Bible verses about "watcher" | Rotherham

¹ [A Song, a Melody of Asaph.]
O God, Do not keep quiet, Do not hold thy peace, Neither be thou still, O GOD! ² For lo! thine enemies, are tumultuous, And, they who hate thee, have lifted up the head; ³ Against thy people, they craftily devise a secret plot, And conspire against thy treasured ones. ⁴ They have said––Come, and let us wipe them out from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more. ⁵ For they have taken counsel with one heart, Against thee––a covenant, would they solemnize–– ⁶ The tents of Edom, and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagarenes; ⁷ Gebal and Ammon, and Amalek, The Philistines, with the dwellers in Tyre; ⁸ Even Assyria hath joined herself with them, They have become an arm to the sons of Lot. [Selah.]
⁹ Make them like Midian, like Sisera, like Jabin, by the torrent of Kishon; ¹⁰ They perished at En–dor, They become manure for the soil! ¹¹ Make them––their nobles––like Oreb and like Zeeb, And, like Zebah and like Zalmunna, all their princes: ¹² Who said––Let us take a possession for ourselves, The pastures of God! ¹³ O my God, make them, As whirling [dust], As chaff before a wind; ¹⁴ As a fire burneth a forest,––And as a flame setteth mountains ablaze, ¹⁵ So, wilt thou pursue them with thy tempest,––And, with thy storm–wind, wilt terrify them: ¹⁶ Fill thou their faces with dishonour, That men may seek thy Name, O Yahweh; ¹⁷ Let them turn pale, and be terrified to futurity, Yea let them blush, and perish: ¹⁸ That men may know that, thou, Whose Name alone is Yahweh, Art Most High over all the earth.

¹ In the first year of Darius son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes,––who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans: ² in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived by the writings,––the number of the years, as to which the word of Yahweh came unto Jeremiah the prophet, to fulfill the desolations of Jerusalem, seventy years. ³ So I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek [him] by prayer, and supplication,––with fasting, and sackcloth and ashes;
⁴ yea I prayed unto Yahweh my God, and made confession,––and said––I beseech thee, O Lord, the GOD great and to be revered, keeping the covenant and the lovingkindness, to them who love him, and to them who keep his commandments. ⁵ We have sinned and committed iniquity, and been guilty of lawlessness and been rebellious,––even departing from thy commandments, and from thy regulations; ⁶ and have not hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, who spake in thy name, unto our kings, our rulers, and our fathers,––and unto all the people of the land. ⁷ To thee, O Lord, belongeth righteousness, but, to us, the shame of faces, as at this day,––to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, the near and the far off, throughout all the lands whither thou hast driven them, in their treachery, wherewith they had been treacherous against thee. ⁸ O Yahweh, to us, belongeth the shame of faces, to our kings, to our rulers, and to our fathers,––in that we have sinned against thee. ⁹ To the Lord our God, belong compassions, and forgivenesses,––for we have rebelled against him; ¹⁰ and have not hearkened unto the voice of Yahweh our God,––to walk in his instructions which he set before us, through means of his servants the prophets; ¹¹ yea, all Israel, have transgressed thy law, even going away, so as not to hearken unto thy voice,––therefore, were poured out upon us, the curse and the oath which had been written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we had sinned against him. ¹² Thus hath he confirmed his words which he had spoken against us, and against our judges who had judged us, by bringing in upon us a great calamity,––as to which there had not been done, under all the heavens, as hath been done unto Jerusalem. ¹³ Even as written in the law of Moses, hath, all this calamity, come in upon us,––yet entreated we not the face of Yahweh our God, by turning away from our iniquities, and by getting intelligence in thy truth. ¹⁴ Therefore hath Yahweh, kept watch, for the calamity, and brought it in upon us,––for righteous is Yahweh our God concerning all his deeds which he hath done, seeing that we had not hearkened unto his voice. ¹⁵ Now, therefore, O Lord our God, who didst bring forth thy people out of the land of Egypt with a firm hand, and didst make for thyself a name, as at this day,––we have sinned, we have been guilty of lawlessness. ¹⁶ O Lord! according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thine indignation turn away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain,––for, by reason of our sins, and by reason of the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people, have become a reproach, to all who are round about us. ¹⁷ Now, therefore, hearken, O our God, unto the prayer of thy servant, and unto his supplications, and let thy face shine, upon thy sanctuary, that is desolate,––for the sake of thy servants, O Lord. ¹⁸ Incline, O my God, thine ear, and hearken, open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city on which hath been called thy name; for, not on the ground of our own righteousnesses, are we causing our supplications to fall down before thee, but on the ground of thine abounding compassions. ¹⁹ O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, hearken and perform! Do not delay! For thine own sake, O my God, because, thine own name, hath been called, upon thy city, and upon thy people.
²⁰ And, while yet I was speaking, and praying, and confessing mine own sin, and the sin of my people Israel,––and causing my supplication to fall down before Yahweh my God, concerning the holy mountain of my God; ²¹ while yet I was speaking in prayer, then, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in vision at the beginning, wearied with rapid flight, touched me, about the time of the evening present. ²² Yea he came, and spake with me,––and said––O Daniel! now, have I come forth, to teach thee understanding. ²³ At the beginning of thy supplications, came forth a word, I, therefore, am arrived to tell, because, a man delighted in, thou art,––mark then the word, and have understanding in the revelation:–– ²⁴ Seventy weeks, have been divided concerning thy people and concerning thy holy city––to put an end to the transgression, and fill up the measure of sin, and put a propitiatory–covering over iniquity, and bring in the righteousness of ages, and affix a seal the vision and prophecy, and anoint the holy of holies. ²⁵ Thou must know, then, and understand: From the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem––unto the Anointed One, the Prince, [shall be] seven weeks, and sixty–two weeks,––the broadway and the wall, shall again be built, even in the end of the times. ²⁶ And, after the sixty–two weeks, shall the Anointed One, be cut off, and have, nothing,––and, the city and the sanctuary, will one destroy with the Prince, and so will his own end come with an overwhelming flood, howbeit, up to the full end of the war, are decreed astounding things. ²⁷ And he will confirm a covenant to the many, for one week,––but, in the middle of the week, will cause sacrifice and present to cease, and, in his stead, [shall be] the horrid abomination that astoundeth, even till, a full end, and that a decreed one, shall be poured out on him that astoundeth.

¹ In the third year of the reign of Belshazzar the king, a vision, appeared unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the beginning. ² So then I saw, in the vision, and it came to pass, when I saw, that I was in Shusan the fortress, which is in Persia the province,––yea I saw it in a vision, when, I, was by the river Ulai. ³ So then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and lo! a ram, standing before the river, and, it, had two horns,––and, the two horns, were high, but, the one, was higher than the other, and, the higher, had come up, last. ⁴ I saw the ram, pushing strongly westward and northward and southward, so that no wild beast could stand before him, and none could deliver out of his hand,––but he did according to his own pleasure, and shewed himself great. ⁵ Now, I, was observing, when lo! a he–goat, coming in out of the west, over the face of all the earth, but it meddled not with the earth,––and, the goat, had a conspicuous horn between his eyes. ⁶ So then he came up to the ram having the two horns, which I had seen, standing before the river,––and ran unto him, in the fury of his strength. ⁷ Yea I saw him coming close upon the ram, and he was enraged at him, and smote the ram, and brake in pieces both his horns, and there was no strength in the ram to stand before him,––but he cast him down to the ground, and trampled him underfoot, and there was none could deliver the ram out of his power. ⁸ But, the he–goat, shewed himself very great,––and, when he had become mighty, the great horn, was broken in pieces, and there came up afterwards four, in its stead, towards the four winds of the heavens; ⁹ and, out of the first of them, came forth a little horn,––which became exceedingly great, against the south and against the east, and against the beautiful [land]; ¹⁰ yea it became great as far as the host of the heavens,––and caused to fall, to the earth, some of the host and some of the stars, and trampled them underfoot; ¹¹ even as far as the ruler of the host, shewed he his greatness,––and, because of him, was taken away the continual [ascending–sacrifice], and the place of the sanctuary, was cast down; ¹² and, a host, was set over the continual [ascending–sacrifice], by transgression,––and faithfulness, was cast down, to the ground, and so he acted with effect, and succeeded. ¹³ Then heard I a certain holy one, speaking,––and another holy one said to that certain holy one who was speaking––How long is the vision of the continual [ascending–sacrifice] as taken away, and the transgression which astoundeth, for both sanctuary and host to be given over to be trampled underfoot? ¹⁴ And he said unto him, Until two thousand and three hundred evening–mornings,––then shall the sanctuary, be vindicated.
¹⁵ And it came to pass, when, I Daniel, had seen the vision,––and had sought discernment, that lo! there was standing before me, as the appearance of a man. ¹⁶ Then heard I a human voice, between [the banks of] the Ulai,––which cried out, and said, Gabriel! cause this man to understand the revelation. ¹⁷ So he came near where I stood, and, when he came, I was terrified, and fell upon my face,––but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man, that, to the time of the end, belongeth the vision. ¹⁸ And, when he spake with me, I fell stunned upon my face, to the earth,––but he touched me, and caused me to stand up where I was. ¹⁹ Then said he, Behold me! causing thee to know, that which shall come to pass in the afterpart of the indignation,––for, at an appointed time, shall be an end. ²⁰ The ram which thou sawest, having the two horns, representeth the kings of Media and Persia; ²¹ and, the he–goat, is the king of Greece,––and, the great horn which was between his eyes, the same, is the first king. ²² Now, as for its being broken in pieces, whereupon there stood up four in its stead, four kingdoms, out of his nation, shall stand up, but not with his strength; ²³ but, in the aftertime of their kingdom, when transgressions, have filled up their measure,––there will stand up a king of mighty presence, and skilful in dissimulation; ²⁴ and his strength, will be mighty, but not through his own strength, and, wonderfully, will he destroy, and succeed and act with effect,––and will destroy mighty ones, and the people of holy ones; ²⁵ and, by his cunning, will he both cause deceit to succeed in his hand, and, in his own heart, will he shew himself to be great, and, by their careless security, will he destroy many,––and, against the ruler of rulers, will he stand up, but, without hand, shall be broken in pieces. ²⁶ Now, the revelation of the evening and the morning which hath been told, faithful, indeed it is,––but, thou, close up the vision, because it is for many days. ²⁷ Now, as for me Daniel, then was I sick for days, but I arose and did the business of the king,––and, though I was confounded concerning the revelation, yet could no one discern it.

¹ But, concerning the spiritually gifted, brethren, I am not wishing you to be ignorant. ² Ye know that, when ye were of the nations, unto the dumb idols, howsoever ye were being led, ye were seduced. ³ Wherefore, I give you to know––that, no one, in God’s Spirit speaking, saith––Accursed Jesus! and, no one, can say––Lord Jesus! save in [the] Holy Spirit. ⁴ But, distributions of gifts, there are, yet the same Spirit, ⁵ And, distributions of ministries, there are, and the same Lord, ⁶ And, distributions of energies, there are, and the same God––who energiseth all things in all. ⁷ But, unto each one, is given the manifesting of the Spirit, with a view to that which is profitable; ⁸ For, unto one, indeed, through the Spirit, is given, a word of wisdom, but, unto another, a word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit; –– ⁹ Unto a different one, faith, in the same Spirit, and, unto another, gifts of healings, in the one Spirit, ¹⁰ And, unto another, energies of mighty works, [and], unto another, prophesying, [and], unto another, discriminations of spirits,––unto a different one, kinds of tongues, and, unto another, translation of tongues; –– ¹¹ But, all these, energiseth the one and the same Spirit, distributing unto each one, peculiarly, even as it is disposed.
¹² For, just as, the body, is one, and yet hath many members, but, all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so, also, the Christ; –– ¹³ For, even to one Spirit, we all, into one body, have been immersed,––whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free,––and, all, of one Spirit, have been caused to drink. ¹⁴ For, the body also, is not one member, but many: ¹⁵ Though the foot should say––Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body, Is it, therefore, not, of the body? ¹⁶ And, though the ear should say––Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body, Is it, therefore, not, of the body? ¹⁷ If, the whole body, were, an eye, where were the hearing? If, the whole were, hearing, where were, the smelling? ¹⁸ But, now, hath God set the members, each one of them in the body, even as he pleased. ¹⁹ But, if they all had been one member, Where had been, the body? ²⁰ Now, however there are many members, yet one body; ²¹ [And] the eye cannot say unto the hand––I have no need of thee,––nor, again, the head, unto the feet––I have no need of you:–– ²² Nay! much more, the members which seem to be weaker are necessary, ²³ And, the parts of the body which we deem to be less honourable, on these, more abundant honour, do we bestow, and, our uncomely parts, have, more abundant comeliness, ²⁴ Whereas, our comely parts, have, no need. But, God, hath tempered the body together,––unto that which was lacking, giving more abundant honour; –– ²⁵ That there might be no division in the body, but that the members might have, the same, care, one for another; ²⁶ And, whether one member, suffereth, all the members, suffer with it, or, a member is glorified, all the members, rejoice together.
²⁷ Now, ye, are the body of Christ, and members severally; –– ²⁸ And God hath, indeed, set, certain, in the assembly,––first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that mighty works, then gifts of healings, helps, guidings, kinds of tongues. ²⁹ Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all mighty works? ³⁰ Have, all, gifts of healings? Do, all, with tongues, speak? Do, all, translate? ³¹ Be envious, however, of the greater gifts; and, yet, a much more excellent way, unto you, I point out:––

⁴³ and, whereas thou sawest, the iron, combined with the miry clay, they shall be combined with the seed of men, but shall not cleave firmly one to another,––lo! as iron is not to be combined with clay.

¹ And, at that time, will Michael, the great ruler who standeth for the sons of thy people, make a stand, and there will be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation, up to that time,––and, at that time, shall thy people, be delivered, every one found written in the book; ² and, many of the sleepers in the dusty ground, shall awake,––these, [shall be] to age–abiding life, but, those, to reproach, and age–abiding abhorrence; ³ and, they who make wise, shall shine like the shining of the expanse,––and, they who bring the many to righteousness, like the stars to times age–abiding and beyond. ⁴ But, thou, Daniel, close up the words, and seal the book, until the time of the end,––many will run to and fro, and knowledge, shall abound.
⁵ Then, I, Daniel, looked, and lo! two others, standing,––one on this side of the bank of the river, and one on that side of the bank of the river. ⁶ And one said to the man clothed with linen, who was upon the waters of the river, How long shall be the end of the wonders? ⁷ And I heard the man clothed with linen who was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left unto the heavens, and sware by him that liveth unto times age–abiding,––For a set time and times and a half, and, when the dispersion of a part of the holy people, is brought to an end, then shall come to an end all these things. ⁸ And, I, heard, but could not understand,––so I said, O my lord! what shall be the issue of these things? ⁹ Then said he, Go thy way, Daniel; for closed up and sealed are the words, until the time of the end. ¹⁰ Many, will purify themselves and be made white and be refined, but the lawless, will act lawlessly, and none of the lawless, shall understand,––but, they who make wise, shall understand; ¹¹ and, from the time of the taking away of the continual [ascending–sacrifice], and the placing of the horrid abomination that astoundeth, [shall be] one thousand two hundred and ninety days. ¹² Happy! is he that waiteth, and attaineth to one thousand three hundred and thirty–five days. ¹³ But, thou, go thy way to the end,––and thou shalt rest, and shalt rise to thy lot at the end of the days.

¹³ Then heard I a certain holy one, speaking,––and another holy one said to that certain holy one who was speaking––How long is the vision of the continual [ascending–sacrifice] as taken away, and the transgression which astoundeth, for both sanctuary and host to be given over to be trampled underfoot? ¹⁴ And he said unto him, Until two thousand and three hundred evening–mornings,––then shall the sanctuary, be vindicated.
¹⁵ And it came to pass, when, I Daniel, had seen the vision,––and had sought discernment, that lo! there was standing before me, as the appearance of a man. ¹⁶ Then heard I a human voice, between [the banks of] the Ulai,––which cried out, and said, Gabriel! cause this man to understand the revelation. ¹⁷ So he came near where I stood, and, when he came, I was terrified, and fell upon my face,––but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man, that, to the time of the end, belongeth the vision.

¹³ But, the ruler of the kingdom of Persia, withstood me twenty–one days, but lo! Michael, one of the chief rulers, came in to help me,––and, I, left him there, beside the kings of Persia. ¹⁴ So then I am come to let thee understand that which shall befall thy people in the afterpart of the days,––for yet is the vision for [those] days. ¹⁵ And, when he had spoken with me such words as these,––I set my face towards the earth, and was dumb. ¹⁶ Then lo! like the similitude of the sons of men, one was touching my lips,––so I opened my mouth, and spake, and said unto him who was standing before me, O my lord! By the revelation, my pains have seized me, and I retain no strength. ¹⁷ How then can the servant of this my lord speak with this my lord,––seeing that, as for me––henceforth, there remaineth in me no strength, and no, spirit, is left in me? ¹⁸ Then again there touched me one like in appearance to a son of earth, and he strengthened me. ¹⁹ And he said, Do not fear, O man greatly delighted in! peace to thee, be strong, yea be strong! And, as he spake with me, I gained strength, and said, Let my lord speak, for thou hast strengthened me. ²⁰ And he said, Knowest thou wherefore I am come unto thee? But, now, must I return to fight with the ruler of Persia; I, therefore am going forth, and lo! the ruler of Greece, is coming. ²¹ Howbeit I will tell thee that which is inscribed in the writing of truth,––but there is no one who holdeth strongly with me concerning these things, save Michael your ruler.

¹⁶ For, where jealousy and rivalry are, there, are anarchy and every ignoble deed. ¹⁷ But, the wisdom from above, is––first pure, then peaceable, reasonable, easy to be entreated, fraught with mercy and good fruits, without partiality, without hypocrisy. ¹⁸ And, in harvest of righteousness, with peace, is sown by them that make peace.

¹ And it came to pass, when men had begun to multiply on the face of the ground and, daughters, had been born to them, ² that, the sons of God, saw, the daughters of men, that they were, fair,––so they took to themselves wives of whomsoever they chose.
³ And Yahweh said––My spirit shall not rule in man to times age––abiding, for that, he also, is flesh,––Yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
⁴ The giants, were in the earth in those days, and also, after that, when the sons of God began to go in unto the daughters of men, and sons were born to them, the same, were the heroes that were from age–past times, the men of renown. ⁵ Then Yahweh saw that, great, was the wickedness of man in the earth, and that, every purpose of the devices of his heart, was only wicked all the day;
⁶ and it grieved Yahweh, that he had made man in the earth,––and he took sorrow unto his heart. ⁷ And Yahweh said––I must wipe off man whom I created, from off the face of the ground, from man unto beast, unto creeping thing, and unto the bird of the heavens,––for I am grieved that I made them.
⁸ But, Noah, had found favour, in the eyes of Yahweh. ⁹ These, are the generations of Noah, Noah, was, a righteous man, blameless, in his generations,––with God, did Noah walk. ¹⁰ And Noah begat three sons,––Shem, Ham and Japheth.
¹¹ And the earth corrupted itself before God,––and the earth was filled with violence. ¹² And God beheld the earth, and lo! it had corrupted itself,––surely all flesh had corrupted its way, on the earth.
¹³ So God said unto Noah: The end of all flesh, hath come in before me, for, filled, is the earth with violence, because of them,––behold me, then, destroying them with the earth. ¹⁴ Make for thee an ark of timbers of gopher, rooms, shalt thou make with the ark,––and––thou shalt cover it, within and without, with pitch. ¹⁵ And, this, is how thou shalt make it,––three hundred cubits, the length of the ark, fifty cubits, the breadth thereof, and, thirty cubits, the height thereof. ¹⁶ A place for light, shalt thou make to the ark, and, to a cubit, shalt thou finish it upwards, and, the opening of the ark––in the side thereof, shalt thou put,––with lower, second, and third [stories], shalt thou make it. ¹⁷ And, I, behold me! bringing in the flood––even waters, upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the spirit of life, from under the heavens,––everything that is in the earth, shall cease to breathe: ¹⁸ therefore will I establish my covenant with thee,––and thou shalt enter into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives, with thee. ¹⁹ Moreover, of all the living creatures of all flesh––two of each, shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep alive with thee,––male and female, shall they be. ²⁰ Of the bird after its kind and of the beast after its kind, [and] of every creeping thing of the ground, after its kind, two of each, shall come in unto thee, for keeping alive. ²¹ But, thou, take to thee of all food that is eaten, and gather it unto thee,––and it shall be for thee and for them, for food.
²² And Noah did [so], ––according to all that God commanded him, so, did he.

³⁷ For, just as the days of Noah, so, will be the presence of the Son of Man;

² Of the entertaining of strangers, be not forgetful, for, hereby, unawares, have some entertained, messengers.

¹² Because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but, against the principalities, against the authorities, against the world–holders, of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenlies.

¹ And it came to pass, when men had begun to multiply on the face of the ground and, daughters, had been born to them, ² that, the sons of God, saw, the daughters of men, that they were, fair,––so they took to themselves wives of whomsoever they chose.
³ And Yahweh said––My spirit shall not rule in man to times age––abiding, for that, he also, is flesh,––Yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
⁴ The giants, were in the earth in those days, and also, after that, when the sons of God began to go in unto the daughters of men, and sons were born to them, the same, were the heroes that were from age–past times, the men of renown.

¹⁷ By the decree of the watchers, is the thing, and [by] the mandate of the holy ones, the matter: to the intent that the living, may get to know, that the Most High, hath dominion, over the kingdom of men, and, to whomsoever he pleaseth, he giveth it, and, one low among men, he setteth up over it.

²³ And, whereas the king saw a watcher and holy one coming down out of the heavens, who said, Hew ye down the tree and despoil it, nevertheless, the stock of its roots––in the earth, leave ye, even in a bond of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field,––and, with the dew of the heavens, let it be drenched, and, along with the wild beasts of the field, be its portion, until that, seven seasons, pass over it.

¹³ I was looking, in the visions of my head, upon my bed, when lo! a watcher and holy one, outer the heavens, coming down.