# bible

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<verse num="23">And a row <transChange type="added">was</transChange> all around inside<note>Hebrew "in"</note> them, and cooking-places <transChange type="added">were</transChange> made under the rows of stones<note>Possibly some kind of stone ledge</note> all around.</verse>


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<verse num="24">And he said to me, "These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the houses for<note>Hebrew "of"</note> cooking, where <transChange type="added">the ones</transChange> serving the temple shall cook the sacrifices of the people." </verse>


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<verse num="1">And he brought me back to the doorway of the temple and, look! There was water coming out from under the threshold of the temple eastward, because the face of the temple <transChange type="added">was</transChange> eastwards; and the water was coming down from under the south side of the temple, from south of the altar.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And he brought me out <transChange type="added">by the way</transChange> of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north gate and he led me around <transChange type="added">by the</transChange> {way leading to the outside of the outer gate}<note>Literally "way of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> outside to the gate of the outside"</note> <transChange type="added">by</transChange> way of the <transChange type="added">gate</transChange> facing east, and look, there was water trickling from the south side.</verse>


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<verse num="3">As the man went eastward a measuring line <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in his hand, and he measured a thousand {cubits}.<note>Literally "in the cubit"; about 1,750 feet</note> And he led me through <transChange type="added">on</transChange> into the water; <transChange type="added">it was</transChange> {ankle deep}.<note>Literally "water of ankles"</note></verse>


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<verse num="4">And he measured a thousand <transChange type="added">cubits</transChange>,<note>About 1,750 feet</note> and he brought me over into the waters <transChange type="added">and</transChange> <transChange type="added">it was</transChange> {knee deep}.<note>Literally "water of knees"</note> And he measured a thousand <transChange type="added">cubits</transChange>,<note>About 1,750 feet</note> and he brought me over <transChange type="added">into</transChange> the waters <transChange type="added">and</transChange> <transChange type="added">it was</transChange> {waist deep}.<note>Literally "water of waist"</note></verse>


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<verse num="5">And he measured a thousand <transChange type="added">cubits</transChange>,<note>About 1,750 feet</note> <transChange type="added">and</transChange> <transChange type="added">it became</transChange> a stream that I was not able to cross, because the water rose, {waters a person could swim in},<note>Literally "water of swimming"</note> <transChange type="added">and became</transChange> a stream that could not be crossed.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And he asked me, "Son of man,<note>Or "mortal," or "son of humankind"</note> did you see <transChange type="added">this</transChange>?" And he made me go, and he brought me back <transChange type="added">along</transChange> the bank of the stream. </verse>


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<verse num="7">{When I returned},<note>Literally "At my returning"</note> then look! On the bank of the river <transChange type="added">were</transChange> many trees {on both sides}.<note>Literally "from this and from this"</note></verse>


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<verse num="8">And he said to me, "These waters <transChange type="added">are</transChange> going out to the eastern region, and they go down to the {Jordan Valley},<note>Literally "Arabah"</note> and they come <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the sea<note>Clearly refers to the Dead Sea</note> <transChange type="added">and flow</transChange> into the sea <transChange type="added">where</transChange> {they issue out},<note>Literally "being brought out/are issued out"</note> and the waters <transChange type="added">in the sea</transChange> will be healed.<note>Or "made fresh"</note></verse>


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<verse num="9">And then every living creature <transChange type="added">with</transChange> which it teems,<note>Or "swarms"</note> {to every place the waters come}<note>Literally "to all of which they come there the water"</note> it will live; <transChange type="added">and</transChange> very many fish will live because these waters came there, and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> the <transChange type="added">water</transChange> will be healed<note>Or "fresh"</note> and everything <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> alive {everywhere that}<note>Literally "all that"</note> {the stream will come}.<note>Literally "that <transChange type="added">it</transChange> will come there the stream"</note></verse>


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<verse num="10">And then fishers<note>Or "fishermen"</note> from En Gedi and <transChange type="added">on</transChange> up to En Eglaim will stand beside it, a sea-girt drying yard for nets; their fish for the dragnets will be {of every kind},<note>Literally "to the"</note> like the fish of the great sea,<note>That is, the Mediterranean</note> <transChange type="added">and</transChange> very many.</verse>


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<verse num="11">But its marshes and its swamps will not be cured, for they were given for salt.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And along the stream will go up on its banks {from both sides}<note>Literally "from this and from this"</note> every tree {producing food};<note>Literally "of food"</note> its leaf will not wither and it will not cease <transChange type="added">producing</transChange> its fruit. {Every month}<note>Literally "for its months"</note> it will bear early fruit, for its waters <transChange type="added">are</transChange> going out from the sanctuary, and its fruit will be as food, and its leaf for healing." </verse>


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<verse num="13">Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the boundary <transChange type="added">by</transChange> which you shall distribute the land for {the twelve}<note>Literally "two ten"</note> tribes of Israel: Two shares <transChange type="added">shall be for</transChange> Joseph.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And you must take possession of it, each <transChange type="added">one</transChange> <transChange type="added">a share</transChange> like his brother, <transChange type="added">of this land</transChange> which {I swore}<note>Literally "I raised my hand"</note> to give it to your fathers, and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> this land shall fall to you as an inheritance.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And<note>Or "Bow"</note> this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the boundary of the land: {On the north side},<note>Literally "to the side of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north"</note> from the great sea <transChange type="added">by</transChange> the way of Hethlon {until you come to Zedad},<note>Literally "to the arriving at Zedad"</note></verse>


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<verse num="16">Hamath<note>Or "Lebo-Hamath to Zeded" (cf. NRSV, NJPS)</note> <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Berothath <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Sibraim, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange><note>Or "are"</note> between the boundary of Damascus and the boundary of Hamath, <transChange type="added">on to</transChange> Hazer Hatticon, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> on the boundary of Hauran.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And <transChange type="added">so</transChange> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> boundary will be from the sea<note>That is, the Mediterranean</note> to Hazar Enan <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the boundary of Damascus northwards and the boundary of Hamath <transChange type="added">to the north</transChange>, and this <transChange type="added">is the boundary on the</transChange> side of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north.</verse>


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<verse num="18">{And the eastern boundary}<note>Literally "and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> side of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east"</note> <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> between Hauran and Damascus, and from between Gilead and the land of Israel <transChange type="added">along</transChange> the Jordan <transChange type="added">River</transChange> from<note>Or "to"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> boundary on the eastern sea to Tamar. And<note>Or "Now"</note> {this is the border on the east}.<note>Literally "and this <transChange type="added">is the</transChange> side of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east"</note></verse>


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<verse num="19">{And on the south side the border}<note>Literally "and the side of the south <transChange type="added">to</transChange> south"</note> <transChange type="added">will run</transChange> from Tamar up to the waters <transChange type="added">of</transChange> Meribot Kadesh <transChange type="added">and along</transChange> the wadi<note>That is, the Wadi of Egypt</note> to the Great Sea.<note>That is, the Mediterranean</note> And this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {the boundary to the south}.<note>Literally "and this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the side of south <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the south"</note></verse>


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<verse num="20">{And on the west side}<note>Literally "and the side of the west"</note> the Great Sea<note>That is, the Mediterranean</note> <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> the boundary up to opposite Lebo-Hamath. {This is the western boundary}.<note>Literally "this <transChange type="added">is the</transChange> side of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> west"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="21">You shall divide this land for yourselves according to the tribes of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="22">And then you shall allocate it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the aliens dwelling as aliens in the midst of you who have children in the midst of you, and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> they shall be to you <transChange type="added">just</transChange> like full citizens among the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> With you they shall be allotted with an inheritance in the midst of the tribes of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="23">And then in the tribe <transChange type="added">in</transChange> which an alien who is with you dwells, there you shall give his inheritance," {declares}<note>Literally "declaration of"</note> the Lord Yahweh. </verse>


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<verse num="1">And<note>Or "Now"</note> these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the names of the tribes: <transChange type="added">At</transChange> the end of the north, {along the way to Hethlon}<note>Literally "to the side of the way of Hethlon"</note> from Lebo-hamath <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Hazar Enan <transChange type="added">on</transChange> the boundary of Damascus {beside Hamath northward},<note>Literally "northward to the side of Hamat,"</note> <transChange type="added">there</transChange> will be one <transChange type="added">portion</transChange> for Dan from the eastern border to the {west}.<note>Literally "sea"</note></verse>


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<verse num="2">And next to the territory of Dan, from {the eastern border}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> side of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east</note> up to {the western border},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> side of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea/west"</note> one <transChange type="added">portion</transChange> <transChange type="added">for</transChange> Asher.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And next to the territory of Asher, from {the eastern border}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> side of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east"</note> and up to {the western border},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> side of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> west/sea"</note> one <transChange type="added">portion</transChange> <transChange type="added">for</transChange> Naphtali.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And next to the territory of Naphtali, from {the eastern border}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> side of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east"</note> up to {the western border},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> side of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea/west"</note> one <transChange type="added">portion</transChange> <transChange type="added">for</transChange> Manasseh.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And next to the territory of Manasseh, from {the eastern border}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> side of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east"</note> up to {the western border},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> side of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea/west"</note> one <transChange type="added">portion</transChange> <transChange type="added">for</transChange> Ephraim.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And next to the territory of Ephraim, from {the eastern border}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> side of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east"</note> and up to {the western border},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> side of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea/west</note> one <transChange type="added">portion</transChange> <transChange type="added">for</transChange> Reuben.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And next to the territory of Reuben, from {the eastern border}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> side of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east</note> up to {the western border},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> side of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea/west</note> one <transChange type="added">portion</transChange> <transChange type="added">for</transChange> Judah. </verse>


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<verse num="8">And next to the territory of Judah, from {the eastern border}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> side of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east</note> up to {the western border},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> side of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea/west</note> shall be <transChange type="added">located</transChange> the contribution that you set apart, twenty-five thousand <transChange type="added">cubits</transChange><note>That is, 8.33 miles</note> <transChange type="added">in</transChange> width, and its length <transChange type="added">just</transChange> like one of the portions from {the eastern border}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> side of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east</note> up to {the western border},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> side of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea/west</note> and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.</verse>


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<verse num="9">The contribution that you shall set apart for Yahweh, its length <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> twenty-five thousand <transChange type="added">cubits</transChange>,<note>That is, 8.33 miles</note> and its width ten thousand <transChange type="added">cubits</transChange>.<note>That is, 3.5 miles; cf. 48:13 and 45:1</note></verse>


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<verse num="10">And to these shall be {the holy district}:<note>Literally "the contribution of the holiness"</note> to the priests northwards twenty-five thousand <transChange type="added">cubits</transChange>,<note>That is, 8.33 miles</note> and westwards <transChange type="added">its</transChange> width ten thousand <transChange type="added">cubits</transChange>,<note>That is, 3.5 miles</note> and eastwards <transChange type="added">its</transChange> width ten thousand <transChange type="added">cubits</transChange>,<note>That is, 3.5 miles</note> and southwards its length twenty-five thousand <transChange type="added">cubits</transChange>,<note>That is, 8.33 miles</note> and the sanctuary of Yahweh shall be in the midst of it.</verse>


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<verse num="11">To the priests, the <transChange type="added">ones</transChange> being consecrated from the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Zadok, who took care of my service <transChange type="added">and</transChange> who {did not go astray}<note>Literally "who not they went astray"</note> {when the Israelites went astray},<note>Literally "at going astray the children of Israel"</note> {just as}<note>Literally "as that"</note> the Levites went astray.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And it will be for them a special gift from the contribution of the land {as a most holy object}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">as</transChange> a holiness of holinesses"</note> next to the territory of the Levites.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And the Levites {alongside}<note>Literally "to corresponding"</note> the territory of the priests <transChange type="added">shall have</transChange> twenty-five thousand <transChange type="added">cubits</transChange><note>That is, 8.33 miles</note> <transChange type="added">in</transChange> length and in width ten thousand <transChange type="added">cubits</transChange>,<note>That is, 3.5 miles</note> its {full length},<note>Literally "all/every of <transChange type="added">its</transChange> length ...."</note> twenty-five thousand <transChange type="added">cubits</transChange><note>That is, 8.33 miles</note> and its <transChange type="added">full width</transChange>, ten thousand <transChange type="added">cubits</transChange>.<note>That is, 3.5 miles</note></verse>


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<verse num="14">And they shall not sell <transChange type="added">any part</transChange> from it, and shall not exchange, and shall not transfer the best of the land, for <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> holy to Yahweh. </verse>


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<verse num="15">And {the remaining part}<note>Literally "the being a part left over"</note> of five thousand <transChange type="added">cubits</transChange><note>That is, 1.75 miles</note> in the width {by}<note>Literally "in front of"</note> twenty-five thousand <transChange type="added">cubits</transChange>,<note>That is, 8.33 miles</note> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> unholy;<note>Or "common"</note> it is for the city as dwelling and as pastureland; and the city will be <transChange type="added">located</transChange> {in the middle of it}.<note>Literally "will be the city in its middle"</note></verse>


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<verse num="16">And these <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> its measurements: <transChange type="added">on</transChange> its side to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north, four thousand five hundred <transChange type="added">cubits</transChange>;<note>That is, 1.5 miles</note> and <transChange type="added">on</transChange> its side to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> south, four thousand five hundred <transChange type="added">cubits</transChange>;<note>That is, 1.5 miles</note> and <transChange type="added">on</transChange> {the eastern side},<note>Literally "from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> side of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east"</note> four thousand five hundred <transChange type="added">cubits</transChange>;<note>That is, 1.5 miles</note> and <transChange type="added">on</transChange> {the western side},<note>Literally "and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> side of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea/west + directive"</note> four thousand five hundred <transChange type="added">cubits</transChange>.<note>That is, 1.5 miles</note></verse>


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<verse num="17">And a pastureland shall be for the city northwards, two hundred and fifty <transChange type="added">cubits</transChange>,<note>That is, 150 yards</note> southwards two hundred and fifty <transChange type="added">cubits</transChange>,<note>That is, 150 yards</note> and eastwards two hundred and fifty <transChange type="added">cubits</transChange>,<note>That is, 150 yards</note> and westwards two hundred and fifty <transChange type="added">cubits</transChange>.<note>That is, 150 yards</note></verse>


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<verse num="18">And the rest in <transChange type="added">its</transChange> length {alongside}<note>Literally "to corresponding"</note> {the holy district},<note>Literally "the contribution of the holiness"</note> ten thousand <transChange type="added">cubits</transChange><note>That is, 3.5 miles</note> eastwards and ten thousand<note>That is, 3.5 miles</note> westwards; and it shall be {alongside}<note>Literally "to corresponding"</note> {the holy district}<note>Literally "the contribution of the holiness"</note> and its yield<note>According to the reading tradition (Qere); cf. BHS</note> shall be as food for the workers of the city.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And the workers of the city from all the tribes of Israel shall cultivate it.</verse>


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<verse num="20">All of the contribution, twenty-five thousand by twenty five thousand <transChange type="added">cubits</transChange><note>That is, 8.33 square miles</note> square, you shall set apart <transChange type="added">as</transChange> {the holy district}<note>Literally "the contribution of the holiness"</note> <transChange type="added">along</transChange> with the property of the city.</verse>


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<verse num="21">And the rest <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> to<note>Or "for"</note> the prince, {on both sides}<note>Literally "from this and from this"</note> {of the holy district}<note>Literally "of the contribution of the holiness"</note> and of the property of the city {extending from}<note>Literally "to in front of"</note> twenty-five thousand <transChange type="added">cubits</transChange> <transChange type="added">of the</transChange> contribution up to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> boundary of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east, and westwards {extending}<note>Literally "to in front of"</note> twenty-five thousand <transChange type="added">cubits</transChange><note>That is, 8.33 miles</note> to the boundary of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea {alongside}<note>Literally "to corresponding"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> <transChange type="added">tribal</transChange> portions. They shall be for the prince, and it shall be {the holy district},<note>Literally "the contribution of the holiness"</note> and the sanctuary of the temple<note>Or "house"</note> will be in its middle.</verse>


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<verse num="22">And <transChange type="added">also</transChange> the property of the Levites and the property of the city will be in the midst of <transChange type="added">the property</transChange> which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> for the prince; between the territory of Judah and <transChange type="added">between</transChange> the territory of Benjamin <transChange type="added">the land</transChange> will be for the prince. </verse>


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<verse num="23">And <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the remainder of the tribes: From <transChange type="added">the</transChange> side <transChange type="added">on</transChange> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east up to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> side <transChange type="added">on</transChange> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> west, Benjamin one <transChange type="added">portion</transChange>;</verse>


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<verse num="24">and next to the territory of Benjamin, from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> side <transChange type="added">on</transChange> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east up to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> side of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea, Simeon one <transChange type="added">portion</transChange>;</verse>


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<verse num="25">and next to the territory of Simeon, from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> side of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east up to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> side of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea, Issachar one <transChange type="added">portion</transChange>;</verse>


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<verse num="26">and next to the territory of Issachar, from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> side of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east up to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> side of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea, Zebulun one <transChange type="added">portion</transChange>;</verse>


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<verse num="27">and next to the territory of Zebulun, from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> side of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east up to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> side of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea, Gad one <transChange type="added">portion</transChange>;</verse>


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<verse num="28">and next to the territory of Gad, to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> side of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> south, {southward};<note>Literally "south"</note> and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> territory will be from Tamar <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the waters of Meribath Kadesh, <transChange type="added">toward</transChange> the wadi,<note>That is, the Wadi of Egypt</note> <transChange type="added">on</transChange> to the Great Sea.<note>That is, the Mediterranean</note></verse>


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<verse num="29">This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the land that you shall allot as <transChange type="added">an</transChange> inheritance to the tribes of Israel, and these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> their portions," {declares}<note>Literally "declaration of"</note> the Lord Yahweh. </verse>


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<verse num="30">And these <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> the exits of the city: From<note>Or "on" or "along"</note> {the north side},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> side of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north"</note> four thousand and five hundred <transChange type="added">cubits</transChange> <note>That is, 1.5 miles</note> <transChange type="added">by</transChange> measurement.</verse>


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<verse num="31">And the gates of the city <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> according to the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates <transChange type="added">to the</transChange> north, the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.</verse>


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<verse num="32">And on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east side, four thousand five hundred <transChange type="added">cubits</transChange>,<note>That is, 1.5 miles</note> <transChange type="added">and</transChange> three gates, and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one.</verse>


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<verse num="33">And <transChange type="added">on</transChange> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> south side, four thousand five hundred <transChange type="added">cubits</transChange><note>That is, 1.5 miles</note> by measurement, and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> three gates, the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.</verse>


book: Ezek
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<verse num="34"><transChange type="added">And</transChange> on the west<note>Or "sea"</note> side, four thousand five hundred <transChange type="added">cubits</transChange>,<note>That is, 1.5 miles</note> <transChange type="added">and</transChange> their gates three, the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one.</verse>


book: Ezek
content:
<verse num="35">All around <transChange type="added">the city</transChange> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> eighteen thousand <transChange type="added">cubits</transChange>,<note>That is, 6 miles</note> and the name of the city from <transChange type="added">that</transChange> day <transChange type="added">is</transChange> "Yahweh <transChange type="added">Is</transChange> There"! </verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="1">In <transChange type="added">the</transChange> third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="2">And the Lord gave Jehoiakim the king of Judah into his hand and {some of}<note>Literally "from the end/extremity/limits"</note> of the utensils of the temple of God,<note>Hebrew "the God"</note> and he brought them <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the land of Shinar <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the temple of his gods, and he brought the utensils to {the treasury}<note>Literally "the house of the treasury"</note> of his gods. </verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="3">And the king {ordered}<note>Literally "said to"</note> Ashpenaz, the commander of his court officials, to bring {some of the Israelites}<note>Literally "from the sons/children of Israel"</note> from {the royal family}<note>Literally "from the seed of the kingship"</note> and from the lords,<note>Or "nobles"</note></verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="4">youths who {have no physical defect},<note>Literally "there is not in them any physical defect"</note> and <transChange type="added">who are</transChange> {handsome},<note>Literally "good/pleasing of appearance"</note> and <transChange type="added">who are</transChange> prudent<note>Or "insightful"</note> in all wisdom and {endowed with knowledge},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">who have</transChange> knowledge of knowledge"</note> and <transChange type="added">who</transChange> understand insight, and who <transChange type="added">have</transChange> the {ability}<note>Literally "strength"</note> in them to serve in the palace of the king. <transChange type="added">And the king ordered him</transChange> to teach them the literature and the language of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Chaldeans.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="5">And the king assigned to them {his daily portion}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> portion of the day on its day"</note> from the fine food of the king, and from {the wine that he drank},<note>Literally "the wine of his drink"</note> and <transChange type="added">instructed that</transChange> {they were to be educated for three years}.<note>Literally "and to be educated them years three"</note> And at the end <transChange type="added">of</transChange> their <transChange type="added">training</transChange>, {they were to be stationed}<note>Literally "they would stand"</note> {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> the king.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="6">Now there was among them {from the Judeans},<note>Literally "from the children of Judah"</note> Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="7">And the commander of the court officials gave them names, and he called Daniel, Belteshazzar; and Hananiah, Shadrach; and Mishael, Meshach; and Azariah, Abednego. </verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="8">Now {Daniel resolved}<note>Literally "Daniel placed upon his heart"</note> that he would not defile himself with the fine food of the king, and with {the wine that he drank},<note>Literally "the wine of his drink"</note> and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> he requested from the commander of the court officials <transChange type="added">permission so</transChange> that he would not defile himself.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="9">And God<note>Hebrew "the God"</note> gave Daniel favor and compassion {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> the commander of the court officials,</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="10">and the commander of the court officials said to Daniel, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> afraid <transChange type="added">of</transChange> my lord, the king, who has determined your food and your drink, for {why should}<note>Literally "to what would"</note> he see your face having a worse appearance than the young men who {are your age}?<note>Literally "like your age"; "your" is plural</note> Then you will endanger my head with the king."</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="11">Then<note>Hebrew "And"</note> Daniel asked the guard<note>Or "overseer"</note> whom the commander of the court officials <transChange type="added">had</transChange> appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="12">"Please test your servants <transChange type="added">for</transChange> ten days, and let them give us {some of the vegetables},<note>Literally "from the vegetables"</note> and let us eat and let us drink water.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="13">Then<note>Hebrew "And"</note> let our appearances and the appearance of the young men who are eating the fine food of the king be compared {before you},<note>Literally "in your presence"</note> and <transChange type="added">then</transChange> deal with your servants {according to what you see}."<note>Literally "and according to/that you see"</note></verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="14">So he agreed to this proposal with them, and he tested them <transChange type="added">for</transChange> ten days.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="15">And at the end of ten days their appearances appeared better and <transChange type="added">they were</transChange> healthier of body than all the young men who were eating the fine food of the king.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="16">{So}<note>Literally "And it happened"</note> the guard {continued to withhold}<note>Literally "he was ... withdrawing"</note> their fine food and the wine of their drink, and he gave them<note>Hebrew "to them"</note> vegetables. </verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="17">{And as for these four young men},<note>Literally "And these young men, four of them"</note> God<note>Hebrew "the God"</note> gave to them knowledge and insight into all literature and wisdom, and Daniel had insight into all visions<note>Hebrew "vision"</note> and dreams.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="18">And at the end of the time the king had set to bring them, the commander of the court officials brought them in {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> Nebuchadnezzar.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="19">And the king spoke with them, {and among all of them no one was found like}<note>Literally "and he was not found from all of them like"</note> Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah; then they stood {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> the king.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="20">And in every matter of wisdom <transChange type="added">and</transChange> understanding <transChange type="added">about</transChange> which the king inquired from them, he found them ten times better <transChange type="added">than</transChange> all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the magicians<note>Or "soothsayer-priests"</note> <transChange type="added">and</transChange> conjurers<note>Or "enchanters"</note> that {were in his entire kingdom}.<note>Literally "in the whole of his kingdom"</note></verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="21">And Daniel was <transChange type="added">there</transChange> until the first year of Cyrus the king. </verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="1">Now<note>Hebrew "And"</note> in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled and his sleep left him.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="2">So the king said to call the magicians<note>Or "soothsayer-priests"</note> and the conjurers<note>Or "enchanters"</note> and the sorcerers and the {astrologers}<note>Literally "Chaldeans"</note> to tell to the king his dreams. And they came in and they stood {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> the king.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="3">And the king said to them, "{I have had a dream}<note>Literally "A dream I have dreamed"</note> and my spirit is anxious to know the dream." </verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="4">And the {astrologers}<note>Literally "Chaldeans"</note> said to the king <transChange type="added">in</transChange> Aramaic,<note>The text of Daniel is in Aramaic from this point on through Daniel chapter 7. Then the text resumes in Hebrew to the end of the book</note> "O king, live forever! Tell the dream to your servants and we will reveal the explanation."</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="5">The king answered and said to the {astrologers},<note>Literally "Chaldeans"</note> "The command from me is firm: if you <transChange type="added">do</transChange> not make known to me the dream and its explanation,<note>Or "interpretation"</note> <transChange type="added">then</transChange> you will be broken into pieces and your houses will be laid in ruins.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="6">But if you tell me the dream and its explanation, you will receive gifts and rewards<note>Aramaic "reward"</note> and great honor from me. Therefore, tell me the dream and its explanation."<note>Or "interpretation"</note></verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="7">They answered once more and said, "Let the king tell the dream to his servants and we will make the explanation known."</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="8">The king answered and said, "{Certainly}<note>Literally "From <transChange type="added">a</transChange> certainty"</note> I know that {you are trying to gain time}<note>Literally "the time you are gaining"</note> {because}<note>Literally "all because of that"</note> you have seen {that this matter is firmly decreed by me},<note>Literally "that firm from me <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the decree"</note></verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="9">for if you <transChange type="added">do</transChange> not make the dream known to me, {your verdict is fixed},<note>Literally "one is your verdict"</note> and you have conspired to say <transChange type="added">a</transChange> lying and deceitful word to me until the {circumstances}<note>Literally "time"</note> will change. Therefore, tell me the dream, and I will know that you can tell me its explanation."</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="10">The {astrologers}<note>Literally "Chaldeans"</note> answered the king and said, "There is not a man on earth that is able to reveal the word of the king; {in fact},<note>Literally "all because that"</note> no great and powerful king has <transChange type="added">ever</transChange> asked a thing like this of any magician<note>Or "soothsayer-priest"</note> or conjurer<note>Or "enchanter"</note> or {astrologer}.<note>Literally "Chaldean"</note></verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="11">And the thing that the king is asking <transChange type="added">is too</transChange> difficult and {there is no one who}<note>Literally "there is not another"</note> can reveal it to the king except <transChange type="added">the</transChange> gods {whose dwelling is not with mortals}."<note>Literally "concerning their dwelling is not with flesh"</note> </verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="12">Because of this the king became angry, and he became very much enraged, and he said <transChange type="added">that</transChange> all the wise men of Babylon <transChange type="added">are</transChange> to be destroyed.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="13">And the decree was issued, and the wise men {were on the verge of being executed},<note>Literally "were in the process of being killed"</note> and they searched for Daniel and his companions to be executed.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="14">Then Daniel responded prudently and discretely to Arioch, the commander of the imperial guard of the king, who had gone out to execute the wise men of Babylon.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="15">{He asked}<note>Literally "he answered"</note> and said to Arioch, the royal official of the king, "{Why}<note>Literally "Over what"</note> is the decree from the king <transChange type="added">so</transChange> severe?" Then Arioch explained the matter<note>Or "situation"</note> to Daniel.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="16">And Daniel went in and requested from the king that he would give him time, and {he would tell the king}<note>Literally "to tell/reveal to the king"</note> the explanation.<note>Or "interpretation"</note> </verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="17">Then Daniel went to his home, and he made the matter known to Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, his companions,</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="18">and <transChange type="added">told them</transChange> to seek mercy {from the God of heaven}<note>Literally "from before the God of the heaven"</note> concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his companions, along with the remainder of the wise men of Babylon, would not be killed. </verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="19">Then in a vision of the night the mystery was revealed to Daniel; then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. </verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="21">And he changes the times and the seasons, and he deposes kings and he sets up kings; he gives wisdom<note>Aramaic "the wisdom"</note> to wise men and knowledge to <transChange type="added">men who</transChange> know understanding.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="22">He reveals the deep and the hidden things; he knows what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="23">To you, O God of my ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> I give thanks and I give praises, for the wisdom and the power you gave to me, and now you have made known to me what we have asked from you, for you have made known to us the matter of the king."</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="24">{Therefore}<note>Literally "Now because this"</note> Daniel went to Arioch, whom the king had appointed<note>Aramaic "has appointed"</note> to destroy the wise men of Babylon; he went and thus he said to him: "You must not destroy the wise men of Babylon; take me in before the king and I will give the explanation<note>Or "interpretation"</note> to the king." </verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="25">Then Arioch {quickly}<note>Literally "in haste"</note> brought Daniel in before the king and thus he said to him: "I have found a man among {the exiles}<note>Literally "the children of exiles"</note> of Judah<note>Aramaic "Jehud"</note> who {can relate}<note>Literally "he will make known"</note> the explanation<note>Or "interpretation"</note> to the king.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="26">{The king then asked}<note>Literally "The king answered"</note> and said to Daniel, whose name <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Belteshazzar, "Are you able to make known to me the dream that I have seen and its explanation?"<note>Or "interpretation"</note></verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="27">Daniel answered the king and said, "The mystery that the king asks, no wise men, conjurers,<note>Or "enchanters"</note> magicians,<note>Or "soothsayer-priests"</note> <transChange type="added">or</transChange> diviners are able to make known to the king.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="28">But there is a God in heaven <transChange type="added">who</transChange> reveals mysteries, and he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> that will be at the end of days. This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your dream and the visions of your head on your bed. </verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="29">"<transChange type="added">As for you</transChange>, king,<note>Aramaic "the king"</note> your thoughts on your bed {turned to}<note>Literally "they went up"</note> what <transChange type="added">it was</transChange> that would be {in the future},<note>Literally "after this"</note> and the revealer of mysteries has made known to you what that would be.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="30">And as for me, <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> not because of wisdom that is in me more than {any other living person}<note>Literally "all of living beings"</note> <transChange type="added">that</transChange> this mystery is revealed to me, but {in order that}<note>Literally "concerning the matter of"</note> the explanation<note>Or "interpretation"</note> may be made known to the king and you will {understand}<note>Literally "know"</note> the thoughts of your {mind}.<note>Literally "heart"</note> </verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="31">"You, O king, were looking and, look, there was one great statue. This statue <transChange type="added">was</transChange> huge and its brilliance extraordinary, standing <transChange type="added">there</transChange> before you, and its appearance <transChange type="added">was</transChange> frightening.<note>Or "dreadful"</note></verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="32">The head of this statue <transChange type="added">was</transChange> of fine gold, its chest and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze,</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="34">You were looking on {until}<note>Literally "until that"</note> a stone was chiseled out<note>Or "became loose"</note>--that not by hands--and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and it broke them in pieces.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="35">Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold {all at once}<note>Literally "like one"</note> broke into pieces<note>Or "were crushed"</note> and they became like chaff from the summer threshing floor, and the wind carried them away and any trace of them could not be found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and it filled the whole earth. </verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="36">"This <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the dream, and <transChange type="added">now</transChange> we will tell its interpretation to the king.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="37">You, O king, the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power and the might and the glory,</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="38">and <transChange type="added">also</transChange> {human beings wherever they dwell},<note>Literally "and into all that dwell sons of humankind"</note> the animals of the field and the birds<note>Aramaic "bird"</note> of heaven<note>Or "the sky"</note>--he has given into your hand and made you ruler over all of them--you are the head of gold.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="39">And after you another kingdom inferior to yours will arise, and another third <transChange type="added">kingdom</transChange> of bronze that will rule over the whole earth.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="40">And <transChange type="added">a</transChange> fourth kingdom will be strong as iron, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> {just as}<note>Literally "all of because"</note> iron crushes and smashes {everything},<note>Literally "the whole thing"</note> and as iron shatters all of these <transChange type="added">other metals</transChange>, <transChange type="added">so</transChange> it will crush and it will shatter <transChange type="added">these nations</transChange>.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="41">{And just as}<note>Literally "And that"</note> you saw the feet and the toes, {partly potter's clay}<note>Literally "from them clay of the potter"</note> and {partly iron},<note>Literally "from them iron"</note> it will be a divided kingdom; and {some hardness}<note>Literally "from the hardness"</note> of the iron will be <transChange type="added">in it</transChange>, {just as}<note>Literally "all of because that"</note> you have seen the iron mixed with the wet clay.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="42">And <transChange type="added">as</transChange> the toes of the feet <transChange type="added">were</transChange> partly iron and partly clay, <transChange type="added">so</transChange> part of the kingdom will be strong {and partly brittle}.<note>Literally "and from it, it will be brittle"</note></verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="43">And <transChange type="added">in</transChange> that you saw the iron was mixed with wet clay, <transChange type="added">so</transChange> {they will mix in marriage}<note>Literally "mixing they will in the seed of man"</note> and they will not cling {to one another},<note>Literally "this one with that one"</note> just as iron <transChange type="added">does</transChange> not mix with clay.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="44">And {in the day of those kings},<note>Literally "in their days of those kings"</note> the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will {never}<note>Literally "to forever not"</note> be destroyed, and the kingdom will not be left for another nation,<note>Or "people"</note> and it will bring an end to all these kingdoms, but it will stand {forever}.<note>Literally "to eternity"</note></verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="45">{Inasmuch as}<note>Literally "All of because that"</note> you saw that a stone from the mountain was chiseled out<note>Or "became loose"</note> <transChange type="added">but</transChange> not by hands, and <transChange type="added">that</transChange> it crushed the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold, <transChange type="added">thereby</transChange> the great God made known to the king what will be {in the future},<note>Literally "after this"</note> and the dream is certain and its explanation trustworthy." </verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="46">Then the king, Nebuchadnezzar, fell on his face and he paid homage to Daniel; and he commanded <transChange type="added">them</transChange> to offer <transChange type="added">a</transChange> grain offering and incense offering to him.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="47">The king answered Daniel and said, "{Truly}<note>Literally "From truth that"</note> your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the God of gods and the Lord of kings, and he reveals mysteries, for you are able to reveal this mystery."</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="48">Then the king promoted Daniel and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon and the chief prefect over all the wise men of Babylon.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="49">And Daniel made a request from the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego over the affairs of the province of Babylon, while Daniel <transChange type="added">remained</transChange> in the court of the king. </verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="1">Nebuchadnezzar the king made a statue of gold. Its height <transChange type="added">was</transChange> sixty cubits <transChange type="added">and</transChange> its width <transChange type="added">was</transChange> six cubits; he set it up in the valley of Dura in the province of Babylon.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="2">Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent <transChange type="added">directions</transChange> to assemble the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates and all of the officials of the provinces to come to the dedication of the statue that Nebuchadnezzar the king <transChange type="added">had</transChange> set up.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="3">Then the satraps, the prefects, the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates, and all the officials of the province <transChange type="added">were</transChange> assembled for the dedication of the statue that Nebuchadnezzar the king <transChange type="added">had</transChange> set up, and <transChange type="added">were</transChange> standing {before}<note>Literally "to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> front"</note> the statue that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="4">Then the herald proclaimed {aloud},<note>Literally "with power"</note> "To you {it is commanded},<note>Literally "they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> saying"</note> O peoples, {nations and people of all languages},<note>Literally "the nations and the languages"</note></verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="5"><transChange type="added">that</transChange> at the time that you hear the sound of the horn, the flute, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> lyre, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> trigon, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> harp, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> drum and all kinds of music, you must fall down and you must worship the statue of gold<note>Aramaic "the gold"</note> that Nebuchadnezzar the king <transChange type="added">has</transChange> set up.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="6">And {whoever}<note>Literally "who that"</note> does not fall down and worship will be thrown {immediately}<note>Literally "the time"</note> into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire."</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="7">{Therefore},<note>Literally "All of because this"</note> {at that time},<note>Literally "at the time"</note> {as soon as}<note>Literally "as that"</note> all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, the flute, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> lyre, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> trigon, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> harp and all kinds of music, all the peoples, {the nations and people of all languages}<note>Literally "the nations and the languages"</note> <transChange type="added">were</transChange> falling down <transChange type="added">and</transChange> were worshiping the statue of gold<note>Aramaic "the gold"</note> that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. </verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="8">{Therefore}<note>Literally "All because of this"</note> {at this time}<note>Literally "at it the time"</note> <transChange type="added">some</transChange> {astrologers}<note>Literally "Chaldean men"</note> came forward and {they denounced the Jews}.<note>Literally "they ate their pieces of the Jews"</note></verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="9">{They responded and said}<note>Literally "they answered and <transChange type="added">were</transChange> saying"</note> to Nebuchadnezzar the king, "O king, may <transChange type="added">you</transChange> live {forever}!<note>Literally "to eternity"</note></verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="10">You, O king, have made a decree that {everyone}<note>Literally "all of humanity"</note> who hears the sound of the horn, the flute, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> lyre, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> trigon, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> harp and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> drum and all kinds of music, he shall fall down and shall worship the statue of gold.<note>Aramaic "the gold"</note></verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="11">{And whoever}<note>Literally "And who that"</note> {does not fall down}<note>Literally "not he falls down"</note> and worship shall be thrown into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="12"><transChange type="added">However</transChange> there are Judean men whom you have appointed<note>Aramaic "whom you have appointed them"</note> over the affairs of the province of Babylon--Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego--these men, O king, {pay you no heed}<note>Literally "not they pay heed to you"</note> <transChange type="added">and</transChange> <transChange type="added">were</transChange> not serving your god, and the statue of gold<note>Aramaic "the gold"</note> that you set up they are not worshiping." </verse>


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<verse num="13">Then Nebuchadnezzar said in rage and anger to bring in Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego; then they brought in these men before the king.</verse>


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<verse num="14">Nebuchadnezzar answered and said to them, "<transChange type="added">Is it</transChange> true, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, <transChange type="added">that</transChange> you are not serving my god, and <transChange type="added">you are</transChange> not worshiping the statue of gold<note>Aramaic "the gold"</note> that I have set up?</verse>


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<verse num="15">Now if you are ready so that {when}<note>Literally "at that time"</note> you hear the sound of the horn, the flute, the lyre, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> trigon, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> harp and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> drum and all kinds of music, you fall down and you worship the statue that I have made, <transChange type="added">that will be good</transChange>. But if you do not worship it, {immediately}<note>Literally "at that <transChange type="added">very</transChange> time"</note> you will be thrown into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire, and {who is the god}<note>Literally "who he god"</note> who<note>Or "that"</note> will rescue you from my hands?" </verse>


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<verse num="16">Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego answered and said to the king, Nebuchadnezzar, "We have no need on this matter {to present a defense to you}.<note>Literally "to return to you"</note></verse>


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<verse num="17">{If it is so},<note>Literally "If there is"</note> our God, whom we serve, is able to rescue us from the furnace of blazing fire. And from your hand, O king, let him rescue us.</verse>


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<verse num="18">And if not, let it be known to you, O king, that {we will not serve your gods},<note>Literally "your gods not there is us serving"</note> and the statue of gold<note>Aramaic "the gold"</note> that you have set up we will not worship." </verse>


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<verse num="19">Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with anger and the image of his face was changed {toward}<note>Literally "against"</note> Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, <transChange type="added">so he</transChange> {ordered and said}<note>Literally "answering and saying"</note> to heat up the one furnace seven times what was usual to heat <transChange type="added">it</transChange> up.</verse>


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<verse num="20">And he commanded {the strongest men of the guards}<note>Literally "to the strong men, men of strength"</note> who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego and to throw <transChange type="added">them</transChange> into the furnace of blazing fire.</verse>


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<verse num="21">Then these men were bound with their garments, their trousers and their turbans and their <transChange type="added">other</transChange> clothing, and they were thrown into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire.</verse>


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<verse num="22">{Therefore}<note>Literally "because of this"</note> {because}<note>Literally "from that"</note> the word of the king was severe and the furnace was exceedingly hot, the flame of the fire killed these men who lifted up Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.</verse>


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<verse num="23">But these men, the three of them, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, fell down into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire, <transChange type="added">and they</transChange> were bound. </verse>


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<verse num="24">Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and he rose up in haste <transChange type="added">and</transChange> he asked, saying to his advisers, "<transChange type="added">Did</transChange> we not throw three men, bound, into the midst of the fire? They answered, saying to the king, "Certainly, O king!"</verse>


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<verse num="25">{He answered},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">was</transChange> answering"</note> saying, "Look, I see four men unbound walking in the midst of the fire and there is no damage to them, and the<note>Aramaic "its"</note> appearance of the fourth <transChange type="added">man</transChange> resembles the son of a god."</verse>


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<verse num="26">Then Nebuchadnezzar approached the door of the furnace of blazing fire, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> he called out, saying, "Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, {servants}<note>Literally "his servant"</note> of the Most High God, come out<note>Or "Go out"</note> and come here!"</verse>


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<verse num="27">And the satraps, the prefects, the governors and the advisors of the king <transChange type="added">were</transChange> assembling, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> they saw these men, that the fire had no power over their bodies, and the hair of their heads was<note>Aramaic plural</note> not singed, and their garments were not harmed, and the smell of fire did not come from them. </verse>


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<verse num="28">Nebuchadnezzar {responded},<note>Literally "answering"</note> saying, "Blessed be their God, <transChange type="added">the God</transChange> of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who sent his angel<note>Or "messenger"</note> and rescued his servants who trusted in him, and the command of the king they disobeyed, and they gave their bodies so that they <transChange type="added">did</transChange> not serve and <transChange type="added">did</transChange> not worship any god except their God.</verse>


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<verse num="29">And from me {is set forth}<note>Literally "setting out"</note> a decree that any people, nation, or language that <transChange type="added">may</transChange> utter criticism against their God--<transChange type="added">the God of</transChange> Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego--will be broken into pieces and their<note>Aramaic "his"</note> house will be made like ruins. {For}<note>Literally "All of because"</note> there is not another God who is able to rescue like this <transChange type="added">God</transChange>."</verse>


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<verse num="30">Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the province of Babylon. </verse>


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<verse num="1"><note>Daniel 4:1-4:37 in the English Bible is 3:31-4:34 in the Hebrew Bible</note> Nebuchadnezzar the king to all of the nations, the peoples and languages that live in the whole earth: "May your prosperity increase!</verse>


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<verse num="2">It is pleasing to me to recount the signs and wonders that the Most High God worked for me.</verse>


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<verse num="3">How great <transChange type="added">are</transChange> his signs and wonders, how strong <transChange type="added">is</transChange> his kingdom, {an everlasting kingdom};<note>Literally "a kingdom of eternity"</note> and his sovereignty is from generation to generation. </verse>


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<verse num="5">And I saw a dream and a revelation on my bed and it frightened me, and the visions of my head terrified me.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And a decree was {sent out},<note>Literally "put/placed"</note> <transChange type="added">ordering that</transChange> all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wise men of Babylon <transChange type="added">were</transChange> to be brought in before me <transChange type="added">so</transChange> that they may make known to me <transChange type="added">the</transChange> explanation of the dream.</verse>


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<verse num="7">Then the magicians,<note>Or "soothsayer-priests"</note> the conjurers,<note>Or "enchanters"</note> the {astrologers}<note>Literally "Chaldeans"</note> and the diviners came in and I told them the dream, but they could not make known to me its explanation.<note>Or "interpretation"</note></verse>


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<verse num="8">Then {at last}<note>Literally "until another"</note> Daniel came before me {whose name was}<note>Literally "who name his"</note> Belteshazzar, {according to}<note>Literally "like"</note> the name of my god, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> {in whom was the spirit of the holy gods},<note>Literally "and who <transChange type="added">the</transChange> spirit of gods holy in him"</note> {and I related the dream to him}.<note>Literally "and the dream before him I told"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="9">" '<transChange type="added">O</transChange> Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians,<note>Or "soothsayer-priests"</note> I myself know that <transChange type="added">the</transChange> spirit<note>Or "a spirit"</note> of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> holy gods <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in you, and {no mystery is too difficult}<note>Literally "every mystery is not difficult"</note> for you. <transChange type="added">Now</transChange> tell <transChange type="added">me</transChange> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> visions of my dream that I saw, and its explanation.<note>Or "interpretation"</note></verse>


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<verse num="10">Now <transChange type="added">these were</transChange> the visions of my head <transChange type="added">as I was lying</transChange> on my bed: I was {gazing}<note>Literally "seeing"</note> and, look, a tree <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in the midst of the earth, and its height <transChange type="added">was</transChange> exalted. </verse>


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<verse num="11">The tree grew and it became strong, and its height reached to heaven,<note>Or "the sky"</note> and {it was visible to the end of the whole earth}.<note>Literally "and its appearance <transChange type="added">was</transChange> to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> end of the whole earth"</note></verse>


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<verse num="12">Its foliage <transChange type="added">was</transChange> beautiful, and its fruit abundant, and in it <transChange type="added">was</transChange> provision for all. Under it the animals<note>Aramaic "animal"</note> of the field sought shade, and in its branches the birds of heaven<note>Or "the sky"</note> nested, and from it all the living beings were fed.</verse>


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<verse num="13">" 'I was looking in the vision of my head <transChange type="added">as I lay</transChange> on my bed, and look, a watcher,<note>Or "angelic being"</note> and <transChange type="added">a</transChange> holy <transChange type="added">one</transChange>, came down from heaven. </verse>


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<verse num="15">But the stump of its roots leave in the earth, {along with}<note>Literally "and with"</note> a band of iron and bronze; <transChange type="added">leave it</transChange> in the grass of the field. And in<note>Or "with"</note> the dew of heaven let it<note>Or "him," that is, the king</note> be watered, and with the animals<note>Aramaic "animal"</note> let his lot <transChange type="added">be</transChange> in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> grass of the earth.</verse>


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<verse num="16">Let his mind be changed from <transChange type="added">that of a</transChange> human,<note>Or "the human"</note> and let <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mind of an animal be given to him, and let seven times pass over him.</verse>


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<verse num="17">The sentence <transChange type="added">is</transChange> by <transChange type="added">the</transChange> decree of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> watchers, and the decision <transChange type="added">by</transChange> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> command of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> holy <transChange type="added">ones</transChange>, {in order that}<note>Literally "until matter that"</note> the living will know that the Most High <transChange type="added">is</transChange> sovereign over <transChange type="added">the</transChange> kingdom of humankind, and {to whomever}<note>Literally "to whom that"</note> he wills he gives it, and he <transChange type="added">even</transChange> sets <transChange type="added">the</transChange> humblest of men over it."</verse>


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<verse num="18">" 'This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the dream <transChange type="added">that</transChange> I, Nebuchadnezzar the king, saw. Now<note>Or "And"</note> you, Belteshazzar, declare its explanation, {for}<note>Literally "all of because that"</note> all of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wise men of my kingdom were not able to make the explanation known to me, but you are able because <transChange type="added">the</transChange> spirit of holy gods <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in you.' </verse>


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<verse num="19">"Then Daniel, whose name <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Belteshazzar, was distressed {for some time},<note>Literally "for one hour"</note> and his thoughts disturbed him. The king answered and he said, 'Belteshazzar, let the dream and its explanation not disturb you.' Belteshazzar answered and said, 'My lord, <transChange type="added">may</transChange> the dream and its explanation <transChange type="added">be</transChange> for <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> hate you and for your enemies.</verse>


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<verse num="20">The tree that you saw, which grew and became strong and its height reached to heaven<note>Or "the sky"</note> and {it was visible to the end of the whole earth},<note>Literally "its appearance to the all the earth"</note></verse>


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<verse num="21">and its foliage <transChange type="added">was</transChange> beautiful and its fruit abundant, and <transChange type="added">so there was</transChange> provision for all in it, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> the animals<note>Aramaic "animal"</note> of the field lived under it and in its branches nest <transChange type="added">the</transChange> birds of heaven,<note>Or "the sky"</note></verse>


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<verse num="22">--it is you, O king, who have grown <transChange type="added">great</transChange> and you have grown strong, and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> your greatness has increased and it has reached to heaven<note>Or "the sky"</note> and your sovereignty to the end of the earth.</verse>


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<verse num="23">And <transChange type="added">inasmuch</transChange> that the king saw <transChange type="added">the</transChange> watcher, a holy <transChange type="added">one</transChange> coming down from heaven<note>Or "the sky"</note> and he said, "Cut down the tree and destroy it, but the stump of its root in the earth leave with a band of iron and bronze in the grass of the field, and let it be watered with the dew of heaven and <transChange type="added">let</transChange> his lot <transChange type="added">be</transChange> with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> animals of the field {until seven times have passed over him}."<note>Literally "until that seven times <transChange type="added">they</transChange> pass over him"</note></verse>


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<verse num="24">This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the explanation, O king, and it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a decree of the Most High that has come upon my lord the king:</verse>


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<verse num="25">you will be driven away {from human society}<note>Literally "from the humankind"</note> and {you will dwell}<note>Literally "your dwelling will be"</note> with the animals<note>Aramaic "animal"</note> of the field, and you will be caused to graze grass like the oxen {yourself},<note>Literally "with respect to you"</note> and you will be watered with the dew of heaven, and seven <transChange type="added">periods of</transChange> time will pass over you until that you have acknowledged that the Most High <transChange type="added">is</transChange> sovereign over the kingdom of humankind, and {to whom he wills}<note>Literally "that he wills"</note> he gives it.</verse>


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<verse num="26">{And in that}<note>Literally "And for"</note> they said to leave alone the stump of the tree's root, so your kingdom <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> restored for you {when}<note>Literally "from that"</note> you acknowledge that heaven <transChange type="added">is</transChange> sovereign.</verse>


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<verse num="27">Therefore, O king, let my advice be acceptable <transChange type="added">to you</transChange> and your sin remove<note>Or "replace"</note> with righteousness and your iniquity with having mercy on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> oppressed, {in case there might be a prolongation of your prosperity}.'"<note>Literally "if will be prolongation for your prosperity"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="28">{All this happened}<note>Literally "It came upon"</note> to Nebuchadnezzar the king.</verse>


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<verse num="29">At the end of twelve months he was walking on the <transChange type="added">roof of</transChange> {the royal palace}<note>Literally "the place of the kingdom"</note> of Babylon.</verse>


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<verse num="30">And the king answered and said, "Is this not the great Babylon which I have built as a royal palace by the strength of my own power, and for the glory of my own majesty?"</verse>


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<verse num="31"><transChange type="added">While</transChange> the words <transChange type="added">were</transChange> still in the mouth of the king, a voice from heaven came, <transChange type="added">saying</transChange>, 'To you, King Nebuchadnezzar, <transChange type="added">it</transChange> is declared that the kingdom has departed from you,</verse>


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<verse num="32">and you will be driven away from {human society}<note>Literally "the humankind"</note> and your dwelling <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> with the animals<note>Aramaic "animal"</note> of the field and they will cause you to graze <transChange type="added">the</transChange> grass like oxen, and seven times will pass over you, until you acknowledge that the Most High <transChange type="added">is</transChange> sovereign over the kingdom of humankind and that he gives it to whom he wills.'</verse>


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<verse num="33">{Immediately}<note>Literally "In that hour"</note> the word was fulfilled {concerning}<note>Literally "over"</note> Nebuchadnezzar, and he was expelled from {human society}<note>Literally "the humankind"</note> and he ate grass like oxen, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven until his hair <transChange type="added">was</transChange> like <transChange type="added">the hair of</transChange> an eagle and his nails grew like <transChange type="added">a</transChange> bird's <transChange type="added">claws</transChange>. </verse>


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<verse num="34">"But at the end of {that period},<note>Literally "the day"</note> I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and <transChange type="added">then</transChange> my reason returned to me; and I blessed the Most High and {the one who lives forever}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the one</transChange> living forever"</note> I praised and I honored. </verse>


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<verse num="35">And all the dwellers of the earth are regarded as nothing, and he does {according to}<note>Literally "as"</note> his desire in the host of heaven and <transChange type="added">among</transChange> the dwellers of earth, and there is not <transChange type="added">one</transChange> who can hold back his hand, or {ask him},<note>Literally "or asks to him"</note> 'What are you doing?'</verse>


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<verse num="36">"{At that time}<note>Literally "In it the time"</note> my reason returned to me, and <transChange type="added">also</transChange> the glory of my kingdom and my majesty and splendor returned to me, and my advisers and my lords<note>Or "nobles"</note> searched <transChange type="added">me</transChange> out, and I was established over my kingdom and abundant greatness was added to me.</verse>


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<verse num="37">Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and honor the king of heaven, for all his works <transChange type="added">are</transChange> truth,<note>Or "true"</note> and his ways <transChange type="added">are</transChange> justice and that he is able to humble those who walk in pride." </verse>


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<verse num="1">Belshazzar the king made a great festival for <transChange type="added">a</transChange> thousand <transChange type="added">of</transChange> his lords,<note>Or "nobles"</note> and {in the presence of}<note>Literally "to over against"</note> the thousand <transChange type="added">lords</transChange> he was drinking wine.<note>Or "the wine"</note></verse>


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<verse num="2">{When he tasted the wine},<note>Literally "At the taste of the wine"</note> Belshazzar commanded <transChange type="added">that they</transChange> bring <transChange type="added">the</transChange> vessels of gold and silver that Nebuchadnezzar his {predecessor}<note>Literally "father"</note> had taken from the temple that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in Jerusalem, so that the king and his lords,<note>Or "nobles"</note> his wives and his concubines may drink from them.</verse>


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<verse num="3">Then they brought in the vessels of gold that they took from the temple, the house of God that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in Jerusalem, and the king and his lords,<note>Or "nobles"</note> his wives and his concubines drank from them.</verse>


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<verse num="4">They drank the wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood and stone.<note>All these metals have the definite article that does not have to be translated into English to retain the meaning</note> </verse>


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<verse num="5">{Immediately}<note>Literally "In its the hour"</note> {human fingers}<note>Literally "fingers of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hand of a man"</note> appeared and they wrote {opposite}<note>Literally "to over against"</note> the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the palace of the king, and the king was watching<note>Or "gazing at"</note> the palm of the hand that was writing.</verse>


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<verse num="6">Then his face changed and his thoughts terrified him, and {his hip joints gave way}<note>Literally "the limbs of his hip became loose"</note> and {his knees knocked together}.<note>Literally "his knees this to this they knocked together"</note></verse>


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<verse num="7">The king cried {aloud}<note>Literally "with strength"</note> to bring <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the conjurers,<note>Or "enchanters"</note> the {astrologers}<note>Literally "Chaldeans"</note> and the diviners; the king {spoke}<note>Literally "answered"</note> and said to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wise men of Babylon, "Any man that can read this writing and can tell me its explanation will be clothed <transChange type="added">in</transChange> purple and <transChange type="added">will have</transChange> <transChange type="added">a</transChange> necklace of gold <transChange type="added">hung</transChange> around his neck and he will rule <transChange type="added">as</transChange> third <transChange type="added">in authority</transChange> in the kingdom."</verse>


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<verse num="8">Then all the wise men of the king came in, but they were not able to read the writing or to make known its explanation.<note>Aramaic "the explanation/ interpretation"</note></verse>


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<verse num="9">Then the king, Belshazzar, became greatly terrified, and {his facial features}<note>Literally "shining of his face"</note> changed upon him, and his lords<note>Or "nobles"</note> were perplexed. </verse>


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<verse num="10">Because of the words of the king and his lords,<note>Or "nobles"</note> the queen came into {the banqueting hall}<note>Literally "the house of the drinking"</note> and the queen {spoke up}<note>Literally "answered"</note> and said, "O king, live {forever},<note>Literally "to eternity"</note> and let not your thoughts terrify you and <transChange type="added">do</transChange> not let your facial expressions {grow pale}.<note>Literally "change"</note></verse>


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<verse num="11">There is a man in your kingdom {who has the spirit of the holy gods in him}.<note>Literally "who <transChange type="added">the</transChange> spirit of holy gods <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in him"</note> And in the days of your {predecessor},<note>Literally "father"</note> enlightenment and insight and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods was found in him; and, O king, Nebuchadnezzar your {predecessor}<note>Literally "father"</note> appointed him <transChange type="added">as</transChange> chief of the magicians,<note>Or "soothsayer-priests"</note> the conjurers,<note>Or "enchanters"</note> the {astrologers},<note>Literally "Chaldeans"</note> <transChange type="added">and</transChange> the diviners. Your {predecessor}<note>Literally "father"</note> the king <transChange type="added">did this</transChange></verse>


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<verse num="12">{because}<note>Literally "all of because that"</note> <transChange type="added">there</transChange> was found in him <transChange type="added">an</transChange> excellent spirit and understanding and insight <transChange type="added">for</transChange> interpreting dreams and explaining riddles and solving riddles; <transChange type="added">that is</transChange>, in Daniel {whom the king named}<note>Literally "whom the king gave his name"</note> Belteshazzar. Now, let Daniel be called and he will tell the explanation."<note>Or "interpretation"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="13">Then Daniel was brought in before the king, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> the king {spoke}<note>Literally "answered"</note> and said to Daniel, "You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> Daniel {who are one of the exiles}<note>Literally "who from sons of the exile"</note> of Judah<note>Aramaic "Jehud"</note> whom my {predecessor},<note>Literally "father"</note> the king, brought from Judah.<note>Aramaic "Jehud"</note></verse>


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<verse num="14">And I have heard that a spirit of the gods <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in you and enlightenment and insight and excellent wisdom was found in you.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And now the wise men <transChange type="added">and</transChange> the conjurers<note>Or "enchanters"</note> were brought in before me <transChange type="added">so</transChange> that they could read this writing <transChange type="added">in order to</transChange> make its explanation<note>Or "interpretation"</note> known to me, but they were not able to disclose the explanation<note>Or "interpretation"</note> of the matter.</verse>


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<verse num="16">But I have heard concerning you that you are able {to produce interpretations}<note>Literally "to interpret interpretations"</note> and to solve riddles; now if you are able to read the writing and to make known its explanation<note>Or "interpretation"</note> to me, you will be clothed <transChange type="added">in</transChange> purple and <transChange type="added">a</transChange> necklace of gold <transChange type="added">will be placed</transChange> around your neck and you will rule <transChange type="added">as</transChange> third <transChange type="added">in command</transChange> in the kingdom." </verse>


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<verse num="17">Then Daniel answered and said before the king, "Let your gifts be for yourself or your rewards give to another; nevertheless, I will read the writing to the king and I will make known to him the explanation.<note>Or "interpretation"</note></verse>


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<verse num="18">{O king},<note>Literally "You, O king"</note> the Most High God gave the kingdom and the greatness and the glory and the majesty to Nebuchadnezzar your {predecessor}.<note>Literally "father"</note></verse>


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<verse num="19">And because of the greatness that he gave to him, all the peoples, the nations and languages trembled and feared before him; whomever he wanted he killed, and whomever he wanted he let live, and whomever he wanted he honored, and whomever he wanted he humbled.</verse>


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<verse num="20">But {when}<note>Literally "as that"</note> his heart became arrogant and his spirit became hard <transChange type="added">so as</transChange> to act proudly, he was deposed from the throne of his kingdom and the<note>Or "his"</note> glory {was taken away from him}.<note>Literally "they took away"</note></verse>


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<verse num="21">And he was driven away {from human society}<note>Literally "from the sons of the humankind"</note> and his mind was made like the animals<note>Aramaic "with the animals"</note> and his dwelling <transChange type="added">was</transChange> with the wild asses; <transChange type="added">and</transChange> {he was given}<note>Literally "they gave him"</note> grass like oxen to eat, and with<note>Aramaic "from"</note> the dew of heaven his body was bathed, until he acknowledged that the Most High God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> sovereign over the kingdom of humankind, and {whoever}<note>Literally "to from that"</note> he wants he sets over it. </verse>


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<verse num="22">"But you his {successor},<note>Literally "son"</note> Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart {even though}<note>Literally "all of because that"</note> you knew all this.</verse>


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<verse num="23">And <transChange type="added">now</transChange> you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven, and the vessels of his temple you have brought in before you, and you and your lords,<note>Or "nobles"</note> your wives and your concubines, have been drinking wine from<note>Aramaic "with"</note> them, and you have praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone<note>All the materials in this list have the definite article that does not have to be translated into English</note> that <transChange type="added">do</transChange> not see and <transChange type="added">do</transChange> not hear and <transChange type="added">do</transChange> not know, but the God {who holds your life in his hand}<note>Literally "who your breath <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in his hand"</note> and all of your ways {come from him},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">belong</transChange> to him"</note> you have not honored.</verse>


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<verse num="24">So then the palm of the hand was sent out from his presence and this writing was inscribed. </verse>


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<verse num="25">"Now this was the writing that was inscribed: 'Mene, Mene, Tekel and Parsin.' </verse>


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<verse num="26">"This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the explanation of the matter:<note>Or "word, message"</note> 'Mene'--God has numbered your kingdom and brought an end <transChange type="added">to</transChange> it. </verse>


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<verse num="27">" 'Tekel'--you have been weighed on scales and you have been found wanting.<note>Or "deficient"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="28">" 'Peres'--your kingdom has been divided and given to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Medes and Persians.'" </verse>


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<verse num="29">Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel <transChange type="added">with</transChange> purple and <transChange type="added">placed</transChange> a necklace of gold around his neck, and they made a proclamation concerning him that he would be <transChange type="added">the</transChange> third ruler <transChange type="added">in authority</transChange> in the kingdom.</verse>


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<verse num="30">{That same night}<note>Literally "In it, in the night"</note> Belshazzar, the Chaldean king, was killed.</verse>


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<verse num="31"><note>Daniel 5:31-6:28 in the English Bible is 6:1-29 in the Hebrew Bible</note> And Darius the Mede received the kingdom {when he was about sixty-two years old}.<note>Literally "when a son of sixty and two years"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="1">{It pleased Darius},<note>Literally "It was pleasant before Darius"</note> and he set up one hundred and twenty satraps over the kingdom, that they were {throughout the whole kingdom},<note>Literally "in all the kingdom"</note></verse>


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<verse num="2">and over them <transChange type="added">were</transChange> three administrators, <transChange type="added">of</transChange> whom Daniel <transChange type="added">was</transChange> one, <transChange type="added">so</transChange> that these satraps were giving account to them, and the king would not be suffering loss.</verse>


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<verse num="3">Then Daniel {began distinguishing himself}<note>Literally "was distinguishing himself"</note> above the administrators and the satraps {because}<note>Literally "all of because that"</note> an exceptional spirit <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in him, and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> the king planned to appoint him over the whole kingdom.</verse>


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<verse num="4">Then the <transChange type="added">other</transChange> administrators and satraps {began to seek}<note>Literally "were seeking"</note> to find <transChange type="added">a</transChange> pretext against Daniel {in connection with the kingdom},<note>Literally "from the side of the kingdom"</note> but they were not able to find any pretext and {corruption}<note>Literally "being corrupt"</note> {because}<note>Literally "all because that"</note> he was trustworthy, and no<note>Aramaic "any"</note> negligence or {corruption}<note>Literally "being corrupt"</note> {could be found in him}.<note>Literally "not could be found"</note></verse>


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<verse num="5">Then these men {said},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">were</transChange> saying"</note> "We will not find any pretext<note>Or "basis for accusation"</note> against this Daniel unless we find it in connection with the law of his God." </verse>


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<verse num="6">So the administrators and the satraps conspired {with respect to}<note>Literally "on/upon"</note> the king and so they said to him, "Darius, O king, live {forever}!<note>Literally "to eternity"</note></verse>


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<verse num="7">All of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> administrators of the kingdom, and the prefects, the satraps, the counselors and the governors took counsel <transChange type="added">and have</transChange> agreed to establish an edict of the king and to enforce a decree that {whoever}<note>Literally "all that"</note> will seek a prayer from any god or human except from you <transChange type="added">for</transChange> up to thirty days will be thrown into {the lion pit}.<note>Literally "pit of lions"</note></verse>


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<verse num="8">Now, O king, establish the edict and you must sign the document <transChange type="added">so</transChange> that <transChange type="added">it</transChange> cannot be changed, according to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> law of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Medes and Persians which cannot be revoked." </verse>


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<verse num="9">{So}<note>Literally "Like to before this"</note> the king, Darius, signed the writing and the interdict.<note>Or "the writing that is the interdict"</note></verse>


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<verse num="10">Now {when}<note>Literally "as that"</note> Daniel realized that the document was signed, he went to his house ({now he had windows in his upper room that were open}<note>Literally "and windows were open to him in his upper room"</note> toward Jerusalem), and three times {daily}<note>Literally "in the day"</note> he knelt on his knees and prayed and <transChange type="added">gave</transChange> praise before his God, {just as}<note>Literally "all because that"</note> he had been doing {previously}.<note>Literally "from before this"</note></verse>


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<verse num="11">Then these men came as a group and they found Daniel praying and pleading for mercy before his God.</verse>


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<verse num="12">Then they approached {and spoke with the king}<note>Literally "and saying before the king"</note> concerning the edict of the king, "{Did you not sign an edict}<note>Literally "Not an edict you signed?"</note> that any person who would seek <transChange type="added">anything</transChange> from any God or human within thirty days except from you, O king, would be thrown into {the lion pit}?"<note>Literally "pit of lions"</note> The king answered and said, "The matter <transChange type="added">as you have just stated</transChange> is certain according to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> law of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Medes and Persians which cannot be revoked." </verse>


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<verse num="13">Then {they responded}<note>Literally "they answered"</note> and said before the king, "Daniel, who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> from {the exiles}<note>Literally "the sons of the exile"</note> of Judah,<note>Aramaic "Jehud"</note> {is not paying any attention}<note>Literally "not he sets <transChange type="added">his mind</transChange>"</note> to you, O king, or to the decree that you have signed, {and three times daily}<note>Literally "and three times on the day"</note> he says his prayer."</verse>


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<verse num="14">Then the king, when<note>Aramaic "as "</note> he heard that {report},<note>Literally "word"</note> he was extremely distressed over it; and {concerning Daniel}<note>Literally "upon Daniel"</note> {he was determined}<note>Literally "he set <transChange type="added">his</transChange> heart"</note> to rescue him. And until the setting of the sun he was making every effort to deliver him.</verse>


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<verse num="15">Then these men came as <transChange type="added">a</transChange> group to the king and {said},<note>Literally "saying"</note> "Recall, O king, that <transChange type="added">with respect to</transChange> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> law of<note>Aramaic "to"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Medes and Persians that {any}<note>Literally "all/every"</note> decree or edict that the king establishes cannot be changed." </verse>


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<verse num="16">Then the king gave the command, and Daniel was brought in and they threw <transChange type="added">him</transChange> into {the lion pit}.<note>Literally "pit of lions"</note> {The king said}<note>Literally "The king answered and saying"</note> to Daniel, "Your God, whom you serve {faithfully},<note>Literally "in the loyalty"</note> may he rescue you!"</verse>


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<verse num="17">And a<note>Aramaic "one"</note> stone was brought and it was put on the entrance of the pit, and the king sealed it with his signet <transChange type="added">ring</transChange> and with the signet <transChange type="added">rings</transChange> of his lords,<note>Or "nobles"</note> so that nothing would be changed concerning Daniel.</verse>


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<verse num="18">Then the king went to his palace and spent the night in fasting, and no food was brought in before him and his sleep fled from him. </verse>


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<verse num="19">Then the king got up at daybreak, at first light, and he went {in haste}<note>Literally "to hasten"</note> to {the lion pit}.<note>Literally "pit of lions"</note></verse>


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<verse num="20">And {when he came near}<note>Literally "as coming near him"</note> to the pit, he cried out to Daniel with <transChange type="added">a</transChange> distressed voice, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> the king {spoke}<note>Literally "answered"</note> and said to Daniel, "O Daniel, servant of the living God, your God whom you serve faithfully, was he able to rescue you from the lions?"</verse>


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<verse num="21">Then Daniel spoke to<note>Aramaic "with"</note> the king, "O king, live {forever}!<note>Literally "unto endless ages"</note></verse>


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<verse num="22">My God sent his angel and he shut the mouth of the lions and they did not<note>Aramaic "would not"</note> hurt me, {because}<note>Literally "all of because that"</note> before him {I was found}<note>Literally "it was found for me"</note> blameless, and also before you, O king, I have not done <transChange type="added">any</transChange> wrong." </verse>


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<verse num="23">Then the king was exceedingly glad over it<note>That is, the situation</note> and commanded <transChange type="added">that</transChange> Daniel be lifted up from the pit; and <transChange type="added">there</transChange> was not any wound found on him, because he had trusted in his God.</verse>


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<verse num="24">The king then commanded, and these men were brought {who had accused Daniel},<note>Literally "they ate his pieces of Daniel"</note> and they threw them and their children and their wives into {the lion pit},<note>Literally "pit of lions"</note> and they had not reached the floor of the pit {before}<note>Literally "until that"</note> the lions had overpowered them and they had crushed all of their bones. </verse>


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<verse num="25">Then Darius the king wrote to all the people, the nations, and the languages living in the whole earth, "May your prosperity become great!</verse>


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<verse num="26">{I make a decree}<note>Literally "From before me is put forth a decree"</note> that in all the dominion of my kingdom <transChange type="added">people</transChange> will be trembling and fearing before the God of Daniel, for he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the living God and endures {forever}<note>Literally "to eternity/endless ages"</note> and his<note>Literally "and whose"</note> kingdom <transChange type="added">is</transChange> one that will not be destroyed and his {dominion has no end}.<note>Literally "dominion his to the end"</note></verse>


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<verse num="27"><transChange type="added">He is</transChange> rescuing, delivering, and working signs and wonders in the heavens and on earth, for he <transChange type="added">has</transChange> rescued Daniel from the {power}<note>Literally "hand"</note> of the lions."</verse>


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<verse num="28">So this Daniel prospered during the kingdom of Darius and during the kingdom of Cyrus the Persian. </verse>


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<verse num="1">In the first year of Belshazzar the king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions<note>Or "the visions"</note> of his head <transChange type="added">as he lay</transChange> on his bed; then he wrote down the dream <transChange type="added">and</transChange> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {summary}<note>Literally "head"</note> of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> words {as follows}:<note>Literally "saying"</note></verse>


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<verse num="2">Daniel {explained}<note>Literally "answered"</note> and said, "I was looking in my vision in the night, and look, the four winds of heaven were stirring <transChange type="added">up</transChange> the great sea.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And four great beasts <transChange type="added">were</transChange> coming up from the sea, differing {from one another}.<note>Literally "this from this"</note></verse>


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<verse num="4">The first <transChange type="added">was</transChange> like <transChange type="added">a</transChange> lion and {had}<note>Literally "for him/it"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wings of an eagle. I was watching until its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the earth and it was raised on <transChange type="added">its</transChange> feet like a human, and a human heart was given to it.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And look, another beast, a second one, looking like a bear. And it was raised up on one side and three tusks<note>Or "ribs"</note> <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in its mouth between its teeth, and so {it was told},<note>Literally "they were saying"</note> "Arise, eat much flesh!"</verse>


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<verse num="6">After this I was watching and look, another <transChange type="added">beast</transChange> like a leopard; {it had four wings}<note>Literally "and <transChange type="added">there were</transChange> to it four wings"</note> of a bird on its back, and {the beast had}<note>Literally "to the beast"</note> four heads, and dominion was given to it.</verse>


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<verse num="7">After this in the visions of the night I was looking and there was a fourth beast, terrifying and frightful and exceedingly strong, and {it had}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">were</transChange> to it"</note> {great iron teeth},<note>Literally "teeth of iron for it great"</note> <transChange type="added">and it was</transChange> devouring and crushing, and it stamped the remainder<note>Or "residue"</note> with its feet; and it was different from all <transChange type="added">the other</transChange> beasts {that preceded it}<note>Literally "that preceding her/it"</note> {and it had ten horns}.<note>Literally "and ten horns for her/it"</note></verse>


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<verse num="8">I was considering the horns, and look, another little horn came up {among}<note>Literally "between"</note> them, and three of the earlier horns {were rooted out}<note>Literally "dehorned"</note> from before it, and there were eyes like the eyes of <transChange type="added">a</transChange> human<note>Or "humankind"</note> in this horn and <transChange type="added">also</transChange> a mouth <transChange type="added">that was</transChange> speaking boastfully. </verse>


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<verse num="9">"{I continued watching}<note>Literally "I was watching"</note> until thrones were placed and an Ancient of Days sat; his clothing <transChange type="added">was</transChange> like white snow and the hair of his head <transChange type="added">was</transChange> like pure wool and his throne <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a flame<note>Or "ablaze with"</note> of fire and its wheels<note>Aramaic "wheel"</note> <transChange type="added">were</transChange> burning fire.</verse>


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<verse num="10">A stream of fire issued forth and flowed {from his presence};<note>Literally "from before him"</note> thousands <transChange type="added">upon</transChange> thousands served him and ten thousand <transChange type="added">upon</transChange> ten thousand stood before him. The judge sat, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> books were opened. </verse>


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<verse num="11">"{I continued watching}<note>Literally "I was watching"</note> then<note>Aramaic "in then"</note> because of the noise of the boastful words of the horn <transChange type="added">who was</transChange> speaking; {I continued watching}<note>Literally "I was watching"</note> until the beast was slain and its body was destroyed, and it was given <transChange type="added">over</transChange> to burning with fire.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And <transChange type="added">as for</transChange> the remainder of the beasts, {their dominion was taken away},<note>Literally "they took away their dominion"</note> but a prolongation {of their life}<note>Literally "in life"</note> was given to them for a season and a time. </verse>


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<verse num="13">"{I continued watching}<note>Literally "I was watching"</note> in the visions of the night, and look, with the clouds of heaven <transChange type="added">one</transChange> like a son of man<note>Or "mortal," or "son of humankind"</note> was coming, and he came to the Ancient of Days, and {was presented}<note>Literally "they presented him"</note> before him.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And to him was given dominion and glory and kingship that<note>Aramaic "and"</note> all the peoples, the nations, and languages <transChange type="added">would</transChange> serve him; his dominion <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a dominion {without end}<note>Literally "of eternity"</note> that will not cease, and his kingdom <transChange type="added">is one</transChange> that will not be destroyed. </verse>


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<verse num="15">"{As for me, Daniel},<note>Literally "I Daniel"</note> my spirit was troubled {within me},<note>Literally "in the midst of sheath"</note> and the visions of my head terrified me.</verse>


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<verse num="16"><transChange type="added">So</transChange> I approached one of the attendants and I asked him<note>Aramaic "from him"</note> <transChange type="added">about</transChange> the truth concerning all this; and he told me<note>Aramaic "to me"</note> <transChange type="added">that</transChange> he would make known to me the explanation of the matter.</verse>


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<verse num="17">'These great beasts which are four <transChange type="added">in number</transChange> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> four kings <transChange type="added">who</transChange> will arise from the earth.</verse>


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<verse num="18">But the holy ones<note>Or "saints"</note> of the Most High will receive the kingdom, and they will take possession of the kingdom forever, {forever and ever}.'<note>Literally "forever and to forever"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="19">"Then I desired to make certain concerning the fourth beast that was different from {all the others}<note>Literally "all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> them"</note>--exceedingly terrifying, with its iron teeth and its claws of bronze; it devoured and crushed <transChange type="added">and</transChange> stamped the remainder with its feet--</verse>


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<verse num="20">and concerning the horns that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> on its head, and <transChange type="added">concerning</transChange> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> other <transChange type="added">horn</transChange> that came up and {before which three horns fell},<note>Literally "and fell from before it three"</note> and this horn {had eyes}<note>Literally "and eyes to it"</note> and <transChange type="added">a</transChange> mouth speaking {boastfully},<note>Literally "abundantly"</note> and its appearance <transChange type="added">was</transChange> larger than its companions.</verse>


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<verse num="21">{I continued watching},<note>Literally "I was watching"</note> and this horn made war with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> holy ones<note>Or "saints"</note> and it prevailed over them,</verse>


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<verse num="22">until the Ancient of Days came and gave judgment to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> holy ones<note>Or "saints"</note> of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Most High; and the time arrived and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> holy ones<note>Or "saints"</note> took possession of the kingdom. </verse>


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<verse num="23">"And he said, 'The fourth beast <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the fourth kingdom <transChange type="added">that</transChange> will be on the earth that will be different from all the <transChange type="added">other</transChange> kingdoms, and it will devour the whole earth and it will trample it and it will crush it.</verse>


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<verse num="24">And <transChange type="added">as for</transChange> the ten horns <transChange type="added">coming</transChange> from it, <transChange type="added">from</transChange> this kingdom<note>Or "the kingdom"</note> ten kings will arise, and another will arise after them. And he will be different from the earlier <transChange type="added">ones</transChange>, and he will subdue three kings.</verse>


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<verse num="25">And he will speak words against the Most High, and he will wear out <transChange type="added">the</transChange> holy ones<note>Or "saints"</note> of the Most High, and he will attempt to change times and law, and they will be given into his hand for a time and two times and half a time.</verse>


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<verse num="26">Then the court will sit, and his dominion will be removed,<note>Or "taken away"</note> to be eradicated and to be destroyed {totally}.<note>Literally "until the end"</note></verse>


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<verse num="27">And the kingdom and the dominion and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be given to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nation of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> holy ones<note>Or "saints"</note> of the Most High; his kingdom {is an everlasting kingdom},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">is</transChange> a kingdom of eternity"</note> and all the dominions will serve and obey him.' </verse>


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<verse num="28">{This is the end of the account}.<note>Literally "Up to here <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the end of the account"</note> {As for me, Daniel}<note>Literally "I Daniel"</note>--my thoughts terrified me greatly and my face changed over me, but I kept the matter in my heart."<note>Or "to myself"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="1">In the third year <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the kingdom of Belshazzar the king, a vision appeared {to me, Daniel},<note>Literally "I Daniel"</note> after the one that appeared to me {previously}.<note>Literally "in the beginning"</note></verse>


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<verse num="2">And I saw in the vision, {and when I saw},<note>Literally "and it was at my seeing"</note> I <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in Susa, the citadel that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in the province of Elam. And I saw in the vision, and {I myself}<note>Literally "I, I was"</note> was at the stream of Ulai.<note>Or "Ulai Canal" (NASB); "stream of the Ulai" (NEB)</note></verse>


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<verse num="3">And I lifted up my eyes and I saw, and look! A ram<note>Hebrew "One ram"</note> standing {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> the stream, and {it had}<note>Literally "for it"</note> two horns, and the horns <transChange type="added">were</transChange> long, but the one <transChange type="added">was</transChange> longer than the second, and the longer <transChange type="added">one</transChange> came up {after the other one}.<note>Literally "in the behind of the other"</note></verse>


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<verse num="4">I saw the ram charging westward and northward and southward, and {none of the beasts stood before it},<note>Literally "all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> beasts not they withstood to the face of him"</note> and there was no rescuing from {its power},<note>Literally "its hand"</note> and it did {what it wanted}<note>Literally "according to its will"</note> and it became strong.<note>Or "it/he magnified itself/himself"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="5">And I was considering <transChange type="added">this</transChange>, and look, a he-goat coming from the west across the face of the whole earth, and <transChange type="added">it</transChange> was not touching the ground;<note>Or "earth," or "land"</note> and the he-goat <transChange type="added">had</transChange> {a conspicuous horn}<note>Literally "a horn of vision"</note> between its eyes.</verse>


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<verse num="6">Then it came toward the ram {that had the two horns}<note>Literally "the owner of the two horns"</note> that I saw standing {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> the stream, and it ran at it with<note>Or "in"</note> the rage of its power.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And I saw it approaching the ram and it was furious at it, and it struck the ram, and it broke its two horns, and {there was not strength in the ram to stand before him},<note>Literally "and not was strength in the ram to withstand to the face of him"</note> and he threw it down to the ground and trampled it, {and there was no one who could rescue the ram}<note>Literally "and not he/it was one rescuing"</note> from its power.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And the he-goat grew {exceedingly great},<note>Literally "until much"</note> and {at the height of its power}<note>Literally "and at his being powerful"</note> the great horn was broken, and four conspicuous horns<note>LXX reads "others" here for "conspicuous." The words in Hebrew can be confused for each other</note> came up in place of it toward the four winds of heaven. </verse>


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<verse num="9">{And from one of them}<note>Literally "And from the one from them"</note> came forth <transChange type="added">a</transChange> horn, {a little one},<note>Literally "one from little"</note> and it grew exceedingly<note>Or "pre-eminently"</note> toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the beautiful land.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And it grew up to the host of heaven, and it threw down to the ground some of the host and some of the stars and trampled them.</verse>


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<verse num="11">Even against the prince of the hosts it acted arrogantly and took away from him the regular burnt offering, and the place of his sanctuary was overthrown.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And on account of transgression, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> host was given over <transChange type="added">to the horn</transChange> in addition to the regular burnt offering. And it cast down truth to the ground, and it {acted},<note>Literally "did"</note> and it had success. </verse>


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<verse num="13">And I heard a certain holy one speaking, and a certain other holy one said to the specific one {who was speaking},<note>Literally "the <transChange type="added">one</transChange> speaking"</note> "{For how long}<note>Literally "Until when"</note> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the vision <transChange type="added">concerning</transChange> the regular burnt offering, and the transgression <transChange type="added">that</transChange> makes desolate, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> giving over <transChange type="added">of the</transChange> sanctuary and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> host to trampling?"</verse>


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<verse num="14">And he said to me, "For two thousand three hundred evenings and mornings, then <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sanctuary will be restored." </verse>


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<verse num="15">{And then}<note>Literally "And it happened"</note> when I, Daniel, saw the vision, and I was seeking understanding, there was <transChange type="added">one</transChange> standing before me with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> appearance of a man.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And I heard <transChange type="added">the</transChange> voice of a human at <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Ulai, and he called and said, "Gabriel, <transChange type="added">make</transChange> this <transChange type="added">man</transChange> understand the vision."</verse>


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<verse num="17">And he came beside {where I was standing},<note>Literally "my standing"</note> and {when he came}<note>Literally "at his coming"</note> I became terrified and I fell prostrate on my face. And he said to me, "Understand, son of man,<note>Or "mortal," or "son of humankind"</note> that the vision <transChange type="added">is</transChange> for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> time of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> end." </verse>


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<verse num="18">And {when he spoke}<note>Literally "at his speaking"</note> with me I fell into a trance with my face to the ground, and he touched me and made me stand on by feet.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And he said, "Look, I am making known to you what will happen in the period of wrath,<note>Or "the wrath"</note> for <transChange type="added">it refers</transChange> to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> appointed time of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> end. </verse>


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<verse num="20">"The ram that you saw {who had two horns}<note>Literally "the owner of the two horns"</note> <transChange type="added">represents</transChange> the kings of Media and Persia. </verse>


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<verse num="21">"And the hairy he-goat <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the {kingdom}<note>Literally "king"</note> of Greece, and the great horn that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> between his eyes--he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the first king.</verse>


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<verse num="22">And the <transChange type="added">horn</transChange> <transChange type="added">that</transChange> was broken, and <transChange type="added">then</transChange> there arose four <transChange type="added">horns</transChange> in place of it--<transChange type="added">these are</transChange> four kingdoms <transChange type="added">that</transChange> will arise from <transChange type="added">his</transChange> nation, but not with his power.</verse>


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<verse num="23">And at the end of their kingdom, when the transgressions are completed, a king will arise, fierce in countenance and skilled in riddles.</verse>


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<verse num="24">And his power will grow, but not by his <transChange type="added">own</transChange> power, and he will cause fearful destruction, and he will succeed and {he will act},<note>Literally "he will do"</note> and he will destroy <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mighty and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> people of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> holy ones.<note>Or "saints"</note></verse>


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<verse num="25">And by his planning<note>Or "cunning"</note> he will make a success of deceit by<note>Hebrew "in"</note> his hand, and in his {mind}<note>Literally "heart"</note> he will {boast},<note>Literally "magnify himself"</note> and in <transChange type="added">their</transChange> ease he will destroy many, and <transChange type="added">even</transChange> against <transChange type="added">the</transChange> prince of princes he will rise up, and he will be broken, <transChange type="added">but</transChange> not by human hands.</verse>


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<verse num="26">And the vision of the evening and the morning that has been {described},<note>Literally "told"</note> it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> true; and you, seal <transChange type="added">up</transChange> the vision, for {it refers to many days to come}."<note>Literally "for to days many"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="27">And I, Daniel, was overcome, and I became ill for <transChange type="added">some</transChange> days, and I {performed}<note>Literally "did"</note> the business of the king, and I was dismayed over the vision and {I did not understand it}.<note>Literally "there was not understanding"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="1">In <transChange type="added">the</transChange> first year <transChange type="added">of</transChange> Darius, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> son of Ahasuerus,<note>That is, Xerxes</note> from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> offspring of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Medes, who became king over <transChange type="added">the</transChange> kingdom of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Chaldeans--</verse>


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<verse num="2">in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> first year <transChange type="added">of</transChange> his kingship I, Daniel, observed in the scrolls the number of the years that it was <transChange type="added">that were</transChange> to be fulfilled <transChange type="added">according to</transChange> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> word of Yahweh to Jeremiah the prophet for the devastation of Jerusalem--seventy years. </verse>


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<verse num="3">Then I turned my face to the Lord God to seek <transChange type="added">him</transChange> <transChange type="added">by</transChange> prayer and pleas for mercy,<note>Or "supplications"</note> in fasting and <transChange type="added">in</transChange> sackcloth and ashes.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And I prayed to Yahweh my God, and I made confession and I said, "O Lord, the great and awesome God, keeping the covenant and loyal love with <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> love him and with <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> keep his commandments,</verse>


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<verse num="5">we have sinned and we have done wrong and we acted wickedly and we rebelled and <transChange type="added">have been</transChange> turning aside from your commandments and from your ordinances.</verse>


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<verse num="6">We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes and our ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> and to all the people of the land. </verse>


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<verse num="7">"{Righteousness belongs to you, O Lord},<note>Literally "for you Lord the righteousness"</note> and on us <transChange type="added">is</transChange> open shame, <transChange type="added">just</transChange> as <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> this day to the people of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to all Israel, {those who are near and those who are far off}<note>Literally "those near and those far"</note> in all the lands <transChange type="added">to</transChange> which you have driven them,<note>Hebrew "<transChange type="added">to</transChange> which you have driven them there"</note> because of their infidelity which they displayed against you.</verse>


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<verse num="8">Yahweh, on us <transChange type="added">is</transChange> open shame, on our kings, on our princes, and on our ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> because we have sinned against you.</verse>


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<verse num="9">{Compassion and forgiveness belong to the Lord, our God},<note>Literally "to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Lord our God the compassion and the forgiveness"</note> for we have rebelled against him,</verse>


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<verse num="10">and we have not listened to the voice of Yahweh our God, by following his law {which he placed before us}<note>Literally "which he gave to the face of us"</note> by <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hand of his servants the prophets. </verse>


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<verse num="11">"And all Israel transgressed your law and turned aside <transChange type="added">so as</transChange> not to listen to your voice, and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> the curse and the oath which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> written in the law of Moses, the servant of God, has been poured out upon us, because we have sinned against him.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And <transChange type="added">so</transChange> he <transChange type="added">has</transChange> carried out his words which he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us, to bring upon us <transChange type="added">a</transChange> great calamity which was not done under all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> heaven as it was done in Jerusalem.</verse>


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<verse num="13">Just as <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> written in the law of Moses, all of this calamity has come upon us, and {we have not implored}<note>Literally "we not implored"</note> the face of Yahweh our God <transChange type="added">so as</transChange> to turn from our iniquities and to attend closely to your faithfulness.<note>Or "truth"</note></verse>


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<verse num="14">So Yahweh <transChange type="added">has</transChange> kept watch over the<note>Or "his"</note> calamity, and <transChange type="added">now</transChange> he <transChange type="added">has</transChange> brought it upon us. Indeed, Yahweh our God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> righteous concerning all his works<note>Or "acts"</note> that he has done, but we have not listened to his voice. </verse>


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<verse num="15">"And now, Lord our God, who have brought your people out from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land of Egypt with a strong hand, and you <transChange type="added">have</transChange> made for yourself a name <transChange type="added">until</transChange> this day--we have sinned, we have acted wickedly.</verse>


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<verse num="16">Lord, according to all your righteousness, please let your anger and your rage turn away from your city Jerusalem, {your holy mountain},<note>Literally "the mountain of your holiness"</note> because through our sins and through the iniquities of our ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> Jerusalem and your people have become an object of mockery among all of our neighbors. </verse>


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<verse num="17">"And now, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his pleas for mercy. Shine<note>Or "let shine" or "cause to shine"</note> your face upon your desolate sanctuary {for your sake, O Lord}.<note>Literally "for the sake of the Lord"</note></verse>


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<verse num="18">Incline your ear, my God, and listen; open your eyes and look at our desolation and the city that is called <transChange type="added">by</transChange> your name, for we <transChange type="added">are</transChange> not presenting our pleas for mercy {before you}<note>Literally "to the face of you"</note> because of our righteousness, but <transChange type="added">rather</transChange> because of your great compassion.</verse>


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<verse num="19">Lord, listen! Lord, forgive! Lord, pay heed and act! You must not delay {for your sake},<note>Literally "for the sake of you"</note> my God; because {your city and your people are called by your name}."<note>Literally "your name is called over your city and over your people"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="20">Now I <transChange type="added">was</transChange> still speaking and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my plea {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> Yahweh my God, on behalf {of the holy mountain of my God}.<note>Literally "the mountain of the holiness of my God"</note></verse>


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<verse num="21">And I <transChange type="added">was</transChange> still speaking in prayer, and the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision {previously},<note>Literally "in the beginning"</note> {in my weariness touched me}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">my</transChange> being wearied, touching me"</note> at <transChange type="added">the</transChange> time of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> evening offering.</verse>


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<verse num="22">And he instructed <transChange type="added">me</transChange> and he spoke with me and he said, "Daniel I have now come out<note>Or "forth"</note> to teach you understanding.</verse>


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<verse num="23">At the beginning of your pleas for mercy, a word went out, and <transChange type="added">now</transChange> I have come to declare<note>Or "deliver"</note> <transChange type="added">it</transChange>, for you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> highly esteemed, and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> consider the word and understand the vision. </verse>


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<verse num="24">"Seventy weeks is decreed for your people and {for your holy city},<note>Literally "for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> city of your holiness"</note> to put an end to the transgression and to seal <transChange type="added">up</transChange> sin<note>Or "to make an end to sin"</note> and to make atonement for guilt and to bring <transChange type="added">in</transChange> everlasting righteousness and to seal vision and prophet and to anoint {the most holy place}.<note>Literally "the holy place of holy places"</note></verse>


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<verse num="25">And you must know and you must understand<note>Or "so you are to know and discern" (NASB), or "know then and understand" (e.g. NEB)</note> <transChange type="added">that</transChange> from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> time of the going out of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> word to restore and build Jerusalem until <transChange type="added">an</transChange> anointed<note>Or "messiah"</note> <transChange type="added">one</transChange>--<transChange type="added">a</transChange> leader--<transChange type="added">will be</transChange> {seven weeks and sixty-two weeks};<note>Literally "weeks seven and weeks sixty and two"</note> it will be restored and will be built <transChange type="added">with</transChange> streets and <transChange type="added">a</transChange> moat, but {in a time of oppression}.<note>Literally "in distress/oppression of the times/time"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="26">"And after the sixty and two weeks an anointed one<note>Or "messiah"</note> shall be cut off, and {he shall have nothing},<note>Literally "there is not for him"</note> and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> people of the coming leader will destroy the city and the sanctuary,<note>Or "holy place"</note> and its end <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> with the flood and <transChange type="added">on</transChange> to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> end <transChange type="added">there shall be</transChange> war; <transChange type="added">these</transChange> desolations are determined.</verse>


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<verse num="27">And he will make a strong covenant with the many <transChange type="added">for</transChange> one week, but <transChange type="added">in</transChange> half of the week he will let cease sacrifice and offering {and in its place}<note>Literally "and on a wing of"</note> a desolating abomination <transChange type="added">comes</transChange> even until {the determined complete destruction}<note>Literally "a complete destruction and being determined"</note> is poured out on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> desolator." </verse>


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<verse num="1">In the third year of Cyrus <transChange type="added">the</transChange> king of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Persians, a word<note>Or "matter," or "message"</note> was revealed to Daniel, who was called <transChange type="added">by</transChange> his name Belteshazzar, and the word<note>Or "matter," or "message"</note> <transChange type="added">was</transChange> reliable and <transChange type="added">it concerned</transChange> a great tribulation,<note>Or "conflict"</note> and he understood the word<note>Or "matter," or "message"</note> and {he received understanding}.<note>Literally "and understanding to him"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="2">In those days, I, Daniel, I <transChange type="added">myself</transChange><note>This is an emphatic use of the first person personal pronoun</note> was <transChange type="added">in</transChange> mourning {for three whole weeks}.<note>Literally "three weeks <transChange type="added">of</transChange> days"</note></verse>


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<verse num="3">I had not eaten <transChange type="added">any</transChange> choice food, and meat and wine did not enter my mouth, and {I did not use any ointment}<note>Literally "I have not anointed at all"</note> {until the end of three whole weeks}.<note>Literally "until being full/complete three weeks <transChange type="added">of</transChange> days"</note></verse>


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<verse num="4">And <transChange type="added">then</transChange> on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> twenty-fourth day of the first month, I <transChange type="added">myself</transChange><note>This is an emphatic use of the first person personal pronoun</note> was on the bank of the great river; that is, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Tigris.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And I lifted up my eyes and I saw,<note>Or "looked"</note> and there was a man, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> he was dressed <transChange type="added">in</transChange> linen, and his waist was girded with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> gold of Uphaz.</verse>


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<verse num="6">Now his body <transChange type="added">was</transChange> like turquoise,<note>Or "yellow jasper" or other gold-colored stones; the exact identity of ancient precious stones is difficult</note> and his face <transChange type="added">was</transChange> like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> appearance of lightning, and his eyes <transChange type="added">were</transChange> like torches of fire, and his arms and his legs <transChange type="added">were</transChange> like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> gleam of polished bronze, and the sound of his words <transChange type="added">was</transChange> like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sound of a multitude.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And I saw, I, Daniel {alone},<note>Literally "to alone me"</note> the vision; and the people who were with me {did not see}<note>Literally "not they saw"</note> the vision; nevertheless, a great trembling fell upon them and they fled <transChange type="added">in order</transChange> to hide themselves.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And I myself, Daniel, alone saw this great vision, and <transChange type="added">as a result</transChange> {no strength was left in me}<note>Literally "not was left in me strength"</note> and {my complexion grew deathly pale},<note>Literally "and complexion my changed over me to destruction"</note> and I did not retain any strength.</verse>


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<verse num="9">And I heard the sound of his words, and {when I heard}<note>Literally "at my hearing"</note> the sound of his words I myself <transChange type="added">began</transChange> falling into a trance on my face, {with my face to the ground}.<note>Literally "and my face toward the ground"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="10">And look, a hand touched me and it roused me to my knees<note>Hebrew "on my knees"</note> and the palms<note>Hebrew "palm"</note> of my hands.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And he said to me, "Daniel, <transChange type="added">a</transChange> man beloved, pay attention to the words that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> speaking to you and {stand upright where you are},<note>Literally "stand on your position"</note> for I have now been sent to you." And {while he was speaking}<note>Literally "at his speaking"</note> with me this word,<note>Or "matter," or "message"</note> I stood up trembling.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And he said to me, "You must not fear, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and to humble yourself {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> your God, your words were heard, and I <transChange type="added">myself</transChange><note>This is an emphatic use of the first person personal pronoun</note> have come because of your words.</verse>


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<verse num="13">But <transChange type="added">the</transChange> prince of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> kingdom of Persia stood {before me}<note>Literally "to front of me"</note> <transChange type="added">for</transChange> twenty-one days. And look,<note>Or "finally"</note> Michael, one of the chief princes, came to assist me, and I left <transChange type="added">him</transChange> there beside <transChange type="added">the</transChange> king of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Persians.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And I have come<note>Hebrew "I came"</note> to instruct you about what<note>Hebrew "that"</note> will happen to your people {in the future},<note>Literally "at the end of the days"</note> for <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> a further vision <transChange type="added">here</transChange> {for the future}.<note>Literally "for the days"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="15">And while he was speaking with me according to these words, I turned my face toward the ground and I was speechless.</verse>


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<verse num="16">Then look, there was {one in the form of a human};<note>Literally "as <transChange type="added">the</transChange> likeness of <transChange type="added">a</transChange> son of man"</note> he touched my lips and I opened my mouth and I spoke and I said to the <transChange type="added">one</transChange> standing {before me},<note>Literally "to opposite me"</note> "My lord, because of the vision my anxieties fell upon me and I <transChange type="added">have</transChange> not retained <transChange type="added">my</transChange> strength.</verse>


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<verse num="17">So {how am I, a servant of my lord}<note>Literally "how is <transChange type="added">he</transChange> able a servant <transChange type="added">of</transChange> my lord this"</note> to speak with {you, my lord},<note>Literally "with my lord this"</note> and I {just now}<note>Literally "from now"</note> {have no strength in me}?"<note>Literally "not it remains in me strength"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="18">And {he again touched}<note>Literally "he added to and touched"</note> me, {the one in the form of a human},<note>Literally "like vision of a man"</note> and he strengthened me.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And he said, "You must not fear, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> beloved man. {Peace be to you};<note>Literally "Peace to/for you"</note> be strong and be courageous!" And {when he spoke}<note>Literally "at his speaking"</note> with me, I was strengthened and I said, "Let my lord speak, for you have strengthened me."</verse>


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<verse num="20">Then he asked, "Do you know why I have come to you? And now I return to fight against the prince of Persia and I <transChange type="added">myself</transChange><note>This is an emphatic use of the first person personal pronoun</note> <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going, and look,<note>Or "listen"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> prince of Javan<note>That is, Greece</note> will come.</verse>


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<verse num="21">However, I will tell you {what is inscribed}<note>Literally "the being inscribed"</note> in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> book of truth, and there is not one <transChange type="added">who</transChange> contends with me against these <transChange type="added">beings</transChange> {except}<note>Literally "but if"</note> Michael, your prince." </verse>


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<verse num="1">"And I, in the first year of Darius the Mede, {I stood}<note>Literally "my standing"</note> as a support and as a protection for him. </verse>


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<verse num="2">And now I will reveal <transChange type="added">the</transChange> truth to you. Look! Still three kings will arise in Persia, and the fourth will get abundance <transChange type="added">and</transChange> great wealth, <transChange type="added">even</transChange> more than all <transChange type="added">of them</transChange>, and {when he becomes strong}<note>Literally "at his strength"</note> through his wealth, <transChange type="added">then</transChange> he will stir up {everyone}<note>Literally "the all"</note> against <transChange type="added">the</transChange> kingdom of Javan.<note>That is, Greece</note></verse>


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<verse num="3">And a mighty king will arise, and he will rule <transChange type="added">with</transChange> great dominion, and he will do {as he pleases}.<note>Literally "as his pleasure"</note></verse>


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<verse num="4">But {as he rises in power},<note>Literally "as his rising/to rise"</note> his kingdom will be divided toward the four winds of heaven, but not to his posterity, and not according to his dominion <transChange type="added">by</transChange> which he ruled, for his kingdom will be uprooted and <transChange type="added">be given</transChange> {to others besides them}.<note>Literally "to others from to alone these"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="5">"Then the king of the south will grow strong and <transChange type="added">also</transChange> {one of his officials},<note>Literally "from among his officials"</note> and he will grow stronger {than him}<note>Literally "over him"</note> and he will rule {a dominion greater than his dominion}.<note>Literally "a dominion great dominion his"</note></verse>


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<verse num="6">And at <transChange type="added">the</transChange> end of <transChange type="added">some</transChange> years they will make an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make a peace treaty, but {she will not retain her position of power},<note>Literally "she will not retain the power of her arm"</note> and his offspring<note>Or "power"</note> will not endure, and she will be given up, she and her attendants and her child supporting her, in those times.<note>Hebrew "in the times"</note></verse>


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<verse num="7">And a branch from her roots<note>That is, a member of her family</note> will rise up <transChange type="added">in</transChange> his place, and he will come against the army and he will enter the stronghold of the king of the north and he will take action against them and he will prevail.</verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="8">And also their gods with their idols <transChange type="added">and</transChange> with the {precious vessels},<note>Literally "vessels of their desire"</note> silver and gold he will take to Egypt into captivity, and <transChange type="added">for</transChange> years {he will leave the king of the north alone}.<note>Literally "he will stand back from the king of the north"</note></verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="9">And <transChange type="added">then</transChange> he<note>That is, the king of the north</note> will come into the kingdom of the king of the south, but he will return to his land. </verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="10">"But his sons will wage war and they will gather a multitude of great forces and {he will advance with great force},<note>Literally "he will come, to come"</note> and he will overflow <transChange type="added">like a flood</transChange> and he will pass through and he will return, and they will wage war up to his fortress.</verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="11">And the king of the south will become furious, and he will go and he will battle against him, against the king of the north; and he will muster a great multitude, and the multitude will be given into his hand.</verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="12">When the multitude is carried off, his heart will be exalted and he will overthrow {tens of thousands},<note>Literally "myriads"</note> but he will not prevail.</verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="13">And the king of the north will again raise a multitude, greater than the former, and {at the end of some years}<note>Literally "to the end of the times years"</note> he will surely come with <transChange type="added">a</transChange> great army and with great supplies.<note>Or "resources"</note> </verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="14">"And in these times many will rise <transChange type="added">up</transChange> against the king of the south, and {the violent ones of your people}<note>Literally "the sons of the lawless ones of your people"</note> will lift themselves {to fulfill}<note>Literally "to cause to stand"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> vision, but they will fall.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="15">And the king of the north will come, and he will throw up siege ramps<note>Hebrew "ramp"</note> and capture a city of fortifications and the military forces of the south and {his choice troops}<note>Literally "the army of his chosen troops"</note> will not stand, for<note>Hebrew "and"</note> there is no strength <transChange type="added">left</transChange> to resist.</verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="16">And the <transChange type="added">one</transChange> coming to him will act {according to}<note>Literally "as"</note> his pleasure, and there is no <transChange type="added">one who</transChange> {will stand}<note>Literally "standing"</note> {before him},<note>Literally "to the face of him"</note> and he will stand in {the beautiful land}<note>Literally "in the land of the beauty"</note> and complete destruction <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> in his power.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="17">And he will set his face to come with the authority of his whole kingdom and will form an agreement;<note>Or "treaty," or "peace proposal"; the Hebrew is difficult</note> and he will {act},<note>Literally "do, perform"</note> and the daughter of women he will give to him to destroy it,<note>Or "her"</note> but <transChange type="added">the ploy</transChange> will not succeed {and she will not support him}.<note>Literally "and not for him will she be"</note></verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="18">And he will turn his face to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> coastlands, and he will capture many, but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> a commander will end his insults to him {so that instead his insults will turn back upon him}.<note>Literally "so that not his insults he will return against him"</note></verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="19">And he will turn back his face toward<note>Hebrew "to"</note> the strongholds of his land, but he will stumble and he will fall and will not be found. </verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="20">"Then in his place will arise <transChange type="added">one</transChange> sending an official <transChange type="added">throughout</transChange> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> glory<note>Or "splendor"</note> of <transChange type="added">his</transChange> kingdom, and {in a few days}<note>Literally "in some days"</note> he will be broken, but not in anger and not in battle.</verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="21">And in his place a despicable person will arise on whom<note>Hebrew "him"</note> they have not conferred the majesty of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> kingdom, and he will come in {without warning}<note>Literally "in ease"</note> and he will seize <transChange type="added">the</transChange> kingdom by deceit.</verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="22">And {before him}<note>Literally "to the face of him"</note> {mighty military forces}<note>Literally "military forces of the flood"</note> will be utterly swept away, and they will be broken, and also <transChange type="added">the</transChange> leader of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> covenant.</verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="23">And after an alliance <transChange type="added">is made</transChange> with him, he will act deceitfully, and he will rise and he will become powerful with few people <transChange type="added">backing him</transChange>.</verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="24">In <transChange type="added">a time of</transChange> ease and in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> rich parts of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> province, he will come and he will do what {his predecessors}<note>Literally "his fathers and the father of his fathers"</note> did not do; he will distribute plunder and spoil and possessions to them, and he will devise his plans against fortifications, but <transChange type="added">only</transChange> {for a time}.<note>Literally "until time"</note></verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="25">And he will stir up his power and his heart against the king of the south and {with a much greater and stronger army};<note>Literally "with an army great and numerous exceedingly"</note> but he will not succeed, for they will devise plans against him.</verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="26">And those who eat of his royal rations will break him and his army will be overwhelmed, and many will fall, slain.</verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="27">{And two of the kings}<note>Literally "And two of them, the kings"</note> {will bend their hearts}<note>Literally "their heart"</note> to evil. And at the {same table}<note>Literally "one table"</note> they will speak lies, but <transChange type="added">what is discussed</transChange> will not succeed, for still an end <transChange type="added">is coming</transChange> at the appointed time.</verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="28">Then he will return to his land with many possessions, but his heart <transChange type="added">will be set</transChange> against {the holy covenant},<note>Literally "covenant of holiness"</note> and he will take action and he will return to his land. </verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="29">"At the appointed time he will return and he will come into the south, but it will not be {as it was before}.<note>Literally "as the former and as the last"</note></verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="30">And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ships of Kittim will come against him, and he will lose heart, and he will turn back, and he will be enraged {against the holy covenant},<note>Literally "against the covenant of holiness"</note> and he will take action, and he will turn back, and he will pay attention to <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> forsake {the holy covenant}.<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> covenant of holiness"</note></verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="31">And military forces from him {will occupy}<note>Literally "will stand forth"</note> and will profane<note>Or "desecrate"</note> the {sanctuary stronghold},<note>Literally "the sanctuary, the stronghold"</note> and they will abolish the regular burnt offering, and they will set up the abomination that causes desolation. </verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="32">"And those who violate <transChange type="added">the</transChange> covenant he will seduce with flattery, but the persons who know their God<note>Hebrew "the ones who know his God"</note> will stand firm and will take action.</verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="33">And those who have insight {will instruct}<note>Literally "make understand"</note> the many, but they will fall by sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder {for some time}.<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">during</transChange> days"</note></verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="34">And {when they fall}<note>Literally "in/at their falling"</note> they will receive little help, and many will join with them <transChange type="added">in</transChange> hypocrisy.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="35">And <transChange type="added">even</transChange> some of those {who have insight}<note>Literally "the <transChange type="added">ones</transChange> who produce insight"</note> will fall<note>Or "stumble"</note> <transChange type="added">in order for</transChange> them to be refined by it, and to be purified and cleansed until the time of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> end, for the appointed time <transChange type="added">is</transChange> still to come. </verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="36">"Then the king will do {as he pleases},<note>Literally "as his pleasure"</note> and he will exalt himself and will consider himself above any god, and he will speak horrendous things {against}<note>Literally "over"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> God of gods, yet he will succeed until <transChange type="added">the period</transChange> of anger is finished, for <transChange type="added">what</transChange> is determined will be done.</verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="37">He will not pay respect to the gods of his ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> or to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> darling of women, and not to any god will he pay respect, for he will consider himself great over all <transChange type="added">gods</transChange>.</verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="38">But {instead}<note>Literally "in his place"</note> he will honor the god of fortresses, a god whom his ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> did not know. He will honor <transChange type="added">him</transChange> with gold, and with silver, and with precious stones<note>Hebrew "precious stone"</note> and with costly gifts.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="39">And he will deal with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {fortified strongholds}<note>Literally "the fortifications of strongholds"</note> with <transChange type="added">the help of</transChange> {a foreign god};<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> god of a foreign land"</note> and he will increase wealth for whoever will acknowledge <transChange type="added">him</transChange>, and he will cause them to rule<note>Or "appoint"</note> over the many, and he will distribute land for a price. </verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="40">"And at <transChange type="added">the</transChange> time of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> end the king of the south will attack him, and the king of the north will storm against him with chariots<note>Hebrew "chariot"</note> and with horsemen and with many ships, and he will advance against the countries and {he will sweep through like a flood}.<note>Literally "and he will overflow <transChange type="added">them</transChange> and he will pass through"</note></verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="41">And he will come {into the beautiful land}<note>Literally "into the land of the beauty"</note> and many will fall victim, but these will escape from his power: Edom and Moab and the best part<note>A difficult word to translate in this context: possibly it means "the foremost" (NASB), or it may mean "the remnant" (NEB)</note> of the {Ammonites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note></verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="42">And he will stretch out his hand against countries and the land of Egypt {will not escape}.<note>Literally "not it will be to escape"</note></verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="43">And he will rule over the treasures of gold and the silver and over all the precious things of Egypt; and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Libyans and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Cushites <transChange type="added">will follow</transChange> in his footsteps.</verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="44">But reports will terrify him from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east and from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north, and he will go out with great fury to destroy and <transChange type="added">to</transChange> exterminate many.</verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="45">And <transChange type="added">then</transChange> he will pitch the tents of his palace between <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea <transChange type="added">and</transChange> {the beautiful holy mountain},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> mountain of the beauty holiness"</note> and he will come to his end, and there is no one<note>Or "not one"</note> helping him." </verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="1">"Now at that time, Michael, the great prince, will arise, {the protector}<note>Literally "the one who stands with"</note> over the sons of your people, and it will be a time of distress that has not been since <transChange type="added">your people</transChange> {have been}<note>Literally "to be" or "being"</note> a nation until that time. And at that time your people will escape, {everyone who is found}<note>Literally "all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the being found"</note> written in the scroll.<note>Or "book"</note></verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="2">And many from <transChange type="added">those</transChange> sleeping {in the dusty ground}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">of the</transChange> ground of dust"</note> will awake, some to {everlasting life}<note>Literally "life of eternity"</note> and some to disgrace and {everlasting contempt}.<note>Literally "contempt <transChange type="added">of</transChange> eternity"</note></verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="3">But the <transChange type="added">ones</transChange> having insight will shine like the brightness of the expanse, and <transChange type="added">the ones</transChange> providing justice <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the many<note>Or "leading the many in righteousness"</note> <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> like the stars {forever and ever}.<note>Literally "to eternity and ever"</note></verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="4">But you, Daniel, keep the words secret and seal the scroll<note>Or "book"</note> until <transChange type="added">the</transChange> time of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> end; many will run back and forth and knowledge will increase." </verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="5">Then I looked, I myself, Daniel, and look, there were two others standing: {one on this bank of the stream and one on the other}.<note>Literally "one here on the bank of the stream and one there on the bank of the stream"</note></verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="6">Then he said to the man <transChange type="added">who</transChange> was clothed in linen who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> above<note>Hebrew "from above"</note> the water of the stream,<note>Or "river"</note> "{How long until}<note>Literally "Until when"</note> the end of the wonders?"</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="7">And I heard the man <transChange type="added">who</transChange> was clothed in linen who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> above<note>Hebrew "from above"</note> the water of the stream,<note>Or "river"</note> and he raised his right hand and his left hand to heaven and he swore {by the one who lives forever}<note>Literally "by the life of the eternity"</note> that <transChange type="added">an</transChange> appointed time, appointed times, and half <transChange type="added">an appointed time</transChange> <transChange type="added">would pass</transChange> when <transChange type="added">the</transChange> shattering of {the power of the holy people}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> power of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> people of holiness"</note> {would be completed};<note>Literally "to come to an end"</note> <transChange type="added">then</transChange> all these things will be accomplished. </verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="8">Now I myself heard, but I <transChange type="added">did</transChange> not understand, and I said, "My lord, what <transChange type="added">will be the</transChange> outcome <transChange type="added">of</transChange> these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>?"</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="9">And he said, "Go, Daniel, for the words <transChange type="added">are</transChange> secret and <transChange type="added">are</transChange> sealed <transChange type="added">up</transChange> until <transChange type="added">the</transChange> time of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> end.</verse>


book: Dan
content:
<verse num="10">Many will be purified and will be cleansed and will be refined, but <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked will act wickedly {and none of the wicked will understand},<note>Literally "and not will understand all the wicked"</note> but {those who have insight}<note>Literally "the <transChange type="added">ones</transChange> having insight"</note> will understand.</verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="11">And from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> time the regular burnt offering is removed and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> abomination that causes desolation {is set up}<note>Literally "to be set up" or "to put in place"</note> <transChange type="added">there will be</transChange> one thousand two hundred and ninety days.</verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="12">Happy <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the <transChange type="added">one who is</transChange> persevering, and attains <transChange type="added">to</transChange> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.</verse>


book: Dan
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<verse num="13">But you, go <transChange type="added">on</transChange> to the end and rest, and you will arise for your allotted inheritance at the end of the days." </verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="1">The word of Yahweh that came to Hosea son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, the kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. </verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="2">{At the beginning when Yahweh spoke}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">At</transChange> the beginning of the talking of Yahweh"</note> through Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, "Go, take for yourself a wife and children of whoredom, because the land commits great whoredom {forsaking Yahweh}."<note>Literally "from behind Yahweh"</note></verse>


book: Hos
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<verse num="3">So he went and took Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.</verse>


book: Hos
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<verse num="4">And Yahweh said to him, "{Name him}<note>Literally "Call his name"</note> Jezreel;<note>Jezreel means "God sows"</note> because in a little while {I will punish}<note>Literally "I will visit sin upon"</note> the house of Jehu<note>Or "the dynasty of Jehu"</note> for the blood<note>Or "bloodshed"</note> of Jezreel,<note>Jezreel means "God sows"</note> and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.<note>Or "the dynasty of Israel"</note></verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="5">{On that day}<note>Literally "And it will happen on that day"</note> I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel."</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="6">And she conceived again and bore a daughter, and he<note>Yahweh</note> said to him, </verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="7">But I will have pity <transChange type="added">on</transChange> the house of Judah and I will save them by Yahweh their God, and will not deliver them by bow, sword, war, horses, or horsemen.</verse>


book: Hos
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<verse num="8">And when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah,<note>Lo-ruhamah means "Not pitied"</note> she conceived and bore a son.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="9">And he<note>Yahweh</note> said, "{Name him}<note>Literally "Call his name"</note> Lo-ammi,<note>Lo-ammi means "not my people"</note> for you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> not my people and I am not your <transChange type="added">God</transChange>.<note>Hebrew "not yours"</note></verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="10"><note>Hosea 1:10-2:23 in the English Bible is 2:1-25 in the Hebrew Bible</note> The number of the children of Israel will be like the sand of the sea that cannot be measured or counted; and in the place where it is said to them, "You are not my people," it will be said to them, "Children of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> living God."</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="11">Then the children of Judah and Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint for themselves one head; and {they will take possession of}<note>Literally "they will go up from"</note> the land, for great <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the day of Jezreel.<note>Jezreel means "God sows"</note></verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="1">Say to your brother,<note>Hebrew "brothers"</note> "Ammi,"<note>Ammi means "My people"</note> and to your sister,<note>Hebrew "sisters"</note> "Ruhamah."<note>Ruhamah means "Pitied"</note></verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="2">Plead with your mother, plead-- because she <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not my wife, and I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> not her husband. Let her put away her whoring {from before her},<note>Literally "from her face"</note> and her adultery from between her breasts.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="3">Lest I strip her naked and expose her like the day when she was born; I will make her like the desert and turn her into parched land; I will kill her with thirst.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="4">And I will not have pity on her children, because <transChange type="added">they are</transChange> children of whoredom.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="5">Because their mother was unfaithful;<note>Or "their mother played the whore"</note> she who conceived them has acted shamefully, for she said: "I will go after my lovers, the ones who give <transChange type="added">me</transChange> my bread, my water, my wool, and my flax, my oil, and my drink."</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="6">Therefore, Look! I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to hedge her path<note>Hebrew "your path"</note> {with thorns},<note>Literally "with the thorns"</note> and I will build a stone wall, a stone wall <transChange type="added">against</transChange> her, and she will not find her paths.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="7">Then she will pursue {her lovers},<note>Literally "the ones who love her"</note> but she will not overtake them; she will seek them and not find <transChange type="added">them</transChange>; and she will say, "I will go and return to my first husband because <transChange type="added">it was</transChange> better for me then than now."</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="8">But she did not know that <transChange type="added">it was</transChange> I who gave her grain, new wine, and oil, and who gave her silver in abundance, and gold which they made into a Baal.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="9">Therefore I will take again my grain in its time, and my wine in its season; and I will take away my wool and my flax, <transChange type="added">which were</transChange> to cover her nakedness.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="10">And now I will uncover her nakedness before the eyes of her lovers, and no one will rescue her from my hand.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="11">And I will put an end to all her mirth, her festivals,<note>Hebrew "festival"</note> her new moons,<note>Hebrew "new moon"</note> and her Sabbaths,<note>Hebrew "Sabbath"</note> and all her appointed festivals;<note>Hebrew "festival"</note></verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="12">and I will lay waste to her vines<note>Hebrew "vine"</note> and her fig trees,<note>Hebrew "fig tree"</note> of which she said, "They <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my payment for prostitution, which my lovers gave to me." I will make them a forest, and the wild animals<note>Hebrew "animal"</note> of the field will devour them.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="13">{I will punish her}<note>Literally "To visit sins upon her;" see 1:4</note> <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the days of the Baals, to whom she burns incense, and she decked herself <transChange type="added">with</transChange> her ornamental ring and jewelry, and she went after her lovers, and forgot me --a declaration of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="14">Therefore, Look! I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to allure her and bring her <transChange type="added">into</transChange> the desert, and {I will speak tenderly to her}.<note>Literally "I will speak to her heart"</note></verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="15">From there I will give her her vineyards, and the Valley of Achor as a doorway of hope. And there she will respond, as <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the days of her youth, just as <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the day of her coming out of the land of Egypt.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="16">{And on that day}--<note>Literally, "And it will happen on that day"</note> a declaration of Yahweh-- you will call me, "My husband;"<note>Hebrew "Ishi"</note> you will no longer call me, "My Baal."<note>Hebrew "Baali"</note></verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="17">I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they will no longer be mentioned by their name.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="18">I will make a covenant for them on that day, with the animals<note>Hebrew "animal"</note> of the field, with the birds<note>Hebrew "bird"</note> of the heaven, and <transChange type="added">with</transChange> the creeping things<note>Hebrew "creeping thing"</note> of the ground; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> bow, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> war I will abolish from the land, and I will let them lie down in safety.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="19">And I will take you as my wife forever; I will take you as a wife for myself in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="20">{I will take you as my wife}<note>Literally "I will take you as a wife to me"</note> in faithfulness, and you will know Yahweh.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="21">On that day I will answer, {declares Yahweh},<note>Literally "a declaration of Yahweh</note> I will answer the heavens, and they will answer the earth.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="22">And the earth will answer the grain, the wine, and the oil, and they will answer Jezreel.<note>Jezreel means "God sows"</note></verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="23">I will sow her for myself in the land; I will have pity on Lo-ruhama;<note>Lo-ruhama means "Not pitied"</note> I will say to Lo-ammi,<note>Lo-ammi means "Not my people"</note> "You are my people," and he himself will say, "<transChange type="added">you are</transChange> my God."</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="1">And Yahweh said to me again, "Go, love a woman {who has a lover}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">who is</transChange> beloved of a friend"</note> and <transChange type="added">is</transChange> committing adultery, just like the love of Yahweh <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the children of Israel, but they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> turning to other gods and love raisin cakes."</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="2">So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer of barely and a measure of wine.<note>Hebrew "a measure of barley"; the LXX has "a nebel of wine," although some modern translations, e.g. NASB, have "a homer and a half of barley"</note></verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="3">And I said to her, "{You must remain as mine}<note>Literally "You must sit <transChange type="added">at home</transChange> for me"</note> for many days, and you will not play the whore; {you will not belong}<note>Literally "you will not be"</note> to a man, and I <transChange type="added">will</transChange> belong to you."</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="4">The children of Israel will remain for many days without a king and prince, without sacrifice and stone pillar, ephod and teraphim.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="5">Afterward the children of Israel will return and seek Yahweh their God and David their king. They will come in fear to Yahweh and to his goodness at the end of days.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="1">Hear the word of Yahweh, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> children of Israel, for Yahweh has an indictment against the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or loyalty, there is no knowledge of God in the land.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="2">Swearing and lying, murdering and stealing, and adultery break out,<note>The LXX adds "and adultery breaks out in the land"</note> and bloodshed follows bloodshed.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="3">Therefore the land mourns, and all <transChange type="added">those</transChange> living in it languish with the animals of the field, and the birds of the heaven, and even the fish of the sea are being swept away.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="4">Yet, let no one contend, and let no one accuse, for with you, O priest, <transChange type="added">is my</transChange> contention.<note>The Hebrew is unclear; the NASB translates "For your people are like those who contend with the priest"</note></verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="5">You will stumble <transChange type="added">by</transChange> day, and the priest also will stumble with you at night. And I will destroy your mother;</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="6">My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from acting as a priest for me.<note>Or "to me"</note> And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.<note>Hebrew "sons"</note></verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="7">When they became many, their sin increased against me; they changed<note>Hebrew uncertain; MT "I will exchange"</note> their glory into shame.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="8">{They feed on the sin of my people},<note>Literally "They eat the sins of my people"</note> {they are greedy}<note>Literally "they lift up their throat"</note> for their iniquity.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="9">And it will be like people, like priest; I will punish them<note>Hebrew "him"</note> <transChange type="added">for</transChange> their<note>Hebrew "his"</note> ways, and I will requite them<note>Hebrew "him"</note> for their<note>Hebrew "his"</note> deeds.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="10">They will eat and not be satisfied; they will play the whore and not multiply, because they have forsaken Yahweh {to devote themselves to</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="11">whoredom}.<note>Literally "to watch over whoredom"</note> Wine and new wine {take away the understanding}.<note>Literally "take away heart"</note></verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="12">My people, consult {their wooden idols},<note>Literally "their wood"</note> and their divining rod gives them oracles; because a spirit of whoredom led <transChange type="added">them</transChange> astray, and they played the whore from under their God.<note>That is, "they played the whore forsaking their God"; See Ezek 23:5</note></verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="13">On the tops of the mountains they sacrifice, and on the hills they make offerings, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their<note>Hebrew "its"</note> shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the whore, and all your daughters-in-law<note>Or "brides"</note> commit adultery.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="14">{I will not punish your daughters}<note>Literally "I will not visit sins upon your daughters"</note> when they play the whore, or your daughters-in-law<note>Or "brides"</note> when they commit adultery; because they go aside with whores, and they sacrifice with temple prostitutes, a people that does not understand comes to ruin.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="15">Even though you, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Israel, <transChange type="added">are</transChange> playing the whore, do not let Judah become guilty; do not enter Gilgal, or go up <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Beth-aven; and do not swear, "{As Yahweh lives}!"<note>Literally "the life of Yahweh"</note></verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="16">Indeed, like a stubborn heifer, Israel is stubborn; Now Yahweh will feed them, like a lamb in broad pasture.<note>Or "Can Yahweh feed them, like a lamb in broad pasture?"</note></verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="18">When their drinking has ended, they surely indulge in sexual orgies. They love lewdness more than their<note>Hebrew "her"</note> glory.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="19">A wind has wrapped them<note>Hebrew "her"</note> in its wings, and they will be ashamed because of their altars.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="1">Hear this, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> priests! Give heed, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> house of Israel! Listen, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> house of the king! Because the judgment <transChange type="added">applies</transChange> to you; because you have been a snare for Mizpah, and a net spread out on Tabor;</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="2">they dug a deep pit<note>Hebrew uncertain</note> <transChange type="added">in</transChange> Shittim, but I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> a punishment for all of them.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="3">I myself know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; because now you have played the whore, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Ephraim-- Israel is defiled.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="4">Their deeds do not permit them to return them to God. Because a spirit of whoredom <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in their midst, they do not know Yahweh.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="5">The pride of Israel testifies {against him},<note>Literally "against his face;" see 7:10</note> and Israel and Ephraim stumble in their guilt, and Judah stumbles with them.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="6">With their flocks<note>Hebrew "flock"</note> and herds<note>Hebrew "herd"</note> they will go to seek Yahweh, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="7">They have dealt faithlessly with Yahweh because they have borne illegitimate children. Now <transChange type="added">the</transChange> new moon will devour them with their fields.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="8">Blow the {horn}<note>Hebrew "shofar"</note> in Gibeah, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> trumpet in Ramah. Sound the alarm <transChange type="added">in</transChange> Beth-aven; <transChange type="added">look</transChange> behind you, Benjamin.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="9">Ephraim will be a desolation in the day of punishment; among the tribes of Israel I will reveal what is true.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="10">The princes of Judah have become like those who remove a landmark; on them I will pour out my wrath like water.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="11">Ephraim is oppressed, crushed <transChange type="added">in</transChange> judgment, because he was determined to go after filth.<note>Hebrew uncertain; another possible translation is "that he follows human commands"</note></verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="12">But I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> like a maggot to Ephraim and like rottenness to the house of Judah.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="13">And <transChange type="added">when</transChange> Ephraim saw his illness, and Judah his wound, Ephraim went to Assyria, he sent to the great king.<note>Some translate literally "King Jareb" (see the NASB, NKJV)</note> But he was unable to cure you and heal your wound.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="14">Because I <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> like a lion to Ephraim and like a fierce strong lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear and I will go; I will carry off, and there is no one who delivers.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="15">{I will return again}<note>Literally "I will go, I will return"</note> to my place until they acknowledge <transChange type="added">their</transChange> guilt and seek my face; in their distress they will search<note>Or "they will beg favor of"</note> me.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="1">Come, let us return to Yahweh; because <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> he who has torn, and he will heal us; he has struck us down and will bind us up.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="2">He will revive us after two days; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live in his presence.<note>Or "before his face"</note></verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="3">Let us know, let us press on to know Yahweh; his rising <transChange type="added">is</transChange> sure like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dawn. He will come like the showers to us, like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> spring rain that waters <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="4">What will I do with you, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Ephraim? What will I do with you, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Judah? Your love <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes away early in the morning.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="5">Therefore, I have hewn <transChange type="added">them</transChange> by <transChange type="added">the</transChange> prophets; I have killed them by the words of my mouth, and my judgment<note>Hebrew "your judgments"</note> goes forth like the light.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="6">Because I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, and knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="7">But like Adam, they transgressed <transChange type="added">the</transChange> covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="8">Gilead <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a city of evil, a cunning <transChange type="added">city</transChange> because of blood.<note>The Hebrew is difficult; NRSV translates "tracked with blood"</note></verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="9">Like bandits lying in wait, <transChange type="added">so is</transChange> a band of priests; they murder <transChange type="added">on the</transChange> road to Shechem; indeed, they commit a monstrous crime.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="10">In the house of Israel I have seen something horrible; Ephraim's unfaithfulness <transChange type="added">is</transChange> there. Israel is defiled.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="11">For you also, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Judah, a harvest is appointed, when I restore the fortunes of my people,</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="1">when I would heal Israel, and the corruption of Ephraim is revealed, and the wicked deeds of Samaria; because they deal <transChange type="added">in</transChange> falsehood, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> thief breaks in,<note>Or "comes in"</note> <transChange type="added">and the</transChange> bandit raids the outside.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="2">{But they did not consider}<note>Literally "But they did not say to their heart"</note> that I remember all their wickedness. Now their deeds surround them; they are before my face.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="3">By their wickedness they make <transChange type="added">the</transChange> king glad, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> officials by their treacheries.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="4">All of them commit adultery, like a burning oven whose baker has stopped from stirring the fire, and from kneading <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dough until it is leavened.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="5"><transChange type="added">On</transChange> the day of our king, the princes became sick <transChange type="added">with</transChange> the heat of wine;<note>This phrase refers to the effects of wine on the body</note> he stretched out his hand with mockers.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="6">Because they are kindled<note>Hebrew "they drew near;" other ancient translations read "they are kindled"</note> like an oven, their heart burns within them; all night their anger {smolders},<note>Literally "sleeps"</note> <transChange type="added">in the</transChange> morning it blazes like a flaming fire.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="7">All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour<note>Or "they eat"</note> their rulers. All their kings have fallen; there is none who calls to me amongst them.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="8">Ephraim mixes himself with the nations; Ephraim is a bread cake not turned over.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="9">Foreigners devour<note>Or "Foreigners eat"</note> his strength, and he does not know <transChange type="added">it</transChange>; {mold}<note>Literally "grey hair," but in this case the word refers to the "hairs of mold" on food</note> is also sprinkled upon him, and he does not know <transChange type="added">it</transChange>.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="10">The pride of Israel {testifies against him}<note>Literally "answers against his face"</note>-- they do not return to Yahweh their God; they do not seek him for all of this.<note>Or "in all of this"</note></verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="11">Ephraim was like a dove, silly, {without sense};<note>Literally "without heart"</note> they call <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Egypt, they go <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Assyria.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="12">Just as they go, I will cast my net over them; I will bring them down like the birds<note>Hebrew "bird"</note> of the heavens;<note>Or "sky"</note> I will discipline them according to a report to their assembly.<note>Hebrew uncertain</note></verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="13">Woe to them, because they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, because they have rebelled against me! I myself would redeem them, but they speak lies against me.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="14">They do not cry out to me from their heart, but they wail on their beds; because of grain and new wine they lacerate<note>Or "gash"</note> themselves; they depart from me.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="15">And I myself trained and strengthened their arms; but they plan evil against me.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="16">They turn, not to the Most High,<note>Hebrew uncertain; the NRSV translates "to that which does not profit"; the NASB translates "but not upward"</note> like a slack bow; their officials will fall by the sword because of the anger of their tongue. This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> their scorn<note>The NRSV translates "So much for their babbling"</note> in the land of Egypt.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="1"><transChange type="added">Put</transChange> to your lips <transChange type="added">the</transChange> trumpet like a vulture over the house of Yahweh, because they have {broken my covenant}<note>Literally "transgressed my covenant"</note> and rebelled against my law.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="3">Israel has spurned <transChange type="added">the</transChange> good; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> enemy will pursue him.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="4">They appointed kings, but not through me; they made officials, but without my knowledge. <transChange type="added">With</transChange> their silver and gold they made idols for themselves for their<note>Hebrew "his"</note> own {destruction}.<note>Literally "cut off"</note></verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="5">Your calf is rejected,<note>Hebrew "he rejects" or "has rejected you"</note> <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Samaria; my anger burns against them. How long<note>Hebrew "Until when"</note> will they be incapable of innocence?</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="6">Because <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> from Israel, an artisan made it, it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not a god; for the calf of Samaria will be broken <transChange type="added">to</transChange> pieces.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="7">Because they sow the wind, they will reap the whirlwind. <transChange type="added">The</transChange> standing grain does not have heads;<note>Hebrew "head"</note> it will not yield flour. <transChange type="added">And</transChange> if it would yield, strangers would devour it.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="8">Israel is swallowed up; now they are among the nations, like an object that no one desires.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="9">For they have gone up <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Assyria, a wild donkey alone to itself; Ephraim has sold itself <transChange type="added">for</transChange> lovers.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="10">Even though they have sold themselves to the nations, now I will gather them. They will soon writhe from the burden of kings<note>Hebrew "king"</note> and princes.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="11">When Ephraim multiplied altars to expiate sins, they became to him altars to sin <transChange type="added">on</transChange>.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="12">I write for him myriads of my instruction;<note>Or "my law"</note> they are regarded as a strange thing.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="13">They offer sacrifices of my choice<note>Hebrew uncertain; or "loved ones"</note> and they eat flesh; Yahweh does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins; they will return <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Egypt.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="14">Israel has forgotten his maker and built palaces, and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send fire on his cities and it will devour her strongholds.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="1">Do not rejoice, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Israel, do not exult like the nations! For you played the whore, departing from your God; you loved a harlot's wage on all the threshing floors of grain.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="2">Threshing floor and wine vat will not feed them, and new wine will fail her.<note>That is, Israel</note></verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="3">They will not remain in the land of Yahweh. But Ephraim will return <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Egypt, and in Assyria they will eat unclean food.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="4">They will not pour <transChange type="added">drink offerings of</transChange> wine to Yahweh, and their sacrifices will not please him. <transChange type="added">They are</transChange> like mourners' bread for them; all those who eat it will be defiled. For their bread will be {for their hunger};<note>Literally "for their soul"</note> it will not come <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the house of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="5">What will you do on the day of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> appointed time, and on the day of the festival of Yahweh?</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="6">For look! <transChange type="added">If</transChange> they flee from the destruction, Egypt will gather them; Memphis<note>Hebrew "Noph"</note> will bury them. Nettles will possess their precious things of silver; thorns <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> in their tents.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="7">The days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have come; Israel knows! The prophet <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a fool, the man of the spirit <transChange type="added">is</transChange> acting like a madman. Because of the greatness of your sin, <transChange type="added">your</transChange> hostility <transChange type="added">is</transChange> great.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="8">The prophet keeps watch <transChange type="added">over</transChange> Ephraim for my God; the snare of a fowler <transChange type="added">is</transChange> on all his ways, and hostility in the house of his God.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="9">{They deeply corrupted themselves}<note>Literally "They made deep, they corrupted themselves"</note> as <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the days of Gibeah; he will remember their sin, he will punish their sins.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="10">Like the grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like early ripened fruit on the fig tree in the first season,<note>Or "in the beginning"</note> I saw your ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note> They themselves came <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Baal Peor, and they consecrated themselves to shame. And they became detestable things, like {the thing they love}.<note>Literally "like loving things"</note></verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="11">Ephraim's glory <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like a bird; it will fly away-- no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="12">Even though they bring up their children, I will bereave them before maturity.<note>Or "until no one is left"</note> Woe to them indeed, when I depart from them!</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="13">Ephraim, as I see <transChange type="added">it</transChange>, <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like a palm in a meadow; but Ephraim must bring out his children to the slayer.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="14">Give them, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Yahweh-- what will you give <transChange type="added">them</transChange>? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="15">Every evil of theirs <transChange type="added">began</transChange> at Gilgal, so I <transChange type="added">began</transChange> to hate them there; because of the evil of their deeds I will drive them out from my house. I will love them no more; all their officials <transChange type="added">are</transChange> rebels.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="16">Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up, they shall not bear fruit. Even if they give birth, I will kill the cherished offspring of their womb.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="17">My God will reject them because they did not listen to him, and they will be wanderers among the nations.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="1">Israel <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a luxuriant vine;<note>Or "ravaged vine"</note> he yields fruit for himself. The more his fruit increased, <transChange type="added">the more</transChange> he made numerous altars. The more his land prospered, <transChange type="added">the more</transChange> he<note>Hebrew "they"</note> improved<note>Or "made beautiful"</note> <transChange type="added">his</transChange> stone pillars.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="2">Their heart is false; now they must bear <transChange type="added">their</transChange> guilt. He himself<note>That is, "Yahweh himself"</note> will break down their altars; he will destroy their stone pillars.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="3">For now they will say, "We have no king; indeed, we did not fear Yahweh, and what can a king do for us?"</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="4">They utter words of vain oaths <transChange type="added">when</transChange> {making covenants},<note>Literally "cutting covenant"</note> and judgment blossoms like a poisonous plant on the furrows of the field.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="5">The inhabitants<note>Hebrew "inhabitant"</note> of Samaria tremble for the calf<note>Hebrew "calves"</note> of Beth-aven. Indeed, his people will mourn for it, and his idolatrous priests will wail<note>Or "rejoice"</note> over it-- over its glory because it has departed from it.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="6">It will also be brought to Assyria, <transChange type="added">as</transChange> tribute to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> great king.<note>See 5:13; some translate literally "King Jareb"</note> Ephraim will obtain disgrace and Israel will be ashamed from his advice.<note>Or "counsel"</note></verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="7">Samaria will be destroyed; her king <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like a chip on the surface of the water.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="8">The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed. Thorn and thistle will grow on their altars. They will say to the mountains, "Cover us," and to the hills, "Fall on us."</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="9">From the days of Gibeah you have sinned, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Israel; there {they have remained}.<note>Literally "they stood"</note> Will not war in Gibeah overtake them against the children of evil?</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="10">In my desire<note>The LXX translates "I will come"</note> I will punish them; nations will be gathered against them when they are punished for {their double iniquities}.<note>So Qere; Masoretic Hebrew text (Kethib) "their two eyes"</note></verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="11">Ephraim <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a trained heifer, that loved to thresh <transChange type="added">grain</transChange>, and I myself {spared}<note>Literally "passed over"</note> the fairness of her neck; I will make Ephraim break the ground, Judah will plow, Jacob must till for himself.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="12">Sow for yourselves righteousness; {reap loyal love}.<note>Literally "reap according to loyal love"</note> Break up for yourself fallow ground; <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> time to seek Yahweh so he will come and rain righteousness upon you.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="13">You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped injustice, you have eaten the fruit of lies,<note>Hebrew "lie"</note> because you have trusted in your strength, in the multitude of your warriors.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="14">The tumult of war will rise up against your people, and all your fortresses will be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel; on the day of war mothers were dashed to pieces with <transChange type="added">their</transChange> children.<note>Or "upon <transChange type="added">their</transChange> children"</note></verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="15">So it will be done to you, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Bethel, because of the evil of your wickedness; at dawn, the king of Israel will be utterly destroyed.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="2">When I called<note>Hebrew "When they called"; the LXX and modern translations read "When I called"</note> them, they went from my face.<note>Hebrew "their face"</note> They sacrificed to the Baals, and they sacrificed to idols.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="3">And I myself taught Ephraim to walk; I took them<note>Hebrew uncertain</note> in my<note>Hebrew "his"</note> arms, but they did not know that I healed them.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="4">I drew them {with human ties},<note>Literally "ropes of a human"</note> with the bands of love. I was to them like one who lifted up<note>Or "like one who imposed"</note> a yoke on their jaws,<note>Or "infants to their cheeks"</note> <transChange type="added">though</transChange> I bent down to them<note>Hebrew "him"</note> <transChange type="added">and</transChange> let them<note>Hebrew "him"</note> eat.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="5">He will return<note>Or "They will not return"</note> to the land of Egypt, and Assyria will be his king,<note>That is "Israel's king"</note> because they refused to return.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="6"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> sword rages in his cities; it consumes his false prophets and devours because of their plans.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="7">My people are bent on backsliding from me. To the Most High they call, he does not raise them at all.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="8">How can I give you up, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Ephraim? <transChange type="added">How</transChange> can I hand you over, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Israel? How can I make you like Admah? <transChange type="added">How</transChange> can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is disturbed<note>Or "My heart is overturned"</note> within me; {all}<note>Literally "together"</note> my compassions are aroused.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="9">{I will not execute}<note>Literally "I will not do"</note> {my fierce anger},<note>Literally "the anger of my nose"</note> I will not again destroy Ephraim; because I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> God and not a mortal,<note>Or "human"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Holy <transChange type="added">One</transChange> in your midst; and I will not come in wrath.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="10">They will go after Yahweh; he roars like a lion. When he roars, his children will come trembling from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea.<note>That is, "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> West"</note></verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="11">They will tremble like birds<note>Hebrew "bird"</note> from Egypt, and like doves<note>Hebrew "dove"</note> from the land of Assyria; and I will let them return<note>Hebrew "I will cause them to live"</note> to their homes-- a declaration of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="12"><note>Hosea 11:12-12:14 in the English Bible is 12:1-15 in the Hebrew Bible</note> Ephraim has surrounded me with lies,<note>Hebrew "lie"</note> and the house of Israel with deceit; and Judah is still wandering with God and <transChange type="added">is</transChange> faithful to the Holy One.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="1">Ephraim herds <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wind<note>Or "Ephraim befriends <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wind"</note> and <transChange type="added">is</transChange> pursuing <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east wind all day long; he multiplies deception and violence and he<note>Hebrew "they"</note> {makes a treaty with Assyria},<note>Literally "cuts a covenant with Assyria"</note> and oil is brought to Egypt.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="2">Yahweh has a quarrel<note>This word in Hebrew conveys a legal setting</note> with Judah and will punish Jacob according to his ways and repay him according to his deeds.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="3">In the womb he deceived his brother, and in his manhood he struggled with God.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="4">He struggled with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> angel and prevailed; he pleaded for his mercy. He met him at Bethel, and there he spoke with him.<note>Hebrew "us"</note></verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="5">Yahweh the God of hosts, Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> his renowned name!</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="6">But you, you must return to your God; keep love and justice, and wait continually for your God.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="7"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> trader, in his hand <transChange type="added">are</transChange> scales of deceit;<note>Or "false balances"</note> he loves to oppress.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="8">And Ephraim said, "Surely, I am rich, I gained<note>Or "I found"</note> wealth for myself; in all my toil they have not found guilt in me that is <transChange type="added">sin</transChange>.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="9">But I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh your God since<note>Or "from"</note> the land of Egypt; I will make you live in tents again, like the days of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> appointed festival.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="10">I spoke to the prophets; I myself multiplied revelations<note>Hebrew "revelation"</note> and through the hand of the prophets I will destroy.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="11">If <transChange type="added">in</transChange> Gilead <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> evil, surely they will come to nothing. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls, also their altars will be like stone heaps on furrows of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> field.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="12">Jacob fled <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the open field of Aram,<note>Or "the land of Aram"</note> and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he watched over <transChange type="added">sheep</transChange>.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="13">And by a prophet Yahweh brought Israel up from Egypt, and by a prophet he<note>Israel</note> was watched over.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="14">Ephraim has caused bitter provocation, and his Lord will {hold him responsible for his crimes}<note>Literally "will bring down on him his blood"</note> and pay back to him his insults.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="1">When Ephraim spoke,<note>Hebrew "speaks"</note> <transChange type="added">there was</transChange> terror; he was exalted in Israel, but he incurred guilt through Baal and died.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="2">And now they sin again, and they make for themselves a molten idol, idols from their silver metal according to their understanding, all of them the work of skilled craftsmen. To these they say, "Sacrifice!" People are kissing bull calves.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="3">Therefore, they will be like the morning cloud, and like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dew of early morning going <transChange type="added">away</transChange>, like chaff swirling from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> threshing floor, or like smoke from a window.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="4">I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh your God since<note>Or "from"</note> the land of Egypt; you know no god except me, and no one saves besides me.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="5">I fed you<note>So LXX; Hebrew "I knew you"</note> in the desert, in the land of drought.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="6">When I fed them,<note>Hebrew "According to their pasture"</note> they were satisfied; they were satisfied and their heart was lifted up; therefore they forgot me.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="7">And I will be like a lion to them; I lie in wait beside <transChange type="added">the</transChange> way, like a leopard.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="8">I will attack them like a bear robbed of her offspring, and I will tear open the covering of their heart; there I will devour them like a lion, like an animal of the field would mutilate them.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="9">I will destroy you,<note>Hebrew "He destroys you"</note> <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Israel; who will help you?<note>Hebrew "for in me, in your help"</note></verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="10">Where now <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your king that he may save you? <transChange type="added">Where</transChange> in all your cities <transChange type="added">are</transChange> your judges, of whom you said, "Give to me a king and rulers?"</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="11">I gave you a king in my anger, and I took <transChange type="added">him</transChange> in my wrath.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="12">The sin of Ephraim <transChange type="added">is</transChange> wrapped up; his sin <transChange type="added">is</transChange> concealed.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="13">The labor pains of childbirth come for him; he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> an unwise son because <transChange type="added">at the</transChange> proper time, he does not present himself {at the mouth of the womb}.<note>Literally "the place where the sons burst forth"</note></verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="14">Should I redeem them from {the power}<note>Literally "the hand"</note> of Sheol? <note>"Sheol" is a Hebrew term for the place where the dead reside, i.e., the underworld</note> Should I deliver them from death? Where <transChange type="added">are</transChange> your plagues, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Death? Where <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your destruction, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Sheol?<note>"Sheol" is a Hebrew term for the place where the dead reside, i.e., the underworld</note> Compassion is hidden from my eyes.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="15">Although he may flourish among reeds,<note>Hebrew "brothers"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east wind will come, a wind of Yahweh rising from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> desert; his fountain will dry up, his spring will be parched. It will plunder his treasury,<note>Or "its treasury"</note> every object of desire.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="16"><note>Hosea 13:16-14:9 in the English Bible is 14:1-10 in the Hebrew Bible</note> Samaria will be guilty, because she has rebelled against her God; they will fall by <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword, their children will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="1">Return to Yahweh your God, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Israel, for you have stumbled because of your sin.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="2">Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Say to him, "Take away all guilt; accept good, and we will offer the fruit<note>Hebrew uncertain</note> of our lips.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="3">Assyria will not save us; we will not ride on horses,<note>Hebrew "horse"</note> and we will say no more, "Our God," to the work of our hands because in you <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fatherless child finds mercy.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="4">I will heal their disloyalty;<note>Or "backsliding"</note> I will love them freely because my anger has turned back from them.<note>Hebrew "him"</note></verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="5">I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily plant, and he will strike his roots like the <transChange type="added">trees of</transChange> Lebanon.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="6">His new plant shoots will spread out; his splendor will be like the olive tree, and his scent like the <transChange type="added">trees of</transChange> Lebanon.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="7">{They will again dwell}<note>Literally "They shall return, they shall dwell"</note> in my<note>Hebrew "his"</note> shadow; they will grow grain and they will blossom like the plant vine; his fame <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> like the wine of Lebanon.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="8"><transChange type="added">O</transChange> Ephraim, {what have I to do}<note>Literally "what for me"</note> with idols? I myself have answered and looked after you.<note>Hebrew "him"</note> I am like a luxuriant cypress; your fruit<note>Or "your faithfulness"</note> comes from me.</verse>


book: Hos
content:
<verse num="9">Who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> wise that he can understand these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>? Who is discerning that he knows them? The ways of Yahweh <transChange type="added">are</transChange> right, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> righteous walk in them; but transgressors stumble in them.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="2">Hear this, O elders, and give ear, all the inhabitants of the land. Has this happened in your days? Or the days of your ancestors?</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="3">Tell it to your children, and your children to their children, and their children to the following generation.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="4">What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten. And what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="5">Wake up, drunkards, and weep! Wail, all drinkers of wine, over the new wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="6">Because a nation has {invaded}<note>Literally "come up against"</note> my land, strong {and beyond counting}.<note>Literally "without number"</note> Its teeth <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the teeth of a lion, and its fangs <transChange type="added">are those</transChange> of a lioness.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="7">It has made my vine a desolation, and my fig tree a completely splintered stump. It has stripped them bare and thrown <transChange type="added">them</transChange> down; their branches have turned white.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="9">The offering and libation are withheld from the house<note>Or "temple"</note> of Yahweh. The priests mourn, the ministers of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="10">The field is destroyed; the earth mourns because <transChange type="added">the</transChange> grain is destroyed, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> new wine dries up, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> olive oil languishes.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="11">Be ashamed, farmers; Wail, vinedressers, over <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wheat and over <transChange type="added">the</transChange> barley, because <transChange type="added">the</transChange> harvest of the field is ruined.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="12">The vine withers and the fig tree droops. The pomegranate tree, and also the palm tree, the apple tree --all the trees of the field--are dried up. Indeed, joy is dried up among the sons of men.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="13">Gird yourselves and lament, O priests! Wail, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> ministers of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> altar! Come spend the night in sackcloth, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> ministers of my God, because offering and libation are withheld from the house of your God.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="14">Solemnize a fast! Call an assembly! Gather <transChange type="added">the</transChange> elders, all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the inhabitants of the land <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the house of Yahweh your God, and cry out to Yahweh.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="15">Ah! For the day! For the day of Yahweh is near. It will come like destruction from Shaddai.<note>Often translated "the Almighty"</note></verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="16"><transChange type="added">Is</transChange> not food cut <transChange type="added">off</transChange> before our eyes, from the house of our God, joy and gladness?</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="17">The seeds shrivel under their clods; the storehouses are desolate. The grain storage places are destroyed because grain has dried out.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="18">How <transChange type="added">the</transChange> beasts<note>Hebrew "beast"</note> groan; the herds of cattle wander around because there is no pasture for them; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> flocks of sheep are in distress.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="19">To you, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Yahweh, I cry out, because fire has devoured the pastures of the desert, and flames<note>Hebrew "flame"</note> burned all the trees of the field.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="20">Also, the beasts of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> field long for you, because the courses of water are dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the desert.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="1">Blow <transChange type="added">the</transChange> trumpet<note>Hebrew "shofar"</note> in Zion, and sound the alarm on {my holy mountain}!<note>Literally "mountain of my holiness"</note> Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> coming --<transChange type="added">it is</transChange> indeed near.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="2">A day of darkness and gloom, a day of cloud and thick darkness, like the dawn spreads on the mountains, a great and strong army! There has been nothing like it from old, and after it nothing will be again {for generations to come}.<note>Literally "until years of generations"</note></verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="3">{Before them}<note>Literally "before the presence of it"</note> a fire devours, and behind them a flame burns. Like the garden of Eden is the land {before them},<note>Literally "before the presence of it"</note> and after them <transChange type="added">it is like</transChange> a desolate desert, and nothing can escape them.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="4">Like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> appearance of horses is their appearance, and like horsemen they run;</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="5">like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sound of chariots on the tops of the mountains, they leap about; like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sound of a flame of fire devouring stubble; like a strong army arranged in rows <transChange type="added">for</transChange> battle.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="6">{From before them}<note>Or "From in front of it," or "From the presence of it"</note> nations writhe, all faces {turn pale}.<note>Literally "gather paleness"</note></verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="7">They run like mighty warriors,<note>That is, the "great and strong army" (see 2:2)</note> they scale the wall like men of war; each goes on its own way, and they do not swerve <transChange type="added">from</transChange> their paths.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="8">They do not jostle {one another};<note>Literally "each man his brother"</note> each goes on its own trail; and through the falling weapons,<note>Hebrew "weapon"</note> they are not halted.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="9">In the city they rush forth; on the walls<note>Hebrew "wall"</note> they run. Into the houses they climb up; through the windows they enter like <transChange type="added">a</transChange> thief.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="10">{Before them}<note>Literally "Before the presence of it"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth quakes; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heavens tremble; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sun and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> moon grow dark, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> stars {have withheld}<note>Literally "gathered"</note> their splendor</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="11">And Yahweh {utters}<note>Literally "gives"</note> his voice before his army, because his encampment <transChange type="added">is</transChange> very large; strong <transChange type="added">is the</transChange> one who carries out his decree, for great <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the day of Yahweh and exceedingly fearful. Who can endure it?</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="12">"And even now," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting, and weeping, and wailing."</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="13">Rend your hearts<note>Hebrew "heart"</note> and not your garments, and return to Yahweh your God, because he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> gracious and compassionate, {slow to anger}<note>Or "patient"; literally "long of anger"</note> and great in loyal love, and relenting from harm.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="14">Who knows <transChange type="added">whether</transChange> he will turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, an offering and a libation, for Yahweh your God?</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="15">Blow <transChange type="added">the</transChange> trumpet<note>Hebrew "Shofar"</note> in Zion, sanctify a fast, call an assembly;</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="16">gather <transChange type="added">the</transChange> people, consecrate <transChange type="added">the</transChange> assembly; assemble <transChange type="added">the</transChange> elders, gather <transChange type="added">the</transChange> children, even those <transChange type="added">who are</transChange> breast-feeding; let <transChange type="added">the</transChange> bridegroom come out from his private room, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> bride from her canopy.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="17">Between the colonnade and the altar, let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep. And let them say, "Take pity, Yahweh, on your people. Do not make your inheritance a reproach, a byword among <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nations. Why should they say among the nations, 'Where <transChange type="added">is</transChange> their God?'"</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="19">And Yahweh answered and said to his people, "Look at me, <transChange type="added">I am</transChange> sending to you grain, new wine, and olive oil, and you will be satisfied by it. I will not give you <transChange type="added">over</transChange> any more as a disgrace among the nations.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="20">{The northerners}<note>Or "The northern army"</note> I will remove from you; I will drive them to a desert and desolate land, its<note>That is, the northern army</note> front to the eastern sea, and its rear into the western sea; its stench and odor will rise up because he<note>That is, Yahweh (see v. 21)</note> has done great things.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="21">Do not fear, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> land, rejoice and be glad, because Yahweh has done great things.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="22">Do not fear, wild animals of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> field, because <transChange type="added">the</transChange> pastures of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> desert have put forth new green shoots, because <transChange type="added">the</transChange> tree has produced its fruit, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fig tree and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> vine have yielded their produce.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="23">Be glad, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> children of Zion, be glad and rejoice in Yahweh your God, because he has given for you the autumn rains for <transChange type="added">your</transChange> righteousness,<note>Or "vindication"</note> and he has {poured down}<note>Literally "brought down"</note> for you rainwater, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> autumn and spring rains, as before.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="24">The threshing floors will be full <transChange type="added">with</transChange> grain, and the vats will overflow <transChange type="added">with</transChange> new wine and olive oil.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="25">I will repay you the years that the locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my mighty troops that I sent against you.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="26">And you will eat abundantly and be satisfied, and praise the name of Yahweh your God, who has dealt with you {wondrously}.<note>Literally "to do a wonder"</note> My people {will never be ashamed}.<note>Literally "will forever not be ashamed"</note></verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="27">And you will know that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> in the midst of Israel, and I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh, your God, and there is no <transChange type="added">other</transChange>. My people {will never be ashamed again}.<note>Literally "will forever no longer be ashamed"</note></verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="28"><note>Joel 2:28-32 in the English Bible is 3:1-5 in the Hebrew Bible</note> And it will happen afterward thus: I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your elders will dream dreams; your young men shall see visions.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="29">And also on the male slaves and on the female slaves, I will pour out my Spirit in those days.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="30">And I will {set}<note>Literally "give"</note> wonders in the heavens, and on earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="31">The sun will be changed to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="32">And it will happen--everyone who calls on the name of Yahweh will be rescued, because on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be {those who escape},<note>Literally, "an escape"</note> as Yahweh said, and among the survivors whom Yahweh is calling. </verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="1"><note>Joel 3:1-21 in the English Bible is 4:1-21 in the Hebrew Bible</note> For look! In those days, and in that time, when I will return<note>Or "restore"</note> the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="2">I will gather all the nations, and I will bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat, and I will argue {a case against them}<note>Literally "a matter with them"</note> there concerning my people and my inheritance Israel whom they have scattered among the nations, and my land <transChange type="added">that</transChange> they have divided.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="3">For my people they cast lots,<note>Hebrew "lot"</note> and {they traded}<note>Literally "gave"</note> the male child for the prostitute, and the female child they sold for wine and they drank <transChange type="added">it</transChange>. </verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="4">What <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you to me, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Tyre and <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Sidon, and all of the regions of Philistia? Are you repaying to me what is deserved? If you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> recompensing me, I will return swiftly <transChange type="added">and</transChange> quickly what you deserve on your head!</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="5">For you have taken my silver and my gold, and my beautiful treasures you have carried into your temples.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="6">And the sons of Judah and Jerusalem you sold to the sons of the Greeks, in order to remove them from their border.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="7">Look! I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> rousing them from the place where you have sold them, and I will return what you deserve on your head!</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="8">I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they will sell them to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Sabeans and to a nation far <transChange type="added">away</transChange>, for Yahweh has spoken. </verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="9">Proclaim this among the nations: {Prepare for war}!<note>Literally "Sanctify a battle"</note> Stir up the mighty warriors; let them approach and come up; <transChange type="added">let</transChange> all the men of war approach.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="10">Beat your cutting tools of iron into swords and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weakling say, 'I am a mighty warrior!'</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="11">Hurry and come, all the nations, from all around, and gather <transChange type="added">yourselves</transChange> there. Bring down your mighty warriors, O Yahweh!</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="12">Let the nations be roused and let them come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the nations from all around.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="13">Send forth <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sickle, for the harvest is ripe! Go tread, for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> winepress is full! The vats overflow, because their evil <transChange type="added">is</transChange> great!</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="14">Commotion, commotion in the valley of decision! For the day of Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> near in the valley of decision!</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="15"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> sun and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> moon grow dark, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> stars {have withheld}<note>Literally "gathered"</note> their splendor.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="16">And Yahweh roars from Zion; from Jerusalem he utters his voice, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heavens and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth shake. But Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a refuge for his people, and a protection for the children of Israel.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="17">And you will know that I, Yahweh your God, <transChange type="added">am</transChange> dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem will be <transChange type="added">a place of</transChange> holiness, and strangers will pass through <transChange type="added">it</transChange> no longer.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="18">And it will happen on that day; the mountains will drip new wine, and the hills will flow with milk, and all the channels of Judah will flow with water. A spring from the house of Yahweh will come forth, and it will water the valley of Acacia Trees.<note>Or "the wadi Shittim"</note></verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="19">Egypt will become a desolation, and Edom will become a {desolate desert},<note>Literally "desert of desolation"</note> because of the violence <transChange type="added">they did</transChange> against the children of Judah, in whose land they have shed innocent blood.</verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="20">But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem {for all generations}.<note>Or "for each generation"</note></verse>


book: Joel
content:
<verse num="21">{I will cleanse their bloodguilt}<note>Literally "I will not leave unpunished their blood"</note> <transChange type="added">that</transChange> {I did not cleanse},<note>Or "I did not consider innocent"</note> for Yahweh is dwelling in Zion.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="1">The words of Amos, who was among the shepherds from Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah the king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Jehoash, two years {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> the earthquake. </verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="2">And he said, "Yahweh roars from Zion and he utters his voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds wither and the top of Carmel dries up."</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="3">Thus says Yahweh, "For three transgressions of Damascus and for four I will not revoke <transChange type="added">the punishment</transChange>,<note>Or "it"</note> because they threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron!</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="4">So I will send fire against Hazael's house and it will consume the citadel fortresses of Ben-Hadad.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="5">I will break the gate bars of Damascus and I will cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven and the one who takes hold of the scepter of Beth Eden, and the people of Aram will go into exile to Kir," says Yahweh. </verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="6">Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Gaza and for four I will not revoke <transChange type="added">the punishment</transChange>,<note>Or "it"</note> because they exiled a whole community, handing them over to Edom!</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="7">So I will send a fire against the wall of Gaza and it will devour its citadel fortresses.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="8">And I will cut off the inhabitants from Ashdod and the one who takes hold of the scepter of Ashkelon. I will also turn my hand against Ekron, and the remnant of the Philistines will perish," says the Lord Yahweh. </verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="9">Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Tyre and for four I will not revoke <transChange type="added">the punishment</transChange>,<note>Or "it"</note> because they delivered up a whole community to Edom and they did not remember the covenant of brotherhood!</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="10">So I will send a fire against the wall of Tyre and it will devour its citadel fortresses." </verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="11">Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Edom and for four I will not revoke <transChange type="added">the punishment</transChange>,<note>Or "it"</note> because he pursued his brother with the sword! He stifled his compassion and his anger tore <transChange type="added">them</transChange> apart {continually},<note>Literally "forever"</note> and he kept his rage forever.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="12">So I will send a fire against Teman and it will devour the citadel fortresses of Bozrah." </verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="13">Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Ammon and for four I will not revoke <transChange type="added">the punishment</transChange>,<note>Or "it"</note> because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge their territory!</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="14">So I will kindle a fire against the wall of Rabbah and it will devour its citadel fortresses with a war cry on the day of battle, with a storm on the day of the violent tempest.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="15">And their king will go into exile, he and his commanders together," says Yahweh. </verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="1">Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Moab and for four I will not revoke <transChange type="added">the punishment</transChange>,<note>Or "it"</note> because he burned to lime the bones of the king of Edom.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="2">So I will send a fire against Moab and it will devour the citadel fortresses of Kerioth, and Moab will die amid uproar, amid war cries <transChange type="added">and</transChange> amid the sound of a horn.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="3">And I will cut off <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ruler from its midst and I will kill all of its officials with him," says Yahweh. </verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="4">Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Judah and for four I will not revoke <transChange type="added">the punishment</transChange>,<note>Or "it"</note> because they have rejected the law of Yahweh and have not kept his rules, and their lies have led them astray, {after which their ancestors walked}!<note>Literally "which their ancestors walked after them"</note></verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="5">So I will send a fire against Judah and it will devour the citadel fortresses of Jerusalem. </verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="6">Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Israel and for four I will not revoke <transChange type="added">the punishment</transChange>,<note>Or "it"</note> because they sell the righteous for money and the poor for a pair of sandals!</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="7">Those who trample the heads of the powerless into the dust of the ground and turn aside the way of the destitute, a man and his father {have sexual relations with}<note>Literally "go to"</note> the same girl, so that <transChange type="added">they</transChange> profane my holy name.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="8">They stretch themselves out beside every altar on clothing taken in pledge and they drink wine, bought with fines imposed,<note>Literally "imposing a fine"</note> in the house of their God.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="9">Yet I destroyed the Amorite {before them},<note>Literally "from the face of them"</note> {who was as tall as}<note>Literally "whose height was as the height of"</note> cedars and was as strong as the oaks. I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="10">And I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and I led you in the wilderness forty years to take possession of the land of the Amorite.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="11">And I raised up some <transChange type="added">of</transChange> your sons to <transChange type="added">be</transChange> prophets and some <transChange type="added">of</transChange> your young men to <transChange type="added">be</transChange> Nazirites. Is it not so, O {people}<note>Literally "children"</note> of Israel? <transChange type="added">This is</transChange> the declaration of Yahweh!</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="12">But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets, saying, 'You shall not prophesy.'</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="13">Look! I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to press <transChange type="added">you</transChange> down in your place just as a utility cart full of mature stalks of grain <transChange type="added">is pressed down</transChange>.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="14">Flight will perish from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> swift and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> strong person will not muster his strength and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> warrior will not save his life.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="15">And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> one who takes hold of the bow will not stand and <transChange type="added">the one who is</transChange> swift on his feet will not save himself, nor will <transChange type="added">the</transChange> one who rides the horse save his life.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="16">Even those who are strong of heart among the mighty will flee away naked from the city on that day. <transChange type="added">This is</transChange> the declaration of Yahweh!" </verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="1">Hear this word that Yahweh has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole clan that I brought up from the land of Egypt:<note>Hebrew "Egypt, saying"</note></verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="2">"You only have I {chosen}<note>Literally "known"</note> of all the clans of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="4">Does a lion roar in the forest {when he has no prey}?<note>Literally "and there is no prey to him"</note> Does a fierce, young lion cry out from his den unless he has caught <transChange type="added">something</transChange>?</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="5">Does a bird fall into a trapping net on the earth when there is no snare for it? Does a trapping net spring up from the ground unless it has certainly caught something?</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="6">Or is a horn blown in a city and people are not afraid? Or does a disaster occur in the city and Yahweh has not done <transChange type="added">it</transChange>?</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="7">Surely my Lord does not do anything unless he has revealed his secret to his servants the prophets.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="8">A lion has roared! Who is not afraid? My Lord Yahweh has spoken, who will not prophesy?</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="9">Proclaim to the citadel fortresses in Ashdod and the citadel fortresses in the land of Egypt and say: "Gather on the mountains of Samaria and see the great panic in her midst and the oppression in her midst!"</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="10">"They do not know <transChange type="added">how</transChange> to do right," {declares Yahweh},<note>Literally "the declaration of Yahweh"</note> "those who store up violence and destruction in their citadel fortresses."</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="11">Therefore, thus says my Lord Yahweh, "A foe shall surround the land and bring down your strongholds, and your citadel fortresses shall be plundered."</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="12">Thus says Yahweh, "Just as the shepherd rescues two legs or a piece of an ear from the mouth of the lion, so shall the {people}<note>Literally "children"</note> of Israel who dwell in Samaria, with the corner of a couch and the damask of a bed."</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="13">"Listen and testify against the house of Jacob," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> my Lord Yahweh, the God of hosts.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="14">"For on the day I punish Israel for {its transgression},<note>Literally "the transgression of Israel upon it"</note> I will also punish the altars of Bethel and the horns of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="15">I will ruin the winter house as well as the summer house, and the houses of ivory will perish and the great houses shall come to an end," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh. </verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="1">Hear this word, <transChange type="added">you</transChange> cows of Bashan who <transChange type="added">live</transChange> on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the powerless, who crush the poor, who say to their husbands, "Bring <transChange type="added">something</transChange> so that we may drink!"</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="2">My Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that, "Behold, the days are coming upon you {when they}<note>Literally "and he"</note> will take you away with hooks, even the last of you with fishing hooks.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="3">And you shall leave through breaches <transChange type="added">in the wall</transChange>, each one in front of her. You will be dragged off toward Harmon,"<note>The meaning of this Hebrew word is uncertain</note> {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="4">"Come <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Bethel and transgress; <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Gilgal and {multiply transgression}!<note>Literally "increase to transgress"</note> Bring your sacrifices in the morning and your tithes on the {third day}.<note>Literally "for three of days"</note></verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="5">And bring a thank offering of unleavened bread, and proclaim freewill offerings, pronounce them, for so you love <transChange type="added">to do</transChange>, O {people}<note>Literally "children"</note> of Israel," <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the declaration of my Lord Yahweh.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="6">"And I<note>Emphatic use of personal pronoun</note> in turn gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities and lack of bread in all your places. Yet you did not return to me," <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the declaration of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="7">"And I also withheld the rain from you when <transChange type="added">there were</transChange> still three months to the harvest. And I would send rain on one city and send no rain on another city. One tract of land will be rained on, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> tract of land {on which it does not rain}<note>Literally "which does not rain down on it"</note> will dry up.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="8">So two <transChange type="added">or</transChange> three cities wandered to one city to drink water and they were not satisfied, yet you did not return to me," <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the declaration of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="9">"I struck you with blight and with mildew. Frequently the cutting locust devoured your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees, yet you did not return to me," <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the declaration of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="10">"I sent among you a plague in the manner of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with the captivity of your horses. And I made the stench of your camps go up into your nostrils, yet you did not return to me," <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the declaration of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="11">"I overthrew some of you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a stick snatched from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fire, and yet you did not return to me," <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the declaration of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="12">"Therefore, thus I will do to you, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Israel. Because I will do this to you, O Israel, prepare to meet your God!</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="13">Yes, here is the one who forms <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mountains, and the one who creates the wind, and the one who reveals to humans what his thoughts <transChange type="added">are</transChange>, and the one who treads on the heights of the earth; Yahweh, the God of hosts, <transChange type="added">is</transChange> his name!" </verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="1">Hear this word that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to intone over you <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a lament, O house of Israel!</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="2">Virgin Israel has fallen and will not rise again. She is deserted on her land; there is no one to raise her up.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="3">For thus says my Lord Yahweh, "The city that marches out <transChange type="added">with</transChange> a thousand will <transChange type="added">only</transChange> have a hundred left. And the one that marches out <transChange type="added">with</transChange> a hundred will <transChange type="added">only</transChange> have ten left for the house of Israel."</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="5">But do not seek Bethel or go <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Gilgal or cross over to Beersheba, for Gilgal will certainly go into exile and Bethel will come to disaster."</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="6">Seek Yahweh so that you may live, so that he will not break out like a fire <transChange type="added">against</transChange> the house of Joseph! And it will devour, {with none to quench}<note>Literally "and there is not one to quench"</note> <transChange type="added">it</transChange> for Bethel.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="7"><transChange type="added">Ah,</transChange> you who turn justice into wormwood and hurl righteousness to the ground!</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="8">The one who made the Pleiades and Orion and who turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens day <transChange type="added">into</transChange> night, the one who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> his name!</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="9">The one who makes destruction flash upon <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fierce, {so that}<note>Literally "and"</note> destruction comes upon <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fortification.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="10">They hate the one who reproves in the gate and they abhor the one who speaks honestly.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="11">Therefore, because you trample on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> poor and you take a grain tax from them, you built houses of dressed stone, but you will not live in them. You built vineyards of delightfulness, but you will not drink their wine.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="12">For I know your transgressions <transChange type="added">are</transChange> many and your sins <transChange type="added">are</transChange> numerous, <transChange type="added">you</transChange> foes of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> righteous, those who take a bribe, and {those who}<note>Literally "they"</note> push aside <transChange type="added">the</transChange> poor <transChange type="added">ones</transChange> in the gate!</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="13">Therefore, whoever has insight will keep silent in that time, for it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a time of evil.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="14">Seek good and not bad in order that you may live, and so Yahweh, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have said.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="15">Hate evil and love good and establish justice in the gate; perhaps Yahweh, the God of hosts, will be gracious <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the remnant of Joseph.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="16">Therefore, thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, my Lord, "In all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the public squares <transChange type="added">there will be</transChange> wailing, and in all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the streets <transChange type="added">they will say</transChange>, 'Alas, alas, alas!' They shall call <transChange type="added">the</transChange> farmers to mourning and <transChange type="added">to</transChange> wailing, to those who are skilled <transChange type="added">in</transChange> lamentation.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="17">And in all <transChange type="added">of the</transChange> vineyards <transChange type="added">there will be</transChange> wailing, because I will pass in your midst," says Yahweh. </verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="18">Alas, those who desire the day of Yahweh, why <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this for you the day of Yahweh? It <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> darkness and not light!</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="19"><transChange type="added">It will be</transChange> as <transChange type="added">if</transChange> a man fled from a lion and a bear met him; or he went <transChange type="added">into</transChange> the house and leaned his hand against the wall and a snake bit him.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="20"><transChange type="added">Is</transChange> not the day of Yahweh darkness and not light, and pitch dark with no brightness in it?</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="21">"I hate, I despise your festivals, and I take no delight in your assemblies.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="22">Yes, <transChange type="added">even</transChange> if you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept <transChange type="added">them</transChange>, and I will not look at the fellowship offerings of your fattened animals.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="23">Remove from me the noise of your songs, and I do not want to hear the melody of your harps!</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="24">But let justice roll on like the water, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="25">Did you bring to me sacrifices and offering<transChange type="added">s</transChange> those forty years in the desert, O house of Israel?</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="26">And you will take up Sikkuth, your king, and Kaiwan, your images, the star of your gods which you made for yourselves.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="27">And I will deport you beyond Damascus," says Yahweh--the God of hosts <transChange type="added">is</transChange> his name. </verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="1">Alas <transChange type="added">for</transChange> those being at ease in Zion, and those who feel secure on Mount Samaria, the notables of the best of the nations! The house of Israel resorts to them.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="2">Cross over <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Calneh and see, and go from there <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Hamath Rabbah and go down <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Gath of the Philistines. <transChange type="added">Are</transChange> you better than these kingdoms, or is their territory greater than your territory?</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="4"><transChange type="added">Alas for</transChange> those who lie on beds of ivory and lounge on their couches, and those eating young rams from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sheep and goats, and bull-calves from the middle of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> animal stall.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="5"><transChange type="added">Alas for those</transChange> who sing to the tune of the harp; like David they improvise on instruments of music.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="6"><transChange type="added">Alas for those</transChange> who drink from sprinkling bowls of wine and anoint themselves with the best of olive oils and are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="7">Therefore, they shall now go into exile at the head of the exiles and the feast of lounging shall pass away. </verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="8">My Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself, {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, the God of hosts: "I abhor the pride of Jacob and I hate his citadel fortresses and I will deliver <transChange type="added">the</transChange> city and its fullness!"</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="10">And <transChange type="added">if</transChange> one's relative, who burns <transChange type="added">the body</transChange>, lifts it up and brings the body out of the house and he will say to someone in the innermost part of the house, "<transChange type="added">Are there</transChange> any more with you?" and he will say, "None," then he will say, "Silence," because <transChange type="added">we</transChange> must not invoke the name of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="11">Look, Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> going to command and the great house will be destroyed <transChange type="added">to</transChange> bits and the little house <transChange type="added">to</transChange> pieces.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="12">Do horses run on rocks, or does one plow the sea with oxen?<note>Or "does one plow them with oxen"</note> But you have turned justice into poison and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fruit of righteousness into wormwood!</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="13"><transChange type="added">You</transChange> who rejoice over Lo-Debar, who say, "Have we not taken Karnaim for ourselves by our strength?"</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="14">Indeed, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, the God of hosts. And they shall oppress you from Lebo-hamath up to the wadi of the Arabah. </verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="1">This is what my Lord Yahweh showed me, and look, <transChange type="added">he</transChange> is going to form locusts at the beginning of the sprouting of the second crop, and look, after the mowings of the king.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="2">And then when they<note>Hebrew "he/it"</note> finished eating the vegetation of the land, I said, "O Lord Yahweh, please forgive! How can Jacob stand, because he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> small?"</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="4">This is what my Lord Yahweh showed me, and look, my Lord Yahweh was going to call for a legal case with fire, and it devoured the great deep and it ate up the plots of ground.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="5">Then I said, "<transChange type="added">O</transChange> Lord Yahweh, please stop! How can Jacob stand, because he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> small?"</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="6">Yahweh also relented concerning this. "This also will not be," said my Lord Yahweh.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="7">This is what he showed me: Behold, my Lord <transChange type="added">was</transChange> standing beside a wall <transChange type="added">built with</transChange> a plummet, and a plummet <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in his hand.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="8">And Yahweh said to me, "What do you see?" And I said, "A plummet." And my Lord said, "Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to set a plummet in the midst of my people, Israel. I will not pass them by again.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="9">The high places of Isaac shall become desolate and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste. And I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword." </verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="10">Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam the king of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to endure all of his words.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="11">For this Amos has said, 'Jeroboam will die by the sword and Israel will certainly go into exile <transChange type="added">away</transChange> from his land.'"</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="12">And Amaziah said to Amos, "<transChange type="added">O</transChange> seer, go, flee to the land of Judah and earn food there and prophesy there!"</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="13">But do not prophesy again at Bethel, because this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a sanctuary of a king and this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a temple of a kingdom."</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="14">And Amos answered and said to Amaziah, "I am not a prophet and I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> not a son of a prophet, but I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> a herdsman and I am one taking care of sycamore trees.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="15">And Yahweh took me from <transChange type="added">following</transChange> behind the sheep and goats and Yahweh said to me, "Go, prophesy to my people Israel!</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="16">And so then, hear the word of Yahweh! You are saying, 'You must not prophesy against Israel and you must not preach against the house of Isaac!'</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="17">Therefore, thus says Yahweh, 'Your wife will become a prostitute in the city and your sons and your daughters will fall by the sword and your land will be divided with a line, and you<note>Emphatic second person pronoun</note> will die in an unclean land and Israel will surely go into exile from this land.'" </verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="2">And he said, "What do you see, Amos?" And I said, "A basket of summer fruit." And Yahweh said to me, "The end has come upon my people Israel. I will not pass by them again!"</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="3">"And the songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> my Lord Yahweh. "The corpses are numerous; he throws them in every place. Be quiet!"</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="4">Hear this, those who trample on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> poor and who annihilate the afflicted of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land,</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="5">saying, "When will the new moon be over, so that we can sell grain? And the Sabbath, so that we can open the grain bins, that we can make <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ephah small and make <transChange type="added">the</transChange> shekel large, and can practice deceit <transChange type="added">with</transChange> a set of scales of deceit?</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="6">{That we can}<note>Literally "to buy"</note> buy <transChange type="added">the</transChange> powerless with silver and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> poor for the sake of a pair of sandals, and we can sell the waste of the grain?"</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="7">Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, "Surely I will never forget any of their deeds!</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="8">On account of this, will not the land tremble and will not every living <transChange type="added">thing</transChange> in it mourn? And all of it will rise like the Nile and it will be tossed about and subside like the Nile of Egypt.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="9">And then in that day," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> my Lord Yahweh, "I<note>Literally "and I"</note> will make the sun go down at noon and I will darken the land on a day of light.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="10">And I will turn your feasts into mourning and all of your songs into lament, and I will put sackcloth on all loins and baldness on every head. And I will make it like the mourning for an only child, and its end like a bitter day.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="11">Look, the days are coming," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> my Lord Yahweh, "when I will send a famine in the land, not a famine for bread and not a thirst for water, but {of hearing}<note>Literally "but if to hear"</note> the words of Yahweh!</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="12">And they will wander from sea to sea and from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north and to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east. They will roam about to seek the word of Yahweh, but they will not find <transChange type="added">it</transChange>!</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="13">In that day the beautiful young women and the young men will faint because of thirst.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="14"><transChange type="added">These are</transChange> those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, 'By the life of your gods, O Dan,' and 'By the life of the way of Beersheba,' they will fall and they will not rise again." </verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="1">I saw my Lord standing by the altar and he said, "Strike the capitals so that the thresholds will shake, and shatter them on the head of all of them, and I will kill the rest of them with the sword. A fugitive belonging to them will not run away, and a survivor belonging to them will not escape.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="2">If they dig into Sheol, from there my hand will take them, and <transChange type="added">even</transChange> if they climb up <transChange type="added">to</transChange> heaven, from there I will bring them down.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="3">And <transChange type="added">even</transChange> if they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, from there I will search and will take them, and <transChange type="added">even</transChange> if they hide from before my eyes at the bottom of the sea, from there I will command the sea serpent and it will bite them.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="4">And <transChange type="added">even</transChange> if they go into captivity before their enemies, from there I will command the sword and it will kill them, and I will fix my eyes on them for harm and not for good."</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="5">And <transChange type="added">thus will do</transChange> the Lord Yahweh of hosts, who touches the earth and it melts, and all of those living in it mourn, and all of it rises like the Nile and it sinks down like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Nile of Egypt,</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="6">who builds his upper chambers in the heavens and lays the foundation of his vault on the earth, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them on the surface of the earth--Yahweh is his name.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="7">"Are you not like the Cushites to me, O people of Israel?" {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh. "Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines from Caphtor and {the Arameans}<note>Literally "Aram"</note> from Kir?</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="8">Look, the eyes of my Lord Yahweh <transChange type="added">are</transChange> on the kingdom of sin, and I will destroy it from the surface of the earth. However, I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="9">"Yes, look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to command and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations like one who shakes with a sieve, but not a pebble will fall <transChange type="added">to the</transChange> ground.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="10">All the sinners of my people will die by the sword, who say, 'Evil will not overtake or confront us.' </verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="11">On that day I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen, and I will repair its breaches and will raise up its ruins and will build it like the days of old.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="12">Thus they may take possession of the remnant of Edom and all the nations {who are called by my name},"<note>Literally "who my name is called over them"</note> {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, <transChange type="added">who</transChange> does this.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="13">"Look, days are coming," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "when <transChange type="added">the one who</transChange> plows will overtake <transChange type="added">the one who</transChange> reaps, the one who treads grapes <transChange type="added">will catch up</transChange> with the one who sows the seed. And the mountains will drip sweet wine and all of the hills will flow <transChange type="added">with it</transChange>.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="14">And I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel, and they will rebuild <transChange type="added">the</transChange> desolated cities and will inhabit <transChange type="added">them</transChange>. And they will plant vineyards and will drink their wine, and they will make gardens and will eat their fruit.</verse>


book: Amos
content:
<verse num="15">And I will plant them on their land and they will not be uprooted again from their land that I have given to them," says Yahweh your God. </verse>


book: Obad
content:
<verse num="2">"Look, I will<note>The NET Bible note for this verse points out: "The Hebrew perfect verb form used here usually describes past events. However, here and several times in the following verses it is best understood as portraying certain fulfillment of events that at the time of writing were still future. It is the perfect of certitude"</note> make you insignificant among the nations. You <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> utterly despised!</verse>


book: Obad
content:
<verse num="3">The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of a rock, the heights of its dwelling, <transChange type="added">you who</transChange> say in your heart: 'Who can bring me down <transChange type="added">to the</transChange> ground?'</verse>


book: Obad
content:
<verse num="4"><transChange type="added">Even</transChange> if you soar like the eagle, <transChange type="added">even</transChange> if your nest is set among <transChange type="added">the</transChange> stars, from there I will bring you down!" {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh:</verse>


book: Obad
content:
<verse num="5">"If thieves came to you, if plunderers of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> night--How you have been destroyed!--would they not steal {what they wanted}?<note>Literally "their sufficiency"</note> If grape gatherers came, would they not leave gleanings?</verse>


book: Obad
content:
<verse num="7">All of your {allies}<note>Literally "men of your covenant"</note> have driven you up to the boundary; your {confederates}<note>Literally "men of your peace"</note> have deceived you and have prevailed against you. <transChange type="added">Those who eat</transChange> your bread have set an ambush for you, there is no<note>The preposition בּ plus אֵין indicates the absence of a thing within a location</note> understanding of it.<note>Or "in him"</note></verse>


book: Obad
content:
<verse num="8">On that day," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "will I not destroy the wise men from Edom, and understanding from the mountain of Esau?</verse>


book: Obad
content:
<verse num="9">And your warriors will be shattered, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Teman, so that {everyone}<note>Literally "each"</note> from the mountain of Esau will be cut off because of the slaughter! </verse>


book: Obad
content:
<verse num="10">"Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you and you will be cut off forever.</verse>


book: Obad
content:
<verse num="11">On {the day you stood nearby},<note>Literally "the day of your standing nearby"</note> {on the day strangers took}<note>Literally "the day of the taking captive by strangers"</note> his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots over Jerusalem, you were also like one of them.</verse>


book: Obad
content:
<verse num="12">But you should not have gloated<note>The Hebrew expression "to look upon" often has the sense of "to feast the eyes upon" or "to gloat over"</note> over your brother's day, on the day of his misfortune, and you should not have rejoiced over the {people}<note>Literally "son"</note> of Judah on the day of their perishing, and you should not have opened your mouth wide on the day of distress.</verse>


book: Obad
content:
<verse num="13">You should not have entered the gate of my people on the day of their disaster. You also should not have gloated over his misery on the day of his disaster, and you should not have stretched out <transChange type="added">your hands</transChange> on the day of his disaster.</verse>


book: Obad
content:
<verse num="14">And you should not have stood at the crossroad<transChange type="added">s</transChange> to cut off his fugitives and you should not have handed over his survivors on the day of distress. </verse>


book: Obad
content:
<verse num="15">"For the day of Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> near against all the nations! Just as you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return on your <transChange type="added">own</transChange> head.</verse>


book: Obad
content:
<verse num="16">For just as you have drunk on {my holy mountain},<note>Literally "the mountain of my holiness"</note> all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and they will slurp, and they will be as <transChange type="added">if</transChange> they had never been.</verse>


book: Obad
content:
<verse num="17">But on Mount Zion there will be an escape, and it will be holy, and the house of Jacob will take possession <transChange type="added">of</transChange> their dispossessors.</verse>


book: Obad
content:
<verse num="18">And the house of Jacob will be a fire and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; and they will set them on fire and will consume them. And there will not be a survivor for the house of Esau," for Yahweh has spoken. </verse>


book: Obad
content:
<verse num="19">Those of the Negev will take possession of the mountain of Esau, and those of the Shephelah <transChange type="added">will possess the land of</transChange> the Philistines, and they shall take possession of the territory of Ephraim and the territory of Samaria, and Benjamin <transChange type="added">will take possession of</transChange> Gilead.</verse>


book: Obad
content:
<verse num="20">And the exiles<note>Hebrew "exile"</note> of this army of the people of Israel <transChange type="added">will possess</transChange> Canaan up to Zarephath, and the exiles<note>Hebrew "exile"</note> of Jerusalem who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in Sepharad will take possession of the cities of the Negev.</verse>


book: Obad
content:
<verse num="21">And those who have been saved will go up on Mount Zion to rule the mountain of Esau. And the kingdom {will belong to}<note>Literally "will be for"</note> Yahweh. </verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="2">"Get up! Go to the great city Nineveh and cry out against her, because their evil has come up {before me}."<note>Literally "to my face"</note></verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="3">But Jonah set out to flee toward Tarshish from {the presence of}<note>Literally "from to face of"</note> Yahweh. And he went down <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Joppa and found a merchant ship going <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Tarshish, and paid her fare, and went on board her to go with them toward Tarshish from {the presence of}<note>Literally "from to face of"</note> Yahweh. </verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="4">And Yahweh hurled a great wind upon the sea, and it was a great storm on the sea, and the merchant ship {was in danger of breaking up}.<note>Literally "threatened to be broken up"</note></verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="5">And the mariners were afraid, and each cried out to his god. And they threw the {contents}<note>Literally "objects"</note> that were in the merchant ship into the sea to lighten it for them. And <transChange type="added">meanwhile</transChange> Jonah went down into the hold of the vessel and lay down and fell asleep.</verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="6">And the captain<note>Or "commander"</note> of the ship approached him and said to him, "Why are you {sound asleep}?<note>Literally "in a deep sleep"</note> Get up! Call on your god! Perhaps <transChange type="added">your</transChange> god<note>Literally "the god," with the article indicating previous reference</note> will take notice of us and we won't perish!"</verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="7">And they said {to one another},<note>Literally "each to his friend/companion"</note> "Come, let us cast lots so that we may know on whose account this disaster <transChange type="added">has come</transChange> on us!" And they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.</verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="8">So they said to him, "Please tell us whoever <transChange type="added">is responsible that</transChange> this disaster <transChange type="added">has come</transChange> upon us! What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your occupation? And from where do you come? What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your country? And from which people <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you?"</verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="9">And he said to them, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land."</verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="10">Then the men {were greatly afraid},<note>Literally "were afraid with a great fear"</note> and they said to him, "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this you have done?" because they<note>Literally "the men" but this is redundant in English</note> knew that he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> fleeing {from the presence of}<note>Literally "from before the face of"</note> Yahweh (because he had told them).</verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="11">So they said to him, "What shall we do to you so that the sea may quiet down for us?" because the sea {was growing more and more tempestuous}.<note>Literally "going/growing and storming"</note></verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="12">And he said to them, "Pick me up and hurl me into the sea so that the sea may quiet down for you, because I know that on account of me this great storm <transChange type="added">has come</transChange> upon you all."</verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="13">But the men rowed <transChange type="added">hard</transChange> to bring <transChange type="added">the ship</transChange><note>Here the direct object is supplied from context</note> back to the dry land, and they could not <transChange type="added">do so</transChange> because the sea {was growing more and more tempestuous}<note>Literally "going/growing and storming"</note> against them.</verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="14">So they cried out to Yahweh, and they said, "O Yahweh! Please do not let us perish because of this man's life, and {do not make us guilty of innocent blood},<note>Literally "do not give innocent blood on us"</note> because you, O Yahweh, did what you wanted."</verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="15">And they picked Jonah up and hurled him into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging.</verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="16">So the men feared Yahweh {greatly},<note>Literally "with a great fear"</note> and they offered a sacrifice to Yahweh and {made}<note>Literally "vowed"</note> vows. </verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="17"><note>Jonah 1:17-2:10 in the English Bible is 2:1-11 in the Hebrew Bible</note> And Yahweh provided a large fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. </verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="3">And you threw me <transChange type="added">into the</transChange> deep, into the heart of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> seas, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea currents surrounded me; all your breakers and your surging waves passed over me.</verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="4">And I said, 'I am banished<note>Or "expelled," or "driven away"</note> from your sight; how<note>Or "however, I will continue to look on your holy temple"</note> {will I continue to look}<note>Literally "will I do again to look," meaning "will I continue to look"</note> {on your holy temple}?'<note>Literally "on the temple of your holiness"</note></verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="5"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> waters encompassed me up to <transChange type="added">my</transChange> neck; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> deep surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head.</verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="6">I went down to the foundations of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mountains; the Underworld--its bars <transChange type="added">were</transChange> around me forever. But you brought up my life from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> pit, Yahweh my God.</verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="7">When my life was ebbing away from me, I remembered Yahweh, and my prayer came to you, {to your holy temple}.<note>Literally "to the temple of your holiness"</note></verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="8">Those who worship vain idols forsake their loyal love.<note>This could mean (1) they forsake the loyal love they should show to God or (2) they forfeit <transChange type="added">forsake</transChange> the loyal love that God would have shown to them</note></verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="9">But I, with a voice of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to you; I will fulfill what I have vowed. Deliverance<note>Or "salvation"</note> <transChange type="added">belongs</transChange> to Yahweh!"</verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="1">And the word of Yahweh came to Jonah a second <transChange type="added">time</transChange>, saying,</verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="2">"Get up! Go to Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim to it the message that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> telling you."</verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="3">So Jonah got up<note>Or "set out"</note> and went to Nineveh according to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was {an extraordinarily great city}<note>Literally "a great city to God" or "a great city to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> gods," a disputed phrase which may refer to God's estimate or ownership of Nineveh, to the presence of many idols, or an idiom referring to the size of Nineveh (this translation takes the last view)</note>--a journey of three days <transChange type="added">across</transChange>.<note>This phrase may also refer to a journey on which business was done, so that "three days" is the total elapsed time</note></verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="4">And Jonah began to go into the city a journey of one day, and he cried out and said, "Forty more days and Nineveh will be demolished!"<note>Or "overthrown"</note></verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="5">And the people of Nineveh believed in God, and they proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth--from the greatest of them {to the least important}.<note>Literally "to the smallest of them"</note> </verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="6">And the news reached the king of Nineveh, and he rose from his throne and removed his royal robe, put on sackcloth, and sat in the ashes.</verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="8">And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> human beings and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> animals must be covered <transChange type="added">with</transChange> sackcloth! And they must call forcefully to God, and each must turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his<note>Hebrew "their"</note> hands.</verse>


book: Jonah
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<verse num="9">Who knows? God may relent and change his mind and turn {from his blazing anger}<note>Literally "from the heat of his anger"</note> {so that}<note>Hebrew "and"</note> we will not perish." </verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="10">And God saw their deeds--that they turned from their evil ways--and God changed his mind about the evil that he had said <transChange type="added">he would</transChange> bring upon them, and he did not do <transChange type="added">it</transChange>.<note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> </verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="1">And this<note>Hebrew "it"</note> {was greatly displeasing}<note>Literally "was displeasing <transChange type="added">with</transChange> great displeasure"</note> to Jonah, and {he became furious}.<note>Literally "it was hot for him"</note></verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="2">And he prayed to Yahweh and said, "O Yahweh, <transChange type="added">was</transChange> this not {what I said}<note>Literally "my word"</note> while I was in my homeland? Therefore {I originally fled}<note>Literally "I did the first time to flee"</note> to Tarshish, because I knew that you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger {and having great steadfast love},<note>Literally "and great of steadfast love"</note> and one who relents concerning calamity.<note>That is, calamity sent by God as judgment</note></verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="3">And so then, Yahweh, please take my life from me, because <transChange type="added">for</transChange> me death <transChange type="added">is</transChange> better than life!"</verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="4">And Yahweh said, "{Is it right for you to be angry}?"<note>Literally "Rightfully is it hot for you"; some take this to mean "Are you so very angry?" (Targum Jonah 4:4; see also JPS, NEB, NET)</note> </verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="5">And Jonah went out from the city and sat <transChange type="added">down</transChange> east of the city, and he made for himself a shelter there. And he sat under it in the shade, {waiting to see}<note>Literally "until he would see"</note> what would happen with the city.</verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="6">And Yahweh God appointed a plant,<note>Probably a castor oil plant, though some have suggested some type of gourd plant</note> and he made it grow up over Jonah to be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort. And Jonah {was very glad}<note>Literally "was glad with great joy"</note> about the plant.</verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="7">So God appointed a worm {at daybreak}<note>Literally "at the coming up of the dawn"</note> the next day, and it attacked the plant, and it withered.</verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="8">{And when the sun rose},<note>Literally "and it happened at the rising of the sun"</note> God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah's head and he grew faint. {And he asked that he could die}<note>Literally "and he asked his soul to die"</note> and said, "My death <transChange type="added">is</transChange> better than my life!"</verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="9">So God said to Jonah, "{Is it right for you to be angry}<note>Literally "rightfully is it hot for you"; some take this to mean "Are you so very angry?" (Targum Jonah 4:4; see also JPS, NEB, NET)</note> about the plant?" And he said, "{It is right for me to be angry enough to die}!"<note>Literally "Rightfully it is hot for me until death"</note> </verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="10">But Yahweh said, "You are troubled about the plant, for which you did not labor nor cause it to grow. {It grew up in a night and it perished in a night}!<note>Literally "Which was a son of a night and <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a son of a night it perished"</note></verse>


book: Jonah
content:
<verse num="11">And should I not be concerned about Nineveh, the great city, {in which there are}<note>Literally "which there are in it"</note> more {than one hundred and twenty thousand}<note>Literally "than two ten myriad" (12 x 10,000)</note> people who do not know right from left,<note>"<transChange type="added">hand</transChange>" is often supplied, but it is not clear just what deficiency is meant by this expression, which occurs only here in biblical Hebrew</note> plus many animals?" </verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="1">The word of Yahweh that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, the kings of Judah, that he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem: </verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="2">Hear, all you peoples; give heed, O earth and its fullness. And let the Lord Yahweh be against you as a witness, the Lord from {his holy temple}.<note>Literally "the temple of his holiness"</note></verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="3">For behold, Yahweh is coming out from his place, and he will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="4">The mountains will melt under him and the valleys will burst open, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="5">All this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> for the rebellion of Jacob, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the rebellion of Jacob? <transChange type="added">Is it</transChange> not Samaria? And what <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the high places of Judah? <transChange type="added">Are they</transChange> not Jerusalem?</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="6">So I will make Samaria as a heap of rubble in the field, a place for planting a vineyard. And I will pour down her stones into the valley and uncover her foundations.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="7">Then all her idols will be broken in pieces, and all her prostitution wages will be burned in the fire, and all her idols I will make a desolation, For from the wage of a prostitute she gathered <transChange type="added">them</transChange>, and to the wage of a prostitute they will return.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="8">On account of this I will lament and wail. I will go about barefoot and naked. I will make a lamentation like the jackals, and a mourning ceremony like the {ostriches}.<note>Literally "daughters of an ostrich"</note></verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="9">For her wounds <transChange type="added">are</transChange> incurable, because it has come to Judah. It has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="10">Do not tell <transChange type="added">it</transChange> in Gath; you must not weep at all. In Beth-le-Aphrah roll yourself <transChange type="added">in</transChange> dust.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="11">Pass on, you inhabitants of Shaphir, in naked shame. The inhabitants of Zaanan do not come forth; the wailing of Beth-ha-Ezel will take its protection from you.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="12">For the inhabitants of Maroth writhed for good, because disaster has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="13">Harness the chariot to the team of horses, O inhabitants of Lachish; it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the beginning of sin for the daughter of Zion, for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="14">Therefore you will give parting gifts to Moresheth-Gath; the houses of Achzib <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> a deception to the kings of Israel.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="15">I will again bring the conqueror upon you, O inhabitants of Mareshah; the glory of Israel will come to Adullam.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="16">Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair for the children of your pleasure. Expand your baldness as the eagle, for they will go into exile away from you.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="1">Woe <transChange type="added">to</transChange> those who plan wickedness and evil deeds upon their beds! In the light of the morning they did it, because they have power in their hands.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="2">They covet fields and seize <transChange type="added">them</transChange>, and houses, and they take <transChange type="added">them</transChange> away. They oppress a man and his house; a man and his inheritance.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="3">Therefore, thus says Yahweh: Look! I am planning disaster against this family from which you will not be able to remove your necks. You will not walk proudly, for it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a time of disaster. </verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="4">In that day they will raise a proverb against you, and will wail a bitter wailing, saying, "We are utterly ruined; he exchanges <transChange type="added">the</transChange> portion of my people. How he removes <transChange type="added">it</transChange> from me; he apportions our field to an apostate."</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="5">Therefore you will have no one casting a line by lot in the assembly of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="6">"Do not preach!" they are preaching. They should not preach to these; disgrace will not overtake us.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="7">Should <transChange type="added">this</transChange> be said, O house of Jacob? Is the patience<note>Or "spirit"</note> of Yahweh shortened? <transChange type="added">Are</transChange> these his deeds? Are my words not pleasing to him who walks upright?</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="8">But {recently}<note>Literally "yesterday"</note> my people have risen up as an enemy; from before the cloak you strip off the robe from those passing by <transChange type="added">in</transChange> confidence, returning <transChange type="added">from</transChange> war.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="9">You have driven out the women of my people from the houses of their<note>Hebrew "her"</note> pleasure. From their<note>Hebrew "her"</note> children you have taken away my glory forever.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="10">Arise and go, for this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> no resting place, on account of uncleanness <transChange type="added">that</transChange> destroys with painful destruction.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="11">If a man walks about in a spirit of deception and lies, <transChange type="added">saying</transChange> "I will preach to you of wine and strong drink," then he would be a preacher <transChange type="added">for</transChange> this people!</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="12">I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will surely gather together the remainder of Israel. I will set them like sheep of Bozrah. Like a herd in the midst of their pasture they will be in tumult from people.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="13">The one who breaks out before them goes up; they break through and pass the gate, going out through it. Their king passes before them, Yahweh at their head.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="1">And I said, "Listen, O heads of Jacob and leaders of the house of Israel! <transChange type="added">Is it</transChange> not for you to know justice?</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="2"><transChange type="added">Those of you who are</transChange> haters of good and lovers of evil, <transChange type="added">who</transChange> tear their skin from them and their flesh from their bones,</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="3">and who eat the flesh of my people, and strip their skin from them, and break their bones, and chop <transChange type="added">them</transChange> like meat in the pot, and like flesh in the midst of a cooking pot."</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="4">Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. He will hide his face from them at that time, when they have made their deeds evil.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="5">Thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who are leading my people astray, who are biting with their teeth and proclaim, "Peace," but whoever puts nothing into their mouths they declare war against.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="6">Therefore <transChange type="added">it will be as</transChange> night to you, without vision, and darkness to you, without divination. And the sun will set on the prophets, and the day will grow dark over them.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="7">Then the seers will be disgraced, and those practicing divination will be put to shame. All of them will cover their lips, for there is no reply from God.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="8">But I, I am filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> power, with the Spirit of Yahweh, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his rebellion, and to Israel his sin.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="9">Hear this, O rulers of the house of Jacob and leaders of the house of Israel, those detesting justice and perverting all that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> right,</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="11">Its rulers judge for a bribe; its priests teach for a price; its prophets practice divination for money. But they lean on Yahweh, saying, "<transChange type="added">Is</transChange> not Yahweh in our midst? Disaster will not come upon us."</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="12">Therefore on account of you Zion will be plowed <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a field, and Jerusalem will be a heap of rubble, and {the temple mount}<note>Literally "the mountain of the house"</note> as a high place <transChange type="added">in</transChange> a forest.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="1">And it will be <transChange type="added">that</transChange> at the end of those days, the mountain of Yahweh will be established as the highest of the mountains, and it will be lifted up above the hills, and people will stream to it.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="2">And many nations will come and say, "Come! Let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the {temple}<note>Literally "house"</note> of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways, and that we may walk in his paths," for the law will go out from Zion, and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="3">And he will judge between many peoples and will arbitrate for strong nations far away; and they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation will not lift up a sword against a nation, and they will no longer learn war.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="4">But they will sit, each under his vine and under his fig tree, and no one will make them afraid, for the mouth of Yahweh of hosts has spoken.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="5">For all the nations walk, each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God, forever and ever.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="6">"In that day," {declares Yahweh,}<note>Literally "a declaration of Yahweh"</note> "I will assemble the one who limps, and I will gather the one who has been scattered, and <transChange type="added">those</transChange> whom I have mistreated.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="7">And I will make the one who limps a remnant, and the one driven far away a strong nation, and Yahweh will reign over them on Mount Zion from now to forever.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="8">And you, O Migdal-Eder,<note>Or "tower of the flock"</note> hill of the daughter of Zion, to you it will come, and the former dominion will come, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> reign of the daughter of Jerusalem.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="9">So then, why do you shout a loud shout? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished that pangs like a woman in labor have seized you?</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="10">Writhe and groan, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor. For now you will go forth from the city, and you will camp in the field; you will go to Babylon. There you will be rescued; there Yahweh will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="11">And now, many nations are gathered against you who are saying, 'Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.'</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="12">But they do not know the thoughts of Yahweh, and they do not understand his plan, that he has gathered them as sheaves to his threshing floor.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="13">Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion, for your horn I will make <transChange type="added">as</transChange> iron and your hooves <transChange type="added">as</transChange> bronze. And you will break many peoples in pieces, and their gain you will devote to destruction to Yahweh, and their wealth to the Lord of the whole earth."</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="1"><note>Micah 5:1-15 in the English Bible is 4:14-5:14 in the Hebrew Bible</note> Now muster troops, O daughter of troops; a siege he puts against us. They strike the ruler of Israel with a rod on the cheek.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="2">But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, <transChange type="added">too</transChange> small to be among the clans of Judah, from you one will go out for me, to be ruler in Israel; and his origins <transChange type="added">are</transChange> from of old, from ancient days.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="3">Therefore he will give them up until the time of she who is with child has given birth. And the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="4">And he will stand and shepherd <transChange type="added">his flock</transChange> in the strength of Yahweh, in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God. And they will live, for now he will be great unto the ends of the earth.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="5">And this one will be peace. <transChange type="added">As for</transChange> the Assyrian,<note>Hebrew "Assyria"</note> when he comes into our land and when he treads on our fortresses, then we will raise up against him seven shepherds and eight leaders of men.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="6">And they will shepherd the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod at its entrances. And he will rescue <transChange type="added">us</transChange> from the Assyrian<note>Hebrew "Assyria"</note> when he comes into our land, and when they tread upon our border.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="7">And the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many nations, like dew from Yahweh, like showers upon the grass which does not wait for a man, nor delays for the children of humankind.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="8">And the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the wild animals of the forest, like a young lion among the herds of sheep which, when it passes through and treads <transChange type="added">down</transChange> and tears in pieces, there is none who <transChange type="added">can</transChange> deliver.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="9">Your hand will be lifted high over your enemies, and all your foes will be cut off.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="10">"And it will happen <transChange type="added">that</transChange> in that day," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "then I will cut off your horses from among you, and I will destroy your chariots.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="11">And I will cut off the cities of your land, and I will demolish all your fortifications.</verse>


book: Mic
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<verse num="12">And I will cut off sorceries from your hand, and you will not have soothsayers.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="13">And I will cut off your idols and your stone pillars from among you, and you will no longer bow down to the work of your hands.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="14">And I will uproot your Asherahs from among you, and I will destroy your cities.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="15">And in anger and in wrath I will execute vengeance on the nations who did not obey."</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="1">Hear now what Yahweh says: "Arise! Plead <transChange type="added">your case</transChange> with the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice."</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="2">Hear, O mountains, the indictment of Yahweh, and you eternal foundations of the earth, for Yahweh has an indictment against his people, and against Israel he contends.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="3">"O my people, what have I done to you, and how have I wearied you? Answer me!</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="4">For I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and from the house of slavery I redeemed you. And I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam before you.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="5">O my people, remember what Balak the king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, and <transChange type="added">what happened from</transChange> Shittim to Gilgal, so that you might know the righteous acts of Yahweh."</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="6">With what shall I approach Yahweh, and bow down to God on high? Shall I approach him with burnt offerings, with bull calves a year old?</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="7">Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams, with myriads of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body <transChange type="added">for the</transChange> sin of my soul?</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="8">He has told you, O mortal, what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> good, and what does Yahweh ask from you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="9">The voice of Yahweh calls to the city (<transChange type="added">it is</transChange> sound judgment to fear your name): "Hear, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> staff!<note>Or "tribe"</note> Now who has appointed it?</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="10">Is there any longer a man <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the house of the wicked treasures of wickedness, and the ephah of scarcity <transChange type="added">which is</transChange> accursed?<note>The meaning of the Hebrew text is uncertain</note></verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="11">Shall I regard as pure <transChange type="added">the one</transChange> with scales of wickedness, and with a bag of deceitful weights?</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="12">Because her rich are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue <transChange type="added">is</transChange> deceitful in their mouth.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="13">And I also {have made you sick by striking you down},<note>Literally "I have made sick to strike you down"</note> making <transChange type="added">you</transChange> desolate because of your sins.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="14">You yourself will eat but not be satisfied; your hunger <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> in your midst, and you will put away, but you will not save, and what you save I will hand over to the sword.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="15">You yourself will sow, but you will not reap; you will tread olives, but you will not anoint yourself with oil; <transChange type="added">you will tread</transChange> grapes, but you will not drink wine.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="16">For you have observed the regulations of Omri and all the works of the house of Ahab. And you have walked in their counsels, so that I am making you a desolation and your inhabitants an object of scorn. So you will bear the scorn of my people.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="1">Woe is me! For I have become like the gatherings of summer, like the gleanings of the grape harvest, <transChange type="added">when</transChange> there is no cluster of grapes to eat <transChange type="added">or</transChange> early ripened fruit <transChange type="added">that</transChange> my soul desires.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="2">The faithful <transChange type="added">person</transChange> has perished from the land, and there is none who is upright among humankind. All of them lie in wait; each hunts his brother <transChange type="added">with</transChange> a net.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="3">Their hands <transChange type="added">are</transChange> upon evil, to do <transChange type="added">it</transChange> well; the official and the judge ask for the bribe, and the great <transChange type="added">man</transChange> utters the evil desire of his soul; and they weave <transChange type="added">it</transChange> together.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="4">The best of them <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like a brier; <transChange type="added">the most</transChange> upright <transChange type="added">worse</transChange> than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchman, your punishment, has come; now their confusion will come.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="5">Do not put faith in a friend; put no trust in a close friend. Guard the doorways of your mouth from the one who lies in your lap.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="6">For a son treats a father with contempt; a daughter rises up against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> enemies of a man <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the men of his own house.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="7">But <transChange type="added">as for</transChange> me, I will look to Yahweh; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="8">You should not rejoice over me, O my enemy! When I fall I will stand up; when I sit in darkness Yahweh <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> a light for me.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="9">I will bear the rage of Yahweh, for I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes my justice. He will bring me out to the light; I will see his righteousness.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="10">Then my enemy will see, and shame will cover her who said to me, "Where <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Yahweh your God?" My eyes will look upon her; now she will become a trampling place, like mud in the streets.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="11">A day for building your walls; <transChange type="added">on</transChange> that day he will extend <transChange type="added">your</transChange> boundary.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="12"><transChange type="added">On</transChange> that day he will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, and from Egypt to the River, and from sea to sea and mountain to mountain.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="13">But the earth will be a desolation because of its inhabitants, for the fruit of their deeds.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="14">Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, those dwelling alone <transChange type="added">in</transChange> a forest in the midst of Carmel. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the days of old.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="15">As <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the days when you came out from the land of Egypt I will show him wondrous things.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="16">The nations will see and be ashamed because of all their might. They will lay <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hand on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mouth; their ears will be deaf.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="17">They will lick the dust like the serpent, like the crawling things of the earth. They will come trembling from their strongholds to Yahweh our God. Let them fear and be afraid of you.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="18">Who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a God like you, forgiving sin and passing over rebellion for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, for he delights in loyal love.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="19">{He will again have compassion}<note>Literally "He will return, he will have compassion"</note> on us; he will trample our iniquities. And you will hurl all their sins in the depths of the sea.</verse>


book: Mic
content:
<verse num="20">You will show faithfulness to Jacob, and loyal love to Abraham, as you have sworn to our ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> from the days of old.</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="1">The oracle concerning Nineveh-- the scroll of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="2">Yahweh is a jealous God and avenging; Yahweh is avenging and {full of wrath}.<note>Literally "a lord of wrath"</note> Yahweh takes vengeance against his enemies; he rages against his adversaries.</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="3">Yahweh is slow to anger but great <transChange type="added">in</transChange> power; he will certainly not allow <transChange type="added">the guilty</transChange> to go unpunished. {He marches}<note>Literally "His path"</note> in storm wind and in gale; storm clouds <transChange type="added">are the</transChange> dust of his feet.</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="4">He rebukes the sea and he dries up the rivers; he makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither;<note>MT reads "languishes," but the versions reflect "withers," which also restores the acrostic</note> the blossom of Lebanon languishes.</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="5">Mountains quake before him; the hills shake apart.<note>Or "melt"</note> The earth heaves before him-- the world and all her inhabitants.</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="6">His indignation--who can stand before it? Who can endure {his fierce anger}?<note>Literally "the heat of his anger"</note> His wrath is poured out like fire; rocks are shattered before<note>Or "by"</note> him.</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="7">Yahweh is good--a refuge in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> day of distress; <transChange type="added">he knows</transChange> those who take refuge in him.</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="8">But with a rushing torrent he will bring <transChange type="added">Nineveh</transChange> to an end; he will chase his enemies into darkness.</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="9">What<note>Or "Why ...?"</note> do you plot against Yahweh? {He will completely destroy it};<note>Literally "he will make a complete destruction"</note> trouble will not rise up a second time!</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="10">For like entangled thorns, and like their drink which is drunk, they will be consumed like fully dry chaff.</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="11">From you goes out one who plots evil against Yahweh, one who plans wickedness.</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="15"><note>Nahum 1:15-2:13 in the English Bible is 2:1-14 in the Hebrew Bible</note> Look! On the mountains! The feet of the one who brings good tidings, the one who proclaims peace! "Celebrate <transChange type="added">a festival</transChange>, O Judah, Fulfill your vows! For he will not invade you again; the wicked one is cut off completely!"</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="1">{One who shatters}<note>Literally "a shatterer"</note> has come up against you! Guard <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fortification! Watch <transChange type="added">the</transChange> road!<note>Or "way"</note> Gird <transChange type="added">your</transChange> loins! {Muster}<note>Or "Collect"</note> all <transChange type="added">your</transChange> strength!</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="2">For Yahweh will restore the majesty of Jacob like the majesty of Israel; for ravagers have ravaged them and ruined <transChange type="added">their</transChange> branches.</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="3">The shields of his warriors <transChange type="added">are</transChange> dyed red; The powerful men <transChange type="added">are</transChange> dressed in scarlet. The metal of the chariots<note>Hebrew "chariot"</note> <transChange type="added">shines</transChange> like fire {on the day of battle},<note>Literally "on the day of his preparation"</note> and <transChange type="added">their</transChange> spears quiver.</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="4">The chariots<note>Hebrew "chariot"</note> race madly through the streets; they rush back and forth in the public squares. Their appearance like lightning bolts, they dart about like flashes of lightning.</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="5">He calls his officers; they stumble as they march; they rush to her wall; they set the covering<note>The Hebrew word describes a small portable roof to protect siege warriors from arrows and debris hurled at them from the fortified city wall</note> in place.</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="7">{Her goddess is taken out and taken into exile};<note>Literally "It is decreed <transChange type="added">that</transChange> she be exiled <transChange type="added">and</transChange> led away." MT reads the very enigmatic "And he is placed, she is sent into exile, she is taken up." The BHS editors suggest the conjectural emendation "And her goddess <transChange type="added">= the idol of the patron deity of Nineveh</transChange> is taken and taken into exile." This is adopted in the translation on the basis of internal evidence</note> her maidservants moan like doves; they beat on their breasts.</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="8">Nineveh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like a pool of water without its water.<note>MT reads "from her days." Greek LXX and Syriac Peshitta reflect "from her waters"</note> {As they flee},<note>Literally "And they flee away"</note> <transChange type="added">she cries,</transChange> "Stop! Stop!" But there is no one who turns back.</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="9">Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! There is no end to the spoils,<note>Literally "the supply"</note> an abundance of {everything one could want}!<note>Literally "every kind of desirable object"</note></verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="10">Emptiness and plundering and devastation! Their hearts faint and their knees tremble,<note>Or "totter"</note> {All their loins shake}<note>Literally "And shaking of all loins"</note> and all their faces {turn}<note>Literally "gather"</note> pale.</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="11">Where <transChange type="added">now</transChange> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the den of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> lions and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> cave of the fierce lions? There the lioness, the cub, and the lion once {prowled},<note>Literally "went"</note> {and no one disturbed them}.<note>Literally "there <transChange type="added">is</transChange> no one making <transChange type="added">them</transChange> afraid"</note></verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="12">The lion tore apart enough <transChange type="added">prey</transChange> for his cubs, he strangled <transChange type="added">prey</transChange> for his lioness; he filled {his lair}<note>Literally "his holes"</note> <transChange type="added">with</transChange> prey and his den <transChange type="added">with</transChange> mangled carcass.</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="13">"Look! I am against you!" {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh of hosts. "I will burn her chariots {with fire};<note>Literally "with smoke"</note> the sword will devour fierce lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth; the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard."</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="1">Woe to the city <transChange type="added">that has shed</transChange> {much blood}!<note>Literally "bloods"</note> {She is a deceiver},<note>Literally "All of her <transChange type="added">is</transChange> deception"</note> She is filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> plunder, {She has hoarded her spoils of war}.<note>Literally "Prey does not depart"</note></verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="2">The crack of the whip! The rumbling of the <transChange type="added">chariot</transChange> wheel! The galloping of the horse! The racing of the chariot!</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="3">Chariots charge! Swords flash! Spears glitter! {Many corpses are piled high}!<note>Literally "Many dead, piles of corpses"</note> There is no end to the slain! They stumble over their dead!</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="4">"Because of the many idolatries of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> prostitute, the beautiful charm <transChange type="added">of</transChange> a mistress of witchcraft, she who enslaves nations by her harlotries, and peoples by her sorceries,</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="5">"Look! I am against you!" {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note>Yahweh. "I will strip up your skirts over your face; I will let nations look <transChange type="added">at</transChange> your nakedness and your shame.</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="6">"I will throw filth upon you, I will treat you with contempt, I will make you a spectacle.</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="7">"And it will be that everyone who sees you will flee from you, And {they}<note>Hebrew "he"</note> will say, 'Nineveh is destroyed!' Who will mourn for her? From whence shall I seek comforters for you?"</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="8">Are you better than Thebes?<note>Hebrew "No-Amon"</note> She who sits at the Nile, surrounded by her waters, her rampart <transChange type="added">was the</transChange> sea and water <transChange type="added">was</transChange> her wall.</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="9">Cush <transChange type="added">was</transChange> her strength, Egypt without end; Put and Libya were among {your allies}.<note>Literally "your helpers"</note></verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="10">Yet she went into captivity as an exile; her children were dashed to pieces at the head of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> streets; they cast lots for all of her nobles; all of her dignitaries were bound with chains.</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="11">You also will behave like a drunkard; You also will hide yourself; You also will seek refuge from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> enemy.</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="12">All of your fortifications <transChange type="added">are like</transChange> fig trees with <transChange type="added">ripe</transChange> firstfruits-- if they are shaken, they will fall into the mouth of the eater.</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="13">Look! Your troops <transChange type="added">are like</transChange> women in your midst. The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire will consume the bars <transChange type="added">of your gates</transChange>.</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="14">Draw water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Go to the mud <transChange type="added">pit</transChange>! Trample the clay! Grasp the brick mold!</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="15">There fire will consume you; the sword will cut you off. It will consume you like the locust.</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="16">You have increased your merchants more than the stars of heaven; <transChange type="added">like</transChange> the locust they will shed <transChange type="added">their skin</transChange> and fly away.</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="17">Your officials <transChange type="added">are</transChange> like locusts; your commanders <transChange type="added">are</transChange> like a swarm of locusts. They encamp on the walls on a cold day; when the sun rises, they fly away-- no one knows where they have gone.</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="18">Your shepherds are sleeping, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> king of Assyria! Your nobles slumber. Your people are scattered on the mountains; no one can gather them.</verse>


book: Nah
content:
<verse num="19">There is no healing for your wound; your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you will clap <transChange type="added">their</transChange> hands <transChange type="added">for joy</transChange> concerning you, {For who has not suffered at the hands of your endless cruelty}?<note>Literally "For over whom has your endless cruelty not passed?"</note></verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="2">O Yahweh, how long shall I cry for help and you will not listen? <transChange type="added">How long</transChange> will I cry out to you, "Violence!" and you will not save?</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="3">Why do you cause me to see evil <transChange type="added">while</transChange> you look at trouble? Destruction and violence happen before me; contention and strife arise.</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="4">Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice does not go forth perpetually.<note>Or "forever"</note> For the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted.</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="5">"Look among the nations and see; be astonished and astounded. For a work <transChange type="added">is about to</transChange> be done in your days that you will not believe if it is told.</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="6">For look! I am raising up the Chaldeans, the bitter and impetuous nation, the one who walks through the spacious places of earth to take possession of dwellings not belonging to it.<note>Or "him"</note></verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="7">They<note>Hebrew "He"</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> dreadful and awesome; their<note>Hebrew "his"</note> justice and their<note>Hebrew "his"</note> dignity proceed from themselves.<note>Hebrew "him"</note></verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="8">Their<note>Hebrew "His"</note> horses <transChange type="added">are</transChange> more swift than leopards; they are more menacing than wolves <transChange type="added">at</transChange> dusk. Their<note>Hebrew "His"</note> horsemen gallop; their<note>Hebrew "his"</note> horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle <transChange type="added">that is</transChange> swift to devour.</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="9">All of them<note>Hebrew "him"</note> come for violence, their faces pressing forward. They gather captives like the sand.</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="10">And they themselves scoff at kings and rulers <transChange type="added">are</transChange> a joke to them. They laugh at every fortification, and they heap up earth and take it.</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="11">Then they sweep <transChange type="added">like the</transChange> wind and pass on; they become guilty, whose might <transChange type="added">is</transChange> their<note>Hebrew "his"</note> god!"</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="12">Are you not from of old, O Yahweh my God, my Holy One? You<note>Hebrew "we shall not die," considered a deliberate scribal change of the text to avoid offensive language toward Yahweh</note> shall not die. O Yahweh, you have marked them<note>Hebrew "him"</note> for judgment; O Rock, you have established them<note>Hebrew "him"</note> for reproof.</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="13">Your eyes <transChange type="added">are</transChange> too pure to see evil, and you are not able to look at wrongdoing.<note>Or "trouble"</note> Why do you look at the treacherous? <transChange type="added">Why</transChange> are you silent when the wicked swallows up <transChange type="added">someone</transChange> more righteous than him?</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="14">You make humankind like fish of the sea, like crawling creatures that have no ruler among them.</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="15">He brings up all of them with a fishhook; he drags them up with a fishnet; he gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore, he rejoices and exults.</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="16">Therefore he sacrifices to his fishnet and makes offerings to his dragnet, for by them {he makes a good living}<note>Literally "his portion is fat"</note> and his food <transChange type="added">is</transChange> rich.</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="17">Will he therefore empty his fishnet and continually kill nations without showing mercy?</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="1">I will stand at my post, and station myself on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> rampart. And I will keep watch to see what he will say to me, and what he will answer concerning my complaint.</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="2">Then Yahweh answered me and said, "Write <transChange type="added">the</transChange> vision and make <transChange type="added">it</transChange> plain on the tablet so that {it might be read quickly}.<note>Literally "it might run reading upon it"</note></verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="3">For <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> yet a vision for the appointed time; it will give witness to the end, and it will not lie. If it tarries, wait for it, for it will surely come and not delay.</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="4">Look! His spirit within him is puffed up; it is not upright. But the righteous shall live by his faithfulness.</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="5">{How much less}<note>Literally "And moreover because"</note> the defiant;<note>"Defiant" follows the Dead Sea Scrolls (1QpHab)</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> arrogant, treacherous man? He who broadens his throat like Sheol, and who, like death, is not satisfied, and who gathers to himself all the nations, and harvested for himself all the peoples, will not succeed.</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="6">Shall not all of these take up a taunt against him, with ridicule and riddles against him, saying, 'Woe to him who heaps up what is not his'? <transChange type="added">For</transChange> how long? And, '<transChange type="added">Woe to him</transChange> who makes himself heavy with pledges'?</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="7">Will not your creditors suddenly rise up and awaken those who make you tremble? Then you shall be as plunder for them.</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="8">Because you plundered many nations, all the remaining nations will plunder you on account of the blood of humanity and violence <transChange type="added">against the</transChange> land, <transChange type="added">and against</transChange> cities and all who live in them.</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="9">Woe to <transChange type="added">him who</transChange> obtains profit <transChange type="added">from</transChange> evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be saved from the hand of misfortune!</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="10">You have plotted shame for your house, cutting off many peoples and sinning against your life.</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="11">For the stone will cry out from the wall, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> plaster from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wood will answer it.</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="12">Woe to <transChange type="added">him who</transChange> builds a city by bloodguilt, and <transChange type="added">who</transChange> founds a city by wickedness!</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="13">Look! <transChange type="added">Is it</transChange> not from Yahweh of hosts that people labor for mere fire, and nations exhaust themselves for mere vanity?</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="14">For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh, like the waters covering the sea.</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="15">Woe to <transChange type="added">him who</transChange> gives a drink to his neighbors, pouring out your wrath and also making <transChange type="added">them</transChange> drunk in order to see their nakedness!</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="16">You will be sated with shame rather than glory. Drink also yourself, and expose yourself! The cup of the right hand of Yahweh will come around upon you and disgrace upon your glory.</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="17">For <transChange type="added">the</transChange> violence of Lebanon will cover you, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> destruction of wild animals will shatter them on account of the blood of humanity, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> violence <transChange type="added">against the</transChange> land, <transChange type="added">against</transChange> a city and all the inhabitants in it.</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="18">What value <transChange type="added">is</transChange> an idol when its carver has fashioned it, a molten idol, a teacher of lies? For <transChange type="added">he who</transChange> fashioned his creation trusts in it, <transChange type="added">though</transChange> making mute idols!</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="19">Woe to <transChange type="added">him who</transChange> says to the wood, 'Wake up!' <transChange type="added">And</transChange> to a lifeless stone, 'Arise!' Can he teach? Look, it is covered <transChange type="added">with</transChange> gold and silver, and there is no breath within it.</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="20">But Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him."</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="2">O Yahweh, I have heard the report of you; O Yahweh, I stand in awe of your works. In the midst of the years, revive it! In the midst of the years, make <transChange type="added">it</transChange> known! In wrath, may you remember to show compassion.</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="3">God came from Teman; the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His splendor covers the heavens, and his praise fills the earth.</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="4">And his brightness was like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> light; flashing rays <transChange type="added">came</transChange> from his hand for him; And there <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the covering of his strength.</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="5">Before him went Disease,<note>The Hebrew term is also the name of a Canaanite deity</note> and Pestilence<note>The Hebrew term is also the name of a Canaanite deity</note> went out at his feet.</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="6">He stood and measured the earth; he looked and made the nations tremble. Then the mountains of old were shattered; the hills of old collapsed. The ways of old belong to him.</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="7">Under affliction I saw the tents of Cushan; the tent curtains of the land of Midian trembled.</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="8">Was the anger of Yahweh against the rivers? Was your wrath against the rivers, or your fury against the sea, when you mounted upon your horses, upon your victory chariot?</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="9">You laid bare the nakedness of your bow, swearing oaths <transChange type="added">with the</transChange> arrows of <transChange type="added">your</transChange> word. You split the earth <transChange type="added">with</transChange> rivers.</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="10"><transChange type="added">When the</transChange> mountains saw you they writhed; a torrent of waters swept by; the deep gave its voice; it raised its hands on high.</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="11">Sun <transChange type="added">and</transChange> moon stood still in <transChange type="added">their</transChange> place; at the light of your arrows they moved about; at the gleam of the flashing of your spear.</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="12">In fury you marched through <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth; in anger you trampled the nations.</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="13">You went forth for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the house of wickedness, laying bare <transChange type="added">from the</transChange> foundation to the top.<note>Or "to the neck"</note></verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="14">You pierced the head of his warriors with his own arrows; they came like a whirlwind to scatter me, their exultation like <transChange type="added">one who</transChange> devours the afflicted in ambush.</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="15">You trampled upon the sea <transChange type="added">with</transChange> your horses, the churning of many waters.</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="16">I hear and my stomach shakes; my lips quiver at the sound; infection enters my bones; that which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> beneath me trembles; I wait quietly for the day of trouble to come upon the people attacking us.</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="17">Though the fig tree <transChange type="added">does</transChange> not blossom, nor there be fruit on the vines; the yield of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> olive tree fails, and the cultivated fields do not yield food; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> flock is cut off from the animal pen, and there is no cattle in the stalls,</verse>


book: Hab
content:
<verse num="19">Yahweh, my Lord, <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my strength; he makes my feet like the deer; he causes me to walk on my high places. To the choirmaster with stringed instruments.</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="1">The word of Yahweh that came to Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah. </verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="2">"I will surely destroy everything from the face of the earth"--a declaration of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="3">"I will destroy humanity and beast; I will destroy the birds of the sky and the fish of the sea, and the stumbling blocks<note>A reference to idols</note> with the wicked. And I will cut off humankind from the face of the earth"--a declaration of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="4">"And I will stretch out my hand against Judah and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And I will cut off from this place the remnant of Baal, and the name of idolatrous priests with the priests,<note>The last phrase, "with the priests," may be a later explanatory gloss</note></verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="5">and those who bow down on the rooftops to the host of heaven, and those who bow down, swearing to Yahweh but <transChange type="added">also</transChange> swearing by Milkom,<note>Or "their king"</note></verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="6">and those who turned back from {following}<note>Literally "after"</note> Yahweh, and who did not seek Yahweh, and did not inquire of him."</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="7">Be silent before the Lord Yahweh, for the day of Yahweh draws near, for Yahweh has provided a sacrifice and has consecrated his guests.</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="8">And it shall be <transChange type="added">that</transChange> on the day of the sacrifice of Yahweh, I will punish the officials and the sons of the king and those who dress in foreign clothing.</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="9">And on that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill up the house of their master <transChange type="added">with</transChange> violence and deceit.</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="10">"And there shall be on that day"--a declaration of Yahweh-- "a {loud outcry}<note>Literally "voice of a cry of distress"</note> from the Fish Gate, and a wailing from the Second District, and a loud<note>Or "great"</note> crashing from the hills.</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="11">The inhabitants of the Mortar shall wail, for all the traders have perished; all who trade with silver have been cut off.</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="12">And it shall be <transChange type="added">that</transChange> at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men {whose senses are dulled from drinking},<note>Literally "who are thickened with their dregs"</note> who say in their hearts, 'Yahweh will not do good, nor will he do evil.'</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="13">Then their wealth shall be as plunder, and their homes as desolation. And they shall build their houses and not inhabit them, and they shall plant vineyards and not drink their wine."</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="14">The great day of Yahweh draws near; <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> near and <transChange type="added">coming</transChange> very swiftly. The sound of the day of Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> bitterness; there, a warrior cries out!</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="15">That day <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of disaster and ruination, a day of darkness and deep gloom, a day of clouds<note>Hebrew "cloud"</note> and thick clouds,<note>Hebrew "cloud"</note></verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="16">a day of trumpet and <transChange type="added">trumpet</transChange> blast against the fortified cities and against the high corner towers.</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="17">And I will bring distress to all humankind, and they shall walk about like the blind, for they sinned against Yahweh; their blood shall be poured out like dust and their entrails like dung.</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="18">Moreover, their silver and their gold will not be able to save them on the day of the wrath of Yahweh. And in the fire of his zeal, the whole land shall be consumed, for a terrifying end he shall make <transChange type="added">for</transChange> all the inhabitants of the land.</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="2">Before the birth of the decree, the day flies away like chaff; before the fierce anger of Yahweh overtakes you; before the day of the anger of Yahweh overtakes you.</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="3">Seek Yahweh, all you afflicted of the land who have fulfilled his law; seek righteousness; seek humility. Perhaps you will be concealed on the day of the anger of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="4">For Gaza will be abandoned, and Ashkelon as a desolation. <transChange type="added">As for</transChange> Ashdod, at noon they will drive her away, and Ekron shall be uprooted.</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="5">Woe <transChange type="added">to you</transChange>, inhabitants of the region of the sea, people of the Kerethites! The word of Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines. I will destroy you {until there is no inhabitant}.<note>Literally "from there is not an inhabitant"</note></verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="6">And you, O region of the sea, shall become pastures <transChange type="added">and</transChange> meadows <transChange type="added">for</transChange> shepherds and sheep pens <transChange type="added">for the</transChange> flocks.</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="7">And it shall become a region for the remnant of the house of Judah; upon them they shall graze, and in the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down in the evening. For Yahweh their God shall be mindful of them, and he will restore their fortunes.</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="8">I have heard the reproaches of Moab and the scorning of the {Ammonites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> <transChange type="added">with</transChange> which they have taunted my nation and made boasts against their territory.</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="9">"Therefore, as I live"--a declaration of Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel-- "Moab shall be as Sodom, and the {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> like Gomorrah, a place of weeds and salt pits and a desolation forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the remainder of my nation shall possess them."</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="10">This <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> for them in place of their pride because they mocked and boasted against the people of Yahweh of hosts.</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="11">Yahweh <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> awesome against them, for he will destroy all the gods of the earth and all the lands<note>Or "islands"</note> of the nations; each in its place will bow down to him.</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="13">And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and he will destroy Assyria and will make Nineveh a desolation, a dry wasteland like the desert.</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="14">Herds shall lie down in her midst, every wild animal of a nation; even the desert owl and the screech owl shall lodge on her capitals. A voice shall hoot in the window; rubble<note>The traditional Hebrew text has "waste," while LXX has "a raven," reflecting a different word with one consonant changed</note> on the threshold; for the cedar <transChange type="added">is</transChange> laid bare.</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="15">This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the city of rejoicing that lived securely; the one saying in her heart, "{I am, and there is none besides me}."<note>Literally "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> and none me"</note> How she has become a desolation, a lair for wild animals! Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="1">Woe <transChange type="added">to you</transChange>, O rebellious and defiled one! The oppressing city!</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="2">She listens to no voice; she does not accept correction. In Yahweh she does not trust; to her God she does not draw near.</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="3">Her officials in her midst <transChange type="added">are</transChange> roaring lions; her judges <transChange type="added">are</transChange> evening wolves; they leave nothing until the morning.</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="4">Her prophets <transChange type="added">are</transChange> arrogant men of treachery; her priests have defiled <transChange type="added">that which is</transChange> holy; they do violence to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> law.</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="5">Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> righteous in her midst; he does not do wickedness. {Morning by morning}<note>Literally "In the morning, in the morning"</note> he renders his judgment; at dawn he does not fail, but an evil one knows no shame.</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="6">"I have cut off nations; their strongholds are deserted. I have laid waste their streets, so that none pass through. Their cities have been destroyed <transChange type="added">and are</transChange> without a man, without an inhabitant.</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="7">I have said, 'Surely she will fear me; she will accept discipline. Then her dwelling place will not be cut down, <transChange type="added">nor</transChange> all that I have brought upon her.' Surely they rise early; they make all their deeds corrupt.</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="8">"Therefore, wait for me"--a declaration of Yahweh-- "for the day of my rising as a witness. For my decision <transChange type="added">is</transChange> to gather nations, to assemble<note>The traditional Hebrew has "assemble me"; this translation follows LXX</note> kingdoms, to pour out my wrath upon them, all my burning anger. For by the fire of my anger all the land shall be consumed.</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="9">Because then I will {make the speech of the nations pure};<note>Literally "I will turn to the nations a purged lip"</note> that all of them might call on the name of Yahweh, to serve him {in unison}.<note>Literally "with one shoulder"</note></verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="10">From beyond the rivers of Cush my worshipers and the daughter of my scattered ones shall bring my offering.</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="11">On that day you shall not be humiliated on account of all your deeds <transChange type="added">by</transChange> which you have rebelled against me. For then I shall remove from your midst those exulting in your pride, and you shall no longer be haughty in {my holy mountain}.<note>Literally "the mountain of my holiness"</note></verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="12">And I will leave in your midst a people afflicted and poor, and they shall take refuge in the name of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="13">The remnant of Israel shall not do wickedness; they shall not speak deception, nor shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth. For they shall graze and lie down, and none shall frighten <transChange type="added">them</transChange>."</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="14">Shout for joy, O daughter of Zion! Cry aloud, O Israel! Rejoice and be jubilant with all your heart, O daughter of Jerusalem!</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="15">Yahweh has annulled your judgments; he has turned away your enemies. The king of Israel, Yahweh, <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in your midst; you shall no longer fear misfortune.</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="16">On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, "Fear not, O Zion; your hands shall not hang limp.</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="17">Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in your midst; a mighty warrior who saves. He shall rejoice over you with joy; he renews<note>The translation follows the LXX text; the traditional Hebrew text reads "he will silence you in his love"</note> you in his love; he will exult over you with singing.</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="18">I will gather those of you grieving on account of the feast; they were raising against her a reproach.</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="19">Behold, at that time I will deal with all your oppressors; I will save the lame and gather the outcast. I will change<note>Or "make"</note> them from shame to glory and {renown}<note>Literally "a name"</note> throughout the whole world.</verse>


book: Zeph
content:
<verse num="20">At that time I will bring you <transChange type="added">in</transChange>; at the time of my gathering you <transChange type="added">together</transChange>. For I will make you {renowned}<note>Literally "a name"</note> and praised among all the nations of the earth when I restore your fortunes before your eyes," says Yahweh.</verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="1">In the second year of King Darius, in the sixth month, on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> first day, the word of Yahweh came {through}<note>Literally "through the hand of"</note> Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,</verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="2">"Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'This people says, "{The time has not come to rebuild the temple of Yahweh}.'" <note>Literally "The time is not coming, the time for the house of Yahweh to be built"</note></verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="3">And the word of Yahweh came {through}<note>Literally "through the hand of"</note> Haggai the prophet, saying,</verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="4">"<transChange type="added">Is it</transChange> a time for you yourselves to dwell in your houses that have been paneled <transChange type="added">while</transChange> this house<note>That is, the temple</note> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> desolate?"</verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="5">And so then, thus says Yahweh of hosts: '{Consider your ways}!<note>Literally "Set your heart on your ways"</note></verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="6">You have sown much but have harvested little. You have eaten without <transChange type="added">being</transChange> satisfied; {you have drunk without being satiated};<note>Literally "You have drunk, without becoming drunk"</note> you have worn clothes without <transChange type="added">being</transChange> warm; the one who earns wages puts it in {a pouch with holes}.'<note>Literally "a pierced pouch"</note></verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="7">Thus says Yahweh of hosts: '{Consider your ways}!<note>Literally "Set your heart on your ways"</note></verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="8">Go up the mountain and bring wood and build the house<note>That is, the temple</note> so that I may be pleased with it and honored,' says Yahweh.</verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="9">'You have looked for much, and look! <transChange type="added">It came</transChange> to little; and <transChange type="added">when</transChange> you brought <transChange type="added">it</transChange> home, I blew it <transChange type="added">away</transChange>. Why?' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of "</note> Yahweh of hosts. 'Because my house <transChange type="added">is</transChange> desolate and you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> running each to your own house!</verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="10">Therefore, because of you <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heavens have withheld <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dew and the earth has withheld its produce.</verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="11">I have called for a drought on the land and the hills,<note>Or mountains</note> on the grain, the new wine, the olive oil, on what the soil produces, on human beings and wild animals,<note>Hebrew "animal"</note> and on {all their labor}.'"<note>Literally "all the labor of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hands"</note> </verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="12">Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and all the remnant of the people gave heed to the voice of Yahweh their God and to the words of Haggai the prophet, as Yahweh their God had sent him, {and the people feared Yahweh}.<note>Literally "and the people feared from before Yahweh"</note></verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="13">And Haggai the messenger of Yahweh spoke to the people with the message of Yahweh, saying, " 'I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> with you' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh."</verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="14">And Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and did <transChange type="added">the</transChange> work on the house of Yahweh of hosts, their God,</verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="15">on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month in the second year of King Darius. </verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="1">In the seventh <transChange type="added">month</transChange> on the twenty-first day, the word of Yahweh {came through}<note>Literally "came through the hand of"</note> Haggai the prophet, saying,</verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="2">"Speak now to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying,</verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="3">'Who among you <transChange type="added">is</transChange> left that saw this house in its former glory? And how do you see it now? Does it seem like nothing {to you}?<note>Literally "in your eyes"</note></verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="4">'But now take courage,<note>Or "be strong"</note> Zerubbabel,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh. 'Take courage,<note>Or "Be strong"</note> Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and take courage,<note>Or "be strong"</note> all the people of the land,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh. 'Do the work, because I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> with you,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh of hosts,</verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="5">'according to {the promise}<note>Literally "the word"</note> that {I covenanted}<note>Literally "I cut"</note> with you when you came out of Egypt. My spirit {is with you};<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">is</transChange> standing in your midst"</note> do not be afraid.'</verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="6">For thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'Once again, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and dry land.</verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="7">I will shake all the nations so that the treasure of all the nations will come, and I will fill this house<note>That is, the temple</note> <transChange type="added">with</transChange> glory,' says Yahweh of hosts.</verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="8">'The silver <transChange type="added">is</transChange> mine and the gold <transChange type="added">is</transChange> mine,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh of hosts.</verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="9">'The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,' says Yahweh of hosts, 'and in this place I will give peace' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh of hosts.'" </verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="10">On <transChange type="added">the</transChange> twenty-fourth <transChange type="added">day</transChange> of the ninth <transChange type="added">month</transChange>, in the second year of Darius, the word of Yahweh came to the prophet Haggai, saying,</verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="11">"Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'Ask now the priests <transChange type="added">for</transChange> a ruling:<note>Or "a torah," or "a law"</note></verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="12">If a man carries<note>Literally "lifts"</note> consecrated meat in the hem of his garment, and his hem touches bread, or stew, or wine, or olive oil, or any kind of food, will it become holy?'" The priests answered, "No."</verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="13">Then Haggai said, "If one who is unclean from contact with a corpse touches any of these, will it become unclean?" The priests answered, "Yes, it will be become unclean."</verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="14">And Haggai answered and said, " 'So <transChange type="added">it is with</transChange> this people, and <transChange type="added">with</transChange> this nation before me,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, 'and so <transChange type="added">it is with</transChange> every kind of work of their hands; and what they offer there <transChange type="added">is</transChange> unclean.</verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="15">But now, please {consider}<note>Literally "set your heart"</note> from this day forward, before one stone was placed on another in the temple of Yahweh,</verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="16">{from that time when}<note>Or "from their being," or "from the time they were then"</note> one came to a heap of twenty <transChange type="added">measures</transChange>, there were <transChange type="added">only</transChange> ten, and <transChange type="added">when</transChange> one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty measures,<note>Hebrew "measure"</note> there were <transChange type="added">only</transChange> twenty.</verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="17">I struck you with blight, and with plant mildew, and hail, all the work of your hands. But {you did not come back to me},'<note>Literally "there were none of you to me"</note> {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="18">'{Please consider}<note>Literally "Please set your heart"</note> from this day forward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth <transChange type="added">month</transChange>, from the day that the foundation of Yahweh's temple was laid,<note>Or "placed," or "set"</note> {consider}:<note>Literally "set your heart"</note></verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="19"><transChange type="added">Is there</transChange> still seed in the store chamber? Do the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree still produce nothing? From this day <transChange type="added">forward</transChange> I will bless <transChange type="added">you</transChange>.'" </verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="20">And the word of Yahweh came to Haggai a second time on the twenty-fourth <transChange type="added">day</transChange> of the month saying,</verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="21">"Say to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah: I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to shake the heavens and the earth,</verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="22">and I will overthrow the thrones of kingdoms and destroy the military strength of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overthrow chariots and their drivers; horses and their riders will fall, every one by the sword of another!</verse>


book: Hag
content:
<verse num="23">'On that day,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh of hosts, 'I will take you, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, my servant,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, 'and I will make you a signet ring, for I have chosen you,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh of hosts." </verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="1">In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of Yahweh came<note>Literally "was"</note> to the prophet Zechariah son of Berekiah, son of Iddo, saying,</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="2">"Yahweh {was very angry with your ancestors}.<note>Literally "was angry against your ancestors <transChange type="added">with</transChange> anger"</note></verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="3">You must say to them: 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts: "Return to me," {declares}<note>Literally "declaration of"</note> Yahweh of hosts, "and I will return to you," says Yahweh of hosts.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="4">"Do not be like your ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts: "Return from your evil ways and your evil deeds!" ' But they did not hear<note>Or "listen"</note> and they did not pay attention<note>Or "give heed"</note> to me," {declares}<note>Literally "declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="5">"Your ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="6">However, did not my words and my regulations which I commanded my servants the prophets overtake your ancestors?<note>Or "fathers"</note> And they repented and said, 'Yahweh of hosts planned to do with us according to our ways, and according to our deeds so he has dealt with us.'" '" </verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="7">On the twenty-fourth day of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> eleventh month, the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah the prophet, son of Berekiah, son of Iddo, saying,</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="8">{I had a vision in the night},<note>Literally "I saw the night," which means "I had a vision"</note> and look, a man riding on a red horse. And he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> standing between the myrtle shrubs that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in the ravine, and behind him <transChange type="added">were</transChange> red, reddish-brown, and white horses.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="9">And I asked, "What <transChange type="added">are</transChange> these, my lord?" And the angel <transChange type="added">who was</transChange> talking with me said, "I will show you what these are."</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="10">And the man standing between the myrtle shrubs answered and said, "These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> those whom Yahweh has sent to patrol<note>Or "to go about," or "to walk through"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth."</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="11">And they answered the angel of Yahweh who was standing between the myrtle shrubs, and they said, "We have patrolled<note>Or "have gone about," or "have walked through"</note> the earth, and look, all the earth {is dwelling in peace}."<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">is</transChange> dwelling and <transChange type="added">is</transChange> at rest"</note></verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="12">The angel of Yahweh answered and said, "O Yahweh of hosts, {how long}<note>Literally "until when"</note> will you have no compassion on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, <transChange type="added">with</transChange> which you showed fury these seventy years?"<note>Hebrew "year"</note></verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="13"><transChange type="added">With</transChange> gracious<note>Or "kind"; literally "good"</note> and comforting words Yahweh answered the angel who was talking with me.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="14">And the angel who was talking with me said to me, "Proclaim, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts: "{I am very jealous}<note>Literally "I am jealous <transChange type="added">with</transChange> a great jealousy"</note> for Jerusalem and for Zion!</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="15">And {I am extremely angry}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">With</transChange> a great anger I am angry"</note> with the nations that are at ease, for <transChange type="added">while</transChange> I was a little angry, they {furthered disaster}."<note>Literally "helped disaster"</note></verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="16">Therefore, thus says Yahweh: "I have returned to Jerusalem with compassion. My temple<note>Or "house"</note> will be built in it," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh of hosts, "and a measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem." '</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="17">Proclaim again, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts: "My cities shall again overflow from prosperity, and Yahweh will comfort Zion again, and he will choose Jerusalem again." '" </verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="18"><note>Zechariah 1:18-2:17 in the English Bible is 2:1-13 in the Hebrew Bible</note> And I {looked up}<note>Literally "lifted up my eyes"</note> and I saw, and look, <transChange type="added">there were</transChange> four horns!</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="19">And I said to the angel <transChange type="added">who was</transChange> talking with me, "What <transChange type="added">are</transChange> these?" And he said to me, "These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem."</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="21">and I asked, "What <transChange type="added">are</transChange> these coming to do?" And he answered, saying, "These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the horns that scattered Judah, {so that no man}<note>Literally "according to the mouth of a man"</note> lifted up his head; but these have come to frighten them, to strike down the horns of the nations that lifted a horn against the land of Judah to scatter it." </verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="1">And I {looked up}<note>Literally "lifted up my eyes"</note> and I saw, and look, a man, and in his hand <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a measuring rope!</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="2">And I asked, "Where <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you going?" And he answered me, "To measure Jerusalem to see what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> its width and what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> its length."</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="3">And look, the angel who was talking to me <transChange type="added">was</transChange> coming forward, and another angel <transChange type="added">was</transChange> coming forward to meet him.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="4">And he said to him, "Run, say to that young man, 'Jerusalem shall be inhabited {like villages without walls}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">like</transChange> open regions"</note> because of the multitude of people and animals in its midst.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="5">And I will be for it a wall of fire all around,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, 'and I will be <transChange type="added">the</transChange> glory in its midst.'" </verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="6">"Woe! Woe! Flee from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "for I have scattered you like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> four winds of the heavens," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="7">"Woe, Zion! Escape, you inhabitants of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> daughter of Babylon!"</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="8">For thus said Yahweh of hosts, after glory<note>The phrase "after glory" is difficult to interpret</note> he sent me against the nations plundering you: Truly, the one touching you <transChange type="added">is</transChange> touching the apple<note>Hebrew "pupil," but the expression "apple of his eye" has become well-established in English</note> of his eye.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="9">"Yes, look! I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to wave my hand against them, and they will become plunder for their servants, and you will know that Yahweh of hosts has sent me.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="10">Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion, for look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> coming and I will dwell in your midst," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="11">"Many nations will join themselves to Yahweh on that day, and they will be my people, and I will dwell in your midst. And you will know that Yahweh of hosts has sent me to you.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="12">And Yahweh will inherit Judah <transChange type="added">as</transChange> his portion {in the holy land},<note>Literally "upon <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land of the holiness"</note> and he will again choose Jerusalem.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="13">Be silent, {all people},<note>Literally "all flesh"</note> before Yahweh, for he is roused from {his holy dwelling}."<note>Literally "the dwelling place of his holiness"</note> </verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="1">And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> the angel of Yahweh; and Satan<note>Hebrew "the accuser," or "the adversary"</note> was standing on his right to accuse him.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="2">But Yahweh said to Satan,<note>Hebrew "the accuser," or "the adversary"</note> "Yahweh rebukes you, O Satan!<note>Hebrew "the accuser," or "the adversary"</note> Yahweh who has chosen Jerusalem rebukes you! <transChange type="added">Is</transChange> this not a stick snatched from the fire?"</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="3">And Joshua was clothed <transChange type="added">in</transChange> filthy garments and was standing {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> the angel.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="4">And he answered and said to the ones standing {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> him, saying, "Remove the filthy garments from him." And he said to him, "See, I have taken away your guilt<note>The Hebrew term refers to guilt caused by sin (HALOT 800 s.v. 2)</note> from you, and will clothe you <transChange type="added">with</transChange> rich garments."</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="5">And I said, "Let them put a clean headband<note>Or "turban"</note> on his head." And they put a clean headband on his head, and they clothed him <transChange type="added">with</transChange> garments. And the angel of Yahweh <transChange type="added">was</transChange> standing <transChange type="added">by</transChange>. </verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="7">"Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'If you will walk in my ways, and if you will keep my requirements, then you will judge<note>Or "govern"</note> my house, and you will also guard my courtyards, and I will give to you passageways<note>Or "right of access"</note> among these that are standing here.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="8">Listen, please, O Joshua the high priest, you and your companions<note>Possibly his fellow priests</note> that are sitting {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> you. For <transChange type="added">the</transChange> men <transChange type="added">are</transChange> a sign that,<note>Hebrew "for"</note> look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to bring my servant <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Branch.<note>Hebrew "Sprout" or "Shoot" ("Branch" is a traditional rendering in English)</note></verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="9">For consider, the stone that {I set before}<note>Literally "I gave to the face of, "or "I gave in the presence of"</note> Joshua, on one stone <transChange type="added">are</transChange> seven eyes.<note>Or "facets"</note> Look, {I am going to engrave an inscription on it},'<note>Literally "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to engrave its engraving"</note> {declares}<note>Literally "declaration of"</note> Yahweh of hosts, 'and I will remove the guilt of that land in a single day.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="10">On that day,' {declares}<note>Literally "declaration of"</note> Yahweh of hosts, 'you will invite {one another}<note>Literally "a man to his friend"</note> under <transChange type="added">the</transChange> vine and under <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fig tree.'" </verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="1">And the angel <transChange type="added">who was</transChange> talking with me returned, and he wakened me as one who is wakened from his sleep.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="2">And he said to me, "What do you see?" And I said, "I see, and look, {a lampstand all of gold},<note>Literally "a lampstand of gold in its totality"</note> and a bowl <transChange type="added">was</transChange> on its top, and its seven lamps on it, and seven lips on <transChange type="added">each of</transChange> the lamps that <transChange type="added">are</transChange> on its top.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="3">And <transChange type="added">there are</transChange> two olive trees by it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left."</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="4">And I answered and said to the angel <transChange type="added">who was</transChange> talking to me, "What <transChange type="added">are</transChange> these, my lord?"</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="5">And the angel <transChange type="added">who was</transChange> talking with me answered and said to me, "Do you not know what these <transChange type="added">are</transChange>?" And I said, "No, my lord."</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="6">And he answered and said to me, "This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the word of Yahweh to Zerubbabel, saying, 'Not by strength and not by power, but <transChange type="added">only</transChange> by my Spirit,' says Yahweh of hosts.</verse>


book: Zech
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<verse num="7">'Who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you O great mountain? {Before}<note>Literally "To the face of"</note> Zerubbabel <transChange type="added">you will become</transChange> level ground, and he will bring out the top stone amid the shouts of "Grace, grace to it!" '"</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="9">"The hands of Zerubbabel have founded this house, and his hands will finish it. And you will know that Yahweh of hosts has sent me to you.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="10">For whoever has despised the day of small <transChange type="added">things</transChange> will rejoice and will see the {plumb line}<note>Literally "the tin stone"; this could refer to a plumb line or a plummet</note> in the hand of Zerubbabel." </verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="11">And I answered and said to him, "What <transChange type="added">are</transChange> these two olive trees on the right of the lampstand and on its left?"</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="12">And I replied a second <transChange type="added">time</transChange> and asked him, "What <transChange type="added">are</transChange> these two twigs of olive trees<note>Or "two clusters of olive branches"; literally "two ears of grain," perhaps based on similarity of shape</note> on the right of the lampstand and on its left?"</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="13">And he replied to me, "Do you not know what these <transChange type="added">are</transChange>?" And I said, "No, my lord."</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="14">And he said, "These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the two {anointed ones}<note>Literally "sons of the olive oil"</note> standing by the Lord of the whole earth." </verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="1">{I looked up again},<note>Literally "I did again, I lifted up my eyes"</note> and I saw, and look!--a flying scroll!</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="2">And he asked me, "What <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you seeing?" And I said, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> seeing a flying scroll twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide."<note>That is, thirty feet by fifteen feet</note></verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="3">And he said to me, "This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the curse going out over the surface of the whole earth. For everyone who steals has gone unpunished<note>Many translations render this verb as "will be cut off"</note> according to it, and <transChange type="added">likewise</transChange> everyone who swears <transChange type="added">falsely</transChange> has gone unpunished according to it.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="4">'I have sent it out,' {declares}<note>Literally "declaration of"</note> Yahweh of hosts, 'and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of the one swearing {falsely by my name},<note>Literally "by my name to lie"</note> and it will spend the night in that<note>Hebrew "his"</note> house and will destroy it, with its timber and its stone.'" </verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="5">And the angel who was speaking to me went out, and he said to me, "{Please look up}!<note>Literally "Lift, please, your eyes!"</note> See what this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> going out."</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="6">And I asked, "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> it?" And he said, "This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a basket<note>Or "an ephah," a measure of grain</note> going out. And he said, "This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> their iniquity<note>Hebrew "eye"; other ancient versions (LXX, Syriac) read "iniquity"</note> throughout all the earth.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="7">And look, the lead cover was lifted and a woman <transChange type="added">was</transChange> sitting inside the basket.<note>Or "ephah," a measure of grain</note></verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="8">And he said, "This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Wickedness!" And he thrust her <transChange type="added">back down</transChange> into the basket,<note>Or "ephah," a measure of grain</note> and threw the lead cover on top of it.<note>That is, on top of the "basket" or "ephah"</note></verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="9">And I {looked up}<note>Literally "lifted up my eyes"</note> and saw, and look!--two women coming forward, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wind <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in their wings, and they had wings like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket<note>Or "ephah," a measure of grain</note> between the earth and the sky.<note>Or "heaven"</note></verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="10">And I asked the angel who was talking to me, "Where <transChange type="added">are</transChange> they taking the basket?"<note>Or "ephah," a measure of grain</note></verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="11">And he said to me, "To build for it a house<note>Or "temple"</note> in the land of Shinar,<note>That is, Babylon (Gen 11:2)</note> and <transChange type="added">when</transChange> it is put in place, it will be placed there on its site." </verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="1">{I looked up again},<note>Literally "I did again, I lifted up my eyes"</note> and I saw, and look!--four chariots coming out from between two mountains, and the mountains <transChange type="added">were</transChange> mountains of bronze.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="2">With the first chariot <transChange type="added">there were</transChange> red horses, and with the second chariot <transChange type="added">there were</transChange> black horses.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="3">And with the third chariot <transChange type="added">there were</transChange> white horses, and with the fourth chariot <transChange type="added">there were</transChange> strong<note>Other ancient versions read "grey" here</note> dappled horses.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="4">And I answered and said to the angel <transChange type="added">that was</transChange> talking to me, "What <transChange type="added">are</transChange> these, my lord?"</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="5">And the angel answered and said to me, "These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the four winds<note>Or "spirits" (The same Hebrew word can be translated "wind" or "spirit" depending on the context)</note> of the heavens going out after presenting themselves before the Lord of all the earth.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="6">{The one with}<note>Literally "Her with which"</note> the black horses <transChange type="added">is</transChange> going out to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north country, and the white <transChange type="added">horses</transChange> go after them,<note>Some interpret the word "after" to indicate a westward direction</note> while the dappled <transChange type="added">ones</transChange> go to the south country."</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="7">When the strong <transChange type="added">horses</transChange> went out, they were anxious to go to patrol the earth. And he<note>That is, "Lord of all the earth"</note> said, "Go, patrol the earth." And they patrolled the earth.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="8">And he cried out to me and said to me, "See those going out to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north country have set my spirit at rest in the north country." </verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="10">"Collect<note>The imperative "Collect" has no object; many translations supply "silver and gold" or "an offering"</note> from the exiles--from Heldai, Tobijah, and from Jedaiah, <transChange type="added">all of</transChange> whom came from Babylon--and go on that day, go <transChange type="added">to the</transChange> house of Josiah son of Zephaniah.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="11">Take <transChange type="added">the</transChange> silver and gold and make a crown, and set <transChange type="added">it</transChange> on the head of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="12">And say to him, 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts: "Look, <transChange type="added">here is</transChange> a man whose name <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Branch,<note>Hebrew "Sprout" or "Shoot" ("Branch" is a traditional rendering in English)</note> and from his place he will sprout, and he will build the temple of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="13">And he will build the temple of Yahweh, and he will bear majesty and will sit and rule on his throne. And he shall be a priest on his throne, and the counsel of peace will be between the two of them." '<note>That is, between king and priest</note></verse>


book: Zech
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<verse num="14">And the crown will be for Helem,<note>"Helem" is probably another name for Heldai (v. 10)</note> for Tobijah, for Jedaiah, and for Hen<note>"Hen" is frequently understood as a reference to Josiah (v. 10)</note> son of Zephaniah, as a memorial in the temple of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="15">And those who are far off will come and build the temple of Yahweh, and you will know that Yahweh of hosts has sent me to you. And it will happen if you will listen diligently to the voice of Yahweh your God." </verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="1">{And then},<note>Literally "and it happened"</note> in the fourth year of King Darius, the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fourth <transChange type="added">day</transChange> of the ninth month, <transChange type="added">which is</transChange> Kislev.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="2">And <transChange type="added">the people of</transChange> Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem-Melech, and their<note>Hebrew "his"</note> men, to entreat {the favor}<note>Literally "the face"</note> of Yahweh,</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="3">saying to the {priests of the house of Yahweh of hosts}<note>Literally "priests who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> for the house of Yahweh of hosts"</note> and to the prophets, "Should I mourn in the fifth month and keep myself separate<note>Or "abstain"; some interpret this as a reference to fasting</note> as I have done for these many years?"</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="5">"Say to all the people of the land and to the priests: 'When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, did you really fast for me?</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="6">And when you eat and drink, are you not eating and drinking <transChange type="added">for yourselves</transChange>?</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="7"><transChange type="added">Are</transChange> not <transChange type="added">these</transChange> the words that Yahweh proclaimed {through}<note>Literally "by the hand of"</note> the former prophets, when Jerusalem and {its surrounding towns}<note>Literally "her towns around her"</note> were inhabited and at ease, and the Negev<note>The Negev is an arid region south of the Judean hills</note> and the Shephelah<note>The Shephelah is a geographical area on the western edge of the Judean hills</note> were inhabited?'" </verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="9">"Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'Judge <transChange type="added">with</transChange> trustworthy justice, and show<note>Literally "do"</note> steadfast love and compassion {to one another}.<note>Literally "a man his brother"</note></verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="10">You must not oppress <transChange type="added">the</transChange> widow, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> orphan, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> foreigner, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> needy. You must not devise evil in your heart {against one another}.'<note>Literally "a man his brother"</note></verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="11">But they refused to listen, and turned<note>Hebrew "gave"</note> a stubborn shoulder and {stopped their ears from listening}.<note>Literally "their ears were heavy from hearing"</note></verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="12">{They made their hearts adamant}<note>Literally "They set their hearts <transChange type="added">like</transChange> hard stone"</note> in order not to hear the law<note>Hebrew torah</note> and the words that Yahweh of hosts had sent by his spirit through<note>Literally "by the hand of"</note> the former prophets; <transChange type="added">therefore</transChange> great wrath came from Yahweh of hosts.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="13">'Thus, just as I<note>Hebrew "he called" (but still referring to Yahweh)</note> called and they would not hear, so they will call and I will not hear,' says Yahweh of hosts.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="14">'And I scattered them with a wind among all the nations that they had not known; the land was made desolate behind them-- no one crossing through <transChange type="added">it</transChange> or returning--and they made the desirable land<note>Hebrew "land of desire," but this could be understood as a land characterized by desire rather than a desirable land</note> a desolation.'" </verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="2">"Thus says Yahweh of hosts: '{I am exceedingly jealous for Zion};<note>Literally "I am jealous for Zion <transChange type="added">with</transChange> great jealousy"</note> I am jealous for it <transChange type="added">with</transChange> great wrath.'</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="3">Thus says Yahweh: 'I have returned to Zion, and I will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and Jerusalem will be called the faithful city,<note>Or "the city of truth"</note> and the mountain of Yahweh of hosts <transChange type="added">will be called</transChange> the holy mountain.'</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="4">Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'Old men and old women shall again sit in the public squares of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand<note>Hebrew "a man his staff in his hand"</note> {because of great age}.<note>Literally "because of the multitude of days"</note></verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="5">And the public squares of the city will be filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> boys and girls playing in its public squares.'</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="6">Thus says Yahweh of hosts: '<transChange type="added">Even</transChange> if it seems impossible<note>Or "wonderful"</note> {to the remnant}<note>Literally "in the eyes of the remnant"</note> of this people in those days, should it also seem impossible<note>Or "wonderful"</note> {to me}?'<note>Literally "in my eyes"</note> {declares}<note>Literally "declaration of"</note> Yahweh of hosts.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="7">Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'Look! I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to save my people from the land of the east, and from the land of the west,</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="8">and I will bring them and they will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. They will be my people and I will be their God in faithfulness<note>Or "truth"</note> and in righteousness.' </verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="9">"Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'Let your hands be strong, you<note>Hebrew "the <transChange type="added">ones</transChange>"</note> who are hearing in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets who <transChange type="added">were present</transChange> on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> day {the foundation was laid for the rebuilding of the temple, the house of Yahweh of hosts}.<note>Literally "the temple, the house of Yahweh of hosts, was founded to be built"</note></verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="10">For before those days there was no wage for people or for animals, and there was no safety from the enemy for those who went out or those who came in, and I sent each person against {one another}.<note>Literally "his neighbor"</note></verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="11">But now {I will not deal with the remnant of this people as in the former days},'<note>Literally "not like the former days I <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> to the remnant"</note> {declares}<note>Literally "declaration of"</note> Yahweh of hosts.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="12">'For <transChange type="added">there will be</transChange> a sowing of peace; the vine will give its fruit, and the soil will give its produce, and the heavens will give their dew. And I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="13">{And then},<note>Literally "and it will happen"</note> just as you were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and you will be a blessing. You must not be afraid; let your hands be strong!'" </verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="14">For thus says Yahweh of hosts: "Just as I planned to bring disaster<note>Hebrew "evil"</note> on you when your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> provoked me to anger," says Yahweh of hosts, "and I did not regret <transChange type="added">it</transChange>,</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="15">{so again I have planned}<note>Literally "So I did again, I planned"</note> in these days to do good to Jerusalem and the house of Judah. Do not be afraid!</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="16">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the things that you must do: speak truth, each <transChange type="added">of you</transChange>, with his neighbor; practice trustworthy judgment and peace in your gates.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="17">Do not devise evil in your hearts <transChange type="added">against</transChange> your neighbor, and do not love {a false oath},<note>Literally "an oath of deception"</note> because all these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> things I hate," {declares}<note>Literally "declaration of"</note> Yahweh. </verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="19">"Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'The fast of the fourth <transChange type="added">month</transChange>, the fifth <transChange type="added">month</transChange>, the seventh <transChange type="added">month</transChange>, and the tenth <transChange type="added">month</transChange> will be for the house of Judah jubilation and joy and merry festivals; therefore love truth and peace.'</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="20">Thus says Yahweh of hosts: '<transChange type="added">It will happen</transChange> again that nations and the inhabitants of many cities will come.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="21">And the inhabitants of one city will go to another <transChange type="added">city</transChange>, saying, "Let us go immediately to entreat {the favor of}<note>Literally "the face of"</note> Yahweh, to seek Yahweh of hosts--I also will go!"</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="22">And many peoples and powerful<note>Or "mighty"</note> nations will come to seek Yahweh of hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat {the favor of}<note>Literally "the face of"</note> Yahweh.'</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="23">Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'In those days ten men from {all the nations of every language}<note>Literally "all the languages of the nations"</note> will take hold of the hem of a Judean man,<note>Many versions translate "a Jew," but "Judean" highlights Zechariah's focus on provincial geography</note> saying, "Let us go with you, for we have heard <transChange type="added">that</transChange> God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with you!" '" </verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="1">An oracle. The word of Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> against the land of Hadrach, </verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="2">and also Hamath, <transChange type="added">which</transChange> borders on it; Tyre and Sidon--yes, they are very wise!<note>That is, wise in their own eyes (ironic)</note></verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="3">Tyre has built a fortification for itself,<note>Hebrew "her"</note> and it heaped up silver like dust, and gold like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mud of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> streets.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="4">Look! The Lord will drive it<note>Hebrew "her"</note> out and will hurl its<note>Hebrew "her"</note> outer ramparts into the sea, and it<note>Hebrew "she"</note> will be consumed by fire.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="5">Ashkelon will see and will be afraid, and Gaza will writhe exceedingly, and Ekron <transChange type="added">also</transChange>, because its hope is ruined.<note>Traditionally "ashamed"; some presuppose a different Hebrew form and translate "withered"</note> And the king from Gaza will perish, and Ashkelon will not be inhabited.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="6">A mongrel people<note>That is, a people of mixed marriage; "half-breeds"</note> will dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut down the pride of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="7">I will remove its<note>Hebrew "his"</note> blood from its<note>Hebrew "his"</note> mouth, and its<note>Hebrew "his"</note> abominations from between its<note>Hebrew "his"</note> teeth. And it<note>Hebrew "he"</note> too will be a remnant for our God; and it<note>Hebrew "he"</note> will be like a tribal chief<note>This word is sometimes interpreted as "clan"</note> in Judah, and Ekron <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Jebusite.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="8">But I will encamp at my temple<note>Or "house"</note> <transChange type="added">like a</transChange> guard, against those crossing through and returning; no oppressor will cross through them again, for now I have seen with my <transChange type="added">own</transChange> eyes.</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="9">Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Look! Your king comes to you; he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, and on a male donkey, {the foal of}<note>Literally "the son of "</note> a female donkey!</verse>


book: Zech
content:
<verse num="10">And I will cut off <transChange type="added">the</transChange> chariot from Ephraim, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> horse from Jerusalem; the battle bow will be cut down, and he will announce peace to the nations. His dominion <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> from sea to sea, and from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> River<note>That is, the Euphrates</note> to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ends of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth.</verse>


