philistines took the ark of God and carried it from the help stone, unto Ashdod, ² and brought it unto the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon. ³ And when they of Ashdod were up in the morning, behold, Dagon lay groveling upon the earth before the ark of the LORD. And they took Dagon and set him in his place again. ⁴ And when they were up early in the next morning behold, Dagon lay groveling upon the ground before the ark of the LORD, and his head and his two hands cut off upon the threshold, that the body only was left on him. ⁵ Wherefore neither the priests of Dagon, neither any man that cometh into Dagon's house might tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod, unto this day. ⁶ But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with hemorrhoids; both Ashdod and all the coasts thereof. ⁷ And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, "The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide here with us, for his hand is sore upon us and upon Dagon our god." ⁸ And so they sent and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them and said, "What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?" Then said they of Gath, "Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about." And they carried the ark of the God of Israel about. ⁹ And when they had carried it about, the hand of the LORD was in the city with a mighty great plague, and he smote the men of the city both small and great: and they were smitten in their secret places with the hemorrhoids.

¹⁰ Because thou hast beaten the Edomites, therefore thine heart riseth. Be glorious: but tarry at home. For what needest thou to provoke to mischief — that thou shouldest be overthrown and Judah with thee?"

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

⁴ Doth not he see my ways, and tell all my goings?

¹⁴ To whom hath he given his heart, for to draw his spirit and breath unto him? ¹⁵ All flesh shall come together unto naught, and all men shall turn again unto earth.

²⁹ But when thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; when thou takest away their breath, they die, and are turned again to their dust.

¹⁶ All the whole heavens are the LORD's; but the earth hath he given unto the children of men.

¹⁵ As for the images of the heathen, they are but silver and gold, the work of men's hands. ¹⁶ They have mouths, and speak not; eyes have they, but they see not. ¹⁷ They have ears, and yet they hear not; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

³ Thou art about my path and about my bed, and spiest out all my ways.

⁴ For when the breath of man goeth forth, he shall turn again to his earth, and so all his thoughts perish.

²⁴ The LORD ordereth every man's goings; for what is he, that understandeth his own way?

¹² For the day of the LORD of Hosts shall go over all pride and presumption, upon all them that exalt themselves, and shall bring them all down:

¹⁰ And therefore sayeth the LORD, "I will up; now will I get up, now will I arise.

¹⁹ and cast their gods in the fire. Notwithstanding, those were no gods; but the works of men's hands, of wood or stone, therefore have they destroyed them.

²³ But thou Sennacherib, whom hast thou defied and blasphemed? And against whom hast thou lifted up thy voice, and exalted thy proud looks? Even against the holy one of Israel.

⁵ For thus sayeth God the LORD unto him, even he that made the heavens, and spread them abroad, and set forth the earth with her increase: which giveth breath unto the people that is in it, and to them that dwell therein,

²³ Now I know, O LORD, that it is not in man's power to order his own ways, or to rule his own steps and goings.

²⁹ 'Call up all the archers against Babylon! Pitch your tents round about her, that none escape!' Recompense her, as she hath deserved: and according as she hath done, so deal with her again. For she hath set up herself against the LORD, against the holy one of Israel.

² "Thou son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: Because thou hast a proud heart and hast said, 'I am a God, I have my seat in the midst of the sea like a God,' whereas thou art but a man, and not God, and yet standest in thine own conceit, that thou art God:

⁵ With thy great wisdom and occupying, hast thou increased thy power, and because of thy great riches, thy heart is proud.

¹⁷ Thy heart was proud in thy fair beauty, and through thy beauty thou hast destroyed thy wisdom. I will cast thee down to the ground, and that in the sight of kings.

¹⁰ "'Therefore, thus sayeth the LORD God: Forsomuch as he hath lift up himself so high, and stretched his top into the clouds, and seeing his heart is proud in his highness:

² and when he was drunken with wine, he commanded to bring him the golden and silver vessels, which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple at Jerusalem: that the king and his lords with his queen and concubines might drink thereout. ³ So they brought the golden vessel, that was taken out of the temple of the LORD's house at Jerusalem. Then the king and his lords with his queen and concubines drunk out of them. ⁴ They drunk wine, and praised their Idols of gold, silver, copper, iron, wood and stone.

⁴ Behold, whoso will not believe, his soul shall not prosper: but the just shall live by his faith.

¹⁸ What help then will the Image do, whom the workman hath fashioned? Or the vain cast Image, wherein because the craftsmen putteth his trust, therefore maketh he dumb Idols? ¹⁹ Woe unto him, that sayeth unto a piece of wood, "Arise," and to a dumb stone, "Stand up." For what instruction may such one give? Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath in it.

²⁵ neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed of any thing. Seeing he himself giveth life and breath to all men everywhere,

²⁸ For in him we live, move, and have our being, as certain of your own poets said. For we are also his generation. ²⁹ Forasmuch then as we are the generation of God, we ought not to think that the godhead is like unto gold, silver, or stone, graven by craft and imagination of man.

²¹ inasmuch as when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful: but waxed full of vanities in their imaginations. And their foolish hearts were blinded. ²² When they counted themselves wise, they became fools ²³ and turned the glory of the immortal God, unto the similitude of the image: of mortal man, and of birds, and four footed beasts and of serpents.

⁴ To speak of meat dedicated unto idols, we are sure that there is none idol in the world: and that there is none other God but one.

⁶ He may not be a young scholar, lest he swell and fall into the judgment of the evil speaker.

¹³ Neither is there any creature invisible in the sight of it. For all things are naked and bare unto the eyes of him, of whom we speak.

⁵ And there was a mouth given unto him that spake great things, and blasphemies, and power was given unto him, to continue forty two months. ⁶ And he opened his mouth unto blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.

⁵ In the very same hour there appeared fingers, as it had been of a man's hand writing, right over against the candlestick upon the plain wall in the king's palace: and the king saw the palm of the hand that wrote.

¹⁴ May a dead man live again? All the days of this my pilgrimage am I looking, till my changing shall come.

¹ This is the heavy burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amos did see. ² Lift up the banner upon the high hill, call unto them; hold up your hand, that the princes may go in at the door. ³ For I will send for my deputies and my giants, sayeth the LORD, and in my wrath I will call for such as triumph in my glory. ⁴ There is a noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people, a rushing as though the kingdoms of all nations had come together. And the LORD of Hosts mustereth his army to battle. ⁵ They come not only out of far countries, but also from the ends of the heavens: Even the LORD himself with the ministers of his wrath, to destroy the whole land. ⁶ Mourn therefore, for the day of the LORD is at hand, and cometh as a destroyer from the Almighty. ⁷ Then shall all hands be letten down, and all men's hearts shall melt away; ⁸ they shall stand in fear, carefulness and sorrow shall come upon them, and they shall have pain, as a woman that travaileth with child. One shall ever be abashed of another, and their faces shall burn like the flame. ⁹ For lo, the day of the LORD shall come: terrible, full of indignation and wrath, to make the land waste, and to root out the sinners thereof. ¹⁰ For the stars and planets of heaven shall not give their light; the sun shall be quenched in the rising, and the moon will not shine with his light. ¹¹ And I will punish the wickedness of the world, and the sins of the ungodly, sayeth the LORD. The high stomachs of the proud will I take away, and will lay down the boasting of tyrants. ¹² I will make a man dearer than fine gold, and a man to be more worth than a golden wedge of Ophir. ¹³ Moreover, I will so shake the heaven, that the earth shall remove out of her place. Thus shall it go with Babylon in the wrath of the LORD of Hosts in the day of his fearful indignation. ¹⁴ And Babylon shall be as a hunted or chased doe, and as a flock without a shepherd. Every man shall turn to his own people, and flee each one into his own land.

¹ This is the heavy burden of the waste sea: A grievous vision was showed unto me, even as the stormy weather that passeth through at the noonday, to come from the wilderness, from that horrible land. ² Whoso may deceive, said the voice, let him deceive: Who so may destroy, let him destroy. Up Elam, besiege it O Media, for I will still all their groanings. ³ With this, the reins of my back were full of pain: Pangs came upon me, as upon a woman in her travail. It made me stoop when I heard it, and it vexed me when I saw it. ⁴ My heart panted, I trembled for fear. The night of my voluptuousness hath he turned against me into fear. ⁵ While they garnished the table, the watchman looked: and while he was eating and drinking it was said, "Up, ye Captains, take you to your shield." ⁶ For thus the Lord hath charged me: "Go thy way, and set a watchman, that he may tell what he seeth." ⁷ And when he had waited diligently, he saw two horsemen: the one riding upon an Ass, the other upon a camel. ⁸ And the watchman cried, "LORD, I have stood waiting all the whole day, and am appointed to keep my watch every night. ⁹ And behold, here cometh a chariot of men with two horsemen." And he answered and said, "Babylon is fallen, is fallen! She is turned upside down, and all the images of her gods are smitten to the ground!" ¹⁰ This, O my fellow threshers and fanners, have I heard of the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, to show it unto you.

¹ But as for thee O daughter, thou virgin Babylon, thou shalt sit in the dust. Thou shalt sit upon the ground, and not in a throne, O thou maiden of Chaldea. Thou shalt no more be called tender and pleasant. ² Thou shalt bring forth the quern and grind meal, put down thy stomacher, make bare thy knees, and shalt wade through the water rivers. ³ Thy shame shall be discovered, and thy privities shall be seen. For I will avenge me of thee, and will show no mercy to thee as I do to other men, ⁴ sayeth our redeemer, which is called the LORD of Hosts, the holy one of Israel. ⁵ Sit still, hold thy tongue, and get thee into some dark corner, O daughter Chaldea, for thou shalt no more be called lady of kingdoms. ⁶ I was so wroth with my people, that I punished mine inheritance, and gave them into thy power. Nevertheless, thou showedest them no mercy, but even the very aged men of them, didst thou oppress right sore with thy yoke. ⁷ And thou thoughtest thus, "I shall be lady forever." And beside all that, thou hast not regarded these things, neither cast, what should come after. ⁸ Hear now therefore, thou willful, that sittest so careless, and speakest thus in thine heart, "I am alone, and without me is there none; I shall never be widow, nor desolate again." ⁹ And yet both these things shall come to thee upon one day, in the twinkling of an eye: Namely widowhood, and desolation. They shall mightily fall upon thee, for the multitude of thy witches, and for the great heap of thy conjurers. ¹⁰ For thou hast comforted thyself in thy deceitfulness, and hast said, "No man seeth me." Thine own wisdom and cunning hath deceived thee, in that thou hast said, "I am alone, and without me there is none." ¹¹ Therefore shall trouble come upon thee, and thou shalt not know, from whence it shall arise. Mischief shalt fall upon thee, which thou shalt not be able to put off. A sudden misery shall come upon thee, before thou be aware.

¹¹ and this whole land shall become a wilderness, and they shall serve the said people and the king of Babylon, three score years and ten. ¹² When the seventy years are expired, I will visit also the wickedness of the king of Babylon and his people sayeth the LORD: yea, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it a perpetual wilderness,

¹ The words that the LORD spake unto the prophet Jeremiah, concerning Babylon, and the land of the Chaldeans: ² "Preach among the Gentiles, let your voice be heard, make a token: cry out, keep no silence, but say, 'Babylon shall be won, Bel shall be confounded, and Merodach shall be overcome. Yea their gods shall be brought to shame and their images shall stand in fear.' ³ For out of the north there shall come a people against her, which shall make her land so waste that nobody shall dwell therein, neither man nor beast; for they shall flee and depart from thence. ⁴ In those days, and at that time, sayeth the LORD, the children of Israel shall come; they and the children of Judah, weeping and making haste, and shall seek the LORD their God. ⁵ They shall ask the way to Zion; thither shall they turn their faces, and come and hang upon thee, in a covenant that never shall be broken. ⁶ My people hath been a lost flock. My shepherds have deceived them, and have made them go astray upon the hills. They have gone from the mountains to the little hill, and forgotten their fold. ⁷ All they that came upon them, have devoured them: and their enemies said, 'We have made no fault against them, for they have displeased the LORD, yea even the LORD which is the beauty of their righteousness, and that defended their fathers.' ⁸ Yet shall ye flee from Babylon, and depart out of the land of the Chaldeans, and ye shall be as the rams that go before the flock. ⁹ "For lo, I will make up a host of people from the northern land, and bring them upon Babylon: these shall lay siege to it, and win it. Their arrows shall not miss, like as a cunning archer shooteth not wrong. ¹⁰ And the Chaldeans shall be spoiled; and all they that spoil them, shall be satisfied, sayeth the LORD. ¹¹ Because ye were so cheerful and glad, to tread down mine heritage, and fulfill your pleasures, as the calves in the grass: And triumphed over them like the bulls, when ye had gotten the victory. ¹² Your mothers shall be sore confounded; and they that bare you, shall come to shame. She shall be the least set by among the nations, void, waste, and dried up. ¹³ No man shall be able to dwell there, for the fear of the LORD, but she shall be whole desolate. All they that go by Babylon, shall stand still, and be abashed, and shall wonder at all her plagues. ¹⁴ Go forth in your array against Babylon round about, all ye that can handle bows: shoot at her, spare no arrows, for she hath sinned against the LORD. ¹⁵ Cry out: upon her, upon her, against her round about: she shall yield herself, her foundations shall fall, and her walls shall come down, for it shall be the vengeance of the LORD. Yea vengeance shall be taken of her, and as she hath done, so shall she be dealt withal. ¹⁶ They shall root out the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in Harvest. For fear of the sword of the enemy, every man shall get him to his own people, and every man shall flee to his own land. ¹⁷ Israel is a scattered flock, the Lions have dispersed them. First the king of the Assyrians devoured them, last of all this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon hath bruised all their bones. ¹⁸ Therefore thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel: Behold, I will visit the king of Babylon and his kingdom, as I have visited the king of the Assyrians. ¹⁹ And will bring Israel again to his pleasant pasture, that he may feed upon Carmel and Bashan, and be satisfied upon the mount of Ephraim and Gilead. ²⁰ In those days and at the same time, sayeth the LORD, if the offense of Israel be sought for, there shall none be found. If men inquire for the sin of Judah, there shall be none: for I will be merciful unto them, whom I suffer to remain over. ²¹ "Go down, O thou avenger, into the enemies' land, and visit them that dwell therein: down with them, and smite them upon the backs, sayeth the LORD. Do according to all, that I have commanded thee. ²² There is gone about the land a cry of a slaughter and great murder, namely on this manner: ²³ How happeneth it that the hammer of the whole world is thus broken and bruised in sunder? How chanceth it that Babylon is become a wilderness among the Heathen on this manner? ²⁴ I myself have laid wait for thee, and thou art taken. Unawares art thou trapped and snared. For why, thou hast provoked the LORD unto anger: ²⁵ The LORD hath opened his house of ordinance, and brought forth the weapons of his wrath. For the thing that is done in the land of the Chaldeans, it is the LORD of Hosts' work. ²⁶ These things shall come upon her at the last: they shall break into her privy chambers, they shall leave her as bare as stones that be laid together upon heaps. They shall so destroy her that nothing shall be left. ²⁷ They shall slay all her mighty soldiers, and put them to death. Woe be unto them, for the day and the time of their visitation is at hand. ²⁸ Methink I hear already a cry of them that be fled and escaped out of the land of Babylon, which show in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God; the vengeance of his temple. Yea, a voice of them that cry against Babylon: ²⁹ 'Call up all the archers against Babylon! Pitch your tents round about her, that none escape!' Recompense her, as she hath deserved: and according as she hath done, so deal with her again. For she hath set up herself against the LORD, against the holy one of Israel. ³⁰ Therefore shall her young men fall down in the streets, and all her men of war shall be rooted out in that day, sayeth the LORD. ³¹ Behold, I speak unto thee, O thou proud, sayeth the LORD God of Hosts: for thy day shall come, even the time of thy visitation. ³² And the proud shall stumble and fall, and no man shall help him up. I will burn up his cities with fire, and it shall consume all that is round about him. ³³ "Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts: The children of Israel and Judah suffer violence together. All they that have them in captivity, keep them fast and will not let them go. ³⁴ But their avenger and redeemer is mighty, whose name is the LORD of Hosts: he shall maintain their cause, he shall make the land shake, and judge them that dwell therein, one with another. ³⁵ The sword shall come upon the Chaldeans, sayeth the LORD; upon them that dwell in Babylon; upon their princes; and upon their wise men. ³⁶ The sword upon their soothsayers: as for those, they shall become fools. The sword upon their worthies: so that they shall stand in fear. ³⁷ The sword upon their horsemen and chariots, and upon all the common people that dwell under them: so that they all shall become like women. The sword upon their treasure: so that it shall be stolen away. ³⁸ The sword upon their waters: so that they shall be dried up. For the land worshippeth images, and delighteth in strange wonderful things. ³⁹ Therefore shall wild beasts, Apes, and Ostriches dwell therein: for there shall never man dwell there, neither shall any man have his habitation there for evermore. ⁴⁰ Like as God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, with the cities that lay there about, sayeth the LORD: So shall no man dwell there also, neither shall any man have there his habitation. ⁴¹ Behold, there shall come a people from the North, with a great bound of men, and many kings shall stand up from the ends of the earth. ⁴² They bear bows and bucklers, cruel are they and unmerciful. Their voice roareth like the raging sea, they ride upon horses, and come weaponed to fight against thee, O Babylon. ⁴³ As soon as the king of Babylon heareth tell of them, his hands shall wax feeble: Sorrow and heaviness shall come upon him, as a woman travailing with child. ⁴⁴ Behold, like as the Lion cometh up from the pleasant meadows of Jordan unto the green pastures of Ethan, so will I drive them forth, and make them run against her. But whom shall I choose out, and ordain to such a thing? For who is like me, or who will strive with me? Or what shepherd may stand against me? ⁴⁵ Therefore hear the counsel that the LORD hath given upon Babylon, and the device that he hath taken upon the land of the Chaldeans. The least among the people shall tear them in pieces, and look: what pleasant thing they have, they shall lay it waste. ⁴⁶ The noise at the winning of Babylon shall move the earth, and the cry shall be heard among the Gentiles."

² Yea, even in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, desired to know the yearly number out of the books, whereof the LORD spake unto Jeremiah the Prophet: that Jerusalem should lie waste seventy years:

¹⁸ Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

⁶ let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may see my innocence.

⁹ As for men they are but vanity; the children of men are deceitful. Upon the weights they are altogether lighter than vanity itself.

³⁰ Therefore shall they be called reprobate silver, because the LORD hath cast them out."

¹⁸ "Thou son of man, the house of Israel is turned to dross. All they that should be brass, tin, iron and lead, are in the fire become dross. ¹⁹ Therefore, thus sayeth the LORD God: Forsomuch as ye all are turned into dross, behold: I will bring you together unto Jerusalem, ²⁰ like as silver, and brass, iron, tin, and lead, are put together in the furnace and the fire blown there under to melt them: Even so will I gather you, put you in together, and melt you in my wrath and indignation.

¹¹ Then the King came in, to visit the guests, and spied there a man which had not on a wedding garment, ¹² and said unto him, 'Friend, how fortuned it that thou camest in hither, and hast not on a wedding garment?' And he was even speechless.

¹³ every man's work shall appear. For the day shall declare it, and it shall be showed in fire, and the fire shall try every man's work what it is.

¹⁷ For lo, I shall bring up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver, nor be desirous of gold.

² Whoso may deceive, said the voice, let him deceive: Who so may destroy, let him destroy. Up Elam, besiege it O Media, for I will still all their groanings.

¹ Thus sayeth the LORD unto Cyrus his anointed, whom I have taken by the righthand, to subdue nations before him: I will loose the girdles of kings, that they shall open the gates before thy face, and not to shut their doors. ² I will go before thee, and make the crooked straight. I shall break the brazen doors, and burst the iron bars.

³¹ and Darius out of Media took in the kingdom, being sixty two years of age.

²⁸ This Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius and Cyrus of Persia.

³ Then I looked up, and saw, and behold, there stood before the river, a ram, which had horns: and these horns were high, but one was higher than another, and the highest came up last. ⁴ I saw that this ram pushed with his horns, against the west, against the north and against the south: so that no beasts might stand before him, nor defend them from his power: but he did as him listed, and waxed great.

²⁰ The ram which thou sawest with the two horns, is the king of the Medes and Persians:

¹ In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, which was of the seed of the Medes, and was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans:

⁴ My heart panted, I trembled for fear. The night of my voluptuousness hath he turned against me into fear. ⁵ While they garnished the table, the watchman looked: and while he was eating and drinking it was said, "Up, ye Captains, take you to your shield." ⁶ For thus the Lord hath charged me: "Go thy way, and set a watchman, that he may tell what he seeth." ⁷ And when he had waited diligently, he saw two horsemen: the one riding upon an Ass, the other upon a camel. ⁸ And the watchman cried, "LORD, I have stood waiting all the whole day, and am appointed to keep my watch every night. ⁹ And behold, here cometh a chariot of men with two horsemen." And he answered and said, "Babylon is fallen, is fallen! She is turned upside down, and all the images of her gods are smitten to the ground!"

¹¹ Make sharp the arrows, and fill the quivers: for the LORD shall raise up the spirit of the king of the Medes, which hath already a desire to destroy Babylon. This shall be the vengeance of the LORD's, and the vengeance of his temple.

³¹ One pursuant shall meet another; yea, one post shall come by another; to bring the king of Babylon tidings that his city is taken in on every side:

¹ King Belshazzar made a great banquet to his thousand lords: with all these thousand he made great cheer, ² and when he was drunken with wine, he commanded to bring him the golden and silver vessels, which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple at Jerusalem: that the king and his lords with his queen and concubines might drink thereout.

¹ It pleased Darius to set over his kingdom a hundred and twenty lords, which should be in all his kingdom about.