Bible verses about "watcher" | MKJV

¹ A Song. A Psalm of Asaph. Keep not silence, O God; do not be speechless, and be not still, O God. ² For lo, Your enemies roar; and those who hate You have lifted up their head. ³ They take shrewd counsel against Your people, and plot against Your hidden ones. ⁴ They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, so that the name Israel may be remembered no more. ⁵ For with one heart they have plotted together; they have made a covenant against You-- ⁶ the tents of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarites; ⁷ Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the people of Tyre; ⁸ and Assyria has joined with them; they have helped the sons of Lot. Selah. ⁹ Do to them as to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin at the torrent Kishon; ¹⁰ who perished at Endor; they became as dung for the earth. ¹¹ Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb; yea, all their princes like Zebah, and like Zalmunna; ¹² who said, Let us take possession for ourselves of the houses of God. ¹³ O my God, make them like a wheel; like the stubble before the wind. ¹⁴ As the fire burns a forest, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire, ¹⁵ so pursue them with Your tempest, and make them afraid with Your storm. ¹⁶ Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, O Jehovah. ¹⁷ Let them be ashamed and troubled forever; yea, let them be put to shame, and lost; ¹⁸ so that men may know that Your name is JEHOVAH, that You alone are the Most High over all the earth.

¹ In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans, ² in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood the number of the years by books, which came of the Word of Jehovah to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. ³ And I set my face toward the Lord God, to seek by prayer and holy desires, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes. ⁴ And I prayed to Jehovah my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and awesome God, keeping the covenant and mercy to those who love Him, and to those who keep His commandments, ⁵ we have sinned and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from Your commandments and from Your judgments. ⁶ Neither have we listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our rulers, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. ⁷ O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us the shame of our faces, as it is today to the men of Judah and to the people of Jerusalem, and to all Israel who are near and who are afar off, through all the countries where You have driven them because of their sin which they have sinned against You. ⁸ O Lord, shame of face belongs to us, to our kings, to our rulers, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against You. ⁹ To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against Him. ¹⁰ We have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God, to walk in His Laws which He set before us by His servants the prophets. ¹¹ Yea, all Israel has transgressed Your Law, and turned aside, that they might not obey Your voice. Therefore the curse has been poured out on us, and the oath that is written in the Law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against Him. ¹² And He has confirmed His Words which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil. For under all the heavens it has not been done as it has been done to Jerusalem. ¹³ As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we did not make our prayer before Jehovah our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand Your truth. ¹⁴ Therefore Jehovah has watched over the evil, and has brought it on us. For Jehovah our God is righteous in all His works which He does; for we did not obey His voice. ¹⁵ And now, O Lord our God, who have brought Your people out from the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have brought fame to Yourself, as it is today, we have sinned, we have done wrong. ¹⁶ O Lord, I pray You, according to all Your righteousness let Your anger and Your fury be turned away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain. Because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become a curse to all those who are around us. ¹⁷ And now, O our God, hear the prayer of Your servant, and his holy desires, and cause Your face to shine on Your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake. ¹⁸ O my God, bow down Your ear and hear. Open Your eyes and behold our ruins, and the city which is called by Your name. For we do not present our prayers before You on account of our righteousnesses, but because of Your great mercies. ¹⁹ O Jehovah, hear; O Jehovah, forgive; O Jehovah, listen and do. Do not delay, for Your own sake, O my God; for Your city and Your people are called by Your name. ²⁰ And while I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin, and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my cry before Jehovah my God for the holy mountain of my God; ²¹ yes, while I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, touched me in my severe exhaustion, about the time of the evening sacrifice. ²² And he enlightened me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I have now come out to give you skill and understanding. ²³ At the beginning of your prayers the commandment came out, and I have come to explain. For you are greatly beloved; therefore understand the matter, and attend to the vision: ²⁴ Seventy weeks are decreed as to your people and as to your holy city, to finish the transgression and to make an end of sins, and to make atonement for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy. ²⁵ Know therefore and understand, that from the going out of the command to restore and to build Jerusalem, to Messiah the Prince, shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks. The street shall be built again, and the wall, even in times of affliction. ²⁶ And after sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself. And the people of the ruler who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. And the end of it shall be with the flood, and ruins are determined, until the end shall be war. ²⁷ And he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week. And in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease, and on a corner of the altar desolating abominations, even until the end. And that which was decreed shall be poured on the desolator.

¹ In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, to me, Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first. ² And in a vision I looked. And it happened when I looked, I was at Shushan the palace, which is in the province of Elam. And in a vision I looked, and I was by the Ulai Canal. ³ Then I lifted up my eyes, and looked. And behold, a ram with two horns stood before the canal having two horns, and the two horns were high, but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last. ⁴ I saw the ram pushing westward and northward and southward; so that no beasts could stand before him, nor any that could deliver out of his hand. But he did according to his will, and became great. ⁵ And as I was watching, behold, a he-goat came from the west, over the face of the all earth, and did not touch the ground. And the he goat had an outstanding horn between his eyes. ⁶ And he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran to him in the fury of his power. ⁷ And I saw him come close beside the ram, and he was moved with anger against him, and struck the ram and shattered his two horns. And there was no power in the ram to stand before him. But he threw him down to the ground and stamped on him. And none could deliver the ram out of his hand. ⁸ Then the he-goat became very great. And when he was strong, the great horn was broken. And in its place came up four outstanding ones towards the four winds of the heavens. ⁹ And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which became very great, toward the south and toward the east and toward the bountiful land. ¹⁰ And it became great, even to the host of heaven. And it made fall some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and trampled them. ¹¹ Yea, he magnified himself, even to the ruler of the host, and the daily sacrifice was taken away by him, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. ¹² And an army was given to him against the daily sacrifice because of transgression, and it cast the truth to the ground. And it worked and succeeded. ¹³ Then I heard a certain holy one speaking, and another holy one said to that one who spoke, Until when shall the vision last, concerning the daily sacrifice and the transgression that astounds, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trampled? ¹⁴ And he said to me, For two thousand, three hundred evenings and mornings. Then the sanctuary shall be vindicated. ¹⁵ And it happened when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me the form of a man. ¹⁶ And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai, which called and said, Gabriel, make this one understand the vision. ¹⁷ So he came near beside my place. And when he came, I was afraid and fell on my face. But he said to me, Understand, O son of man, for the vision is for the time of the end. ¹⁸ And as he was speaking with me, I was stunned, on my face toward the ground. But he touched me and set me upright. ¹⁹ And he said, Behold, I will make you know what shall happen in the last end of the indignation. For it is for the time appointed for the end. ²⁰ The ram which you saw having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia. ²¹ And the shaggy goat is the king of Greece. And the great horn between his eyes is the first king. ²² And as for that being broken, and four stood up in its place; four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in its power. ²³ And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have come to the full, a king, fierce of face, and skilled at intrigues, shall stand up. ²⁴ And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power. And he shall destroy marvelously, and shall prosper and work, and destroy the mighty and the holy people. ²⁵ And also through his understanding, he shall cause deceit to succeed in his hand. And he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many. He also shall stand up against the Ruler of rulers. But he shall be broken without a hand. ²⁶ And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true. But you shall shut up the vision; for it shall be for many days. ²⁷ And I Daniel fainted, and was sick for days. Afterward I rose up, and did the king's business. And I was amazed at the vision, but there was no understanding.

¹ Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I would not have you ignorant. ² You know that being led away, you nations were led to dumb idols. ³ Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says Jesus is a curse, and that no one can say that Jesus is Lord, but by the Holy Spirit. ⁴ But there are differences of gifts, but the same Spirit. ⁵ And there are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. ⁶ And there are differences of workings, but it is the same God working all things in all. ⁷ But to each one is given the showing forth of the Spirit to our profit. ⁸ For through the Spirit is given to one a word of wisdom; and to another a word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit; ⁹ and to another faith by the same Spirit; and to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; ¹⁰ and to another workings of powers, to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; and to another kinds of tongues; and to another the interpretation of tongues. ¹¹ But the one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing separately to each one as He desires. ¹² For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ. ¹³ For also by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free, even all were made to drink into one Spirit. ¹⁴ For the body is not one member, but many. ¹⁵ If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? ¹⁶ And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? ¹⁷ If all the body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If all hearing, where would be the smelling? ¹⁸ But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body as it has pleased Him. ¹⁹ And if they were all one member, where would be the body? ²⁰ But now indeed many are the members, yet only one body. ²¹ And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you; nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. ²² But much rather the members of the body seeming to be weaker are necessary. ²³ And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we put more abundant honor around them. And our unpresentable members have more abundant propriety. ²⁴ For our presentable members have no need, but God tempered the body together, giving more abundant honor to the member having need; ²⁵ that there not be division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another. ²⁶ And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is glorified, all the members rejoice with it. ²⁷ And you are the body of Christ, and members in part. ²⁸ And God set some in the church, firstly, apostles; secondly, prophets; thirdly, teachers, then works of power, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, kinds of languages. ²⁹ Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of power? ³⁰ Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak languages? Do all interpret? ³¹ But zealously strive after the better gifts. And yet I show to you a more excellent way.

⁴³ And as you saw iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mix themselves with the seed of men. But they shall not cling to one another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.

¹³ Then I heard a certain holy one speaking, and another holy one said to that one who spoke, Until when shall the vision last, concerning the daily sacrifice and the transgression that astounds, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trampled? ¹⁴ And he said to me, For two thousand, three hundred evenings and mornings. Then the sanctuary shall be vindicated. ¹⁵ And it happened when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me the form of a man. ¹⁶ And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai, which called and said, Gabriel, make this one understand the vision. ¹⁷ So he came near beside my place. And when he came, I was afraid and fell on my face. But he said to me, Understand, O son of man, for the vision is for the time of the end.

¹ And at that time Michael shall stand up, the great ruler who stands for the sons of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation; until that time. And at that time your people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. ² And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. ³ And those who are wise shall shine as the brightness of the sky; and those who turn many to righteousness shall shine as the stars forever and ever. ⁴ But you, O Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, even to the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. ⁵ Then I Daniel looked, and behold, there stood another two, the one on this side, and the one on that side of the bank of the river. ⁶ And one said to the man clothed in linen on the waters of the river: Until when shall be the end of these wonders? ⁷ And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was on the waters of the river, when he held up his right and his left hand to Heaven, and swore by Him who lives forever that it shall be for a time, times, and a half. And when they have made an end of scattering the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished. ⁸ And I heard, but I did not understand. Then I said, O my lord, what shall be the end of these things? ⁹ And He said, Go, Daniel! For the words are closed up and sealed until the end-time. ¹⁰ Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried. But the wicked shall do wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand. ¹¹ And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the desolating abomination set up, a thousand two hundred and ninety days shall occur. ¹² Blessed is he who waits and comes to the thousand three hundred and thirty-five days. ¹³ But you go on to the end, for you shall rest and stand in your lot at the end of the days.

¹³ But the ruler of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days. But lo, Michael, one of the chief rulers, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia. ¹⁴ Now I have come to make you understand what shall happen to your people in the latter days. For the vision is yet for many days. ¹⁵ And when he had spoken such words to me, I bowed my face toward the ground, and I became dumb. ¹⁶ And behold, one looking like the sons of men touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth and spoke and said to him who stood before me, O lord, my sorrows are turned on me by the vision, and I have kept no strength. ¹⁷ For how can the servant of my lord talk with my lord? For as for me, immediately there remained no strength in me, nor is there breath left in me. ¹⁸ Then again one like a man in form came and touched me, and he made me stronger ¹⁹ and said, O man greatly beloved, do not fear. Peace to you; be strong; yes, be strong. And when he had spoken to me, I was made stronger, and I said, Speak my lord, for you have made me stronger. ²⁰ Then he said, Do you know why I come to you? And now I will return to fight with the ruler of Persia. And when I have gone out, lo, the ruler of Greece shall come. ²¹ But I will show you that which is written in the Scripture of Truth. And there is none who holds strongly with me in these things, but Michael your ruler.

¹⁶ For where envying and strife are, there is confusion and every foul deed. ¹⁷ But the wisdom that is from above is first truly pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. ¹⁸ And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

¹ And it happened, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and when daughters were born to them, ² the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were good. And they took wives for themselves from all whom they chose. ³ And Jehovah said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, in his erring; he is flesh. Yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years. ⁴ There were giants in the earth in those days. And also after that, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore to them, they were mighty men who existed of old, men of renown. ⁵ And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. ⁶ And Jehovah repented that He had made man on the earth, and He was angry to His heart. ⁷ And Jehovah said, I will destroy man whom I have created, from the face of the earth, both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air. For I repent that I have made them. ⁸ But Noah found grace in the eyes of Jehovah. ⁹ These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God. ¹⁰ And Noah fathered three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. ¹¹ The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. ¹² And God looked upon the earth. And, behold, it was corrupted! For all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth. ¹³ And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. And, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. ¹⁴ Make an ark of cyprus timbers. You shall make rooms in the ark. And you shall pitch it inside and outside with pitch. ¹⁵ And this is the way you shall make it. The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it shall be fifty cubits and its height thirty cubits. ¹⁶ You shall make a window in the ark, and you shall finish it above to a cubit. And you shall set the door of the ark in the side of it. You shall make it with lower, second and third stories. ¹⁷ And behold! I, even I, am bringing a flood of waters upon the earth in order to destroy all flesh (in which is the breath of life) from under the heavens. Everything which is in the earth shall die. ¹⁸ But I will establish My covenant with you. And you shall come into the ark, you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you. ¹⁹ And you shall bring into the ark two of every kind, of every living thing of all flesh, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female. ²⁰ Two of every kind shall come to you to keep them alive; of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind. ²¹ And take for yourself all food that is eaten, and you shall gather for yourself. And it shall be for food, for you and for them. ²² Noah did so, according to all that God commanded him, so he did.

³⁷ But as the days of Noah were, so shall be the coming of the Son of Man.

¹² For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the world's rulers, of the darkness of this age, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

² Do not be forgetful of hospitality, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it.

¹ And it happened, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and when daughters were born to them, ² the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were good. And they took wives for themselves from all whom they chose. ³ And Jehovah said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, in his erring; he is flesh. Yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years. ⁴ There were giants in the earth in those days. And also after that, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore to them, they were mighty men who existed of old, men of renown.

¹⁷ This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones, so that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever He will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.

²³ And as the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from Heaven, and saying, Cut the tree down and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots of it in the earth, even with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the animals of the field, until seven times pass over him;

¹³ I saw in the visions of my head on my bed, and behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from Heaven.