# bible_fts_content

c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 17
c3content:
But my eye took pity on them by not destroying them, and {I did not completely destroy them}Literally "and not I make them complete destruction" in the desert. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 18
c3content:
"And I said to their children in the desert, 'You must not go in the statutes of your parents;Or "fathers" you must not keep their regulations, and you must not make yourself unclean with their idols.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And treat my Sabbaths as holy, and they will be a sign between me and between you {that you may know}Literally "know" that I, Yahweh, am your God.'


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 21
c3content:
But the children rebelled against me; {they did not walk in my statutes},Literally "in statutes my not they went" and {they did not observe my regulations},Literally "my regulations not they kept to do them" which if a person does them, then he will live by them. My Sabbaths they desecrated, and I decided to pour out my rage on them, to finish my anger against them in the desert.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 22
c3content:
But I withheld my hand, and I acted for the sake of my name not to be profaned before the eyes of the nations before whom I had brought them out before their eyes.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 23
c3content:
What is more, {I swore}Literally "I will raise my hand" to them in the desert to scatter them among the nations and to disperse them in the lands,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 24
c3content:
because they did not do my regulations, and my statutes they despised, and my Sabbaths they profaned, and their eyes were after the idols of their ancestors.Or "fathers"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And in turn I gave to them rules that were not good and regulations {by which they will not live}.Literally "regulations not they will live by them"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And I defiled them through their gifts in sacrificing all of the first offspring of the womb, in order thatOr "so that" I will cause them to be stunned, so that they will know that I am Yahweh. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 27
c3content:
"Therefore speak to the house of Israel, son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" and you must say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Again in this your ancestors blasphemed me {atOr "by" their display of infidelity toward me}." 'Literally "at/in acting unfaithfully they against me in/by unfaithfulness"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And I brought them to the land that {I swore}Literally "I raised my hand" to giveHebrew "give it" to them, and they saw every high hill and every leafy tree, and they offered their sacrifices, and they presented there the provocation of their offering, and they gave there their fragrant incense offering, and they poured out their libations there.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And I said to them, 'What is the high placeHebrew Bamah, which became its name to which you are going?' And {it is called}Literally "it is called name its" Bamah until this day.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 30
c3content:
Therefore thus say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "In the way of your ancestorsOr "fathers" will you defile yourself, and after their vile idols will you prostitute yourselves?


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 31
c3content:
And {when you lift up your gifts, sacrificing your children}Literally "at to lift up your gifts at causing to pass over your children" through the fire, you are defiling yourself through all of your idols until {today},Literally "the day" and will I let myselfHebrew "me" be consulted by you, house of Israel?" ' {As I live},"Literally "Live I" {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh, "I will not let myselfHebrew "me" be consulted by you!


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 32
c3content:
And {what you are planning},Literally "what is going up on your spirit" surely it will not be--that you are saying, 'Let us be like the nations, like the clansOr "tribes" of the lands, {serving wood and stone}!'Literally "to serve wood and stone" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 33
c3content:
"{As I live},"Literally "live I" {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh, "{surely}Literally "if not" with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm and with {rage pouring forth}Literally "rage poured out" I will reign as king over you!


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 34
c3content:
And I will bring you from the peoples, and I will gather you from the countries to which you were scattered with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm and with rage poured out.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 35
c3content:
Then I will bring you to the desert of the peoples, and I will execute justice on you there face to face.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 36
c3content:
{Just as}Literally "Like what" I executed justice on your ancestorsOr "fathers" in the desert of the land of Egypt, likewise I will execute justice on you!" {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 38
c3content:
And I will purge the rebels from among you and the ones transgressing against me; I will bring them out from the land {where they are living as aliens},Literally "from the land of living as an alien there" but into the land of Israel they will not come, and then you will know that I am Yahweh. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 39
c3content:
And you, house of Israel, thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Let each one go serve his idols now and after, if you are not listening to me, but {my holy name}Literally "the name of my holiness" you will not profane any longer with your gifts and with your idols. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 40
c3content:
"For on {my holy mountain},Literally "the mountain of my holiness" on the mountain of the height of Israel," {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh, "there all of the house of Israel will serve me, all of them,Hebrew "it/him" in the land. I will take pleasure in them, and there I will accept your contributions and the best of your portions with all of your holy objects.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 41
c3content:
I will accept you as {a fragrant incense offering}Literally "a fragrance of an incense offering" when I bring you out from the peoples and I gather you from the lands to which you were scattered, and I will show myself holy among you before the eyes of the nations.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 42
c3content:
And you will know that I am Yahweh {when I bring you} to the land of Israel, to the land that {I swore}Literally "I raised my hand" to give to your ancestors.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 43
c3content:
And you will remember there your ways, and all of your deeds {by which you were made unclean},Literally "which you were made unclean by them" and you will feel a loathing {for yourself}Literally "for your face" for all of your evils that you have done.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 44
c3content:
And you will know that I am Yahweh {when I deal with you}Literally "at/in doing my with you" for the sake of my name and {not according to your evil ways}Literally "not like your ways the evil" or {according to}Literally "like" your corrupted deeds, house of Israel," {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 45
c3content:
Ezekiel 20:45-21:32 in the English Bible is 21:1-37 in the Hebrew Bible And the word of Yahweh {came}Literally "was" to me, {saying},Literally "to say"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 46
c3content:
"Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" set your face toward the way of the south,Or "Teman" and preach to the south, and prophesy against the forest of the territory of the Negev.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 47
c3content:
And you must say to the forest of the Negev, 'Hear the word of Yahweh, thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I am kindling against you a fire, and it will devour in you every fresh tree and every dry tree; the blaze of the flame will not be quenched, and all the surfaces from the south to the north will be scorched by it.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" set your face toward Jerusalem, and preach to the sanctuaries, and prophesy to the land of Israel.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And you must say to the land of Israel, 'Thus says Yahweh: "Look! I am against you, and I will draw out my sword from its sheath, and I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 4
c3content:
BecauseHebrew "Because that" I will cut off from you both righteous and wicked, therefore my sword will go out from its sheath toOr "against" all creaturesHebrew "creature" from south to north.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And they will know, all creatures, that I, Yahweh, I will bring out my sword from its sheath; it will not return again!" '


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And you, son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" groan {with shaking hips},Literally "with destruction of loins" and you must groan with bitterness before their eyes.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 7
c3content:
{And then}Literally "and it will be" when they say to you, 'On account of what are you groaning?' then you must say, 'On account of the report, for it is coming, and every heart will be weak and all hands will hang limp and every spirit will be disheartened, and all knees will go like water.' Look! It is coming, and it will happen!" {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 9
c3content:
"Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" prophesy, and you must say, 'Thus says the Lord,' say, 'A sword, a sword is sharpened and is also polished.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 10
c3content:
It is sharpened to slaughter a slaughter, {polished to flash like lightning}!Literally "so that there be for her lightning" Or will we rejoice?Or "be pleased" A rod, my son, is despising every tree.Or "stick" of correction; Hebrew is uncertain in meaning here


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And he gives it to be polished, {to be seized by the hand}.Literally "to take hold of in the palm of the hand" It is sharpened--a sword--and it is polished to give it into the hand of the killer.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Cry and wail, son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" for it is against my people; it is against all of the princes of Israel. They are thrown to the sword with my people; therefore {strike your thigh}.Literally "strike on the thigh"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 13
c3content:
For {examine}!Literally "it was tested" And what if also the rod will not be despising?' {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And you, son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" prophesy {and clap your hands}.Literally "strike hand to hand" And the sword will {strike twice};Literally "be doubled" let it happen a third time. It is a sword of the dead, the sword of the great dead that is surrounding them,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 15
c3content:
so that a heart melts, and the fallen {multiply}Literally "be made many" at all of their gates. I gave a sword for slaughter, and alas! It is made for flashing, it is graspedOr "polished" for slaughtering.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Gather together, strike to the right; cause to go to the left, where your {edge}Literally "face" is directed.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And also {I myself}Literally "I, I" will {clap my hands},Literally "strike my hand to my hand" and I will satisfy my rage! I, Yahweh, I have spoken." 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 19
c3content:
"And you, son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" mark out for yourselfHebrew "you" two roads for the coming of the sword of the king of Babylon; they must {both}Literally "the two of them" go out from the same land. And hew out a {signpost};Literally "hand" hew it at the head of the road of the city.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 20
c3content:
You must mark a road for the coming of the sword to Rabbah of the {Ammonites}Literally "sons of Ammon" and to Judah, in Jerusalem the fortified.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 21
c3content:
For the king of Babylon stands at the fork of the road at the head of the two roads to practice divination. {He shakes the arrows},Literally "he casts the lot with the arrows" (cf. NASB, NRSV) he inquires with the teraphim, he {examines}Literally "sees with" the liver.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 22
c3content:
In his right hand is the divination for Jerusalem, to put up battering rams, to open a mouth for slaughter,Or "open the mouth of Sheol"; or "give the command to slaughter" (cf. NRSV, NASB) {to raise the battle cry},Literally "to raise a voice in shouting" to put up battering rams against gates, to build a siege ramp, to build siege works.Hebrew "siege work"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And it will be to them like practicing divination falselyOr "in vain" in their eyes; {they have sworn oaths for themselves}.Literally "swearers of oaths will be for them" ButOr "And" he will bring their guilt to remembrance so as to seize them. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 24
c3content:
"Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Because you have brought to remembrance your guilt by the uncovering of your transgressions, so that your sins in all of your deeds appear--because of your being remembered, you will be captured in the hand.'


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And as for you, profane one, wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come with the time of the punishment of the end,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 26
c3content:
thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Remove the turban and lift off the crown; things are no longer the same. Exalt the low and bring low the high.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 27
c3content:
A ruin, a ruin, a ruin I will make it! AlsoOr "indeed" this has not ever happened;Or "will not happen until" (cf. NASB and NRSV) it will remain until the coming of the one to whom the judgment belongs and I have given it to him.'


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And you, son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" prophesy, and you must say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the {Ammonites}Literally "sons of Ammon" and concerning their disgrace,' and you must say, 'A sword, a sword is drawn for slaughtering; it is polished for holding, {for flashing like lightning},Literally "for the sake of lightening"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 29
c3content:
when seeing a false vision for you in vain, when practicing divination for you falsely, to giveOr "place" you on the neck of the profane ones of the wicked, {whose day has come},Literally "who has come their day" {the time of final punishment}.Literally "in the time of the punishment of the end"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 30
c3content:
Return it to its sheath in the place where you were created. In the land of your origin I will judge you!


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 31
c3content:
And I will pour out my anger on you; I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and I will give you into the hand of brutal men, skilled craftsmen of destruction.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 32
c3content:
You will be as fuel for the fire; your blood will be in the midst of the earth. You will not be remembered, for I, Yahweh, I have spoken.'" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"And you, son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" will you judge? Will you judge the {bloody city}?Literally "city of blood" Then you must make known to her all of her detestable things!


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And you must say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "A city pouring out blood in the midst of her; {its time has come},Literally "to come time her its" and it made idols for itself, becoming unclean.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 4
c3content:
By your blood that you poured out you have become guilty, and by your idols that you made you have become unclean, and you have brought your days near, {and your appointed years have come}.Literally "and it came to years your" Therefore I have made you a disgrace for the nations and a laughingstock to all of the countries.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 5
c3content:
The people near and the people far from you will make fun of you, {the unclean and the terrified}.Literally "the unclean of the name the great of the panic"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Look! The princes of Israel, each one according to his strength,Or "influence" they are in you {for the shedding of blood}.Literally "to shedding of blood"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 7
c3content:
They have treated father and mother with contempt in you; {they violated}Literally "they did with extortion" the alien withOr "by" extortion; in the midst of you they mistreated the orphan and widow.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Slanderous men are {among you}Literally "in you" to shed blood, and they, {among you},Literally "in you" eat upon the mountains; they do wickedness in the midst of you.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 10
c3content:
They uncover the nakedness of a father amongHebrew "in" you; they violate a woman unclean of menstruation amongHebrew "in" you.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And a man does a detestable thing with the wife of his neighbor, and a man defiles his daughter-in-law in wickedness, and a man sexually violates amongHebrew "in" you his sister, the daughter of his father.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 12
c3content:
They take a bribe amongHebrew "in" you in order to shed blood; and you take usury, and you make gain from your neighbors by extortion, and so you have forgotten me, {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And look! I strike my hand for your ill-gotten gain that you have made and at your blood that was in the midst of you.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Can your heart endure,Or "hold up" or can your hands be strong at the days in which I am dealing with you? I, Yahweh, I have spoken, and I will act!


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 15
c3content:
I will scatter you among the nations, and I will disperse you through the countries, and I will purge your uncleanness from you.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And I will be profaned by you before the eyes of the nations, and you will know that I am Yahweh." '" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 18
c3content:
"Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" the house of Israel has become as silver dross to me; all of them are as bronze and tin and iron and lead in the midst of a furnace, even as silver dross, silver dross they became!


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Because all of you have become as silver dross, therefore look! I am gathering you to the midst of Jerusalem,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 20
c3content:
like the gathering of silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin to the middle of a furnace to blow fire on it for melting. Thus I will gather in my anger and in my rage, and I will {deposit}Literally "I will put/place" you, and I will melt you.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And I will gather you, and I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and so I will melt you in the midst of her.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Thus you will be melted like the melting of silver in the midst of a furnace, and you will know that I, Yahweh, I have poured out my rage on you.'"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 24
c3content:
"Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" say to her, 'You are a land not cleansed; it is not rained upon in the day of indignation.'


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 25
c3content:
The conspiracy of its prophets in the midst of her is like a roaring lion that is tearing prey. They devour people, and they take wealth and treasure; they make its widows numerous in the midst of her.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Its priests treat my law violently, and they profane my holy objects; they do not distinguish between a holy object and what is unholy, or between the clean and the unclean. They do not teach the difference, and they hide their eyes from my Sabbaths, and so I am profaned in the midst of them.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Its officials are like wolves tearing prey in its midst, to pour out blood, to destroy people, to make dishonest gain.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And for them its prophets plaster whitewash; they are seeing falseness and are practicing divination for them by lying, saying, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh,' and Yahweh has not spoken.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 29
c3content:
They severely oppress the people of the land, and {they committed robbery},Literally "and they seized a robbed things" and they mistreated the needy and the poor, and they oppressed the alien {without}Literally "with not" justice.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 30
c3content:
And so I sought for them somebody, one repairing the wall and standing in the breach {before me}Literally "to the face of me" on behalf of the land not to destroy it, but I did not find anyone,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 31
c3content:
and so I poured out my indignation on them. With the fire of my wrath I destroyed them; I returned their way upon their head," {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 3
c3content:
and they prostituted themselves in Egypt in their childhood; they were prostituting themselves there, and their breasts were fondled, and there they caressed the bosoms of their virginity.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Now as for their names, the older was Oholah, and Oholibah was her sister. And {they became mine},Literally "they were for me" and they bore sons and daughters, and their namesHebrew "name" are Samaria for Oholah, and Jerusalem for Oholibah.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And Oholah prostituted herself {while she was still mine},Literally "under me" and she lusted for her lovers, for Assyria who was nearby,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 6
c3content:
clothed in blue cloth, governors and prefects, {handsome young men}Literally "young men of handsomeness/beauty" and all of them horsemen, {experts on horseback}.Literally "riders of horsemen"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And she bestowed her fornication on them, on the choice ones of the {Assyrians},Literally "sons of Assyria" all of them, and with every one after which she lusted; with all of their idols she defiled herself.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And her whorings from the time of Egypt she did not abandon, for they slept with her in her childhood, and they caressed the bosoms of her virginity, and they poured out their fornication on her.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Therefore I gave her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the {Assyrians}Literally "sons of Assyria" {after whom she lusted}.Literally "which she lusted for them"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 10
c3content:
They uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters, and they killed her with the sword. And she became a name for the women, and they executed judgments against her. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 11
c3content:
"And though Oholibah her sister saw, yet in her lust {she behaved more corruptly than her},Literally "she behaved corruptly in lust from her" and her whoring was more than the prostitution of her sister.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 12
c3content:
She lusted after the {Assyrians},Literally "sons of Assyria" governors and prefects, warriorsHebrew uncertain clothed inOr "to" perfection,Or "in full armor" or "wonderfully dressed" {expert horsemen},Literally "horsemen, riders of horses" all of them {handsome young men}.Literally "young men of handsomeness"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And I saw that she was defiled; {they had both taken the same path}!Literally "way one was for the two of them"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And she increased her whorings, and she saw men carvedOr "portrayed" on the wall, images of ChaldeansAccording to the reading tradition (Qere) carved in red,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 15
c3content:
belted with a belt atOr "around" their waist with turbans on their heads, all of them giving the appearance of adjutants,Or "officers" the imageOr "likeness" of the {Babylonians};Literally "sons of Babylon" Chaldea was the land of their birth.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And she lusted for them {when her eyes saw them},Literally "at the sight of her eyes" and she sent messengers to them at Chaldea.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And so the {Babylonians}Literally "sons of Babylon" came to her for the bed of lovemaking; and they defiled her with their fornication, and she was defiled by them, and she turned from them.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And she revealed her whorings, and she revealed her nakedness, and so I turned from her {just as}Literally "as that" I turned from her sister.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 19
c3content:
YetOr "And" she increased her whorings, {recalling}Or "remembering" the days of her childhood when she was prostitutedOr "prostituted herself" in the land of Egypt.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And she lusted after her male lovers whose genitalia were the genitalia of male donkeys and their seminal emission was the seminal emission of horses.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And you longed after the obscene conduct of your youth when your bosom was caressed by Egypt, fondling your young breasts. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 22
c3content:
"Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Look! I am stirring up your lovers against you concerning whom you turned away, and I will bring them against you from all around:


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 23
c3content:
the {Babylonians}Literally "sons of Babylon" and all of the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, all of the {Assyrians}Literally "sons of Assyria" along with them, {handsome young men},Literally "young men of beauty/handsomeness" governors and prefects, all of them adjutantsOr "officers" {and excellent horsemen}.Literally "ones called riders of horses"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And they will come against you with an army chariot and wagon and with a crowdOr "horde" or "host of" of peoples; they will set themselves against you from all around with large shield and small shield and helmet. And I will give {before them}Literally "to the face of them" judgment, and they will judge you with their judgments.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And I will direct my zeal against you, and they will deal with you in anger; your nose and your ears they will remove, and {those who are left},Literally "and remainder your" they will fall by the sword, and they will take your sons and your daughters, and {your remnant}Literally "and remainder your" will be consumed by fire.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And they will strip you of your clothes, and they will take {your splendid jewelry}.Literally "the jewelry of splendor your"; or "your beautiful jewelry"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And I will put an end to your obscene conduct coming from you and your fornication from the land of Egypt, and you will not lift your eyes to them; and you will not remember Egypt again.'


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 28
c3content:
For thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Look! I am giving you into the hand of those you hated, into the hand of those from whomLiterally "them" you turned away.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And they will deal with you in hatred, and they will take all of your acquisitions, and they will leave you naked and in bareness; and the nakedness of your fornication and your obscene conduct and your whorings will be exposed.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 30
c3content:
These things are accomplishedOr "done" againstHebrew "in" you since you prostituted yourself after the nations, and on account of that, you defiled yourself by their idols.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 32
c3content:
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "You will drink the deep and wideOr place "drink deep and wide the cup" cup of your sister; you will be as laughter and as scorn; {the cup holds so much}!Literally "a large among to hold"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 33
c3content:
You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, for a cup of horror and desolation is the cup of your sister, Samaria.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 34
c3content:
And you will drink it, and you will drain it, and its potsherds you will gnaw, and you will tear out your breasts, for {I myself}Literally "I, I" spoke," {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 35
c3content:
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Because you have forgotten me, and you threw me behind your back, now in turnOr "also" you bear your obscene conduct and your whorings." 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 36
c3content:
And Yahweh said to me, "Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" will you judge Oholah and Oholibah and declare their abominable deeds toOr "for" them?


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 37
c3content:
For they committed adultery, and blood is on their hands, and they committed adultery with their idols, and even their children that they had borne for me--they sacrificed them as food!


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 39
c3content:
and when they slaughtered their children for their idols, they came to my sanctuary on that day to profane it. And look, {this is what they did in my house}!Literally "thus they did in the midst of house my"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 40
c3content:
{What is worse},Literally "and also for/indeed" they sent for men {who come}Literally "coming" from a distant place, to whom a messenger was sent to them, and look! They came! Men for whom you bathed and painted your eyes, and you adorned yourself with an ornament.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 41
c3content:
And you sat on a magnificent couch and a table prepared {before her},Literally "to the face of her" and my incense and my olive oil you put on her.Or "it"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 42
c3content:
And a sound of a carefree crowd was with it,Or "her" and in addition to these men, {a crowd of drunken menA problematic verse; reading according to the reading tradition (Qere) was brought in}Literally "from an abundance of men being brought in drunken" from the desert,Or "wilderness" and they put bracelets on their arms and a crown of splendor on their heads.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 43
c3content:
And I said toOr "about" the one worn out with adulteries, 'Now they will prostitute her concerning her fornication, even her.'Or "that she did"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 44
c3content:
And so they went to her like going to a femaleOr "a woman" prostitute; and thus they went to Oholah and to Oholibah, the women of obscene conduct.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 45
c3content:
But righteous men, they will judge them with the judgment of committing adultery, and with the judgment of shedding blood; for they were committing adultery, and blood was on their hands." 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 46
c3content:
For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Bring up against them an assembly, and make them as a thing of horror and as plunder.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 47
c3content:
And an assembly must stone them with stones,Hebrew "stone" and they must cut them down. With their swords they shall kill their sons and their daughters, and with fire they shall burn their houses.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 48
c3content:
And {I will cause obscene conduct to cease from the land},Or "I will put an end to obscene conduct from the land" and all of the women will be warned, and they will not do according to your wickedness.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 49
c3content:
And they will repay your obscene conduct upon you, and the guilt of your idols you will bear, and you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And the word of Yahweh {came}Literally "was" to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, {saying},Literally "to say"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" write for yourself the name of the day, {this very day}.Literally "exactly the day the this" The king of Babylon laid siege to Jerusalem on exactly this day!


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And {deliver a proverb}Literally "quote a proverb"; "proverb a proverb" to {the rebellious house},Literally "the house of rebellion" and you must say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Place the pot! Place it and also pour water into it.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 5
c3content:
take the choicest of the flock, and also pile the bonesOr possibly "logs"; the difference is one letter in Hebrew under it; {boil it vigorously};Literally "boil its boiling" indeed,Or "also" its bones boiled in the midst of it." '" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Woe to the city of bloodguilt! A pot that has its rust in it; {its rust did not go out from it}.Literally "rust her not went forth from her" Bring it out {piece by piece};Literally "according to its pieces" {one is as good as another}.Literally "no lot has fallen on it"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 7
c3content:
For her blood was in the midst of her; {she put it on a bare rock};Literally "on barrenness of a rock she put it" she did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust.Or "earth" or "dirt"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 8
c3content:
To stir up rage, to avenge myself through vengeance, I placed its blood on the barrenness of a rock, {so that it may not be covered}."Literally "so as not to be covered" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Woe to the city of bloodguilt! I, even I, will make the pile of wood great!


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Pile up the logs; kindle the fire; finish cooking the meat, and mix in the spices, and let the bones be burned.Or "charred"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And {make it stand}Literally "cause it to stand" empty upon its burning coals so that it may become hot, and its copper may become molten and be melted in the midst of it,Literally "her" so that its uncleanness and its rust be consumed.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Through effort she has caused weariness; {its thick rust}Literally "the abundance of its rust" went not out of it. Its rust! Into the fire with its rust!


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 13
c3content:
In your uncleanness is obscene conduct, because I cleansed you, but you were not clean from your uncleanness; you will not be clean again until {I fully vent my rage}Literally "until causing rest I to my rage" on you.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 14
c3content:
I, Yahweh, I have spoken. It is coming, and I did it; I will not disregard, and I will not take pity, and I will not reconsider. According to your ways and according to your deeds they will judge you!"Or "I will judge" {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 16
c3content:
"Son of man,Literally "to say" look! I am taking from you what is pleasing to your eyes with a plague,Or "blow" but you shall not mourn, and you shall not weep, and your tears shall not run down.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Sigh in silence for the dead; you shall not make a mourning ceremony. Bind your turban on you, and you must put your sandals on your feet. You must not cover your upper lip,Or "your mustache" (NASB) and the bread of {mourners}Literally "men" you shall not eat."


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And I spoke to the people in the morning, and my wife died in the evening, and I did in the morning {just as}Literally "as that" I was commanded.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And the people said to me, "Will you not make known to us what these things that you are doing mean for us?"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 21
c3content:
"Say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I will be profaning my sanctuary, the pride of your strength and the delight of your eyes and the object of your ownOr "souls'," or "selves'" affection; and your sons and your daughters whom you left behind will fall by the sword,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 22
c3content:
and you shall do {just as}Literally "as that" I did: You shall not cover your upper lip,Or "mustache" and you shall not eat the bread of {mourners}.Literally "men"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And your turban must be on your heads, and your sandals must be on your feet. You shall not mourn, and you shall not weep, but you shall waste away because of your iniquities, and you shall groan {to one another}.Literally "a man to his brother"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And Ezekiel will be to you as a sign; {everything that he did}Literally "like all that he did" you shall do; and when it comes you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 25
c3content:
"And you, son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" will it not be that on the day {when I take from them}Literally "on the day of to take me from them" their stronghold, the joy of their glory, the delight of their eyes, and the longing of their inner self,Or "soul" their sons and daughters--


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 27
c3content:
On that day your mouth shall be opened {at the arrival of the fugitive},Literally "with the fugitive"; or "to the one who has escaped" (NRSV; cf. NASB) and you shall speak, and you shall not be silent any longer, and you shall be to them as a sign, and they will know that I am Yahweh." 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" set your face toward the {Ammonites}Literally "sons of Ammon" and prophesy against them,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 3
c3content:
and you must say to the {Ammonites},Literally "sons of Ammon" 'Hear the word of the Lord Yahweh! Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Because of your saying, 'Ah!' to my sanctuary when it was profaned, and to the land of Israel when it wasOr "became" desolate, and to the house of Judah when they went into the exile,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 4
c3content:
therefore look! I am giving you to the peopleOr "children" of the East as a possession, and they will set up their encampments in you, and they will make in you their dwelling places; {they themselves}Literally "they, they" will eat your fruit and {they themselves}Literally "they, they" will drink your milk.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And I will make Rabbah as a pasture of camels and the {Ammonites}Literally "sons of Ammon" as a haunt of flocks, and they will know that I am Yahweh." '"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 6
c3content:
For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Because of clapping your hand and stamping with your foot, and because you rejoiced inOr "to" yourself with all of your malice over the land of Israel,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 7
c3content:
therefore look! I stretched out my hand against you, and I will give you as plunderAccording to the reading tradition (Qere) to the nations, and I will cut you off from the peoples, and I will destroy you from the countries, and I will wipe you out, and you will know that I am Yahweh." 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Because of Moab and Seir saying, 'The house of Judah is like all of the nations,'


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 9
c3content:
therefore, look! I am opening the side ofOr "the flank" Moab from the cities on its frontier, the glory of the land: Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kiriathaim.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 10
c3content:
I will give it to the peopleOr "children" of the East in addition to the {Ammonites}Literally "sons of Ammon" as a possession, so that the {Ammonites}Literally "sons of Ammon" will not be remembered among the nations.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Because of the doings of Edom in avenging himself with vengeance forOr "toward" the house of Judah, and so they became very guilty andOr "since" they avenged themselves on them,"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 13
c3content:
therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "soLiterally "and" I will stretch out my hand against Edom and I will cut off from it both human and animal, and I will make it a ruin from Teman and Dedan; they will fall by the sword.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And I will exact my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they will do in Edom according to my anger and according to my rage, and they will know my vengeance," {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Because of the {acting}Literally "doing" of the Philistines in vengeance, so that they avenged themselves relentlessly with malice in themselves for destruction {with everlasting hostility},Literally "with hostility of ongoing ages/eternity"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 16
c3content:
therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Look! I am stretching out my hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Kerethites, and I will destroy the remainder of {the seacoast}.Literally "the coast of the sea"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And I will execute on them great vengeance with punishments of rage, and they will know that I am Yahweh when I exact my vengeance on them!" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And it was in the {eleventh}Literally "one ten" year, on the first day of the month, the word of Yahweh {came}Literally "was" to me, {saying},Literally "to say"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" becauseHebrew "because that" Tyre said concerning Jerusalem, 'Ah! The gates of the peoples are broken; it has swung open to me; I shall be filled, for it lies in ruins!'


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Look! I am against you, Tyre, and I will bring up against you many nations like the stirring up of the sea {stirring up its waves}.Literally "with respect to its waves"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And I will destroy the walls of Tyre, and they will demolish its towers, and I will scrape away its earthen dirt from it, and I will make it into {a bare rock}.Literally "to barrenness of rock"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 5
c3content:
It will become a place for spreading out dragnets in the midst of the sea; for I have spoken,' {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh. 'And it will become as plunder for the nations,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 6
c3content:
and its daughters who are in the field with the sword, they will be killed; and they will know that I am Yahweh.'" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 7
c3content:
For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I am bringing to Tyre Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, from the north, the king of kings, with horse and with chariot and with horsemen and his assembly and many people.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Your daughters he will kill in the field with the sword, and he will placeHebrew "give" against you siege works, and he will build against you a siege ramp, and he will raise against you a shield,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 9
c3content:
and the thrust of his battering ram he will direct against your walls, and your towers he will break down with his weapons.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 10
c3content:
From the abundance of his horses he will cover you with their fine dust; at the sound of horseman and wheel and chariot your walls will shake, at his coming into your gates like the entrance of a city that is being broken through.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 11
c3content:
With the hooves of his horses he will trample all of your streets. He will kill your people with the sword, and {your strong stone pillars}Literally "the stone pillars of strength your" will tumble down to the earth.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And they will plunder your wealth, and they will loot your merchandise, and they will break down your walls, and the houses of your delight they will break down, and your stones and your timbers and your earthen dirt they will cast into the midst of the water.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And, I will put an end to the noise of your songs, and the sound of your lyres will not be heard any longer.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And I will make you into {a bare rock},Literally "to barrenness of rock" a place for the spreading out of dragnets. You will not be built again, for I, Yahweh, I have spoken," {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Tyre, "Will not the coastlands shake from the sound of your downfall, at the groaning of the wounded, {at people being killed}Literally "at being killed a killing" in the midst of you?


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And all the princes of the sea will go down from their thrones, and they will remove their robes, and their {beautiful garments}Literally "the garments of beautiful finished cloth" of finished cloth they will take off. With terror they will be clothed, and on the ground they will sit, and they will tremble {continually},Literally "for moments" and they will be appalled over you.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Now the coastlands will tremble at the day of your downfall, and the islands that are in the sea will be horrified because of your departure.'"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 19
c3content:
For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "When I make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited, when bringing up over you the deep, the {great surging waters}Literally "the waters the many" will cover you.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And I will bring you down with those who are going down to the grave,Or "pit" {an ancient people},Literally "a people of eternity/endless ages" and I will cause you to dwell in the worldOr "land" of the depths, in the ruins from of old with those who are going down to the grave,Or "pit" so that you will not be inhabited and {have a place}Hebrew "and I will give beauty in the land of the living" in the land of the living.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Sudden terrors I will bring on you, and you shall no longer exist; and you will be sought, and you will not be found again {forever},"Literally "to eternity/endless ages" {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And you must say to Tyre, the one who sits at the entrance of the sea as the merchant of the peoples to the many coastlands, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 5
c3content:
They built with pine trees from Senir all of your boards for you; they took cedars from Lebanon to make a sailing mast {for you}.Literally "on you"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 6
c3content:
They made your oars with oaks from Bashan; your deck they made with inlaid ivory, with cypress trees from the coastlands of Cyprus.According to the reading tradition (Qere)


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Your sail was fine linen with colorful weaving from Egypt {to serve as a banner for you};Literally "to be for you as a banner" blue and purple cloth from the coastlands of CyprusOr "Elishah" was your awning.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 8
c3content:
The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvan were your rowers; your {skilled men},Literally "wise men" O Tyre, were {from your own people},Literally "in you" and they were your seamen.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 9
c3content:
The elders of Gebal and its {skilled men}Literally "wise men" were {among you}Literally "in you" as the repairers of the seam of your boat; all of the ships of the sea and their mariners were {among you}Literally "in you" to barter your wares.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Persia and Lud and Put were {among your soldiers};Literally "in your army as the men of war your" small shield and helmet hung {among you}Literally "in you" and gave to you your adornment.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 11
c3content:
The peopleOr "children," or "sons" of Arvan and Helech were on your walls all around, and Gammadites were in your towers. They hung their quiversOr "shields" (cf. NJPS; NIV) on your walls all around; they perfected your beauty.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 12
c3content:
" 'Tarshish was your trader; from the abundance of all of their wealth, with silver, iron, tin, and lead they exchanged for your merchandise.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your traders; {in exchange for people}Or "for a human person/soul" and an object of bronze they gave you your wares.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 15
c3content:
The peopleOr "children" of Dedan were trading with you, many coastlands composed the region of your {influence};Literally "hand" they brought back horns of ivory and ebony as your payment.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 16
c3content:
EdomReading Edom for Aram was trading with you because of the abundance of your products, trading with malachite, purple wool yarn and colorful weaving, and fine white fabric and black corals and rubies; all these they exchange for your merchandise.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Judah and the land of Israel were trading with you with wheat from Minnith and millet and honey and olive oil and balm; all these they gave for your wares.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Damascus was trading with you {because of}Literally "for" the abundance of your products, because of the abundance of all of your wealth, trading with the wine of Helbon and white wool.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Vedan and Javan from Uzal, they exchanged wrought iron, cinnamon,Or "cassia" and reed spice for your merchandise; all this was for your wares.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Arabia and all of the leaders of Kedar were {your customers};Literally "traders of your hand" with young rams and adult rams and goats they were trading with them with you.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 22
c3content:
The traders of Sheba and Raamah were trading with you, with the finest of every spice and with every precious stone and gold; they exchanged all these for your merchandise.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 24
c3content:
They were trading with you in finery, in mantles of blue cloth and colorful embroidered work and with rugs of variegated cloth in twisted cords and knotted tightly; {these were among your merchandise}.Literally "in your trading/marketplace" (cf. NET)


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 25
c3content:
The ships of Tarshish were carrying for you your wares, and you were filled, and you became very heavy in the heart of the seas. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 26
c3content:
" 'Into many waters the rowers brought you; but {the east wind}Literally "the wind of the east" wrecked you in the heart of the seas.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Your wealth and your merchandise, your wares, your mariners, and your seamen, your shipwrightsLiterally "the repairers/strengtheners of your seams" and the barterers of your wares and all of {your soldiers}Literally "the men of your war" who are in you, alongHebrew "and" with all of your crew who are in the midst of you, they will fall in the heart of the seas on the day of your downfall.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And they will go down from their ships, all of those holding an oar, mariners, all of the seamen of the sea will stand on the land,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 30
c3content:
and they will lamentHebrew "lamented" over you with their voice, and they will cry outHebrew "cried out" bitterly, and they will throwHebrew "threw" dust on their heads, and they will rollHebrew "rolled" in the dust.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 31
c3content:
{They will shave themselves bald for your sake},Literally "And they made bald for you with baldness" and they will dressHebrew "dressed" themselves in sackcloth, and they will weepHebrew "wept" over you with a bitterness of soulOr "of their inner self" and with bitter wailing.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 32
c3content:
And they will raiseHebrew "raised" over you with their wailing a lament, and they will chantHebrew "chanted" a lament over you: 'Who is like Tyre, like this destruction in the midst of the sea?'


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 33
c3content:
When your merchandise went out from the seas, you satisfied many peoples with the abundance of your wealth, and by your wares you made rich the kings of the world.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 34
c3content:
Now you are broken by seas in the depths of waters; your wares and all of your crew in the midst of you have sunk.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 35
c3content:
All of the inhabitants of the coastlands are appalled over you, and their kings {shudder}Literally "they have bristling hair" in horror; {they distort their faces}!Literally "they are distorted as to faces"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 36
c3content:
The traders among the peoples hiss over you; you have become a horror, and {you shall be no more forever}!'"Literally "there is not you until eternity/endless ages" (cf. NRSV)


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" say to the leader of Tyre, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Look, are you wiser than Daniel, so that {no secret}Literally "all of hidden/secret" is hidden from you?


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 4
c3content:
By your wisdom and by your understanding you have gained for yourself wealth, and you have amassed gold and silver in your treasuries.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 5
c3content:
By the abundance of your wisdom in your trading you have increased your wealth and your heart was proud inOr "by/through" your wealth." '"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 7
c3content:
therefore look! I am bringing strangers over you, the most ruthless of the peoples, and they will draw their swords against the beautyOr "splendor" of your wisdom, and they will defile your splendor.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 8
c3content:
They will thrust you down to the pit, and you will die {a violent death}Literally "a death of a slain" in the heart of the seas.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 9
c3content:
{Will you indeed still say}Literally "Will you say, will you say" "I am a god!" before the face of your killers?Or "slayers" And in fact you are a humanOr "man" and not a god in the hand of {those who pierce you}.Literally "piercers/slayers of you"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 12
c3content:
"Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" raise a lament over the king of Tyre, and you must say to him, 'thus says the Lord Yahweh: 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 13
c3content:
You were in Eden, the garden of God, and every precious stone was your adornment: carnelian, topaz and moonstone,Meaning of Hebrew uncertain turquoise, onyx and jasper, sapphire,Or "lapis lazuli" malachite and emerald. And gold was the craftsmanship of your settings and your mountings in you; on the day when you were created they were prepared.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 14
c3content:
You were an anointed guardian cherub, and I placed you on {God's holy mountain};Literally "on the mountain of the holiness of God" you walked in the midst of stones of fire.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 15
c3content:
You were blameless in your ways from the day {when you were created},Literally "being created you" until wickedness was found in you.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 16
c3content:
In the abundance of your trading, they filled the midst of you with violence, and you sinned; and I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God, and I expelled you, the guardianOr "guarding" cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you ruined your wisdom because of your splendor. I threw you on the ground {before}Literally "in the face of" kings; I have exposed you {for viewing}.Literally "to look at you"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 18
c3content:
From the abundance of your iniquities in the dishonesty of your trading, I profaned your sanctuaries and I brought fire from your midst; it consumed you, and I have turned you to ashes on the earth {before the eyes of everyone who sees you}.Literally "before the eyes of all seeing you"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 19
c3content:
{All who know you}Literally "all of the knowers of you" among the peoples are appalled over you; you have become as horrors, and {you shall cease to exist forever}." '"Literally "there is not you until eternity"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And I will send into it a plague, and blood will be in its streets. And the dead will fall in the midst of her by the sword that is against it from all around; and they will know that I am Yahweh.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And {there will not be any longer}Literally "and not it will be again" a painful thorn and a sharp thornbush forOr "against" the house of Israel from {anywhere around them}Literally "from all of all around them" from those {who are despising them},Literally "the ones despising them" and they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh." '" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples to which they were scattered about in them, and I show myself holy inOr "among" them before the eyes of the nations, then they will live on their soil, which I gave to my servant Jacob.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And they will live on it in safety, and they will build houses, and they will plant vineyards, and they will live in safety when I execute my judgments on all {those who despise them from all around them},Literally "the ones despising them" and then they will know that I am Yahweh their God." 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 1
c3content:
In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the {twelfth}Literally "two ten" day of the month, the word of Yahweh {came}Literally "was" to me, {saying},Literally "to say"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" set your face against Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against Egypt, all of it.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And so I will put hooks in your jawbones, and I will make the fish of your Nile streams stick to your scales, and I will bring you up from the midst of your Nile streams, and all of the fish of your Nile streams which cling to your scales.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And I will fling you to the desert, you and all the fish of your Nile streams. On the surface of the field you will fall; you will not be gathered, and you will not be assembled. To the animalsHebrew "animal" of the field and to the birdsHebrew "bird" of the heavens I will give you as food.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And all of the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am Yahweh, because of theirLXX, Syriac, and Vulgate: "you" being a staff of reed for the house of Israel.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 7
c3content:
When they took hold of you with the hand, you snapped, and you split their every shoulder. And when they leaned on you, you broke, and you caused all of their loins to wobble."


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I am bringing on you a sword, and I will cut off from you human and animal.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And the land of Egypt will becomeHebrew "be" a desolation and ruins, and they will know that I am Yahweh because heThat is, Pharaoh said, 'The Nile is {mine}!Literally "to me" And I, I made it!'


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Therefore look! I am against you and against your Nile streams, and I will make the land of Egypt into ruins, a pile of rubble, a desolation from Migdol to Syene and up to the boundary of Cush.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 11
c3content:
A foot of a human will not pass over it, and a foot of an animal will not pass over it, and so it will not be inhabited for forty years.Hebrew "year"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated countries, and its cities to be in the midst of ruined cities. They will be a desolation for forty years, and I will scatter Egypt among the nations, and I will disperse them among the countries." 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 13
c3content:
For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "At the end of forty years I will gather Egypt from the peoples among whom they were scattered.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And I will restore the fortunes of Egypt, and I will bring them back to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin, and they will be a lowly kingdom there.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Of all the kingdoms it will be the most lowly, and it will not exalt itself again over the nations, and I will make them small so as not to rule over the nations.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And it will not be again for the house of Israel an object of trust, bringing to remembrance their guilt {when they turned back to them},Literally "at their turning" and they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh." 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 17
c3content:
{And then}Literally "and it happened" in {the twenty-seventh year},Literally "twenty and seven year" in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of Yahweh {came}Literally "was" to me, {saying},Literally "to say"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 18
c3content:
"Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, he made his army labor hard against Tyre. Every head was rubbed bare, and every shoulder was rubbed raw, butOr "and" a wage was not paid for him and for his army from Tyre for the labor that he did against it."


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I am giving to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon the land of Egypt, and he will carry its wealth away, and he will plunder its plunder, and he will loot its loot, and it will be a wage for his army.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 20
c3content:
As his wages that he worked for, I will give to him the land of Egypt, because they worked for me," {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 21
c3content:
"On that day I will cause {power}Literally "a horn" to grow up for the house of Israel, and for you I will give an opening of your mouth in the midst of them, and they will know that I am Yahweh." 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" prophesy, and you must say, 'thus says the Lord Yahweh: 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 3
c3content:
For a day is near; indeed, a day is near for Yahweh. A day of cloud, a time of the nations it will be.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And a sword will come in Egypt, and anguish will be in Cush, at the falling of the slain in Egypt. And they will take its wealth, and its foundation will be demolished.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Cush and Put and Lud and all of Arabia and Kub and the peopleOr "children" of the land of the treatyOr "covenant" with them--by the sword they will fall." 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 7
c3content:
"And they will be desolate in the midst of desolate countries, and its cities will be in the midst of ruined cities.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 9
c3content:
On that day messengers will go down from {before me}Literally "to the face of me" in the ships to terrify unsuspecting Cush, and anguish will be in them on the day of Egypt; for look, it is coming!" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 11
c3content:
He and his people with him, the most ruthless of nations, will be brought to destroy the land. And they will draw their swords against Egypt, and they will fill the land with the slain,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 12
c3content:
and I will make the Nile streams dry land, and I will sell the land into the hand of bad people, and I will lay waste the land and its fullness by the hand of strangers.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And I will lay waste Pathros, and I will set fire in Zoan, and I will execute judgments in No.That is, Thebes


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 15
c3content:
I will pour out my rage over Sin, the stronghold of Egypt, and I will cut off the crowdOr "horde" of No.That is, Thebes


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And I will set fire in Egypt, certainly Sin will writhe, and NoThat is, Thebes will be breached, and Memphis will face enemies {daily}.Literally "of by day"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And at Tahpanhes the day will become dark when I break the yoke of Egypt, and in it the majesty of its strength will come to an end. A cloud will cover it, and its daughters will go into captivity.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 20
c3content:
{And then}Literally "and it was" {in the eleventh}Literally "on one ten" year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, the word of Yahweh {came}Literally "was" to me, {saying},Literally "to say"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 21
c3content:
"Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" the arm of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, I have broken. And look, it has not been bound up for giving of a remedy, or for the placing of a splint to bind it up to make it strong to take hold of the sword."


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I am against Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and I will break his strong arm and the broken arm, and I will let the sword fall from his hand.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And I will strengthen the arm of the king of Babylon, and I will give my sword into his hand, and I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan with the groaning of the mortally wounded {before him}.Literally "the face of him"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And I will strengthen the arm of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh will fall. And they will know that I am Yahweh when I give my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will stretch it out to the land of Egypt.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And I will scatter Egypt among the nations, and I will disperse them into the countries, and they will know that I am Yahweh." 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 1
c3content:
{And then}Literally "and it happened/it was" {in the eleventh}Literally "on one ten" year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of Yahweh {came}Literally "was" to me, {saying},Literally "to say"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" say to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and to his crowd,Or "hordes" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Look! Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branchesHebrew "branch" and a forest giving shade, and {very high},Literally "high of height" and its treetop was between the clouds.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Waters made it great, the deep made it grow high; its rivers were going all around {its planting area},Literally "base of its tree"; NRSV, "in the place where it was planted" and its channels it sent out to all of the trees of the field.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Therefore it became tall, with its height more than all of the trees of the field, and its branches became numerous, and its branches became long {from its sending its shoots from abundant water}.Literally "from water much at sending shoots its"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 6
c3content:
In its branches all the birdsHebrew "bird" of the heavenOr "sky" made their nest, and under its branches all the animalsHebrew "animal" of the field gave birth, and in its shadow all the many nations lived.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches, for its root was toward much water.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Cedars in the garden of God could not be equal to it; fir treesOr possibly, juniper could not resemble its branches, and plane trees were not even like its branches; any tree even in the garden of God could not resemble it in its beauty.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 9
c3content:
I made it beautiful with the abundance of its branches, and all of the trees of Eden that were in the garden of God envied it.'"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "{Because}Literally "because that" it was tall in height and it set its treetop betweenHebrew "to between" thick clouds, and {he took pride in his tallness},Literally "and his heart he raised in his tallness"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 11
c3content:
thenOr "and" I gave it into the hand of the leader of nations; he {dealt thoroughly}Literally "doing he did" with it according to its wickedness. I drove it out.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And strangers cut it off, the most ruthless of nations, and they abandoned it. On the mountains and in all of the valleys its branches fell, and its branches were broken in all the river channels of the land, and all the peoples of the world went out from its shadow, and they abandoned it.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 13
c3content:
On its fallen trunk all the birdsHebrew "bird" of the heavenOr "sky" now dwell, and all the animals of the field were on its branches.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 14
c3content:
This occurred so that all of the trees with abundant water will not become tall, and they will not set their treetop betweenOr "among" their thick foliage,Or "clouds" and so that{all of the trees that are abundantly watered}Literally "all of the drinkers of water" {will not stand up to them}Literally "will not stand to them" in their tallness, for all of them, they have been given over to death, to the world below in the midst of {mortals},Literally "sons of men," or "children of humankind" to the people going down to the grave."Or "pit" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "On the day of its going down to Sheol, I caused mourning; I covered over it with the deep, and I withheld its rivers, and many waters were restrained, and I brought gloom over it; Lebanon and all of the trees of the field, they had fainted because of it.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 16
c3content:
From the sound of its downfall I caused nations to shake when I made it go down to Sheol, with the people going down to the grave,Or "the pit" and so in the world below all of the trees of Eden, the choice and the best of Lebanon, {all the well-watered trees}Literally "all ofthe drinkers of water" were comforted!


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 17
c3content:
They also went down with it to Sheol to {those who died by the sword},Literally "to the slain of the sword" and its army who had lived in its shadow in the midst of nations. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 18
c3content:
{To whom could you be compared, whether in glory or in majesty}Literally "To who you are like as in glory and in majesty" among the trees of Eden? And yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the world below; in the midst of the uncircumcised you will lie with {those who died by the sword}.Literally "the slain of the sword" That is Pharaoh and {his entire}Literally "all his hordes/crowd" crowd!"Or "hordes" {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 1
c3content:
{And then}Literally "and it was/happened" in {the twelfth}Literally "two of ten" year, in the {twelfth}Literally "in two ten month" month, on the first day of the month, the word of Yahweh {came}Literally "was" to me, {saying},Literally "to say"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" raise a lament over Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and you must say to him, 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And I will throw you on the ground; on the surface of the open field I will hurl you, and I will cause every bird of the heaven to dwell on you, and I will satisfy the animalsHebrew "animal" of all of the world from you.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And I will water the land with your discharge from your blood on the mountains, and valleys will be filled fromOr "with" you.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And I will cover you atOr "by" extinguishing your heavens, and I will make dark their stars, and I will cover the sun with the cloud, and the moon will not give its light.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 8
c3content:
AllOr "every" sources of light in the heavens, I will make them dark over you, and I will putOr "give" darkness on your land,'"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 9
c3content:
"And I will disturb the heartsHebrew "heart" of many peoples at my bringing about your captivity among the nations, to countries that you do not know.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And I will cause many peoples to be awestruck over you, and their kings will shudder over you in horror, atOr "when" my brandishing my sword before their faces, and they will tremble {continually},Literally "for moments/seconds" each person for his life, on the day of your downfall."


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 12
c3content:
By the swords of warriors I will cause to fall your hordes by the most ruthless of the nations, all of them, and they will devastate the majesty of Egypt, and all of its hordes will be destroyed.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And I will destroy all her domestic livestock {beside}Literally "from on" many waters. The feet of humansHebrew "human" will not make them turbid again, and the hooves of domestic livestock will not make them turbid.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 15
c3content:
"Then I make the land of Egypt a desolation, so that the land will be stripped from its fullness when I strike all of those dwelling in it, and they will know that I am Yahweh.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 16
c3content:
{This is}Literally "she is" a lament, and they will chant it as a lament; the daughters of the nations will chant it as a lament over Egypt, and over all of its hordes they will chant it as a lament," {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 17
c3content:
{And then}Literally "and it happened/was" in the {twelfth}Literally "two of ten" year, {on the fifteenth}Literally "in the five ten of" day of the month, the word of Yahweh {came}Literally "was" to me, {saying},Literally "to say"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 18
c3content:
"Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" mourn over the hordes of Egypt, and make her go down, and with her the daughters of mighty nations, {down to the deep underworld}Literally "to the world/earth deeps/depth" with the people going down to the grave.Or "pit" or "netherworld"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 19
c3content:
{You are more lovely than whom}?Literally "from whom are you lovely" Go down and be laid in rest with the uncircumcised.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 20
c3content:
In the midst of the people slain by the sword itOr "she"; that is, Egypt is given they will fall to a sword; they carried herOr "it" off and all of herOr "its" hordes.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 21
c3content:
The chiefs of the warriors will speak to him from the middle of Sheol; with his helpers they have gone down; the uncircumcised lie still, {those slain by the sword}.Literally "the slain of the sword" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Assyria is there and all of its assembly; all around it are its graves, all of them killed, those fallen by the sword,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 23
c3content:
whoThat is, Assyria will be given its graves in the remote areas of the pit, and its assembly will be all around its grave, all of them killed, fallen by the sword, those who spread terror in the land of the living. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Elam is there and all of its hordes, all around its grave, all of them dead who fell by the sword, those who went down uncircumcised to the depths of the underworld,Literally "land/earth/world" those who spread their terror to the land of the living, and now they bear their disgrace with the people going down to the grave.Or "pit" or "sheol"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 25
c3content:
In the midst of the slain they made a bed for her with all of her hordes all around its graves, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, for their terror was spread in the land of the living, and they now bear their disgrace with the people going down to the grave;Or "pit" in the midst of the slain it was placed. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Meshech and Tubal are there and all of its hordes, all around him its graves, all of them uncircumcised and killed by the sword, for they gave their terror in the land of the living.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And they do not lie with warriors fallen from long ago, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war,Literally "with the weapons of war their" and they placed their sword under their heads, and their shieldsReading "their shields" for "their guilt" were on their bones, for the terror of the warriors was in the land of the living.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And youEvidently refers to Egypt too in the midst of uncircumcised people will be broken, and you will lie with those slain by the sword. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 29
c3content:
There is Edom, its kings and all of its leaders who are laid along with their might with those killed by the sword; they will lie with the uncircumcised and with the people going down to the grave.Or "pit" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 30
c3content:
There are also the princes of the north, all of them, all of the Sidonians who have gone down, being ashamed to lie with the slain becauseOr "in spite of" (cf. NJPS, NIV) of their terror that they caused from their might, and they lie uncircumcised with those killed by the sword, and they bear their disgrace along with the people going down to the grave.Or "pit" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Pharaoh will see them, and he will be comforted over all of his hordes killed by the sword, Pharaoh and all of his army," {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 32
c3content:
"ForOr "although" he spreadHebrew "I gave" my terror in the land of the living, and so he will be laid down in the midst of the uncircumcised with those killed by the sword: Pharaoh and all of his hordes,"{declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" speak to {your people},Literally "the children of your people" and you must say to them, 'A land, if I bring over it a sword and the people of the land take a man, one from their number, and they appoint him for them as a watchman,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 4
c3content:
and {anyone who listens}Literally "the listening" hears the sound of the horn and {he does not take warning}Literally "not he takes warning" and the sword comes and it takes him, his blood will be on his own head.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 5
c3content:
For he heard the sound of the horn and he did not take warning; his blood will be on him. But if he took warning, he saved his life.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And as for the watchman, if he sees the sword coming and {he does not blow}Literally "and not he blows on" the horn, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and it takes {their lives},Literally "it takes from them a life" he will be taken through his guilt, but his blood from the hand of the watchman I will seek.' 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 7
c3content:
"And you, son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; if you hear a word from my mouth, then you must warn them from me.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 8
c3content:
{When I say}Literally "At my saying" to the wicked, 'Wicked one, you will certainly die,' and you {did not speak}Literally "and not you spoke" to warn the wicked from his way, he, the wicked, will die by his guilt, but his blood I will seek from your hand.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 9
c3content:
But, you, if you warn the wicked from his way, to turn from it, and {he does not turn}Literally "and not he turns" from his way, he will die by his guilt, and you will have saved your life. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 10
c3content:
"And you, son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" say to the house of Israel, {saying},Literally "to say" 'So you said, {saying},Literally "to say" "Indeed, our transgressions and our sins are on us, and because of them we are rotting, and how can we live?" '


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Say to them, '{As I live},'Literally "live I" {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh, '{Surely I have no delight}Literally "if" in the death of the wicked, {except}Literally "for it" in the wicked returning from his way, and he lives. Turn back! Turn back from your ways, O evil ones, for why should you die, house of Israel?' 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 12
c3content:
"SoOr "And" you, son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" say to {your people}Literally "the children of your people" that the righteousness of the righteous shall not save him in the day of his transgression, and the wickedness of the wicked {will not cause him to stumble}Literally "not he will stumbled by it" on the day of his returning from his wickedness; and the righteous will not be able to live by it on the day when he returns to his sin.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 13
c3content:
When I say to the righteous, 'Certainly he will live,' and he trusted inOr "on" his righteousness, and he turns and he does injustice, all of his righteousnessAccording to the reading tradition (Qere) will not be remembered, and because of his injustice that he did, because of it he will die.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And when I say to the wicked, 'Certainly you will die,' butOr "and" he returns from his sin and he does justice and righteousness--


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 15
c3content:
for example, the wicked returns a pledge for a loan, he restores {stolen property},Literally "robbed/stolen items" he goes in the statutes of life so as not to do injustice--certainly he will live; he will not die.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 16
c3content:
All of his {sins that he committed},Literally "sins that he sinned" they will not be remembered againstOr "for" him, and he did justice and righteousness; certainly he will live. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 17
c3content:
"YetOr "And" {your people}Literally "the children of your people" say, 'The way of the Lord is not fair!' yet their way is not fair.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 18
c3content:
When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, then he will die {because of it}.Literally "by/in them"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And when the wicked turns from his wickedness, and he does justice and righteousness, because of itHebrew "them" {he will certainly live}!Literally "he, he will live"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Yet you said, 'The way of the Lord is not fair!' I will judge you, house of Israel, each person according to his ways." 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 21
c3content:
{And then}Literally "and it happened" it was in {the twelfth}Literally "two of ten" year, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month of our exile, a survivor from Jerusalem came to me, {saying},Literally "to say" "The city was destroyed!"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And the hand of Yahweh was on me on the evening {before}Literally "to the face of" the coming of the survivor, and he opened my mouth {before the survivor came to me in the morning},Literally "until coming to me in the morning" and my mouth was opened, and I was {no longer}Literally "and not I was dumb still" dumb.Or "silent" or "speechless"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 24
c3content:
"Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" the inhabitants of these ruins on the soil of Israel are saying, 'Abraham was one man, and he took possession of the land, and we are many; the land has been given forOr "to" us as a possession.'


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Therefore say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "You eat blood in your meat, and you raise your eyes to your idols and you pour out blood, and yet you want to take possession of the land?Or "you would take possession of"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 26
c3content:
You rely on your sword, you do a detestable thing, and {each man defiles}Literally "a man the wife of neighbor you defile" the wife of his neighbor, and yet you want to take possession of the land?" 'Or "you would take possession of the land" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 27
c3content:
"Thus you must say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "{As I live},Literally "I live" {surely}Literally "if not" whoever is in the ruins, by the sword they will fall, and whoever is on the surface of the open field, I will give him to the animalsHebrew "animal" to eat him, and whoever is in the stronghold and in the cave, they will die by the plague.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And I will make the land a desolation and a wasteland, and the pride of its strength will come to an end, and the mountains of Israel will be desolate {with no one traveling through them}." 'Literally "from there is not someone going over"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And they will know that I am Yahweh when I make my land a desolation and a wasteland, because of all of their detestable things that they have done. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 30
c3content:
"And you, son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" {your people},Literally "the children of your people" the ones talking together concerning you beside the walls and in the doorways of the houses, each one with his brother {saying},Literally "to say" 'Please come and hear what is the word {that is going out from Yahweh}.'Literally "the going out from with Yahweh"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 31
c3content:
And they come to you {as people do},Literally "like the coming of a people" and they sit {before you},Literally "to the face of you" and my people hear your words, and they do not do them, for they are showingOr "expressing" passion in their mouth, but their heart is going after ill-gotten gain.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 32
c3content:
Now, look! You are to them like {a sensual song},Literally "like a song of lust" beautiful of voice and {played well on an instrument},Literally "doing good to play a music instrument" and they hear your words, {but they are not doing them}.Literally "and/but doing there is not they them"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 33
c3content:
SoOr "And" {when it comes},Literally "in/at her coming" look! It is coming! And then they will know that a prophet was in the midst of them." 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and you must say to them, to the shepherds, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Woe to the shepherds of Israel who were feeding themselves! Must not the shepherds feed the flock?


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 3
c3content:
The fat you eat, and you clothe yourself with the wool; the well-nourished animals you slaughter, but you do not feed the flock.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 4
c3content:
The weak you have not strengthened, and the sick you have not healed, and {with respect to}Literally "for" the hurtOr "wounded" you have not bound them up, and you have not brought back the scattered, and you have not sought the lost, but rather you ruled over them with forceOr "violence" and with ruthlessness.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And they were scattered {without}Literally "from not" a shepherd, and they wereOr "became" as food for all the animalsHebrew "animal" of the field when they were scattered.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 6
c3content:
My flock went astray upon all of the mountains and on every high hill, and so upon all the surface of the worldOr "earth" my flock were scattered, and {there was no one seeking them},Literally "there was not someone seeking them" and {there was no one searching for them}."Literally "there was not someone searching for them"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 8
c3content:
"{As I live},"Literally "live I" {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh, "{Surely}Literally "if not" because my flock have become as plunder, and my flock became as food toOr "for" all the animalsHebrew "animal" of the field, since there was not a shepherd, since my shepherds have not sought my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and they fed not my flock,'"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 10
c3content:
'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I am against the shepherds, and I will seek my flock from their hand, and I will put an end to them from shepherding flocks, and the shepherds will {no longer}Literally "not any longer" feed themselves, and I will deliver my flocks from their mouth, so that they will not be as food for them." 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 12
c3content:
just like the caring of a shepherd for his herd onOr "in" the day when he is in the midst of his scattered flock. Thus I will look after my flock, and I will deliver them from all the places {to which they were scattered}Literally "which they were scattered there" on the day {of storm and stress}.Literally "on the day of cloud and deep gloom"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And I will bring them out from the peoples, and I will gather them from the countries, and I will bring them to their soil, and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, in the valleys, and in all of the settlements of the land.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 14
c3content:
I will feed them in good pasture, and their pasture will be on the mountains of the heights of Israel; there they will lie down in good pasture, and on lush pasture they will feed on the mountains of Israel.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 15
c3content:
{I myself}Literally "I, I" will feed my flock and {I myself}Literally "I, I" will allow them to lie down," {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 16
c3content:
"I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the scattered, and I will bind up the one hurt, and I will strengthen the sick; and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed her with justice." 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 17
c3content:
" 'And you, my flock, thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I am judging between {one sheep and another},Literally "small sheep and small sheep" between the rams and between the he-goats.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 18
c3content:
{Is it not enough for you}Literally "is it too little from you" that you feed on the good pasture? And still you must trample the remainder of your pasture with your feet, and {clear water}Literally "and settling of water" you drink, and the {leftover water}Literally "water being left" you must make muddy with your feet.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And my flock must graze the pasture treaded upon byHebrew "of" your feet, and must drink the mud puddle stirred up byHebrew "of" your feet." 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 20
c3content:
" 'Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh to them: "Look! I, even I will judge between fat sheep and between lean sheep,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 21
c3content:
because with your flank and with your shoulder you shoved, and with your horns you pushed all of the sick animals {until}Literally "until that" you scattered itOr "them" to the outside.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And so I will save my flock, and {they will no longer be}Literally "not they will be longer for plunder" for plunder, and I will judge between {one sheep and another}.Literally "sheep and sheep"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And I will set up over them one shepherd, and he will feed them; that is, my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be for them asOr "like" a shepherd.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And I, Yahweh, I will be for them {as God},Literally "to a God" and my servant David will be a leader in the midst of them. I, Yahweh, I have spoken.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And I will make them a covenant of peace, and I will put an end to wild animalsHebrew "animal" from the land, and they will dwell in the desert {safely},Literally "with confidence/trust" and they will sleep in the forest.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And I will make them and the area all around my hill a blessing, and I will let the rain go down {at its appointed time};Literally "in time his" they will be rains of blessing.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And the treeOr "trees" of the field will give its fruit, and the land will give its produce, and they will be on their land {safely},Literally "with/in conficence" and they will know that I am Yahweh when I break their yoke, and I will deliver them from the hand of the ones enslaving them.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And they will not be any longer plunder to the nations, and the animals of the land will not eat them, and they will dwell {in safety},Literally "with confidence" and there will not be anyone frightening them.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And I will raise for them a garden plotOr "planting" of renown, and they will {no longer}Literally "not any longer" be victims of famine in the land, and they will not bear any more the insult of the nations.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 30
c3content:
And they will know that I, Yahweh their God, am with them and they are my people, the house of Israel," {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 31
c3content:
"and you are my flock, the flock of my pasture. You are {my people};Literally "humanity, Mankind, human, mankind" I am your God," {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh.'" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" set your face against the mountain of Seir and prophesy against it,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 3
c3content:
and you must say to it, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I am against you, mountain of Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and a wasteland.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Your cities I will make ruins, and you will be a desolation, and then you will know that I am Yahweh,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 5
c3content:
because there has been to you {an ancient hostility},Literally "enmity of eternity" and you handed over the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" to the power of the sword at the time of their disaster, at the time of {their final punishment}.Literally "the time of punishment of end"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Therefore {as I live},"Literally "live I" {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh, "Certainly to blood guilt I will prepare you and bloodOr "blood vengeance" will pursue; {since}Literally "if not" {you did not hate blood},Literally "not blood you hated" it will pursue you.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And I will make the mountain of Seir into a desolation and ruin, and I will cut off from it both he who is crossing over and he who is returning.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And I will fill its mountains with its slain; your hills and your valleys and all of your watercourses, the slain by the sword will fall in them.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 9
c3content:
{An everlasting desolation}Literally "of eternity/endless ages" I will make you, and your cities will not return, and you will know that I am Yahweh.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 10
c3content:
I do this because of your saying,Or "thinking" 'The two nations and the two lands, they will be {mine},Literally "to me" and we will take possession of it,' and yet Yahweh was there.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Therefore, {as I live},"Literally "live I" {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh, "so I will deal with you according to your anger and according to your jealousy that you did,Or "showed" or "acted on" because of your hatred against them, and I will make myself known among them when I judge you.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And you will know that I, Yahweh, I have heard all of your contemptible words that you saidOr "spoke" against the mountains of Israel, {saying},Literally "to say" 'They will be desolate; they are given to us as food.'


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And you magnified yourself against me with your {insolent speech},Literally "with your mouth" and you spoke voluminously against me with your words--I heard!


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Thus the Lord Yahweh says, '{As the whole world rejoices},Literally "as/like the rejoicing of all of the world" I will make you a desolation.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 15
c3content:
{Like your rejoicing over the inheritance of the house of Israel}Literally "as/like rejoicing your for the inheritance of the house of Israel" {because}Literally "because that" it was desolate, I will do to you; you will be a desolation, mountain of Seir and all of Edom, indeed all of it; and they will know that I am Yahweh.'" ' 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"And you, son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" prophesy to the mountains of Israel; and so you must say, 'Mountains of Israel, hear the word of Yahweh;


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 2
c3content:
thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Because the enemy said concerning you, 'Ah, andOr "now" the ancient high places will be to us as a possession!'" '


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Therefore prophesy, and you must say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "{Because indeed}Literally "with because" {when you were desolate},Literally "you being desolate" then they crushed you from all around, so that you became a possession to the remainderOr "the rest of" of the nations, and you became {a byword and object of slander for the people}."Literally "on lips of the tongue and slander of the people"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Therefore, mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh; thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the river channels and to the valleys and to the ruins that are desolate and to the cities that are abandoned and that have become as plunder and as scorn for the remainderOr "the rest of" of the nations that are from all around.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "{Certainly}Literally "if not" in the fire of my passion I spoke against the rest of the nations and against allLiterally "against Edom all of it" Edom, who made my land as a possession, because ofOr "in order to plunder its pastureland" its pastureland for plunder, for themselves in all of the joy of their whole heart and in their inner disdain."Or "malice/disrespect"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Therefore prophesy against the land of Israel, and you must say to the mountains and to the hills, to the river channels and to the valleys, thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I spoke in my passion and in my anger the insult of the peoples you have endured."


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "{I swear}Literally "I, raise my hand" {certainly}Literally "if not" that the nations {that are all around you},Literally "that are to you from all around" they indeed will endure their disgrace. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 8
c3content:
" '"But you, mountains of Israel, your branch you will shoot, and your fruit you will carryOr "bear" for my people Israel, for they are soon to come.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And I will cause {your population}Literally "humans/humankind" to increase for you, all of the house of Israel, all of it, and the towns will be inhabited, and the ruins will be built.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And I will cause {your population}Literally "humans/humankind" to increase for you, and domestic animals, even they will be numerous, and they will be fruitful, and I will cause you to be inhabited like your {ancient times},Literally "past days/times/ancient times" and I will do good things more than in your former times, and you will know that I am Yahweh.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And I will send over you my people Israel, and they will take possession of you, and you will be for them as an inheritance, and {you will no longer bereave them of their children}."Literally "not you will again longer to bring bereavement for them" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 13
c3content:
" 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh, because they are saying to you, "You are an eater of humans,Or "peoples" and you are {one who makes childless}Literally "maker of childless" your people."That is, Israel and Judah; Cf. Ezek 37:15-22


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Therefore humansOr "peoples" you will not eat any longer, and your nation you will not make childlessAccording to the reading tradition (Qere) any longer," {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 15
c3content:
"And I will not let you hear any longer the insult of the nations, and the disgrace of the peoples you will not bear any longer; you yourself will not cause your nation to stumble," {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh.'" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 17
c3content:
"Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" the house of Israel, they were dwelling on their soil, and they defiled it with their way and with their deeds; like the uncleanness of menstruation was their way {before me}.Literally "to the face of me"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And I poured out my rage on them for the blood that they poured on the land and for their idols with which they defiled it.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And I scattered them among the nations, and I dispersed them in the countries according to their way, and according to their deeds I judged them.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And they cameOr "went" into the nations {to which they went},Literally "who/which they went there" and they profaned {my holy name}Literally "the name of my holiness" when they said to them, 'These are the people of Yahweh, and from his land they went out.'


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And I was concerned for {my holy name},Literally "the name of my holiness" which, the house of Israel defiled among the nations {to which they went}.Literally "which they went there" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 22
c3content:
"Therefore thus say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "{Not for your sake} Literally "not for the sake of/on behalf of you" am I about to act, house of Israel, {but}Literally "for it" {for my holy name},Literally "for the name of holiness my" which you defiled among the nations {to which you went}.Literally "which you went there"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And I will consecrate my great name, which was profaned among the nations and which you have profaned in the midst of them, and the nations will know that I am Yahweh!" ' a declaration of the Lord Yahweh, {when I show myself holy}Literally "at/in showing/to show self holy my" {before}Literally "to their eyes" their eyes. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 24
c3content:
" 'And I will take you from the nations, and I will gather you from all of the lands, and I will bring you to your land.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And I will sprinkle on you pure water, and you will be clean from all of your uncleanness, and I will cleanse you from all of your idols.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And I will give a new heart to you, and a new spirit I will giveOr "put/place" into your inner parts, and I will remove theOr "your" heart of stone from your flesh, and I will give to you a heart of flesh.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And I will giveOr "place/put" my spirit into your inner parts, and I will make it so that you will goOr "walk" in my rules, and my regulations you will remember, and you will do them.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And you will dwell in the land that I gave to your ancestors,Or "fathers" and you will be to me as a people, and I will be to you asHebrew "to" God.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And I will save you from all of your uncleanness, and I will call to the grain, and I will cause it to increase, and I will not bring famine upon you.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 30
c3content:
And I will cause the fruit of the tree and the crop of the field to increase, so that you will not suffer again the disgrace of famine among the nations.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 31
c3content:
And you will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe {yourself}Literally "for face your" overOr "because of" your iniquities and over your detestable things.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 32
c3content:
But not for your sake am I acting," {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh. "Let it be known to you, be ashamed, and be put to shame because of your ways, house of Israel. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 33
c3content:
"Thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'On the day when I cleanse you from all of your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the ruins will be rebuilt.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 34
c3content:
And the land that was desolate will be cultivated in {the very place that}Literally "in the place that/which/where" it was desolate before the eyes of all of the persons crossing over.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 35
c3content:
And they will say, "{This desolate land}Literally "the land this the being desolate" has become like the garden of Eden, and the wasted and desolate and destroyed cities, now being refortified, are inhabited."


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 36
c3content:
And the nations who are left all around, you will know that I, Yahweh, I built {that which was destroyed};Literally "the destroyed" I planted the desolate land; I, Yahweh, I have spoken, and I will act.' 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 37
c3content:
"Thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Again this time I will let {myself be inquired of}Literally "I will be/let me be searched" by the house of Israel, to do something for them; I will cause them to increase {their population like a flock}.Literally "them as the flock humankind"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 38
c3content:
Like the flock of the sanctuary, like the flock of Jerusalem at its festival, so the desolate cities will be filled with flocksHebrew "flock" of people; and they will know that I am Yahweh.'" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 1
c3content:
The hand of Yahweh was upon me, and he brought me by the Spirit of Yahweh, and he {let me rest}Or "placed me"; literally "set me" in the midst of the valley, and it was full of bones.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And he led me {all around}Literally "all around, all around" over them, and look, very many on the surface of the valley, and look, very dry.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And he said to me, "Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" can these bones live?" And I said, "Lord Yahweh, you know."


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And he said to me, "Prophesy to these bones, and you must say to them, to the dry bones, 'Hear the word of Yahweh!


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And I will lay on you sinews, and I will let flesh come upon you, and I will cover you over with skin, and I will put breath into you, and you will live, and you will know that I am Yahweh." '" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And I prophesied {just as}Literally "as that" I had been commanded, and there was a sound at my prophesying, and look! A rattling, and they came together--the bones! Bone to its bone!


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And I looked, and indeed, sinews were on them, and flesh went up,Or "appeared" and skin covered overOr "on" them {upward},Literally "from to above" but breath was not in them.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And he said to me, "Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" and you must say to the breath, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh {from the four winds},Literally "from four winds" "Come, O spirit and breath, on these dead ones, so that they may live!" '"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And I prophesied {as}Literally "like what" he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they became alive, and they stood on their feet, a very, very large group. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And he said to me, "Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" these bones are all of the house of Israel; look! they are saying, 'Our bones are dried up, and our hope is destroyed; {we are cut off as far as we are concerned}.'Literally "we are cut in two for us"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Therefore prophesy, and you must say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I am opening your graves, and I will bring you up from your graves, my people, and I will bring you to the land of Israel!


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And you will know that I am Yahweh when I open your graves when I bring you up from your graves, my people!


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And I will put my breath into you so that you may live, and I will cause you to rest on your soil, and you will know that I, Yahweh, I have spoken, and I will act!" ' {declares}Literally "declaration of" Yahweh." 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 16
c3content:
"And you, son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" take for yourself {a piece of wood},Literally "a piece of wood one" and write on it, 'For Judah and for the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" his associates,' and take another piece of wood, and write on it, 'For Joseph, the piece of wood ofOr "for" Ephraim and all of the house of Israel his associates.'


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And join them one to the other with respect to you as one piece of wood, so that they may become one in your hand.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 18
c3content:
{When}Literally "as that" {your people}Literally "the children of your people" say to you, {saying},Literally "to say" 'Will you not inform us as to what these actions mean for you?'


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Then speak to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I am taking the piece of wood for Joseph that is in the hand of Ephraim and the tribes of Israel its associates, and I will put them on it, the piece of wood of Judah, and I will make them into one piece of wood, so that they be one in my hand.'"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And speak to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I am taking the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" from among {the nations to which they went},Literally "which they went there" and I will gather them from {everywhere},Literally "all around" and I will bring them to their own soil.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And I will make them into one nation in the land on the mountains of Israel, and {they will all have one king as their king},Literally "and king one he will be for all of them to king" and theyAccording to the reading tradition (Qere) will not again be two nations and will not again divide into two kingdoms again.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And they will not defile themselves again with their idols and with vile idols and with all of their transgressions, and I will save them from all of their apostasy {by which they sinned},Or "which they sinned by them" and I will cleanse them and they will be for me as a people and I, I will be for them as God. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 24
c3content:
" '"And my servant David will be king over them, and one shepherd will be for all of them, and in my regulations they will go, and my statutes they will observe, and they will do them.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And they will dwell on the land that I gave to my servant, to Jacob, {in which your ancestors dwelled},Literally "which they dwelt in it your fathers" and they will dwell on it, they and their children and the children of their children {forever},Literally "until eternity" or "until unlimited time" and my servant David will be a leader for them {forever}.Literally "to eternity" or "to endless ages"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And I will make with them a covenant of peace; {an everlasting covenant}Literally "a covenant of eternity" it will be with them. And I will establish them, and I will cause them to increase, and I will put my sanctuary in the midst of them {forever}.Literally "to eternity" or "to unlimited ages"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And my tabernacle will be with them, and I will be for them as God, and they will be to me as a nation.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And the nations will know that I, Yahweh, am consecrating Israel when my sanctuary is in the midst of them {forever}." '"Literally "to eternity" or "to unlimited ages" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" set your face toward Gog of the land of Magog, the headOr "chief" leader of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And you must say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I am against you, Gog, the headOr "chief" leader of Meshach and Tubal,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 4
c3content:
and I will turn you around, and I will placeOr "give" hooks in your cheeks, and I will bring you out and all of your horses and horsemen {fully armed},Literally "clothed of fullness" all of them, a great crowd, holding a shield,Or "buckler" and small shield, and holdingOr "wielding" swords, all of them.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Gomer and all of its troops, Beth Togarmah, the remote areas of the north, and with all of its troops and many peoples with them.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Be ready, and prepare {yourselves},Literally "for you" you and all of your assembly,Or "battalions" or "hoards" the assemblingOr "assemblies" around you, and you must beOr "serve" for them as a guard.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 8
c3content:
After many days you will be mustered; {in the last years}Or "final years"; literally "in the last of the years" you will come to a restored land from the sword, gathered from many peoples on the mountains of Israel which were as {permanent ruins}Literally "ruins continually/permanently" but from peoples it was brought out, and they will dwell {in safety},Literally "with confidence/assurance/trust" all of them.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And you will advance like a storm; you will come, and you will be like a cloud {covering}Literally "to cover" the land, and all of your troops and many nations along with you." 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 10
c3content:
" 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "{And then}Literally "and it will be" on that day, thingsOr "thoughts" will come up onOr "in" your mind, and you will devise evil plans.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And you will say, 'I will go up against a land of open country; I will comeOr "go" to the people being at rest {in safety},Literally "with confidence" all of them dwelling without a wallOr "walls" and crossbarsHebrew "crossbar" and {without doors},Literally "and doors there are not for them"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 12
c3content:
toOr "for" loot loot,Or "war-booty"; this word is chosen because of the alliteration in Hebrew and to plunderOr "seize"; this word is chosen because of the alliteration in Hebrew plunder, {to assail}Literally "to bring back your hand against"; NJPS, "to turn your hand against" inhabited ruins and a people gathered together from various peoples and who are acquiring livestock and goods and dwelling at the center of the world.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Sheba and Dedan and traders of Tarshish and all its strong lions,Or "all of its violent leaders" they will ask you, 'ToOr "for" loot lootOr "war-booty" this word is chosen because of the alliteration in Hebrew are you coming? To plunderOr "seize"; this word is chosen because of the alliteration in Hebrew plunder have you summoned your assembly, to take away silver and gold, to take livestock and goods, to loot great amountsHebrew "amount" of loot?" ' 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 14
c3content:
"Therefore prophesy, son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" and you must say to Gog, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Will you not realizeLXX reads, "stir up/rouse yourself" on that day when my people Israel are dwelling {in safety},Literally "with confidence/trust"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 15
c3content:
and so you will come from your place, from the remote areas of the north, you and many people with you, {horsemen}Literally "riders of horsemen" all of them, a great crowd and a vast army,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 16
c3content:
and you will advance against my people Israel like a cloud {covering}Literally "to cover" the land; it will beOr "occur" in the last days, and I will bring you against my land, so that the nations know me, {when I show myself holy through you} before their eyes, O Gog!" ' 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 17
c3content:
"Thus says the Lord Yahweh, 'Are you he of whom I spoke in former days by the hand of my servants the prophets of Israel who were prophesying in those days for years that I would bring you against them?


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And so then in that day, on the day of the coming of God against the land of Israel,' {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh, 'my rage will come up in my anger.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And in my passion, in the fire of my wrath, I spokeOr "I asserted" that {certainly}Literally "if not" on that day a great earthquake will be on the land of Israel.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And the fish of the sea and the birdsHebrew "bird" of the heavenOr "sky" and the animalsHebrew "animal" of the field and all of the creeping things that creep on the earth and all of the humansOr "every human being" who are on the surface of the earth will shake {at my presence};Literally "from the face of me" and the mountains will be demolished, and the steep mountain sides will fall, and every wall onOr "to" the earth will fall.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And I will call against himOr "summon against him" (cf. NJPS) in all of my mountains a sword,' {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh, 'And the sword of each person will be against his brother.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And I will execute justice withOr "with respect to him" him with a plague and with blood and {torrents of rain},Literally "rain flooding/pouring down" and hailstones; fire and sulfur I will cause to fall on him and on his troops and on many peoples who are with him.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And so I will exalt myself, and I will show myself holy, and I will make myself known before the eyes of many nations, and they will know that I am Yahweh.'" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"And you, son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" prophesy against Gog, and you must say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I am against you Gog, the headOr "chief" leader of Meshech and Tubal,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 2
c3content:
and I will turn you around, and I will drag you along, and I will bring you up from the remote areas of the north, and I will bring you against the mountains of Israel,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 3
c3content:
and I will strike your bow from {your left hand},Literally "the hand of left your" and your arrows from {your right hand}Literally "the hand of right your" I will cause to fall.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 4
c3content:
On the mountains of Israel you will fall, you and all of your troops, and the peoples who are with you, to birdsHebrew "bird" of prey, birds of every wing,Or "kind" and animals of the field I will give you as food.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 5
c3content:
On the surface of the field you will fall, for {I myself}Literally "I, I" have spoken," {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 6
c3content:
"And I will send fire against Magog and among the people inhabiting the coastlands {in safety},Literally "with confidence/trust" and they will know that I am Yahweh.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And {my holy name}Literally "the name of my holiness" I will make known in the midst of my people Israel, and I will not let the name of my holiness be profaned anymore, and the nations will know that I am Yahweh, the holy one in Israel.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Look! it is coming, and it will happen," {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh. "It is the day {about which I have spoken}.Literally "which I have spoken of" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 9
c3content:
"ʻ"And the inhabitants of the townsOr "cities" of Israel will go out, and they will set ablaze, and they will kindle a fire with a weaponOr "weapons" and a small shield and a shield,Or "shields and bucklers"; cf. NJPS with a bow and with arrows, and with {hand clubs}Literally "with club of hand" and with spears,Hebrew "spear" and so they will light a fire with them, {a fire lasting seven years}.Literally "a fire of seven years"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And they will not carry trees from the field, and they will not chop wood from the forests, for with the weaponsHebrew "weapon" they will light a fire; and they will plunder those plundering them, and they will plunder those plundering them," ' {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 11
c3content:
" '"{And then}Literally "and it will happen" on that day I will give to Gog {a grave there}Literally "a place there of a grave" in Israel, The Valley of the Travelers, east of the sea,That is, the Dead Sea and it {will block}Literally "blocking" the travelers and Gog and all of his hordesHebrew "horde" they will bury there, and they will call it the Valley of {Hamon-Gog}.Literally "Gog's Multitude"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 13
c3content:
All of the people of the land will bury them, and it will be an honor for them on the day when I appear," ' {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 14
c3content:
ʻ"And they will set apart {men to continually}Literally "men of continuity/men who regularly" go through the land burying the travelers,In a negative sense = "invaders" the ones left over on the surface of the land to cleanse it; {for the whole of}Literally "from the end of" seven months they will explore it.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And the ones going through, they will go through within the land, and if anyone sees the bones of a person, then he will build beside it a sign to remain until the buriers have buried him in the Valley of Hamon-Gog.Or "Gog's multitude"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And furthermore the name of the city there is Hamonah,That is, "Multitude" and thus they will cleanse the land." ' 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 17
c3content:
"And you, son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Say to {all kinds of birds and animals of the field},Literally "to bird of every wind and to every animal of the field" "Be gathered, come be gathered {from everywhere}Literally "all around" to my sacrifice that I am sacrificing for you, a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, and you will eat flesh, and you will drink blood.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Flesh of warriors you will eat, and the blood of leaders of the land you will drink; rams, young rams and goats, bulls, and the fattened animals of Bashan--all of them!


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And you will eat fat {until you are satiated},Literally "satiation/gluttony" and you will drink blood {until you are drunk}Literally "to drunkenness" from my sacrifice that I sacrifice for you,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 20
c3content:
and you will be satisfied at my table with horse and horsemen and warriors and every man of war," ' {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 21
c3content:
"And I will display my glory among the nations, and all of the nations will see my judgment that I have executed and my hand that I have laid upon them. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 23
c3content:
and the nations will know that because of their guilt the house of Israel went into exile, {because}Literally "because that" they acted unfaithfully against me, and I hid my face from them, and I gave them into the hand of their foes, and they fell by the sword, all of them.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 24
c3content:
According to their uncleanness and according to their transgression I dealt with them, and I hid my face from them. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob, and I will have compassion on all of the house of Israel, and I will be jealousOr "zealous" for {my holy name}.Literally "for the name of holiness my"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And they will forget their disgrace and all of their infidelity that they displayed against me when they dwelt on their soil {in safety}Literally "with confidence" {with nobody making them afraid}.Literally "and not was somebody making afraid"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 27
c3content:
When I restore them from the nations and I gather them from the countries of their enemies, then I will show myself holy through them before the eyes of many nations.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And they will know that I am Yahweh their God, because of when I deported them into the nations, and I reassembled them to their soil, and {I will not let any of them remain there any longer}.Literally "not I will leave over/let remain again/still from them there"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And I will not hide my face again from them when I pour out my Spirit overOr "upon" the house of Israel," {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 1
c3content:
In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was destroyed, in this day exactly, the hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me there


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 2
c3content:
in visions from God. He brought me to the land of Israel and put me on a very high mountain, and on it was something like a structure of a city to the south.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And he brought me there, and look, there was a man whoseHebrew "his" appearance was like the appearance of bronze, and a cord of linen was in his hand and a reed for measurement; he was standing in the gate.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And the man spoke to me, "Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" look with your eyes and listen with your ears and applyOr "set/put" your heart to all that I am showing you, for you were brought here in order to show you this; tell all that you are seeing to the house of Israel." 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And there was a wall on the outside of the temple {all the way around it},Literally "all around, all around" and in the hand of the man the reedOr "rod" for measurement was six long cubits, {according to}Literally "with/in" the cubitThat is, about 18 inches and a handbreadth,A handbreadth wasabout 3 inches; the reed/rod was 10.5 feet long and he measured the width of the outer wall as one reed,That is, 10.5 feet and the height as one reed.That is, about 10.5 feet


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And then he went towardOr "to" the gate whose face was {to the east}.Literally "to the way toward the east" And he went up byOr "with" its steps, and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reedThat is, about 10.5 feet wide.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And the alcoveOr "niches" in the temple tower was one reedThat is, about 10.5 feet long and one reedThat is, about 10.5 feet wide,That is, 10.5 x 10.5 feet and between the alcoves was five cubits,That is, about 8.75 feet and the threshold of the gate along the side of the portico of the gate {on the inside}Literally "from the house" was one reed.That is, about 10.5 feet


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And then he measured the portico of the gate {on the inside}Literally "from the house" as one reed.That is, about 10.5 feet.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And he measured the portico of the gate as eight cubits,That is, about 14 feet and its pilaster was two cubitsThat is, 3.5 feet thick, and he measured the portico of the gate {on the inside}.Literally "from the house"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And the alcovesHebrew "alcove" of the gate toward the wayOr "direction" {eastward}Literally "of the east" were {three on each side};Literally "was three from here and three from here" {the same measurements applied to all three of them};Literally "measurement one was to the three of them" and {the same measurement applied to the pilaster}Literally "measurement one was to the pilaster" {on each side}.Literally "from here and from there"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And he measured the width of the doorway of the gate as ten cubitsThat is, 17.5 feet and the length of the gatewayHebrew "gate" was thirteen cubits.That is, 22.75 feet; or the inside width of the gateway was 22.75 feet


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And a wallOr "guard wall"; others prefer "curb" (NLT) {was before}Literally "was to the face of" the alcoves; {one cubitThat is, about 18 inches on either side}Literally "cubit one and cubit one"; or 21 inches was the wall from here.Or "from the front" And the alcove {was six cubitsThat is, 10.5 feet on each side}.Literally "was six cubits from here and six cubits from here"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And he measured the gate from the top slab of the alcove to its opposite top slab as twenty-five cubits in width, {from one entrance to the other one opposite it}.Literally "doorway opposite doorway"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And he made the pilasters sixty cubits,That is, 105 feet (problematic in this context) and to the pilaster of the courtyard {all the way around the gate}.Literally "the gate all around, all around"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 15
c3content:
{And from the front of}Literally "and at the face of" the gate at the entrance to {the front of}Literally "the face of" the portico of the inner gate was fifty cubits.That is, 87.5 feet


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And there were narrow windows for the alcoves and for their pilasters to the inside of the gate {all the way around}Literally "all around, all around" it. And likewise with respect to the porticos and windows were {all the way around}Literally "all around, all around" to the inside, and on a pilaster there were images of palm trees.Hebrew "tree" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And he brought me to the outer courtyard, and there were chambers and a pavement made for the courtyard all around it, and thirty chambers were facing to the pavement.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And the pavement {flanked}Literally "was to the side of" the side of the gates {and all along the gates};Literally "to along side the length of the gates" this describes the lower pavement.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And he measured the width from {the front of}Literally "to the face of" the lower gate to {the front of}Literally "to the face of" the outside of the inner courtyard as a hundred cubitsThat is, 175 feet to the east and to the north. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And as for the gate that had its face {toward the north}Literally "to the way of the north" of the outer courtyard, he measured its length and its width.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And its alcoves were {three on each side},Literally "three from here and three from here" and its pilasters and its porticos {had the same measurement}Literally "it was like the measurement of" as the first gate: its length was fifty cubits,That is, 87.5 feet and its width was twenty-five {cubits}.Literally "in/by the cubit"; 43.5 feet


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And its windows and its porticos and its palm tree images were like the measurement of the gate that was {facing toward the east};Literally "its face to the way of the east" and {it had}Literally "and with steps" seven steps that go up it, and there were porticos {before them}.Literally "to the face of them"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And a gate led to the inner courtyard, opposite the gate to the north and to the east, and he measured from gate to gate as a hundred cubits.That is, 175 feet 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And then he took me {toward the south},Literally "to the way of the south" and look, a gate {toward the south},Literally "to the way of the south" and he measured its pilasters and its porticos; they had measurements just {like the others}.Literally "like the measurements the these"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And there were for it windows and for its porticos {all the way around it}Literally "all around, all around" like these windows; fifty cubitsThat is, 87.5 feet long and twenty-five cubitsThat is, 43.75 feet wide.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And seven steps were going up to it and its porticos {before them}.Literally "to the face of them" And {it had palm tree images}Literally "and palm tree images were for it" {all along}Literally "from here and one from here to" its pilasters.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And there was to the way of the southThat is, "to the south" a gate for the inner courtyard, and he measured from gate to the gate on the way of the south, a hundred cubits.That is, 175 feet 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And he brought me to the inner courtyard throughOr "at" the gate of the south, and he measured the south gate, and it had measurements like {the others}.Literally "the measurements the these"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And its alcoves and its pilasters and its porticos were just like these measurements. And it had windows for it and for its porticosHebrew "portico" {all the way around},Literally "all around, all around" fifty cubitsHebrew "cubit" alongLiterally "long" its length, and twenty-five cubitsThat is, 43.75 feet wide.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 30
c3content:
And there were porticos {all the way around}Literally "all around, all around" its length, twenty-five cubits;That is, 43.75 feet and its width was five cubits.That is, 8.75 feet, which differs from 40:9; the LXX and some Greek versions lack this verse altogether


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 31
c3content:
And its porticos were to the outer courtyard, and palm tree images were on its pilasters, and eight steps were for its stairs. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 32
c3content:
And he brought me to the inner courtyard by way of the east gate, and he measured the gate as just like {the other measurements}.Literally "the measurements the these"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 33
c3content:
And its alcoves and its pilasters and its porticos were also like these measurements, and windows were for it and for its porticos all around;Literally "all around, all around" its length was fifty cubits,That is, 87.5 feet and it was twenty-five cubitsThat is, 43.75 feet wide.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 34
c3content:
And its porticos were toward the outer courtyard, and palm tree images were on its pilasters {one each side},Literally "from here and from here" and {eight steps served as it stairs}.Literally "and eight steps its stairs" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 35
c3content:
And he brought me to the gate of the north, and he measured it; and he measured {the same measurements as these others},Literally "like the measurements the these"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 36
c3content:
its alcoves, its pilasters and porticos, {and its windows}Literally "its windows were for it" {all the way around},Literally "all around, all around" and a length of fifty cubitsThat is, 87.5 feet and twenty-five cubits wide.That is, 43.75 feet


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 37
c3content:
And its pilasters {faced the outer courtyard},Literally "were to the courtyard the outer" and {it had palm tree images on its pilasters}Literally "and palm tree images were for its pilaster" {on each side};Literally "from here and from here" and eight steps served as its stairs. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 38
c3content:
And a chamber with its doorway was inOr "set among" the pilasters at the gates,Or "gate" and there they rinsed offOr "washed" the burnt offering.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 39
c3content:
And in the portico of the gate {were two tables on each side}Literally "were two tables from here and two tables from here" to slaughter the burnt offering on them and the sin offering and the guilt offering.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 40
c3content:
And on the outer side as one goes up to the doorway of the gate to the north were two tables, and on the other side, which is toward the portico of the gate, were two tables.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 41
c3content:
{On each side of the gate were four tables},Literally "four tables from here and four tables from here" eight tables in all, and on them they slaughtered sacrifices.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 42
c3content:
And four tables were for the burnt offering, and made of dressed stones, one cubit and a halfThat is, 31.5 inches long and one cubit and a half wide and one cubitThat is, 21 inches high {was their measurements},Literally "wasto them and they placed the objectsOr "instruments/utensils" with which they slaughtered the burnt offering on them and the sacrifice.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 43
c3content:
And there were double-pronged hooks, one handbreadth in width, put in place in the houseOr "inside" all around, and on the tables was the flesh of the offering. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 44
c3content:
And on the outside of the inner gate, there were chambers forHebrew "of" singers in the inner courtyard, which was to the side of the north gate, and their facesThat is, of the chambers {were to the south}Literally "were to the way of the south" with respect to one, and on the side of the east gate one facing to the north.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 45
c3content:
And he said to me, "This chamber {with its face toward the south}Literally "which its face is to the way of the south" is for the priests who are taking care of the responsibility of the temple.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 46
c3content:
And the chamber {with its face to the north}Literally "with its face is to the way of the north" is for the priests who are taking care of the responsibility of the altar. They are the descendantsOr "sons" of Zadok, the ones who approach from among the descendantsOr "sons" of Levi to Yahweh to serve him." 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 47
c3content:
And he measured the courtyard as to its length, a hundred cubits,That is, 175 feet and a hundred cubitsThat is, 175 feet wide, squared, and the altar {is in front of}Literally "before face of" the temple.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 48
c3content:
And he brought me to the portico of the temple, and he measured the pilaster of the portico, {five cubits on each side},That is, 8.75 feet; literally "five cubits from here and five cubits from here" and the width of the gate {was three cubits on each side}.Literally "was three cubits from here and three cubits from here"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 49
c3content:
The length of the portico was twenty cubitsThat is, 35 feet and its width eleven cubits,That is, 19.25 feet; LXX reads 12 cubits or 21 feet and with ten steps they went up to it, and the {pilasters had pillars},Literally "and pillars were to the pilasters" {one on each side}.Literally "one from here and one from here" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And he brought me to the temple sanctuary,Or "main room" (of the temple of Jerusalem); "great hall" (JPS); "outer sanctuary" (NIV); word can refer to surrounding courts and halls; HALOT 245. and he measured the pilasters, {six cubitsThat is, 10.5 feet wide on each side};Literally "six cubits wide from here and six cubits wide from here" this was the width of the tent.Or "of the jambs"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And the width of the doorway was ten cubits,That is, 17.5 feet and the sidewall of the doorway {was five cubits on each side},Literally "was five cubits from here and five cubits from here"; five cubits = 8.75 feet and he measured itsThat is, the outer sanctuary length as forty cubits,That is, 70 feet and its width was twenty cubits.That is, 35 feet


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And he went into the inner room, and he measured the pilaster of the doorway as two cubitsThat is, 3.5 feet and the doorway as six cubitsThat is, 10.5 feet and the width of the doorway seven cubits.That is, 12.25 feet


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And he measured its length as twenty cubitsThat is, 35 feet and its width as twenty cubits to the front of the temple, and he said to me, "This is {the most holy place}.Literally "the holy of the holies" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And he measured the wall of the temple as six cubits,That is, 10.5 feet and the width of the side room as four cubitsThat is, 7 feet {all along the outside wall for the temple all around the wall}.Literally "all around, all around for the temple all around"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And the side rooms were {side by side}Literally "were side room to side room" in three stories and a total of thirty {rooms},Literally "times" and there were offsetsMeaning of word is uncertain in the wall, which was for the temple for the side rooms, {all the way around}Literally "all around, all around" to be supports, and so they were not supports extending into the wall of the temple.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And each level widened, and it went aroundOr "was surrounded" {upward}Literally "to above, to above" to the side rooms for the structure that surroundsOr "goes around" the temple {upward}Literally "to above, to above" {all the way around},Literally "all around, all around" therefore the width increased to the temple {upward},Literally "to above" and thus the lower level goes up to the upper level by means of the middle story. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And I saw for the temple a platform {all the way around}Literally "all around, all around" the foundations of the side rooms; it was the length of a full reed, six cubits long.That is, 10.5 feet


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 9
c3content:
The width of the outside wall, which was for the side room to the outside, was five cubits,That is, 8.75 feet and a space that was set between the side rooms, which was for the temple


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 10
c3content:
and between the chambers was the width of twenty cubitsThat is, 35 feet all around the temple, {all the way around}Literally "all around, all around" it.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And the doorway of the side room {faced}Literally "was to" the open area; one doorway {faced}Literally "was to" {the north},Literally "the way of the north" and one doorway was to the south, and the width of the place of the open area was five cubitsThat is, 8.75 feet all around.Literally "all around, all around"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And the building that {faced}Literally "was to the front of" the courtyard {was toward the west},Literally "wasto the side of the way of the sea/west" and its width was seventy cubits,That is, 122.5 feet and the wall of the building was five cubitsThat is, 8.25 feet wide {all the way around},Literally "all around, all around" and its length was ninety cubits.That is, 157.5 feet


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And he measured the temple, and its length was a hundred cubits,That is, 175 feet and the courtyard and the building and its walls, their length was a hundred cubits.That is, 175 feet


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And the width of the front of the temple and the courtyard to the east was a hundred cubits.That is, 175 feet


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And he measured the length of the building {facing the courtyard}Literally "to the front of the courtyard" {at the rear}Literally "which was on behind her/it" and its galleries, {a hundred cubitsThat is, 175 feet on each side},Literally "from here and from here" and also the temple, the court, and the porticos of the courtyard,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 16
c3content:
the thresholds and the framed windows and the galleries around the three of them. Before the threshold was a covering of wood all around,Literally "all around, all around" and from the ground up to the windows, and all around the windows, they were covered.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 17
c3content:
{Above}Literally "On from on" the doorway and up to the inner templeOr "sanctuary" and on the outside, and on all of the wall {all the way around}Literally "all around, all around" in the inner and in the outer areas were {patterns},Literally "measurements"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 18
c3content:
and it was made of cherubim and palm tree images; a palm tree image between cherub and cherub, and {the cherub had two faces}.Literally "two faces were for the cherub"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And the face of a human {was toward}Literally "was to" the palm tree image {on the one side},Literally "from here" and the face of a fierce strong lion {faced}Literally "was to" the palm tree image {on the other side};Literally "from here" {this work was executed}Literally "being made" for the entire temple {all the way around}.Literally "all around, all around"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 20
c3content:
From the ground up to {above}Literally "up to form on" the doorway,Or "entrance" the cherubim and the palm tree images were made,Or "being made" and also the outer wall of the temple. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 21
c3content:
As far as the temple is concerned its doorframe was squared, and {before}Literally "in the front of" the sanctuary was the appearance as it were the appearance of


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 22
c3content:
{a wooden altar}Literally "the altar made of wood" that was three cubitsThat is, 5.25 feet high, and its length was two cubits,That is, 3.5 feet and its cornersHebrew "corner" for it and its length and its walls were of wood. And he spoke to me, "This is the table that is {before}Literally "to the face of" Yahweh."


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And two leavesThat is, two swinging leaves for each door of a door were for each of the doors, two hinged leaves of a door: two were for the first door, and two leaves of a door were for the other door.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And cherubim were madeOr "carved" on them, that is, on the doors of the temple and palm tree images like {the ones prepared for the walls};Literally "like which they were made for the walls" and an overhang of wood was on the surface of the porticos on the outside.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And narrow windows and palm tree images {were on either side},Literally "were from here and from here" and on the side walls of the portico, and the side rooms of the temple and theirLiterally "the" overhang. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And he brought me out to the outer courtyard {to the north},Literally "to the way of the north" and he brought me to the chamber which was opposite the courtyard and which is opposite the building to the north.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 2
c3content:
As toOr "along the face of" the face of the length of the building with the doorway to the north, it was a hundred cubits,That is, 175 feet and itsOr "the" width was fifty cubits.That is, 87.5 feet


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Opposite the twenty cubits {of the inner courtyard},Literally "which were to the courtyard the inner" and opposite the pavement that was to the outer courtyard was a gallery {facing}Literally "toward in the face/front of" a gallery in the three stories.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And {in front of}Literally "to the face of" the chambers was a passageway ten cubitsThat is, 17.5 feet in width toward the inside, a walkway of one cubit,One cubit of 18-21 inches is problematic; LXX and Syriac read 100 cubits (175 feet) running the length of the building and their doorways were to the north.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And the upper chambers narrowed, for the galleries took away space from them more than they took from the lower levels and more than they took from the middle level in the building.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 6
c3content:
For theyOr "there" were three stories and {they had no pillars}Literally "there were not for them pillars" likeOr "as" the pillars ofOr "for" the courtyards; therefore they were smaller than the lower stories and than the middle stories from the ground up.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And there was a wall that was to the outside {alongside}Literally "to the outside to corresponding" the chambers on the walkway toOr "of" the outer courtyardThat is, "to the north" {in front of}Literally "to in face of" the chambers; its length was fiftyThat is, 87.5 feet cubits.Hebrew "cubit"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 8
c3content:
ForOr "while" the length of the chambers which were to the outer courtyard was fiftyHebrew "cubit" cubits,That is, 87.5 feet and look!Or "yet!" The chambers on the front of the temple were a hundredHebrew "cubit" cubits.That is, 175 feet


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And from under these chambers was the entranceReading the Ketiv from the east for them {when one enters}Literally "at/in his/its coming" from the outer courtyard. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 10
c3content:
All along the width of the wall of the courtyard {eastward}Literally "on the way of the east" in front of the courtyard to the front of the building were chambers.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And a walkway was {before them}Literally "was to the face of them" like the appearance of the chambers which were on {the north},Literally "were on the way of the north" just like them in their length, and so was their width and all their exits, and they were built like their arrangements and like their doorways,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 12
c3content:
and like the doorways of the chambers which were on the way of the south was a doorway at the head of the wayDropping one "way" {before} the stone wall, projectingOr "protecting wall" onOr "toward" the way of the east at their coming.That is, when people entered the complex 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And he said to me, "The chambers of the north and the chambers of the south which are {before}Literally "to the front of" the courtyard, they {are the holy chambers}Literally "are the chambers of the holiness" in which the priests, who are near to Yahweh, will eat the {most holy objects}.Literally "holy objects of the holy objects" There they shall put the {most holy objects},Literally "holy objects of the holy objects" and the grain offering and the sin offering and the guilt offering, for the place is holy.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 14
c3content:
{When the priests enter},Literally "at coming their" then they shall not go out from the sanctuary to the outer courtyard; and there they must putOr "deposit/leave/remove" their garments in which they serve because they are holy. They must put on other garments and then they may approach the area that is for the people. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And he completed the measurements of the inner temple, and he brought me to the walkway of the gate {that faces toward the east}Literally "which its face is to the way of the east" and he measured it {all the way around}.Literally "all around, all around"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 16
c3content:
He measured the east side with the reedOr "rod" forLiterally "of measuring" measuring, five hundred cubits,Hebrew has "reeds" here (= 5,250 feet), which is not correct; 500 cubits = 875 feet. with respect to reeds with the reed for measurement, he measured it all around.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 17
c3content:
He measured the north side as five hundred cubits, with respect to reeds with the reed for measurement all around.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Then he measured the south side as five hundred cubits, with respect to reeds with the reed for measurement.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 19
c3content:
He went around the west sideOr "side toward/to the sea" and he measured five hundred cubits, with respect to reeds with the reed for measurement.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 20
c3content:
{Toward the four sides}Literally "toward the four winds" he measured it; there was a wall for it {all the way around}.Literally "all around, all around" Its length was five hundred cubitsThat is, 875 feet and its width was five hundred cubits, in order to make a separation between what is holy and what is common. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And he brought me to the gate which was {facing east}.Literally "which was facing to the way of the east"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And, look! The glory of the God of Israel, it came from the way of the east, and its sound was like the sound of many watersHebrew "water" and the land radiated due to his glory!


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 3
c3content:
AndOr "and as"; as is not needed in translation the appearance of the vision which I saw was asOr "like" the vision which I saw at hisOr "my coming" coming to destroy the city, and these visions were also asOr "like" the vision which I saw by the {Kebar River},Literally "river of Kebar" and I fell on my face. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And then the glory of Yahweh came to the temple {by the way of the gate facing east}.Literally "by the way of the gate which its face was to the way of the east"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And the Spirit lifted me and it brought me to the inner courtyard and, look! The glory of Yahweh filled the temple!


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And I heard someone speaking to me from the house,Or "from inside" and a man was standing beside me.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And he said to me, "Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet {where I will dwell}Literally "which I will dwell there" in the midst of the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" to eternity, and they, the house of Israel, they and their kings, will not again defile {my holy name}Literally "the name of my holiness" with their fornication and with their offerings for the deadOr "corpses" of their kings on their high places.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 8
c3content:
{When they placed their threshold}Literally "in/at their placing their threshold" withOr "beside/next to" my threshold, their doorframe beside my doorframe and theOr "their" wall was between me and between them, then they defiled {my holy name},Literally "the name of my holiness" with their detestable things that they did, and so I consumed them in my anger.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Now let them send their fornication far away and the offerings for the deadOr "corpses" of their kings away from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them {forever}.Literally "to eternity" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 10
c3content:
You, son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" describe to the house of Israel the temple and let them be ashamed of their iniquities and let them measure the pattern.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And if they are ashamed of all that they did, then the plan of the temple and its arrangement and its exits and its entrances and all of its plansOr "its entire pattern" and all of its statutes. And all of its plansOr "purposes" and all of its lawsAccording to the reading tradition (Qere); cf. BHS make known to them and write them before their eyes, so that they may remember all of its plans and all of its statutes, so that they do them!


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 12
c3content:
This is the lawLiterally "torah" or "instruction" of the temple: On the top of the mountain, all of its territory, {all the way around it},Literally "all around, all around" {will be most holy}.Literally "will be a holiness of holinesses" Look, this is the law of the temple. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And these are the measurements of the altar in the cubitsOr "in long cubits" (a cubit is a cubit and a handbreadth):That is, about 18 inches (regular cubit) + 3 inches = 21 inches (long cubit) now its gutterOr "trench" (NJPS) {is a cubitThat is, 21 inches in depth by a cubitThat is, 21 inches in width}Literally "the cubit and cubit its width" and its rim along its edge all around is one span,That is, 9 inches and this is also the height of the altar.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And from the gutterOr "trench" at the ground up to the lower ledge is two cubits,That is, 3 feet 6 inches and its width is one cubit,That is, 21 inches and from the small ledge up to the large ledge is four cubits,That is, 7 feet and its width is one cubit.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And the altar hearth was four cubits,That is, 7 feet and from the altar hearth and {upwards}Literally "and to above" were the four horns of the altar.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And the altar hearth was {twelve}Literally "two ten" cubits in length and {twelve}Literally "two ten" cubits in widthThat is, 21 feet square; it was {squared on its four sides}.Literally "squared to the four of its sides"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And the ledge was {fourteen}Literally "four ten" cubits in length with {fourteen}Literally "four ten" cubits its widthThat is, 24.5 feet on all four sides, a square to all four of its sides, and a rim was all around it of one-half cubit.That is, 10.5 inches And the gutterOr "trench" for it was a cubitThat is, 21 inches all around, and its steps were facing east." 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And he said to me, "Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'These are the statutes of the altar on the day {when it is made},Literally "to be made it" to sacrifice a burnt offering on it and to sprinkle blood on it.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And you must give to the Levitical priests who are from the offspring of Zadok, the ones coming near me," {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh, "to serve me, a bull, {a calf}Literally "son of cattle," or "son of the herd" as a sin offering. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 20
c3content:
You must take some of its blood and put it on {the four horns of the altar},Literally "on its four horns" and the four corners of the ledge, and on the rim all around; thus you must purify it and make atonement for it.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And you must take the bull, the sin offering, and you must burn it in the designated place of the temple outside of the holy place.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And on the second day you must offer a he-goat without defect as a sin offering, and they must purify the altar {like}Literally "as that" they purified with the bull.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 23
c3content:
{When you are finished}Literally "at your finishing" from purifying, you must offer a bull, {a calf},Literally "son of cattle," or "son of the herd" without defect, and a ram from the flock without defect.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And you must bring them near {before}Literally "to the face of" Yahweh, and the priests must throw salt on them, and they must offer them as a burnt offering to Yahweh.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 25
c3content:
For seven days you must provide a goat of sin offering for the day and a bull, {a calf},Literally "son of cattle," or "son of the herd" and a ram from the flock without defect; you must provide them.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Seven days they must purify the altar and they must cleanse it and so {they will consecrate it}.Literally "they must fill its hand"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And they will finish the days, {and then}Literally "and it will happen" on the eighth day and beyond that the priests will offer on the altar your burnt offerings and your fellowship offerings, and then I will be pleased with you," {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary that is facing east, and it was shut.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And Yahweh said to me, "This gate will be shut. It shall not be opened, and {no one}Literally "and a man not" will go through it, for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has entered it, and it will be shut.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 3
c3content:
The prince, he may sit in it to eat food {before}Literally "to the face of" Yahweh; he will come from the wayOr "direction" of the portico of the gate and by means of its way he will also go out." 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Then he brought me by the way of the gate of the north to the front of the temple,Or "house" and I looked,Or "saw" and look! The glory of Yahweh filled the templeOr "house" of Yahweh, and I fell on my face.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And Yahweh said, "Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" set your heartOr "pay close attention" or "listen closely" and look with your eyes and with your ears hear {everything}Literally "all of which/what" I am saying to you concerning all the statutes of the templeOr "house" of Yahweh and concerning all its laws,According to the reading tradition (Qere); cf. BHS and you must listen with your heart concerning the entrance of the templeOr "house" with all of the exits of the sanctuary.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And you must say to the rebellious, to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Enough for you, house of Israel, ofOr "from" all of your detestable things!


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 7
c3content:
AtOr "in" your bringing {foreigners}Literally "children/people of a foreign land" who are uncircumcised of heart and uncircumcised of flesh to be in my sanctuary to profane it, my temple,Or "house" {as you offered my food, fat, and blood},Literally "in/at your offering my food and fat and blood" soOr "and" you broke my covenant by all of your detestable things.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And you did not observe the responsibility of my sanctuary, butOr "and" you appointed themThat is, foreigners as the keepers of my responsibility in my sanctuary for you." 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Every {foreigner}Literally "child of a foreign land" uncircumcised of heart and uncircumcised of flesh shall not come into my sanctuary--not any of the {foreigners}Literally "child of a foreign land" who are in the midst of the {Israelites}.Literally "sons/children of Israel"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 10
c3content:
{But}Literally "For if" the Levites who removed themselves from me {at the going astray of Israel},Or "when Israel went astray" who went astray from me and went after their idols, as a result they will bear their guilt.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Then they will beOr "may be" in my sanctuary, those serving in my sanctuary, as sentriesOr "guards" at the gates of the templeOr "house" and as those serving the temple;Or "house" they will slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they will stand {before them}Literally "to the face of them" to serve them,


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 12
c3content:
{because}Literally "because that" they used to serve them {before}Literally "to the face of" their idols and they were for the house of Israel like a stumbling block of iniquity. Therefore {I swore}Literally "I raised my hand" concerning them," {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh, "that they will bear their iniquity.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And they shall not approach me to serve as a priest for me and to come near to all ofOr "any of" my holy objects, {to the most holy objects}, Literally "to the holy objects of the holy objects" and they will bear their disgrace and the results of their detestable things they have done.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And I will appoint them as the keepers of the responsibility ofOr "toward" the temple, for all of its workOr "tasks" and {everything} Literally "all"which will be done in it. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 15
c3content:
But the Levitical priests, the descendantsOr "sons" of Zadok, who cared for the responsibility of my sanctuary {when the Israelites went astray}Literally "at going astray the children of Israel" from me, they will approach me to serve me, and they will stand {before me}Literally "to the face of me" to offer to me fat and blood," {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 16
c3content:
"They shall come to my sanctuary, and they shall approach my table to serve me, and they will observe my requirement.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 17
c3content:
{And then}Literally "and it will happen" {when they come}Literally "at their coming" to the gates of the inner courtyards, they shall put on theirHebrew "the" inner linen garments and not wear wool garments {when they serve}Literally "at their serving" in the gates of the inner courtyard and {inside}Literally "and toward" the temple.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Linen turbans shall be on their head and linen undergarments shall be on their waists; they shall not gird themselves with material causing perspiration.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 19
c3content:
When they go out to the outer courtyard to the people, they must take off their garment in which they were serving, and they must place them {in the holy chambers},Literally "in the chambers of the holiness" and they must put on other garments, so that they will not make the people holy with their garments.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And their head they shall not shave, or long hair they shall not let grow; short they shall clip their heads.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And a widow or divorced woman they shall not take for themselves as wives, {but only}Literally "but if" a virgin from the offspring of the house of Israel, or the widow who is a widow for a priest they may take. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And they will teach my people the difference between what is holy and what is unholy, and the difference between unclean and clean they must show them.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And at a legal dispute they themselves shall stand to judge; employingOr "with" my judgments they shall judge it, and with respect to my laws and my statutes. All my festivals they shall keep and my Sabbaths they shall consecrate.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And {near a dead person}Literally "and to a dead person of a man" heThat is, the priest shall not come to be defiled, {but only}Literally "but if" for a father and for a mother and for a son and for a daughter, for a brother and for a sister {who was not married}Literally "who not she was for a man" may they defile themselves.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 27
c3content:
and then on the day of his coming into the sanctuary to the inner courtyard to serve in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering," {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And thus it will be to them as regards inheritance, that I am their inheritance, and so you shall not give to them property in Israel; I am their property.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 29
c3content:
The grain offering and the sin offering and the guilt offering, they themselves may eat them, and also all the consecrated possessionsHebrew "possession" in Israel will be theirs.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 30
c3content:
And also what is first of all of the firstfruits of everything, and of all of the contribution of everything from all of your contributions, to the priest {it belongs},Literally "it shall be" and what is first of your dough you shall give to the priest, so that a blessing may rest on your house.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Any dead body or mangled carcass from the birdsHebrew "bird" or from the animals,Hebrew "animal" the priests shall not eat." 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And when you allocate the land as an inheritance, you shall provide a contribution for Yahweh as a holy portion from the land, its length being twenty-five thousand cubitsOr 8.33 miles and its width ten thousand cubits;Hebrew 3.5 miles; LXX reads 6.67 miles in width, or 20,000 cubits (cf. 45:3, 5; 48:9) it is holy in all its territory, all around.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And there shall be from this area five hundred cubitsThat is, "875 feet by 875 feet" by five hundred cubits, squared all around, for the sanctuary; and fifty cubitsHebrew "cubit"That is, "87.5 feet" of open space shall be for it all around it.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And from this measured area you shall measure a length of twenty-fiveAccording to the reading tradition (Qere) thousand cubitsThat is, 8.33 miles; cf. 45:5 and a width of ten thousand cubits,That is, 3.5 miles; cf. 45:5 and in it will be the sanctuary, {the most holy place}.Literally "the holiness of holinesses"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 4
c3content:
ItOr "this area" is a holy portion from the land; it will be for the priests, the servants of the sanctuary {who approach}Literally "the ones who approach" to serve Yahweh, and it will be for them a place for houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And an area twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand cubits in width will be for the Levites, the servants of the temple. It will serve as property for them {as cities to dwell in}.Literally "twenty chambers"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And as property of the city, you must set apart alongside the contribution of the sanctuary a portion five thousand cubitsThat is, 1.67 miles in width and twenty-five thousand cubitsThat is, 8.33 miles in length, and it shall be for the entire house of Israel. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And a portion will be forHebrew "to" the prince {on both sides}Literally "from this and from this" of {the holy district},Literally "the contribution of the holiness" and both sides of the property of the city, and {alongside}Literally "to the front of" the property of the city {on the west},Literally "from/on the side of the sea" and alongside the property {on the east}.Literally "from/on the side of east" And also its lengthOr "portion" {corresponds to one of the tribal portions to the west}Literally "corresponding to one of the portions from the boundary of the sea" running {to the eastern border}.Literally "to the boundary of the east"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 8
c3content:
This shall be to him {with respect to the land}Literally "to the land" as property in Israel; and so my princes shall not again oppress my people, but they shall give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes." 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Thus says the Lord Yahweh, "Enough of this for you, the princes of Israel; put away violence and destruction and do justice and righteousness; revoke your acts of dispossession from uponOr "against" my people!" {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 10
c3content:
There shall be for you {an honest set of scales}Literally "a set of scales of justice/honesty" and {an honest ephah}Literally "an ephah of honesty" and {an honest bath}.Literally "a bath of honesty"; a bath is a liquid measure


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 11
c3content:
The ephah and the bath shall be one unit of measurement;Or "shall be the same size" the tenth part of the homer is the bath, and the tenth of the homer is the ephah; so the homer shall be itsOr "the" unit of measurement.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And the shekel shall weigh twenty gerahs, twenty shekelsHebrew "shekel" and five and twenty shekelsHebrew "shekel" and ten and five shekels,Hebrew "shekel" that shall make the mina for you.Meaning of Hebrew uncertain 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 13
c3content:
This is the contribution offering which you shall present: a sixth of the ephah from aOr "each"; literally "the" homer of wheat, and aLiterally "the" sixth of the ephah from aLiterally "the" homer of barley.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And the quota of the olive oil, the bath of the olive oil, is the tenth part of a bath from a kor, which is ten baths, or a homer--for ten baths are equal to a homer.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And oneOr "a" sheep from the flock from among two hundred from the pastures of Israel will be taken as a grain offering and as a burnt offering and as a fellowship offering to make atonement for them," {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 16
c3content:
"All of the people of the land shall join inOr "participate/ take part in" to this contribution withOr possibly "for/to" the prince in Israel. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 17
c3content:
"But on the prince shall be the responsibility for the burnt offerings, and the grain offering, and the libation at the feasts, and at the New Moon festivals, and atOr "on" the Sabbaths at all of the assemblies of the house of Israel; he shall provide the sin offering, and the grain offering, and the burnt offering, and the fellowship offering to make atonement for the house of Israel.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'On the first month on the first day of the month, you shall take a bull, {a calf}Literally "son of cattle," or "son of the herd" without defect, and you shall purify the sanctuary.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And the priest shall take from the blood of the sin offering, and he shall put it on the doorframe of the templeOr "house" and on the four corners of the ledge of the altar and on the doorframe of the gate of the inner courtyard.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And so you shall do on the seventh day in the month for anyone doing wrong inadvertently or due to ignorance, and so you must make atonement for the temple.Or "house" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 21
c3content:
In the first month, on the {fourteenth}Literally "four ten" day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast lasting for {seven days},Literally "a week of days" when you shall eat unleavened breads.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And the prince shall provide on that day for himselfHebrew "him" and for all of the people of the land a bull as a sin offering.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And during the seven days of the religious feast he shall provide as a burnt offering to Yahweh seven bulls and seven rams without defect for each of the seven days, and as a sin offering a he-goat for each day.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And as a grain offering, an ephah forHebrew "to" the bull and an ephah forHebrew "to" the ram he must provide, and a hin of olive oil for {each}Literally "the" ephah.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 25
c3content:
In the seventh month, on the {fifteenth}Literally "five ten" day of the month, during the feast, he shall provide just as he has for these seven days, as he did for the sin offering, as he did for the burnt offering, and as he did for the grain offering, and as he did for the olive oil.'" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "The gate of the inner courtyard facing east must be shut onOr "during" the six of the days for work, but on the day of the Sabbath it must be opened and on the day of the new moon it must be opened.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And the prince shall come by way of the portico of the gate from the outside, and he shall stand at the doorframe of the gate and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his fellowship offerings, and he shall bow down at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be closed until the evening.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And the people of the land will bow down at the doorway of that gate on the Sabbaths and on the new moons {before}Literally "to the face of" Yahweh. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And the burnt offering which the prince will offer to Yahweh on the Sabbath day must be six male lambs without defect and a ram without defect.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And the grain offering he will give shall be an ephah {for each ram},Literally "to the ram" and for the male lambs the grain offering shall be {as much as he wants to give}Literally "the gift of his hand" and a hin of olive oil {for each ephah}.Literally "to the ephah"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And on the day of the new moon he will offer a bull, {a calf}Literally "son of cattle," or "son of the herd" without defect and six male lambs and a ram; they must be without defect.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And an ephah for each bull and an ephah for the ram he must provide as a grain offering, and also for the male lambs {as much as he can afford}Literally "as that it stretches out his hand" and a hin of olive oil for each ephah. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And when the prince comes, onOr "by" the way of the portico of the gate he shall come and by thisOr "his" way he shall go out.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And when the people of the land come {before}Literally "to the face of" Yahweh at the festivals, the one coming by way of the gate of the north to bow downOr "to worship" must go out by the way of the gate of the south, and the one coming by way of the gate of the south must go out by the way of the gate of the north, so he must not return by the way of the gate by which he came,Hebrew "came by it" but before it heAccording to the reading tradition (Qere) shall go out opposite it.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And the prince will be in the midst of them; he will come in when they come in, and when they go out he will go out. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And at the festivals and at the appointed times, the grain offering will be an ephah with a bull and an ephah with the ram and with the male lambs, {as much as he wants to give},Literally "the gift of his hand" and a hin of olive oil {for each ephah}.Literally "to the ephah"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And when the prince makes a freewill offering, a burnt offering, or a fellowship offering as a freewill offering to Yahweh, the gate facing east will be open for him. And he must offer his burnt offering and his fellowship offering {just as}Literally "as that" he does on the day of the Sabbath, and then he must go out and the gate will shut {after he goes out}.Literally "after his going out"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And a male lamb, {a yearling}Literally "a son of his year" without defect, he must provide as a burnt offering {daily}Literally "for the day" for Yahweh; {every morning}Literally "in the morning in the morning" he must provide it.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And a grain offering he must provide in addition to it {every morning},Literally "in the morning in the morning" aHebrew "the" sixth of anHebrew "the" ephah and a third of a hin of olive oil to moisten the finely milled flour as a grain offering to Yahweh {as a perpetual statute}.Literally "regulations of everlasting continually"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 15
c3content:
So they must provide the male lamb and the grain offering and the olive oil {every morning}Literally "in the morning in the morning" {as a regular burnt offering}."Literally "as burnt offering of regularity/continuity" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "If the prince gives a gift to any one from among his sons, it is his inheritance and it will belongHebrew "be" to his sons; it is their possession as an inheritance.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And if he give a gift from his inheritance to one from among his servants, then it will belongHebrew "be" to him until the year of release,That is, the Year of Jubilee and then it will return to the prince. His inheritance with respect to his sons will be only for them.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 18
c3content:
But the prince shall not take from the inheritance of the people to robOr "oppress" them, separating them from their property; from his own property he shall bestow an inheritance on his sons, so that my people will not be driven away, any one, from his property." 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Then he brought me through the entrance which was on the side of the gate {to the holy chambers}Literally "to the chamber of the holiness" to the priests; the chambers were facing northwards and, look, there was a place at the extreme end westwards.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And he said to me, "This is the place where the priests will boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering in order not to bring them out to the outer courtyard to make the people holy.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And he brought me to the outer courtyard and led me past the four corners of the courtyard; and look, {there was a courtyard in each corner of the courtyard}.Literally "a courtyard in the corner of the courtyard, a courtyard in the corner of the courtyard"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 22
c3content:
In the four corners of the courtyard were smallHebrew uncertain courtyards forty cubits in length and thirty cubits in width, each with {the same measurements}Literally "measurement one" for the four of them with corners.Or "being cornered"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And a row was all around insideHebrew "in" them, and cooking-places were made under the rows of stonesPossibly some kind of stone ledge all around.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And he said to me, "These are the houses forHebrew "of" cooking, where the ones serving the temple shall cook the sacrifices of the people." 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 1
c3content:
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 was eastwards; and the water was coming down from under the south side of the temple, from south of the altar.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And he brought me out by the way of the north gate and he led me around by the {way leading to the outside of the outer gate}Literally "way of the outside to the gate of the outside" by way of the gate facing east, and look, there was water trickling from the south side.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 3
c3content:
As the man went eastward a measuring line was in his hand, and he measured a thousand {cubits}.Literally "in the cubit"; about 1,750 feet And he led me through on into the water; it was {ankle deep}.Literally "water of ankles"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And he measured a thousand cubits,About 1,750 feet and he brought me over into the waters and it was {knee deep}.Literally "water of knees" And he measured a thousand cubits,About 1,750 feet and he brought me over into the waters and it was {waist deep}.Literally "water of waist"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And he measured a thousand cubits,About 1,750 feet and it became a stream that I was not able to cross, because the water rose, {waters a person could swim in},Literally "water of swimming" and became a stream that could not be crossed.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And he asked me, "Son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" did you see this?" And he made me go, and he brought me back along the bank of the stream. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 7
c3content:
{When I returned},Literally "At my returning" then look! On the bank of the river were many trees {on both sides}.Literally "from this and from this"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And he said to me, "These waters are going out to the eastern region, and they go down to the {Jordan Valley},Literally "Arabah" and they come to the seaClearly refers to the Dead Sea and flow into the sea where {they issue out},Literally "being brought out/are issued out" and the waters in the sea will be healed.Or "made fresh"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And then every living creature with which it teems,Or "swarms" {to every place the waters come}Literally "to all of which they come there the water" it will live; and very many fish will live because these waters came there, and so the water will be healedOr "fresh" and everything will be alive {everywhere that}Literally "all that" {the stream will come}.Literally "that it will come there the stream"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And then fishersOr "fishermen" from En Gedi and on 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},Literally "to the" like the fish of the great sea,That is, the Mediterranean and very many.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And along the stream will go up on its banks {from both sides}Literally "from this and from this" every tree {producing food};Literally "of food" its leaf will not wither and it will not cease producing its fruit. {Every month}Literally "for its months" it will bear early fruit, for its waters are going out from the sanctuary, and its fruit will be as food, and its leaf for healing." 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "This is the boundary by which you shall distribute the land for {the twelve}Literally "two ten" tribes of Israel: Two shares shall be for Joseph.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And you must take possession of it, each one a share like his brother, of this land which {I swore}Literally "I raised my hand" to give it to your fathers, and so this land shall fall to you as an inheritance.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 15
c3content:
AndOr "Bow" this is the boundary of the land: {On the north side},Literally "to the side of the north" from the great sea by the way of Hethlon {until you come to Zedad},Literally "to the arriving at Zedad"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 16
c3content:
HamathOr "Lebo-Hamath to Zeded" (cf. NRSV, NJPS) to Berothath to Sibraim, which isOr "are" between the boundary of Damascus and the boundary of Hamath, on to Hazer Hatticon, which is on the boundary of Hauran.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And so the boundary will be from the seaThat is, the Mediterranean to Hazar Enan at the boundary of Damascus northwards and the boundary of Hamath to the north, and this is the boundary on the side of the north.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 18
c3content:
{And the eastern boundary}Literally "and the side of the east" will be between Hauran and Damascus, and from between Gilead and the land of Israel along the Jordan River fromOr "to" the boundary on the eastern sea to Tamar. AndOr "Now" {this is the border on the east}.Literally "and this is the side of the east"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 19
c3content:
{And on the south side the border}Literally "and the side of the south to south" will run from Tamar up to the waters of Meribot Kadesh and along the wadiThat is, the Wadi of Egypt to the Great Sea.That is, the Mediterranean And this is {the boundary to the south}.Literally "and this is the side of south to the south"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 20
c3content:
{And on the west side}Literally "and the side of the west" the Great SeaThat is, the Mediterranean shall be the boundary up to opposite Lebo-Hamath. {This is the western boundary}.Literally "this is the side of the west" 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 22
c3content:
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 so they shall be to you just like full citizens among the {Israelites}.Literally "sons/children of Israel" With you they shall be allotted with an inheritance in the midst of the tribes of Israel.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And then in the tribe in which an alien who is with you dwells, there you shall give his inheritance," {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 1
c3content:
AndOr "Now" these are the names of the tribes: At the end of the north, {along the way to Hethlon}Literally "to the side of the way of Hethlon" from Lebo-hamath to Hazar Enan on the boundary of Damascus {beside Hamath northward},Literally "northward to the side of Hamat," there will be one portion for Dan from the eastern border to the {west}.Literally "sea"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And next to the territory of Dan, from {the eastern border}Literally "the side of the east up to {the western border},Literally "the side of the sea/west" one portion for Asher.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And next to the territory of Asher, from {the eastern border}Literally "the side of the east" and up to {the western border},Literally "the side of the west/sea" one portion for Naphtali.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And next to the territory of Naphtali, from {the eastern border}Literally "the side of the east" up to {the western border},Literally "the side of the sea/west" one portion for Manasseh.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And next to the territory of Manasseh, from {the eastern border}Literally "the side of the east" up to {the western border},Literally "the side of the sea/west" one portion for Ephraim.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And next to the territory of Ephraim, from {the eastern border}Literally "the side of the east" and up to {the western border},Literally "the side of the sea/west one portion for Reuben.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And next to the territory of Reuben, from {the eastern border}Literally "the side of the east up to {the western border},Literally "the side of the sea/west one portion for Judah. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And next to the territory of Judah, from {the eastern border}Literally "the side of the east up to {the western border},Literally "the side of the sea/west shall be located the contribution that you set apart, twenty-five thousand cubitsThat is, 8.33 miles in width, and its length just like one of the portions from {the eastern border}Literally "the side of the east up to {the western border},Literally "the side of the sea/west and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 9
c3content:
The contribution that you shall set apart for Yahweh, its length shall be twenty-five thousand cubits,That is, 8.33 miles and its width ten thousand cubits.That is, 3.5 miles; cf. 48:13 and 45:1


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And to these shall be {the holy district}:Literally "the contribution of the holiness" to the priests northwards twenty-five thousand cubits,That is, 8.33 miles and westwards its width ten thousand cubits,That is, 3.5 miles and eastwards its width ten thousand cubits,That is, 3.5 miles and southwards its length twenty-five thousand cubits,That is, 8.33 miles and the sanctuary of Yahweh shall be in the midst of it.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 11
c3content:
To the priests, the ones being consecrated from the descendantsOr "sons" of Zadok, who took care of my service and who {did not go astray}Literally "who not they went astray" {when the Israelites went astray},Literally "at going astray the children of Israel" {just as}Literally "as that" the Levites went astray.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And it will be for them a special gift from the contribution of the land {as a most holy object}Literally "as a holiness of holinesses" next to the territory of the Levites.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And the Levites {alongside}Literally "to corresponding" the territory of the priests shall have twenty-five thousand cubitsThat is, 8.33 miles in length and in width ten thousand cubits,That is, 3.5 miles its {full length},Literally "all/every of its length ...." twenty-five thousand cubitsThat is, 8.33 miles and its full width, ten thousand cubits.That is, 3.5 miles


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And they shall not sell any part from it, and shall not exchange, and shall not transfer the best of the land, for it is holy to Yahweh. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And {the remaining part}Literally "the being a part left over" of five thousand cubitsThat is, 1.75 miles in the width {by}Literally "in front of" twenty-five thousand cubits,That is, 8.33 miles is unholy;Or "common" it is for the city as dwelling and as pastureland; and the city will be located {in the middle of it}.Literally "will be the city in its middle"


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And these shall be its measurements: on its side to the north, four thousand five hundred cubits;That is, 1.5 miles and on its side to the south, four thousand five hundred cubits;That is, 1.5 miles and on {the eastern side},Literally "from the side of the east" four thousand five hundred cubits;That is, 1.5 miles and on {the western side},Literally "and the side of the sea/west + directive" four thousand five hundred cubits.That is, 1.5 miles


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And a pastureland shall be for the city northwards, two hundred and fifty cubits,That is, 150 yards southwards two hundred and fifty cubits,That is, 150 yards and eastwards two hundred and fifty cubits,That is, 150 yards and westwards two hundred and fifty cubits.That is, 150 yards


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And the rest in its length {alongside}Literally "to corresponding" {the holy district},Literally "the contribution of the holiness" ten thousand cubitsThat is, 3.5 miles eastwards and ten thousandThat is, 3.5 miles westwards; and it shall be {alongside}Literally "to corresponding" {the holy district}Literally "the contribution of the holiness" and its yieldAccording to the reading tradition (Qere); cf. BHS shall be as food for the workers of the city.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 20
c3content:
All of the contribution, twenty-five thousand by twenty five thousand cubitsThat is, 8.33 square miles square, you shall set apart as {the holy district}Literally "the contribution of the holiness" along with the property of the city.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And the rest shall be toOr "for" the prince, {on both sides}Literally "from this and from this" {of the holy district}Literally "of the contribution of the holiness" and of the property of the city {extending from}Literally "to in front of" twenty-five thousand cubits of the contribution up to the boundary of the east, and westwards {extending}Literally "to in front of" twenty-five thousand cubitsThat is, 8.33 miles to the boundary of the sea {alongside}Literally "to corresponding" the tribal portions. They shall be for the prince, and it shall be {the holy district},Literally "the contribution of the holiness" and the sanctuary of the templeOr "house" will be in its middle.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And also the property of the Levites and the property of the city will be in the midst of the property which is for the prince; between the territory of Judah and between the territory of Benjamin the land will be for the prince. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And for the remainder of the tribes: From the side on the east up to the side on the west, Benjamin one portion;


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 24
c3content:
and next to the territory of Benjamin, from the side on the east up to the side of the sea, Simeon one portion;


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 25
c3content:
and next to the territory of Simeon, from the side of the east up to the side of the sea, Issachar one portion;


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 26
c3content:
and next to the territory of Issachar, from the side of the east up to the side of the sea, Zebulun one portion;


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 27
c3content:
and next to the territory of Zebulun, from the side of the east up to the side of the sea, Gad one portion;


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 28
c3content:
and next to the territory of Gad, to the side of the south, {southward};Literally "south" and the territory will be from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, toward the wadi,That is, the Wadi of Egypt on to the Great Sea.That is, the Mediterranean


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 29
c3content:
This is the land that you shall allot as an inheritance to the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions," {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh. 


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 30
c3content:
And these shall be the exits of the city: FromOr "on" or "along" {the north side},Literally "the side of the north" four thousand and five hundred cubits That is, 1.5 miles by measurement.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 31
c3content:
And the gates of the city shall be according to the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates to the north, the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 32
c3content:
And on the east side, four thousand five hundred cubits,That is, 1.5 miles and three gates, and so the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 33
c3content:
And on the south side, four thousand five hundred cubitsThat is, 1.5 miles by measurement, and so three gates, the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 34
c3content:
And on the westOr "sea" side, four thousand five hundred cubits,That is, 1.5 miles and their gates three, the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one.


c0book: Ezek
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 35
c3content:
All around the city is eighteen thousand cubits,That is, 6 miles and the name of the city from that day is "Yahweh Is There"! 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 1
c3content:
In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And the Lord gave Jehoiakim the king of Judah into his hand and {some of}Literally "from the end/extremity/limits" of the utensils of the temple of God,Hebrew "the God" and he brought them to the land of Shinar to the temple of his gods, and he brought the utensils to {the treasury}Literally "the house of the treasury" of his gods. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And the king {ordered}Literally "said to" Ashpenaz, the commander of his court officials, to bring {some of the Israelites}Literally "from the sons/children of Israel" from {the royal family}Literally "from the seed of the kingship" and from the lords,Or "nobles"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 4
c3content:
youths who {have no physical defect},Literally "there is not in them any physical defect" and who are {handsome},Literally "good/pleasing of appearance" and who are prudentOr "insightful" in all wisdom and {endowed with knowledge},Literally "who have knowledge of knowledge" and who understand insight, and who have the {ability}Literally "strength" in them to serve in the palace of the king. And the king ordered him to teach them the literature and the language of the Chaldeans.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And the king assigned to them {his daily portion}Literally "the portion of the day on its day" from the fine food of the king, and from {the wine that he drank},Literally "the wine of his drink" and instructed that {they were to be educated for three years}.Literally "and to be educated them years three" And at the end of their training, {they were to be stationed}Literally "they would stand" {before}Literally "to the face of" the king.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Now there was among them {from the Judeans},Literally "from the children of Judah" Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And the commander of the court officials gave them names, and he called Daniel, Belteshazzar; and Hananiah, Shadrach; and Mishael, Meshach; and Azariah, Abednego. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Now {Daniel resolved}Literally "Daniel placed upon his heart" that he would not defile himself with the fine food of the king, and with {the wine that he drank},Literally "the wine of his drink" and so he requested from the commander of the court officials permission so that he would not defile himself.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And GodHebrew "the God" gave Daniel favor and compassion {before}Literally "to the face of" the commander of the court officials,


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 10
c3content:
and the commander of the court officials said to Daniel, "I am afraid of my lord, the king, who has determined your food and your drink, for {why should}Literally "to what would" he see your face having a worse appearance than the young men who {are your age}?Literally "like your age"; "your" is plural Then you will endanger my head with the king."


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 11
c3content:
ThenHebrew "And" Daniel asked the guardOr "overseer" whom the commander of the court officials had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 12
c3content:
"Please test your servants for ten days, and let them give us {some of the vegetables},Literally "from the vegetables" and let us eat and let us drink water.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 13
c3content:
ThenHebrew "And" let our appearances and the appearance of the young men who are eating the fine food of the king be compared {before you},Literally "in your presence" and then deal with your servants {according to what you see}."Literally "and according to/that you see"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And at the end of ten days their appearances appeared better and they were healthier of body than all the young men who were eating the fine food of the king.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 16
c3content:
{So}Literally "And it happened" the guard {continued to withhold}Literally "he was ... withdrawing" their fine food and the wine of their drink, and he gave themHebrew "to them" vegetables. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 17
c3content:
{And as for these four young men},Literally "And these young men, four of them" GodHebrew "the God" gave to them knowledge and insight into all literature and wisdom, and Daniel had insight into all visionsHebrew "vision" and dreams.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And at the end of the time the king had set to bring them, the commander of the court officials brought them in {before}Literally "to the face of" Nebuchadnezzar.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And the king spoke with them, {and among all of them no one was found like}Literally "and he was not found from all of them like" Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah; then they stood {before}Literally "to the face of" the king.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And in every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king inquired from them, he found them ten times better than all of the magiciansOr "soothsayer-priests" and conjurersOr "enchanters" that {were in his entire kingdom}.Literally "in the whole of his kingdom"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 1
c3content:
NowHebrew "And" in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled and his sleep left him.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 2
c3content:
So the king said to call the magiciansOr "soothsayer-priests" and the conjurersOr "enchanters" and the sorcerers and the {astrologers}Literally "Chaldeans" to tell to the king his dreams. And they came in and they stood {before}Literally "to the face of" the king.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And the king said to them, "{I have had a dream}Literally "A dream I have dreamed" and my spirit is anxious to know the dream." 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And the {astrologers}Literally "Chaldeans" said to the king in Aramaic,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 "O king, live forever! Tell the dream to your servants and we will reveal the explanation."


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 5
c3content:
The king answered and said to the {astrologers},Literally "Chaldeans" "The command from me is firm: if you do not make known to me the dream and its explanation,Or "interpretation" then you will be broken into pieces and your houses will be laid in ruins.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 6
c3content:
But if you tell me the dream and its explanation, you will receive gifts and rewardsAramaic "reward" and great honor from me. Therefore, tell me the dream and its explanation."Or "interpretation"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 7
c3content:
They answered once more and said, "Let the king tell the dream to his servants and we will make the explanation known."


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 8
c3content:
The king answered and said, "{Certainly}Literally "From a certainty" I know that {you are trying to gain time}Literally "the time you are gaining" {because}Literally "all because of that" you have seen {that this matter is firmly decreed by me},Literally "that firm from me is the decree"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 9
c3content:
for if you do not make the dream known to me, {your verdict is fixed},Literally "one is your verdict" and you have conspired to say a lying and deceitful word to me until the {circumstances}Literally "time" will change. Therefore, tell me the dream, and I will know that you can tell me its explanation."


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 10
c3content:
The {astrologers}Literally "Chaldeans" answered the king and said, "There is not a man on earth that is able to reveal the word of the king; {in fact},Literally "all because that" no great and powerful king has ever asked a thing like this of any magicianOr "soothsayer-priest" or conjurerOr "enchanter" or {astrologer}.Literally "Chaldean"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And the thing that the king is asking is too difficult and {there is no one who}Literally "there is not another" can reveal it to the king except the gods {whose dwelling is not with mortals}."Literally "concerning their dwelling is not with flesh" 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Because of this the king became angry, and he became very much enraged, and he said that all the wise men of Babylon are to be destroyed.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And the decree was issued, and the wise men {were on the verge of being executed},Literally "were in the process of being killed" and they searched for Daniel and his companions to be executed.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 14
c3content:
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.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 15
c3content:
{He asked}Literally "he answered" and said to Arioch, the royal official of the king, "{Why}Literally "Over what" is the decree from the king so severe?" Then Arioch explained the matterOr "situation" to Daniel.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And Daniel went in and requested from the king that he would give him time, and {he would tell the king}Literally "to tell/reveal to the king" the explanation.Or "interpretation" 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Then Daniel went to his home, and he made the matter known to Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, his companions,


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 18
c3content:
and told them to seek mercy {from the God of heaven}Literally "from before the God of the heaven" concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his companions, along with the remainder of the wise men of Babylon, would not be killed. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Then in a vision of the night the mystery was revealed to Daniel; then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And he changes the times and the seasons, and he deposes kings and he sets up kings; he gives wisdomAramaic "the wisdom" to wise men and knowledge to men who know understanding.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 22
c3content:
He reveals the deep and the hidden things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 23
c3content:
To you, O God of my ancestors,Or "fathers" 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."


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 24
c3content:
{Therefore}Literally "Now because this" Daniel went to Arioch, whom the king had appointedAramaic "has appointed" 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 explanationOr "interpretation" to the king." 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Then Arioch {quickly}Literally "in haste" brought Daniel in before the king and thus he said to him: "I have found a man among {the exiles}Literally "the children of exiles" of JudahAramaic "Jehud" who {can relate}Literally "he will make known" the explanationOr "interpretation" to the king.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 26
c3content:
{The king then asked}Literally "The king answered" and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, "Are you able to make known to me the dream that I have seen and its explanation?"Or "interpretation"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Daniel answered the king and said, "The mystery that the king asks, no wise men, conjurers,Or "enchanters" magicians,Or "soothsayer-priests" or diviners are able to make known to the king.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 28
c3content:
But there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what it is that will be at the end of days. This is your dream and the visions of your head on your bed. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 29
c3content:
"As for you, king,Aramaic "the king" your thoughts on your bed {turned to}Literally "they went up" what it was that would be {in the future},Literally "after this" and the revealer of mysteries has made known to you what that would be.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 30
c3content:
And as for me, it is not because of wisdom that is in me more than {any other living person}Literally "all of living beings" that this mystery is revealed to me, but {in order that}Literally "concerning the matter of" the explanationOr "interpretation" may be made known to the king and you will {understand}Literally "know" the thoughts of your {mind}.Literally "heart" 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 31
c3content:
"You, O king, were looking and, look, there was one great statue. This statue was huge and its brilliance extraordinary, standing there before you, and its appearance was frightening.Or "dreadful"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 32
c3content:
The head of this statue was of fine gold, its chest and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze,


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 34
c3content:
You were looking on {until}Literally "until that" a stone was chiseled outOr "became loose"--that not by hands--and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and it broke them in pieces.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 35
c3content:
Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold {all at once}Literally "like one" broke into piecesOr "were crushed" 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. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 37
c3content:
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,


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 38
c3content:
and also {human beings wherever they dwell},Literally "and into all that dwell sons of humankind" the animals of the field and the birdsAramaic "bird" of heavenOr "the sky"--he has given into your hand and made you ruler over all of them--you are the head of gold.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 39
c3content:
And after you another kingdom inferior to yours will arise, and another third kingdom of bronze that will rule over the whole earth.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 40
c3content:
And a fourth kingdom will be strong as iron, and {just as}Literally "all of because" iron crushes and smashes {everything},Literally "the whole thing" and as iron shatters all of these other metals, so it will crush and it will shatter these nations.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 41
c3content:
{And just as}Literally "And that" you saw the feet and the toes, {partly potter's clay}Literally "from them clay of the potter" and {partly iron},Literally "from them iron" it will be a divided kingdom; and {some hardness}Literally "from the hardness" of the iron will be in it, {just as}Literally "all of because that" you have seen the iron mixed with the wet clay.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 42
c3content:
And as the toes of the feet were partly iron and partly clay, so part of the kingdom will be strong {and partly brittle}.Literally "and from it, it will be brittle"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 43
c3content:
And in that you saw the iron was mixed with wet clay, so {they will mix in marriage}Literally "mixing they will in the seed of man" and they will not cling {to one another},Literally "this one with that one" just as iron does not mix with clay.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 44
c3content:
And {in the day of those kings},Literally "in their days of those kings" the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will {never}Literally "to forever not" be destroyed, and the kingdom will not be left for another nation,Or "people" and it will bring an end to all these kingdoms, but it will stand {forever}.Literally "to eternity"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 45
c3content:
{Inasmuch as}Literally "All of because that" you saw that a stone from the mountain was chiseled outOr "became loose" but not by hands, and that it crushed the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold, thereby the great God made known to the king what will be {in the future},Literally "after this" and the dream is certain and its explanation trustworthy." 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 46
c3content:
Then the king, Nebuchadnezzar, fell on his face and he paid homage to Daniel; and he commanded them to offer a grain offering and incense offering to him.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 47
c3content:
The king answered Daniel and said, "{Truly}Literally "From truth that" your God is the God of gods and the Lord of kings, and he reveals mysteries, for you are able to reveal this mystery."


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 48
c3content:
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.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 49
c3content:
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 remained in the court of the king. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Nebuchadnezzar the king made a statue of gold. Its height was sixty cubits and its width was six cubits; he set it up in the valley of Dura in the province of Babylon.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent directions 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 had set up.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Then the satraps, the prefects, the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates, and all the officials of the province were assembled for the dedication of the statue that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up, and were standing {before}Literally "to the front" the statue that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Then the herald proclaimed {aloud},Literally "with power" "To you {it is commanded},Literally "they are saying" O peoples, {nations and people of all languages},Literally "the nations and the languages"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 5
c3content:
that at the time that you hear the sound of the horn, the flute, the lyre, the trigon, the harp, the drum and all kinds of music, you must fall down and you must worship the statue of goldAramaic "the gold" that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And {whoever}Literally "who that" does not fall down and worship will be thrown {immediately}Literally "the time" into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire."


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 7
c3content:
{Therefore},Literally "All of because this" {at that time},Literally "at the time" {as soon as}Literally "as that" all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, the flute, the lyre, the trigon, the harp and all kinds of music, all the peoples, {the nations and people of all languages}Literally "the nations and the languages" were falling down and were worshiping the statue of goldAramaic "the gold" that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 8
c3content:
{Therefore}Literally "All because of this" {at this time}Literally "at it the time" some {astrologers}Literally "Chaldean men" came forward and {they denounced the Jews}.Literally "they ate their pieces of the Jews"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 9
c3content:
{They responded and said}Literally "they answered and were saying" to Nebuchadnezzar the king, "O king, may you live {forever}!Literally "to eternity"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 10
c3content:
You, O king, have made a decree that {everyone}Literally "all of humanity" who hears the sound of the horn, the flute, the lyre, the trigon, the harp and the drum and all kinds of music, he shall fall down and shall worship the statue of gold.Aramaic "the gold"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 11
c3content:
{And whoever}Literally "And who that" {does not fall down}Literally "not he falls down" and worship shall be thrown into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 12
c3content:
However there are Judean men whom you have appointedAramaic "whom you have appointed them" over the affairs of the province of Babylon--Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego--these men, O king, {pay you no heed}Literally "not they pay heed to you" and were not serving your god, and the statue of goldAramaic "the gold" that you set up they are not worshiping." 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then Nebuchadnezzar said in rage and anger to bring in Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego; then they brought in these men before the king.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Nebuchadnezzar answered and said to them, "Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, that you are not serving my god, and you are not worshiping the statue of goldAramaic "the gold" that I have set up?


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Now if you are ready so that {when}Literally "at that time" you hear the sound of the horn, the flute, the lyre, the trigon, the harp and the drum and all kinds of music, you fall down and you worship the statue that I have made, that will be good. But if you do not worship it, {immediately}Literally "at that very time" you will be thrown into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire, and {who is the god}Literally "who he god" whoOr "that" will rescue you from my hands?" 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego answered and said to the king, Nebuchadnezzar, "We have no need on this matter {to present a defense to you}.Literally "to return to you"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 17
c3content:
{If it is so},Literally "If there is" 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.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And if not, let it be known to you, O king, that {we will not serve your gods},Literally "your gods not there is us serving" and the statue of goldAramaic "the gold" that you have set up we will not worship." 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with anger and the image of his face was changed {toward}Literally "against" Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, so he {ordered and said}Literally "answering and saying" to heat up the one furnace seven times what was usual to heat it up.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And he commanded {the strongest men of the guards}Literally "to the strong men, men of strength" who were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego and to throw them into the furnace of blazing fire.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Then these men were bound with their garments, their trousers and their turbans and their other clothing, and they were thrown into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 22
c3content:
{Therefore}Literally "because of this" {because}Literally "from that" 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.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 23
c3content:
But these men, the three of them, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, fell down into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire, and they were bound. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and he rose up in haste and he asked, saying to his advisers, "Did we not throw three men, bound, into the midst of the fire? They answered, saying to the king, "Certainly, O king!"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 25
c3content:
{He answered},Literally "was answering" saying, "Look, I see four men unbound walking in the midst of the fire and there is no damage to them, and theAramaic "its" appearance of the fourth man resembles the son of a god."


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Then Nebuchadnezzar approached the door of the furnace of blazing fire, and he called out, saying, "Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, {servants}Literally "his servant" of the Most High God, come outOr "Go out" and come here!"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And the satraps, the prefects, the governors and the advisors of the king were assembling, and they saw these men, that the fire had no power over their bodies, and the hair of their heads wasAramaic plural not singed, and their garments were not harmed, and the smell of fire did not come from them. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Nebuchadnezzar {responded},Literally "answering" saying, "Blessed be their God, the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who sent his angelOr "messenger" and rescued his servants who trusted in him, and the command of the king they disobeyed, and they gave their bodies so that they did not serve and did not worship any god except their God.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And from me {is set forth}Literally "setting out" a decree that any people, nation, or language that may utter criticism against their God--the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego--will be broken into pieces and theirAramaic "his" house will be made like ruins. {For}Literally "All of because" there is not another God who is able to rescue like this God."


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Daniel 4:1-4:37 in the English Bible is 3:31-4:34 in the Hebrew Bible Nebuchadnezzar the king to all of the nations, the peoples and languages that live in the whole earth: "May your prosperity increase!


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 3
c3content:
How great are his signs and wonders, how strong is his kingdom, {an everlasting kingdom};Literally "a kingdom of eternity" and his sovereignty is from generation to generation. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And I saw a dream and a revelation on my bed and it frightened me, and the visions of my head terrified me.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And a decree was {sent out},Literally "put/placed" ordering that all the wise men of Babylon were to be brought in before me so that they may make known to me the explanation of the dream.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Then the magicians,Or "soothsayer-priests" the conjurers,Or "enchanters" the {astrologers}Literally "Chaldeans" and the diviners came in and I told them the dream, but they could not make known to me its explanation.Or "interpretation"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Then {at last}Literally "until another" Daniel came before me {whose name was}Literally "who name his" Belteshazzar, {according to}Literally "like" the name of my god, and {in whom was the spirit of the holy gods},Literally "and who the spirit of gods holy in him" {and I related the dream to him}.Literally "and the dream before him I told" 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 9
c3content:
" 'O Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians,Or "soothsayer-priests" I myself know that the spiritOr "a spirit" of the holy gods is in you, and {no mystery is too difficult}Literally "every mystery is not difficult" for you. Now tell me the visions of my dream that I saw, and its explanation.Or "interpretation"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Now these were the visions of my head as I was lying on my bed: I was {gazing}Literally "seeing" and, look, a tree was in the midst of the earth, and its height was exalted. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 11
c3content:
The tree grew and it became strong, and its height reached to heaven,Or "the sky" and {it was visible to the end of the whole earth}.Literally "and its appearance was to the end of the whole earth"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Its foliage was beautiful, and its fruit abundant, and in it was provision for all. Under it the animalsAramaic "animal" of the field sought shade, and in its branches the birds of heavenOr "the sky" nested, and from it all the living beings were fed.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 13
c3content:
" 'I was looking in the vision of my head as I lay on my bed, and look, a watcher,Or "angelic being" and a holy one, came down from heaven. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 15
c3content:
But the stump of its roots leave in the earth, {along with}Literally "and with" a band of iron and bronze; leave it in the grass of the field. And inOr "with" the dew of heaven let itOr "him," that is, the king be watered, and with the animalsAramaic "animal" let his lot be in the grass of the earth.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Let his mind be changed from that of a human,Or "the human" and let the mind of an animal be given to him, and let seven times pass over him.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 17
c3content:
The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the decision by the command of the holy ones, {in order that}Literally "until matter that" the living will know that the Most High is sovereign over the kingdom of humankind, and {to whomever}Literally "to whom that" he wills he gives it, and he even sets the humblest of men over it."


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 18
c3content:
" 'This is the dream that I, Nebuchadnezzar the king, saw. NowOr "And" you, Belteshazzar, declare its explanation, {for}Literally "all of because that" all of the wise men of my kingdom were not able to make the explanation known to me, but you are able because the spirit of holy gods is in you.' 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 19
c3content:
"Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was distressed {for some time},Literally "for one hour" 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, may the dream and its explanation be for those who hate you and for your enemies.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 20
c3content:
The tree that you saw, which grew and became strong and its height reached to heavenOr "the sky" and {it was visible to the end of the whole earth},Literally "its appearance to the all the earth"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 21
c3content:
and its foliage was beautiful and its fruit abundant, and so there was provision for all in it, and the animalsAramaic "animal" of the field lived under it and in its branches nest the birds of heaven,Or "the sky"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 22
c3content:
--it is you, O king, who have grown great and you have grown strong, and so your greatness has increased and it has reached to heavenOr "the sky" and your sovereignty to the end of the earth.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And inasmuch that the king saw the watcher, a holy one coming down from heavenOr "the sky" 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 let his lot be with the animals of the field {until seven times have passed over him}."Literally "until that seven times they pass over him"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 24
c3content:
This is the explanation, O king, and it is a decree of the Most High that has come upon my lord the king:


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 25
c3content:
you will be driven away {from human society}Literally "from the humankind" and {you will dwell}Literally "your dwelling will be" with the animalsAramaic "animal" of the field, and you will be caused to graze grass like the oxen {yourself},Literally "with respect to you" and you will be watered with the dew of heaven, and seven periods of time will pass over you until that you have acknowledged that the Most High is sovereign over the kingdom of humankind, and {to whom he wills}Literally "that he wills" he gives it.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 26
c3content:
{And in that}Literally "And for" they said to leave alone the stump of the tree's root, so your kingdom will be restored for you {when}Literally "from that" you acknowledge that heaven is sovereign.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Therefore, O king, let my advice be acceptable to you and your sin removeOr "replace" with righteousness and your iniquity with having mercy on the oppressed, {in case there might be a prolongation of your prosperity}.'"Literally "if will be prolongation for your prosperity" 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 29
c3content:
At the end of twelve months he was walking on the roof of {the royal palace}Literally "the place of the kingdom" of Babylon.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 30
c3content:
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?"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 31
c3content:
While the words were still in the mouth of the king, a voice from heaven came, saying, 'To you, King Nebuchadnezzar, it is declared that the kingdom has departed from you,


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 32
c3content:
and you will be driven away from {human society}Literally "the humankind" and your dwelling will be with the animalsAramaic "animal" of the field and they will cause you to graze the grass like oxen, and seven times will pass over you, until you acknowledge that the Most High is sovereign over the kingdom of humankind and that he gives it to whom he wills.'


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 33
c3content:
{Immediately}Literally "In that hour" the word was fulfilled {concerning}Literally "over" Nebuchadnezzar, and he was expelled from {human society}Literally "the humankind" and he ate grass like oxen, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven until his hair was like the hair of an eagle and his nails grew like a bird's claws. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 34
c3content:
"But at the end of {that period},Literally "the day" I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and then my reason returned to me; and I blessed the Most High and {the one who lives forever}Literally "the one living forever" I praised and I honored. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 35
c3content:
And all the dwellers of the earth are regarded as nothing, and he does {according to}Literally "as" his desire in the host of heaven and among the dwellers of earth, and there is not one who can hold back his hand, or {ask him},Literally "or asks to him" 'What are you doing?'


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 36
c3content:
"{At that time}Literally "In it the time" my reason returned to me, and also the glory of my kingdom and my majesty and splendor returned to me, and my advisers and my lordsOr "nobles" searched me out, and I was established over my kingdom and abundant greatness was added to me.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 37
c3content:
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and honor the king of heaven, for all his works are truth,Or "true" and his ways are justice and that he is able to humble those who walk in pride." 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Belshazzar the king made a great festival for a thousand of his lords,Or "nobles" and {in the presence of}Literally "to over against" the thousand lords he was drinking wine.Or "the wine"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 2
c3content:
{When he tasted the wine},Literally "At the taste of the wine" Belshazzar commanded that they bring the vessels of gold and silver that Nebuchadnezzar his {predecessor}Literally "father" had taken from the temple that was in Jerusalem, so that the king and his lords,Or "nobles" his wives and his concubines may drink from them.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Then they brought in the vessels of gold that they took from the temple, the house of God that was in Jerusalem, and the king and his lords,Or "nobles" his wives and his concubines drank from them.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 4
c3content:
They drank the wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood and stone.All these metals have the definite article that does not have to be translated into English to retain the meaning 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 5
c3content:
{Immediately}Literally "In its the hour" {human fingers}Literally "fingers of the hand of a man" appeared and they wrote {opposite}Literally "to over against" the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the palace of the king, and the king was watchingOr "gazing at" the palm of the hand that was writing.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Then his face changed and his thoughts terrified him, and {his hip joints gave way}Literally "the limbs of his hip became loose" and {his knees knocked together}.Literally "his knees this to this they knocked together"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 7
c3content:
The king cried {aloud}Literally "with strength" to bring in the conjurers,Or "enchanters" the {astrologers}Literally "Chaldeans" and the diviners; the king {spoke}Literally "answered" and said to the wise men of Babylon, "Any man that can read this writing and can tell me its explanation will be clothed in purple and will have a necklace of gold hung around his neck and he will rule as third in authority in the kingdom."


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 8
c3content:
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.Aramaic "the explanation/ interpretation"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Then the king, Belshazzar, became greatly terrified, and {his facial features}Literally "shining of his face" changed upon him, and his lordsOr "nobles" were perplexed. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Because of the words of the king and his lords,Or "nobles" the queen came into {the banqueting hall}Literally "the house of the drinking" and the queen {spoke up}Literally "answered" and said, "O king, live {forever},Literally "to eternity" and let not your thoughts terrify you and do not let your facial expressions {grow pale}.Literally "change"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 11
c3content:
There is a man in your kingdom {who has the spirit of the holy gods in him}.Literally "who the spirit of holy gods is in him" And in the days of your {predecessor},Literally "father" enlightenment and insight and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods was found in him; and, O king, Nebuchadnezzar your {predecessor}Literally "father" appointed him as chief of the magicians,Or "soothsayer-priests" the conjurers,Or "enchanters" the {astrologers},Literally "Chaldeans" and the diviners. Your {predecessor}Literally "father" the king did this


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 12
c3content:
{because}Literally "all of because that" there was found in him an excellent spirit and understanding and insight for interpreting dreams and explaining riddles and solving riddles; that is, in Daniel {whom the king named}Literally "whom the king gave his name" Belteshazzar. Now, let Daniel be called and he will tell the explanation."Or "interpretation" 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then Daniel was brought in before the king, and the king {spoke}Literally "answered" and said to Daniel, "You are Daniel {who are one of the exiles}Literally "who from sons of the exile" of JudahAramaic "Jehud" whom my {predecessor},Literally "father" the king, brought from Judah.Aramaic "Jehud"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And I have heard that a spirit of the gods is in you and enlightenment and insight and excellent wisdom was found in you.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And now the wise men and the conjurersOr "enchanters" were brought in before me so that they could read this writing in order to make its explanationOr "interpretation" known to me, but they were not able to disclose the explanationOr "interpretation" of the matter.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 16
c3content:
But I have heard concerning you that you are able {to produce interpretations}Literally "to interpret interpretations" and to solve riddles; now if you are able to read the writing and to make known its explanationOr "interpretation" to me, you will be clothed in purple and a necklace of gold will be placed around your neck and you will rule as third in command in the kingdom." 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 17
c3content:
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.Or "interpretation"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 18
c3content:
{O king},Literally "You, O king" the Most High God gave the kingdom and the greatness and the glory and the majesty to Nebuchadnezzar your {predecessor}.Literally "father"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 19
c3content:
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.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 20
c3content:
But {when}Literally "as that" his heart became arrogant and his spirit became hard so as to act proudly, he was deposed from the throne of his kingdom and theOr "his" glory {was taken away from him}.Literally "they took away"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And he was driven away {from human society}Literally "from the sons of the humankind" and his mind was made like the animalsAramaic "with the animals" and his dwelling was with the wild asses; and {he was given}Literally "they gave him" grass like oxen to eat, and withAramaic "from" the dew of heaven his body was bathed, until he acknowledged that the Most High God is sovereign over the kingdom of humankind, and {whoever}Literally "to from that" he wants he sets over it. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 22
c3content:
"But you his {successor},Literally "son" Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart {even though}Literally "all of because that" you knew all this.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And now 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,Or "nobles" your wives and your concubines, have been drinking wine fromAramaic "with" them, and you have praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stoneAll the materials in this list have the definite article that does not have to be translated into English that do not see and do not hear and do not know, but the God {who holds your life in his hand}Literally "who your breath is in his hand" and all of your ways {come from him},Literally "belong to him" you have not honored.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 26
c3content:
"This is the explanation of the matter:Or "word, message" 'Mene'--God has numbered your kingdom and brought an end to it. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 29
c3content:
Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with purple and placed a necklace of gold around his neck, and they made a proclamation concerning him that he would be the third ruler in authority in the kingdom.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Daniel 5:31-6:28 in the English Bible is 6:1-29 in the Hebrew Bible And Darius the Mede received the kingdom {when he was about sixty-two years old}.Literally "when a son of sixty and two years" 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 1
c3content:
{It pleased Darius},Literally "It was pleasant before Darius" and he set up one hundred and twenty satraps over the kingdom, that they were {throughout the whole kingdom},Literally "in all the kingdom"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 2
c3content:
and over them were three administrators, of whom Daniel was one, so that these satraps were giving account to them, and the king would not be suffering loss.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Then Daniel {began distinguishing himself}Literally "was distinguishing himself" above the administrators and the satraps {because}Literally "all of because that" an exceptional spirit was in him, and so the king planned to appoint him over the whole kingdom.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Then the other administrators and satraps {began to seek}Literally "were seeking" to find a pretext against Daniel {in connection with the kingdom},Literally "from the side of the kingdom" but they were not able to find any pretext and {corruption}Literally "being corrupt" {because}Literally "all because that" he was trustworthy, and noAramaic "any" negligence or {corruption}Literally "being corrupt" {could be found in him}.Literally "not could be found"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then these men {said},Literally "were saying" "We will not find any pretextOr "basis for accusation" against this Daniel unless we find it in connection with the law of his God." 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 6
c3content:
So the administrators and the satraps conspired {with respect to}Literally "on/upon" the king and so they said to him, "Darius, O king, live {forever}!Literally "to eternity"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 7
c3content:
All of the administrators of the kingdom, and the prefects, the satraps, the counselors and the governors took counsel and have agreed to establish an edict of the king and to enforce a decree that {whoever}Literally "all that" will seek a prayer from any god or human except from you for up to thirty days will be thrown into {the lion pit}.Literally "pit of lions"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Now, O king, establish the edict and you must sign the document so that it cannot be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians which cannot be revoked." 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 9
c3content:
{So}Literally "Like to before this" the king, Darius, signed the writing and the interdict.Or "the writing that is the interdict"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Now {when}Literally "as that" Daniel realized that the document was signed, he went to his house ({now he had windows in his upper room that were open}Literally "and windows were open to him in his upper room" toward Jerusalem), and three times {daily}Literally "in the day" he knelt on his knees and prayed and gave praise before his God, {just as}Literally "all because that" he had been doing {previously}.Literally "from before this"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Then they approached {and spoke with the king}Literally "and saying before the king" concerning the edict of the king, "{Did you not sign an edict}Literally "Not an edict you signed?" that any person who would seek anything from any God or human within thirty days except from you, O king, would be thrown into {the lion pit}?"Literally "pit of lions" The king answered and said, "The matter as you have just stated is certain according to the law of the Medes and Persians which cannot be revoked." 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then {they responded}Literally "they answered" and said before the king, "Daniel, who is from {the exiles}Literally "the sons of the exile" of Judah,Aramaic "Jehud" {is not paying any attention}Literally "not he sets his mind" to you, O king, or to the decree that you have signed, {and three times daily}Literally "and three times on the day" he says his prayer."


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Then the king, whenAramaic "as " he heard that {report},Literally "word" he was extremely distressed over it; and {concerning Daniel}Literally "upon Daniel" {he was determined}Literally "he set his heart" to rescue him. And until the setting of the sun he was making every effort to deliver him.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Then these men came as a group to the king and {said},Literally "saying" "Recall, O king, that with respect to the law ofAramaic "to" the Medes and Persians that {any}Literally "all/every" decree or edict that the king establishes cannot be changed." 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Then the king gave the command, and Daniel was brought in and they threw him into {the lion pit}.Literally "pit of lions" {The king said}Literally "The king answered and saying" to Daniel, "Your God, whom you serve {faithfully},Literally "in the loyalty" may he rescue you!"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And aAramaic "one" stone was brought and it was put on the entrance of the pit, and the king sealed it with his signet ring and with the signet rings of his lords,Or "nobles" so that nothing would be changed concerning Daniel.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 18
c3content:
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. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Then the king got up at daybreak, at first light, and he went {in haste}Literally "to hasten" to {the lion pit}.Literally "pit of lions"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And {when he came near}Literally "as coming near him" to the pit, he cried out to Daniel with a distressed voice, and the king {spoke}Literally "answered" 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?"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 22
c3content:
My God sent his angel and he shut the mouth of the lions and they did notAramaic "would not" hurt me, {because}Literally "all of because that" before him {I was found}Literally "it was found for me" blameless, and also before you, O king, I have not done any wrong." 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Then the king was exceedingly glad over itThat is, the situation and commanded that Daniel be lifted up from the pit; and there was not any wound found on him, because he had trusted in his God.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 24
c3content:
The king then commanded, and these men were brought {who had accused Daniel},Literally "they ate his pieces of Daniel" and they threw them and their children and their wives into {the lion pit},Literally "pit of lions" and they had not reached the floor of the pit {before}Literally "until that" the lions had overpowered them and they had crushed all of their bones. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Then Darius the king wrote to all the people, the nations, and the languages living in the whole earth, "May your prosperity become great!


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 26
c3content:
{I make a decree}Literally "From before me is put forth a decree" that in all the dominion of my kingdom people will be trembling and fearing before the God of Daniel, for he is the living God and endures {forever}Literally "to eternity/endless ages" and hisLiterally "and whose" kingdom is one that will not be destroyed and his {dominion has no end}.Literally "dominion his to the end"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 27
c3content:
He is rescuing, delivering, and working signs and wonders in the heavens and on earth, for he has rescued Daniel from the {power}Literally "hand" of the lions."


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 1
c3content:
In the first year of Belshazzar the king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visionsOr "the visions" of his head as he lay on his bed; then he wrote down the dream and the {summary}Literally "head" of the words {as follows}:Literally "saying"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Daniel {explained}Literally "answered" and said, "I was looking in my vision in the night, and look, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And four great beasts were coming up from the sea, differing {from one another}.Literally "this from this"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 4
c3content:
The first was like a lion and {had}Literally "for him/it" the 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 its feet like a human, and a human heart was given to it.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And look, another beast, a second one, looking like a bear. And it was raised up on one side and three tusksOr "ribs" were in its mouth between its teeth, and so {it was told},Literally "they were saying" "Arise, eat much flesh!"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 6
c3content:
After this I was watching and look, another beast like a leopard; {it had four wings}Literally "and there were to it four wings" of a bird on its back, and {the beast had}Literally "to the beast" four heads, and dominion was given to it.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 7
c3content:
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}Literally "were to it" {great iron teeth},Literally "teeth of iron for it great" and it was devouring and crushing, and it stamped the remainderOr "residue" with its feet; and it was different from all the other beasts {that preceded it}Literally "that preceding her/it" {and it had ten horns}.Literally "and ten horns for her/it"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 8
c3content:
I was considering the horns, and look, another little horn came up {among}Literally "between" them, and three of the earlier horns {were rooted out}Literally "dehorned" from before it, and there were eyes like the eyes of a humanOr "humankind" in this horn and also a mouth that was speaking boastfully. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 9
c3content:
"{I continued watching}Literally "I was watching" until thrones were placed and an Ancient of Days sat; his clothing was like white snow and the hair of his head was like pure wool and his throne was a flameOr "ablaze with" of fire and its wheelsAramaic "wheel" were burning fire.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 10
c3content:
A stream of fire issued forth and flowed {from his presence};Literally "from before him" thousands upon thousands served him and ten thousand upon ten thousand stood before him. The judge sat, and the books were opened. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 11
c3content:
"{I continued watching}Literally "I was watching" thenAramaic "in then" because of the noise of the boastful words of the horn who was speaking; {I continued watching}Literally "I was watching" until the beast was slain and its body was destroyed, and it was given over to burning with fire.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And as for the remainder of the beasts, {their dominion was taken away},Literally "they took away their dominion" but a prolongation {of their life}Literally "in life" was given to them for a season and a time. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 13
c3content:
"{I continued watching}Literally "I was watching" in the visions of the night, and look, with the clouds of heaven one like a son of manOr "mortal," or "son of humankind" was coming, and he came to the Ancient of Days, and {was presented}Literally "they presented him" before him.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And to him was given dominion and glory and kingship thatAramaic "and" all the peoples, the nations, and languages would serve him; his dominion is a dominion {without end}Literally "of eternity" that will not cease, and his kingdom is one that will not be destroyed. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 15
c3content:
"{As for me, Daniel},Literally "I Daniel" my spirit was troubled {within me},Literally "in the midst of sheath" and the visions of my head terrified me.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 16
c3content:
So I approached one of the attendants and I asked himAramaic "from him" about the truth concerning all this; and he told meAramaic "to me" that he would make known to me the explanation of the matter.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 18
c3content:
But the holy onesOr "saints" of the Most High will receive the kingdom, and they will take possession of the kingdom forever, {forever and ever}.'Literally "forever and to forever" 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 19
c3content:
"Then I desired to make certain concerning the fourth beast that was different from {all the others}Literally "all of them"--exceedingly terrifying, with its iron teeth and its claws of bronze; it devoured and crushed and stamped the remainder with its feet--


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 20
c3content:
and concerning the horns that were on its head, and concerning the other horn that came up and {before which three horns fell},Literally "and fell from before it three" and this horn {had eyes}Literally "and eyes to it" and a mouth speaking {boastfully},Literally "abundantly" and its appearance was larger than its companions.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 21
c3content:
{I continued watching},Literally "I was watching" and this horn made war with the holy onesOr "saints" and it prevailed over them,


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 22
c3content:
until the Ancient of Days came and gave judgment to the holy onesOr "saints" of the Most High; and the time arrived and the holy onesOr "saints" took possession of the kingdom. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 23
c3content:
"And he said, 'The fourth beast is the fourth kingdom that will be on the earth that will be different from all the other kingdoms, and it will devour the whole earth and it will trample it and it will crush it.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And as for the ten horns coming from it, from this kingdomOr "the kingdom" ten kings will arise, and another will arise after them. And he will be different from the earlier ones, and he will subdue three kings.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And he will speak words against the Most High, and he will wear out the holy onesOr "saints" 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.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Then the court will sit, and his dominion will be removed,Or "taken away" to be eradicated and to be destroyed {totally}.Literally "until the end"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And the kingdom and the dominion and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be given to the nation of the holy onesOr "saints" of the Most High; his kingdom {is an everlasting kingdom},Literally "is a kingdom of eternity" and all the dominions will serve and obey him.' 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 28
c3content:
{This is the end of the account}.Literally "Up to here is the end of the account" {As for me, Daniel}Literally "I Daniel"--my thoughts terrified me greatly and my face changed over me, but I kept the matter in my heart."Or "to myself" 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 1
c3content:
In the third year of the kingdom of Belshazzar the king, a vision appeared {to me, Daniel},Literally "I Daniel" after the one that appeared to me {previously}.Literally "in the beginning"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And I saw in the vision, {and when I saw},Literally "and it was at my seeing" I was in Susa, the citadel that was in the province of Elam. And I saw in the vision, and {I myself}Literally "I, I was" was at the stream of Ulai.Or "Ulai Canal" (NASB); "stream of the Ulai" (NEB)


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And I lifted up my eyes and I saw, and look! A ramHebrew "One ram" standing {before}Literally "to the face of" the stream, and {it had}Literally "for it" two horns, and the horns were long, but the one was longer than the second, and the longer one came up {after the other one}.Literally "in the behind of the other"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 4
c3content:
I saw the ram charging westward and northward and southward, and {none of the beasts stood before it},Literally "all the beasts not they withstood to the face of him" and there was no rescuing from {its power},Literally "its hand" and it did {what it wanted}Literally "according to its will" and it became strong.Or "it/he magnified itself/himself" 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And I was considering this, and look, a he-goat coming from the west across the face of the whole earth, and it was not touching the ground;Or "earth," or "land" and the he-goat had {a conspicuous horn}Literally "a horn of vision" between its eyes.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Then it came toward the ram {that had the two horns}Literally "the owner of the two horns" that I saw standing {before}Literally "to the face of" the stream, and it ran at it withOr "in" the rage of its power.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 7
c3content:
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},Literally "and not was strength in the ram to withstand to the face of him" and he threw it down to the ground and trampled it, {and there was no one who could rescue the ram}Literally "and not he/it was one rescuing" from its power.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And the he-goat grew {exceedingly great},Literally "until much" and {at the height of its power}Literally "and at his being powerful" the great horn was broken, and four conspicuous hornsLXX reads "others" here for "conspicuous." The words in Hebrew can be confused for each other came up in place of it toward the four winds of heaven. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 9
c3content:
{And from one of them}Literally "And from the one from them" came forth a horn, {a little one},Literally "one from little" and it grew exceedinglyOr "pre-eminently" toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the beautiful land.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 10
c3content:
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.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 11
c3content:
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.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And on account of transgression, the host was given over to the horn in addition to the regular burnt offering. And it cast down truth to the ground, and it {acted},Literally "did" and it had success. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And I heard a certain holy one speaking, and a certain other holy one said to the specific one {who was speaking},Literally "the one speaking" "{For how long}Literally "Until when" is the vision concerning the regular burnt offering, and the transgression that makes desolate, and the giving over of the sanctuary and the host to trampling?"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And he said to me, "For two thousand three hundred evenings and mornings, then the sanctuary will be restored." 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 15
c3content:
{And then}Literally "And it happened" when I, Daniel, saw the vision, and I was seeking understanding, there was one standing before me with the appearance of a man.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And I heard the voice of a human at the Ulai, and he called and said, "Gabriel, make this man understand the vision."


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And he came beside {where I was standing},Literally "my standing" and {when he came}Literally "at his coming" I became terrified and I fell prostrate on my face. And he said to me, "Understand, son of man,Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" that the vision is for the time of the end." 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And {when he spoke}Literally "at his speaking" with me I fell into a trance with my face to the ground, and he touched me and made me stand on by feet.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And he said, "Look, I am making known to you what will happen in the period of wrath,Or "the wrath" for it refers to the appointed time of the end. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 20
c3content:
"The ram that you saw {who had two horns}Literally "the owner of the two horns" represents the kings of Media and Persia. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 21
c3content:
"And the hairy he-goat is the {kingdom}Literally "king" of Greece, and the great horn that is between his eyes--he is the first king.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And the horn that was broken, and then there arose four horns in place of it--these are four kingdoms that will arise from his nation, but not with his power.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And at the end of their kingdom, when the transgressions are completed, a king will arise, fierce in countenance and skilled in riddles.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And his power will grow, but not by his own power, and he will cause fearful destruction, and he will succeed and {he will act},Literally "he will do" and he will destroy the mighty and the people of the holy ones.Or "saints"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And by his planningOr "cunning" he will make a success of deceit byHebrew "in" his hand, and in his {mind}Literally "heart" he will {boast},Literally "magnify himself" and in their ease he will destroy many, and even against the prince of princes he will rise up, and he will be broken, but not by human hands.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And the vision of the evening and the morning that has been {described},Literally "told" it is true; and you, seal up the vision, for {it refers to many days to come}."Literally "for to days many" 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And I, Daniel, was overcome, and I became ill for some days, and I {performed}Literally "did" the business of the king, and I was dismayed over the vision and {I did not understand it}.Literally "there was not understanding" 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 1
c3content:
In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus,That is, Xerxes from the offspring of the Medes, who became king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans--


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 2
c3content:
in the first year of his kingship I, Daniel, observed in the scrolls the number of the years that it was that were to be fulfilled according to the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah the prophet for the devastation of Jerusalem--seventy years. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Then I turned my face to the Lord God to seek him by prayer and pleas for mercy,Or "supplications" in fasting and in sackcloth and ashes.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 4
c3content:
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 those who love him and with those who keep his commandments,


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 5
c3content:
we have sinned and we have done wrong and we acted wickedly and we rebelled and have been turning aside from your commandments and from your ordinances.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 6
c3content:
We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes and our ancestorsOr "fathers" and to all the people of the land. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 7
c3content:
"{Righteousness belongs to you, O Lord},Literally "for you Lord the righteousness" and on us is open shame, just as it is 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}Literally "those near and those far" in all the lands to which you have driven them,Hebrew "to which you have driven them there" because of their infidelity which they displayed against you.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Yahweh, on us is open shame, on our kings, on our princes, and on our ancestors,Or "fathers" because we have sinned against you.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 9
c3content:
{Compassion and forgiveness belong to the Lord, our God},Literally "to the Lord our God the compassion and the forgiveness" for we have rebelled against him,


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 10
c3content:
and we have not listened to the voice of Yahweh our God, by following his law {which he placed before us}Literally "which he gave to the face of us" by the hand of his servants the prophets. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 11
c3content:
"And all Israel transgressed your law and turned aside so as not to listen to your voice, and so the curse and the oath which was written in the law of Moses, the servant of God, has been poured out upon us, because we have sinned against him.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And so he has carried out his words which he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us, to bring upon us a great calamity which was not done under all of heaven as it was done in Jerusalem.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Just as it is written in the law of Moses, all of this calamity has come upon us, and {we have not implored}Literally "we not implored" the face of Yahweh our God so as to turn from our iniquities and to attend closely to your faithfulness.Or "truth"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 14
c3content:
So Yahweh has kept watch over theOr "his" calamity, and now he has brought it upon us. Indeed, Yahweh our God is righteous concerning all his worksOr "acts" that he has done, but we have not listened to his voice. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 15
c3content:
"And now, Lord our God, who have brought your people out from the land of Egypt with a strong hand, and you have made for yourself a name until this day--we have sinned, we have acted wickedly.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Lord, according to all your righteousness, please let your anger and your rage turn away from your city Jerusalem, {your holy mountain},Literally "the mountain of your holiness" because through our sins and through the iniquities of our ancestorsOr "fathers" Jerusalem and your people have become an object of mockery among all of our neighbors. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 17
c3content:
"And now, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his pleas for mercy. ShineOr "let shine" or "cause to shine" your face upon your desolate sanctuary {for your sake, O Lord}.Literally "for the sake of the Lord"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Incline your ear, my God, and listen; open your eyes and look at our desolation and the city that is called by your name, for we are not presenting our pleas for mercy {before you}Literally "to the face of you" because of our righteousness, but rather because of your great compassion.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Lord, listen! Lord, forgive! Lord, pay heed and act! You must not delay {for your sake},Literally "for the sake of you" my God; because {your city and your people are called by your name}."Literally "your name is called over your city and over your people" 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Now I was still speaking and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my plea {before}Literally "to the face of" Yahweh my God, on behalf {of the holy mountain of my God}.Literally "the mountain of the holiness of my God"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And I was still speaking in prayer, and the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision {previously},Literally "in the beginning" {in my weariness touched me}Literally "my being wearied, touching me" at the time of the evening offering.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And he instructed me and he spoke with me and he said, "Daniel I have now come outOr "forth" to teach you understanding.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 23
c3content:
At the beginning of your pleas for mercy, a word went out, and now I have come to declareOr "deliver" it, for you are highly esteemed, and so consider the word and understand the vision. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 24
c3content:
"Seventy weeks is decreed for your people and {for your holy city},Literally "for the city of your holiness" to put an end to the transgression and to seal up sinOr "to make an end to sin" and to make atonement for guilt and to bring in everlasting righteousness and to seal vision and prophet and to anoint {the most holy place}.Literally "the holy place of holy places"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And you must know and you must understandOr "so you are to know and discern" (NASB), or "know then and understand" (e.g. NEB) that from the time of the going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem until an anointedOr "messiah" one--a leader--will be {seven weeks and sixty-two weeks};Literally "weeks seven and weeks sixty and two" it will be restored and will be built with streets and a moat, but {in a time of oppression}.Literally "in distress/oppression of the times/time" 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 26
c3content:
"And after the sixty and two weeks an anointed oneOr "messiah" shall be cut off, and {he shall have nothing},Literally "there is not for him" and the people of the coming leader will destroy the city and the sanctuary,Or "holy place" and its end will be with the flood and on to the end there shall be war; these desolations are determined.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And he will make a strong covenant with the many for one week, but in half of the week he will let cease sacrifice and offering {and in its place}Literally "and on a wing of" a desolating abomination comes even until {the determined complete destruction}Literally "a complete destruction and being determined" is poured out on the desolator." 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 1
c3content:
In the third year of Cyrus the king of the Persians, a wordOr "matter," or "message" was revealed to Daniel, who was called by his name Belteshazzar, and the wordOr "matter," or "message" was reliable and it concerned a great tribulation,Or "conflict" and he understood the wordOr "matter," or "message" and {he received understanding}.Literally "and understanding to him" 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 2
c3content:
In those days, I, Daniel, I myselfThis is an emphatic use of the first person personal pronoun was in mourning {for three whole weeks}.Literally "three weeks of days"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 3
c3content:
I had not eaten any choice food, and meat and wine did not enter my mouth, and {I did not use any ointment}Literally "I have not anointed at all" {until the end of three whole weeks}.Literally "until being full/complete three weeks of days"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And then on the twenty-fourth day of the first month, I myselfThis is an emphatic use of the first person personal pronoun was on the bank of the great river; that is, the Tigris.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And I lifted up my eyes and I saw,Or "looked" and there was a man, and he was dressed in linen, and his waist was girded with the gold of Uphaz.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Now his body was like turquoise,Or "yellow jasper" or other gold-colored stones; the exact identity of ancient precious stones is difficult and his face was like the appearance of lightning, and his eyes were like torches of fire, and his arms and his legs were like the gleam of polished bronze, and the sound of his words was like the sound of a multitude.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And I saw, I, Daniel {alone},Literally "to alone me" the vision; and the people who were with me {did not see}Literally "not they saw" the vision; nevertheless, a great trembling fell upon them and they fled in order to hide themselves.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And I myself, Daniel, alone saw this great vision, and as a result {no strength was left in me}Literally "not was left in me strength" and {my complexion grew deathly pale},Literally "and complexion my changed over me to destruction" and I did not retain any strength.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And I heard the sound of his words, and {when I heard}Literally "at my hearing" the sound of his words I myself began falling into a trance on my face, {with my face to the ground}.Literally "and my face toward the ground" 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And look, a hand touched me and it roused me to my kneesHebrew "on my knees" and the palmsHebrew "palm" of my hands.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And he said to me, "Daniel, a man beloved, pay attention to the words that I am speaking to you and {stand upright where you are},Literally "stand on your position" for I have now been sent to you." And {while he was speaking}Literally "at his speaking" with me this word,Or "matter," or "message" I stood up trembling.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 12
c3content:
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}Literally "to the face of" your God, your words were heard, and I myselfThis is an emphatic use of the first person personal pronoun have come because of your words.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 13
c3content:
But the prince of the kingdom of Persia stood {before me}Literally "to front of me" for twenty-one days. And look,Or "finally" Michael, one of the chief princes, came to assist me, and I left him there beside the king of the Persians.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And I have comeHebrew "I came" to instruct you about whatHebrew "that" will happen to your people {in the future},Literally "at the end of the days" for there is a further vision here {for the future}.Literally "for the days" 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And while he was speaking with me according to these words, I turned my face toward the ground and I was speechless.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Then look, there was {one in the form of a human};Literally "as the likeness of a son of man" he touched my lips and I opened my mouth and I spoke and I said to the one standing {before me},Literally "to opposite me" "My lord, because of the vision my anxieties fell upon me and I have not retained my strength.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 17
c3content:
So {how am I, a servant of my lord}Literally "how is he able a servant of my lord this" to speak with {you, my lord},Literally "with my lord this" and I {just now}Literally "from now" {have no strength in me}?"Literally "not it remains in me strength" 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And {he again touched}Literally "he added to and touched" me, {the one in the form of a human},Literally "like vision of a man" and he strengthened me.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And he said, "You must not fear, O beloved man. {Peace be to you};Literally "Peace to/for you" be strong and be courageous!" And {when he spoke}Literally "at his speaking" with me, I was strengthened and I said, "Let my lord speak, for you have strengthened me."


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 20
c3content:
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 myselfThis is an emphatic use of the first person personal pronoun am going, and look,Or "listen" the prince of JavanThat is, Greece will come.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 21
c3content:
However, I will tell you {what is inscribed}Literally "the being inscribed" in the book of truth, and there is not one who contends with me against these beings {except}Literally "but if" Michael, your prince." 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"And I, in the first year of Darius the Mede, {I stood}Literally "my standing" as a support and as a protection for him. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And now I will reveal the truth to you. Look! Still three kings will arise in Persia, and the fourth will get abundance and great wealth, even more than all of them, and {when he becomes strong}Literally "at his strength" through his wealth, then he will stir up {everyone}Literally "the all" against the kingdom of Javan.That is, Greece


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And a mighty king will arise, and he will rule with great dominion, and he will do {as he pleases}.Literally "as his pleasure"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 4
c3content:
But {as he rises in power},Literally "as his rising/to rise" his kingdom will be divided toward the four winds of heaven, but not to his posterity, and not according to his dominion by which he ruled, for his kingdom will be uprooted and be given {to others besides them}.Literally "to others from to alone these" 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 5
c3content:
"Then the king of the south will grow strong and also {one of his officials},Literally "from among his officials" and he will grow stronger {than him}Literally "over him" and he will rule {a dominion greater than his dominion}.Literally "a dominion great dominion his"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And at the end of some 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},Literally "she will not retain the power of her arm" and his offspringOr "power" will not endure, and she will be given up, she and her attendants and her child supporting her, in those times.Hebrew "in the times"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And a branch from her rootsThat is, a member of her family will rise up in 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.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And also their gods with their idols and with the {precious vessels},Literally "vessels of their desire" silver and gold he will take to Egypt into captivity, and for years {he will leave the king of the north alone}.Literally "he will stand back from the king of the north"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And then heThat is, the king of the north will come into the kingdom of the king of the south, but he will return to his land. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 10
c3content:
"But his sons will wage war and they will gather a multitude of great forces and {he will advance with great force},Literally "he will come, to come" and he will overflow like a flood and he will pass through and he will return, and they will wage war up to his fortress.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 11
c3content:
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.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 12
c3content:
When the multitude is carried off, his heart will be exalted and he will overthrow {tens of thousands},Literally "myriads" but he will not prevail.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And the king of the north will again raise a multitude, greater than the former, and {at the end of some years}Literally "to the end of the times years" he will surely come with a great army and with great supplies.Or "resources" 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 14
c3content:
"And in these times many will rise up against the king of the south, and {the violent ones of your people}Literally "the sons of the lawless ones of your people" will lift themselves {to fulfill}Literally "to cause to stand" the vision, but they will fall.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And the king of the north will come, and he will throw up siege rampsHebrew "ramp" and capture a city of fortifications and the military forces of the south and {his choice troops}Literally "the army of his chosen troops" will not stand, forHebrew "and" there is no strength left to resist.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And the one coming to him will act {according to}Literally "as" his pleasure, and there is no one who {will stand}Literally "standing" {before him},Literally "to the face of him" and he will stand in {the beautiful land}Literally "in the land of the beauty" and complete destruction will be in his power.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And he will set his face to come with the authority of his whole kingdom and will form an agreement;Or "treaty," or "peace proposal"; the Hebrew is difficult and he will {act},Literally "do, perform" and the daughter of women he will give to him to destroy it,Or "her" but the ploy will not succeed {and she will not support him}.Literally "and not for him will she be"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And he will turn his face to the coastlands, and he will capture many, butHebrew "and" a commander will end his insults to him {so that instead his insults will turn back upon him}.Literally "so that not his insults he will return against him"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And he will turn back his face towardHebrew "to" the strongholds of his land, but he will stumble and he will fall and will not be found. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 20
c3content:
"Then in his place will arise one sending an official throughout the gloryOr "splendor" of his kingdom, and {in a few days}Literally "in some days" he will be broken, but not in anger and not in battle.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And in his place a despicable person will arise on whomHebrew "him" they have not conferred the majesty of the kingdom, and he will come in {without warning}Literally "in ease" and he will seize the kingdom by deceit.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And {before him}Literally "to the face of him" {mighty military forces}Literally "military forces of the flood" will be utterly swept away, and they will be broken, and also the leader of the covenant.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And after an alliance is made with him, he will act deceitfully, and he will rise and he will become powerful with few people backing him.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 24
c3content:
In a time of ease and in the rich parts of the province, he will come and he will do what {his predecessors}Literally "his fathers and the father of his fathers" did not do; he will distribute plunder and spoil and possessions to them, and he will devise his plans against fortifications, but only {for a time}.Literally "until time"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And he will stir up his power and his heart against the king of the south and {with a much greater and stronger army};Literally "with an army great and numerous exceedingly" but he will not succeed, for they will devise plans against him.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And those who eat of his royal rations will break him and his army will be overwhelmed, and many will fall, slain.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 27
c3content:
{And two of the kings}Literally "And two of them, the kings" {will bend their hearts}Literally "their heart" to evil. And at the {same table}Literally "one table" they will speak lies, but what is discussed will not succeed, for still an end is coming at the appointed time.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Then he will return to his land with many possessions, but his heart will be set against {the holy covenant},Literally "covenant of holiness" and he will take action and he will return to his land. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 29
c3content:
"At the appointed time he will return and he will come into the south, but it will not be {as it was before}.Literally "as the former and as the last"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 30
c3content:
And the 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},Literally "against the covenant of holiness" and he will take action, and he will turn back, and he will pay attention to those who forsake {the holy covenant}.Literally "the covenant of holiness"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 31
c3content:
And military forces from him {will occupy}Literally "will stand forth" and will profaneOr "desecrate" the {sanctuary stronghold},Literally "the sanctuary, the stronghold" and they will abolish the regular burnt offering, and they will set up the abomination that causes desolation. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 32
c3content:
"And those who violate the covenant he will seduce with flattery, but the persons who know their GodHebrew "the ones who know his God" will stand firm and will take action.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 33
c3content:
And those who have insight {will instruct}Literally "make understand" the many, but they will fall by sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder {for some time}.Literally "during days"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 34
c3content:
And {when they fall}Literally "in/at their falling" they will receive little help, and many will join with them in hypocrisy.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 35
c3content:
And even some of those {who have insight}Literally "the ones who produce insight" will fallOr "stumble" in order for them to be refined by it, and to be purified and cleansed until the time of the end, for the appointed time is still to come. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 36
c3content:
"Then the king will do {as he pleases},Literally "as his pleasure" and he will exalt himself and will consider himself above any god, and he will speak horrendous things {against}Literally "over" the God of gods, yet he will succeed until the period of anger is finished, for what is determined will be done.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 37
c3content:
He will not pay respect to the gods of his ancestors,Or "fathers" or to the darling of women, and not to any god will he pay respect, for he will consider himself great over all gods.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 38
c3content:
But {instead}Literally "in his place" he will honor the god of fortresses, a god whom his ancestorsOr "fathers" did not know. He will honor him with gold, and with silver, and with precious stonesHebrew "precious stone" and with costly gifts.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 39
c3content:
And he will deal with the {fortified strongholds}Literally "the fortifications of strongholds" with the help of {a foreign god};Literally "the god of a foreign land" and he will increase wealth for whoever will acknowledge him, and he will cause them to ruleOr "appoint" over the many, and he will distribute land for a price. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 40
c3content:
"And at the time of the end the king of the south will attack him, and the king of the north will storm against him with chariotsHebrew "chariot" and with horsemen and with many ships, and he will advance against the countries and {he will sweep through like a flood}.Literally "and he will overflow them and he will pass through"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 41
c3content:
And he will come {into the beautiful land}Literally "into the land of the beauty" and many will fall victim, but these will escape from his power: Edom and Moab and the best partA difficult word to translate in this context: possibly it means "the foremost" (NASB), or it may mean "the remnant" (NEB) of the {Ammonites}.Literally "sons/children of Ammon"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 42
c3content:
And he will stretch out his hand against countries and the land of Egypt {will not escape}.Literally "not it will be to escape"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 43
c3content:
And he will rule over the treasures of gold and the silver and over all the precious things of Egypt; and the Libyans and the Cushites will follow in his footsteps.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 44
c3content:
But reports will terrify him from the east and from the north, and he will go out with great fury to destroy and to exterminate many.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 45
c3content:
And then he will pitch the tents of his palace between the sea and {the beautiful holy mountain},Literally "the mountain of the beauty holiness" and he will come to his end, and there is no oneOr "not one" helping him." 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"Now at that time, Michael, the great prince, will arise, {the protector}Literally "the one who stands with" over the sons of your people, and it will be a time of distress that has not been since your people {have been}Literally "to be" or "being" a nation until that time. And at that time your people will escape, {everyone who is found}Literally "all of the being found" written in the scroll.Or "book"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And many from those sleeping {in the dusty ground}Literally "of the ground of dust" will awake, some to {everlasting life}Literally "life of eternity" and some to disgrace and {everlasting contempt}.Literally "contempt of eternity"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 3
c3content:
But the ones having insight will shine like the brightness of the expanse, and the ones providing justice for the manyOr "leading the many in righteousness" will be like the stars {forever and ever}.Literally "to eternity and ever"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 4
c3content:
But you, Daniel, keep the words secret and seal the scrollOr "book" until the time of the end; many will run back and forth and knowledge will increase." 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 5
c3content:
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}.Literally "one here on the bank of the stream and one there on the bank of the stream"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Then he said to the man who was clothed in linen who was aboveHebrew "from above" the water of the stream,Or "river" "{How long until}Literally "Until when" the end of the wonders?"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And I heard the man who was clothed in linen who was aboveHebrew "from above" the water of the stream,Or "river" and he raised his right hand and his left hand to heaven and he swore {by the one who lives forever}Literally "by the life of the eternity" that an appointed time, appointed times, and half an appointed time would pass when the shattering of {the power of the holy people}Literally "the power of the people of holiness" {would be completed};Literally "to come to an end" then all these things will be accomplished. 


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Now I myself heard, but I did not understand, and I said, "My lord, what will be the outcome of these things?"


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Many will be purified and will be cleansed and will be refined, but the wicked will act wickedly {and none of the wicked will understand},Literally "and not will understand all the wicked" but {those who have insight}Literally "the ones having insight" will understand.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And from the time the regular burnt offering is removed and the abomination that causes desolation {is set up}Literally "to be set up" or "to put in place" there will be one thousand two hundred and ninety days.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Happy is the one who is persevering, and attains to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.


c0book: Dan
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 13
c3content:
But you, go on to the end and rest, and you will arise for your allotted inheritance at the end of the days." 


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 1
c3content:
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. 


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 2
c3content:
{At the beginning when Yahweh spoke}Literally "At the beginning of the talking of Yahweh" through Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, "Go, take for yourself a wife and children of whoredom, because the land commits great whoredom {forsaking Yahweh}."Literally "from behind Yahweh"


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And Yahweh said to him, "{Name him}Literally "Call his name" Jezreel;Jezreel means "God sows" because in a little while {I will punish}Literally "I will visit sin upon" the house of JehuOr "the dynasty of Jehu" for the bloodOr "bloodshed" of Jezreel,Jezreel means "God sows" and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.Or "the dynasty of Israel"


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 5
c3content:
{On that day}Literally "And it will happen on that day" I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel."


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 7
c3content:
But I will have pity on 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.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And heYahweh said, "{Name him}Literally "Call his name" Lo-ammi,Lo-ammi means "not my people" for you are not my people and I am not your God.Hebrew "not yours"


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Hosea 1:10-2:23 in the English Bible is 2:1-25 in the Hebrew Bible 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 the living God."


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 11
c3content:
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}Literally "they will go up from" the land, for great is the day of Jezreel.Jezreel means "God sows"


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Say to your brother,Hebrew "brothers" "Ammi,"Ammi means "My people" and to your sister,Hebrew "sisters" "Ruhamah."Ruhamah means "Pitied"


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Plead with your mother, plead-- because she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her put away her whoring {from before her},Literally "from her face" and her adultery from between her breasts.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 3
c3content:
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.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Because their mother was unfaithful;Or "their mother played the whore" she who conceived them has acted shamefully, for she said: "I will go after my lovers, the ones who give me my bread, my water, my wool, and my flax, my oil, and my drink."


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Therefore, Look! I am going to hedge her pathHebrew "your path" {with thorns},Literally "with the thorns" and I will build a stone wall, a stone wall against her, and she will not find her paths.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Then she will pursue {her lovers},Literally "the ones who love her" but she will not overtake them; she will seek them and not find them; and she will say, "I will go and return to my first husband because it was better for me then than now."


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 8
c3content:
But she did not know that it was I who gave her grain, new wine, and oil, and who gave her silver in abundance, and gold which they made into a Baal.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 9
c3content:
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, which were to cover her nakedness.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And now I will uncover her nakedness before the eyes of her lovers, and no one will rescue her from my hand.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And I will put an end to all her mirth, her festivals,Hebrew "festival" her new moons,Hebrew "new moon" and her Sabbaths,Hebrew "Sabbath" and all her appointed festivals;Hebrew "festival"


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 12
c3content:
and I will lay waste to her vinesHebrew "vine" and her fig trees,Hebrew "fig tree" of which she said, "They are my payment for prostitution, which my lovers gave to me." I will make them a forest, and the wild animalsHebrew "animal" of the field will devour them.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 13
c3content:
{I will punish her}Literally "To visit sins upon her;" see 1:4 for the days of the Baals, to whom she burns incense, and she decked herself with her ornamental ring and jewelry, and she went after her lovers, and forgot me --a declaration of Yahweh.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Therefore, Look! I am going to allure her and bring her into the desert, and {I will speak tenderly to her}.Literally "I will speak to her heart"


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 15
c3content:
From there I will give her her vineyards, and the Valley of Achor as a doorway of hope. And there she will respond, as in the days of her youth, just as in the day of her coming out of the land of Egypt.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 16
c3content:
{And on that day}--Literally, "And it will happen on that day" a declaration of Yahweh-- you will call me, "My husband;"Hebrew "Ishi" you will no longer call me, "My Baal."Hebrew "Baali"


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 17
c3content:
I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they will no longer be mentioned by their name.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 18
c3content:
I will make a covenant for them on that day, with the animalsHebrew "animal" of the field, with the birdsHebrew "bird" of the heaven, and with the creeping thingsHebrew "creeping thing" of the ground; the bow, the sword, and the war I will abolish from the land, and I will let them lie down in safety.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 19
c3content:
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.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 20
c3content:
{I will take you as my wife}Literally "I will take you as a wife to me" in faithfulness, and you will know Yahweh.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 21
c3content:
On that day I will answer, {declares Yahweh},Literally "a declaration of Yahweh I will answer the heavens, and they will answer the earth.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And the earth will answer the grain, the wine, and the oil, and they will answer Jezreel.Jezreel means "God sows"


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 23
c3content:
I will sow her for myself in the land; I will have pity on Lo-ruhama;Lo-ruhama means "Not pitied" I will say to Lo-ammi,Lo-ammi means "Not my people" "You are my people," and he himself will say, "you are my God."


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And Yahweh said to me again, "Go, love a woman {who has a lover}Literally "who is beloved of a friend" and is committing adultery, just like the love of Yahweh for the children of Israel, but they are turning to other gods and love raisin cakes."


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 2
c3content:
So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer of barely and a measure of wine.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"


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And I said to her, "{You must remain as mine}Literally "You must sit at home for me" for many days, and you will not play the whore; {you will not belong}Literally "you will not be" to a man, and I will belong to you."


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 4
c3content:
The children of Israel will remain for many days without a king and prince, without sacrifice and stone pillar, ephod and teraphim.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 5
c3content:
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.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Hear the word of Yahweh, O 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.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Swearing and lying, murdering and stealing, and adultery break out,The LXX adds "and adultery breaks out in the land" and bloodshed follows bloodshed.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Therefore the land mourns, and all those 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.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Yet, let no one contend, and let no one accuse, for with you, O priest, is my contention.The Hebrew is unclear; the NASB translates "For your people are like those who contend with the priest"


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 5
c3content:
You will stumble by day, and the priest also will stumble with you at night. And I will destroy your mother;


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 6
c3content:
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from acting as a priest for me.Or "to me" And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.Hebrew "sons"


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 7
c3content:
When they became many, their sin increased against me; they changedHebrew uncertain; MT "I will exchange" their glory into shame.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 8
c3content:
{They feed on the sin of my people},Literally "They eat the sins of my people" {they are greedy}Literally "they lift up their throat" for their iniquity.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And it will be like people, like priest; I will punish themHebrew "him" for theirHebrew "his" ways, and I will requite themHebrew "him" for theirHebrew "his" deeds.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 10
c3content:
They will eat and not be satisfied; they will play the whore and not multiply, because they have forsaken Yahweh {to devote themselves to


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 11
c3content:
whoredom}.Literally "to watch over whoredom" Wine and new wine {take away the understanding}.Literally "take away heart"


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 12
c3content:
My people, consult {their wooden idols},Literally "their wood" and their divining rod gives them oracles; because a spirit of whoredom led them astray, and they played the whore from under their God.That is, "they played the whore forsaking their God"; See Ezek 23:5


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 13
c3content:
On the tops of the mountains they sacrifice, and on the hills they make offerings, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because theirHebrew "its" shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the whore, and all your daughters-in-lawOr "brides" commit adultery.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 14
c3content:
{I will not punish your daughters}Literally "I will not visit sins upon your daughters" when they play the whore, or your daughters-in-lawOr "brides" 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.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Even though you, O Israel, are playing the whore, do not let Judah become guilty; do not enter Gilgal, or go up to Beth-aven; and do not swear, "{As Yahweh lives}!"Literally "the life of Yahweh"


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Indeed, like a stubborn heifer, Israel is stubborn; Now Yahweh will feed them, like a lamb in broad pasture.Or "Can Yahweh feed them, like a lamb in broad pasture?"


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 18
c3content:
When their drinking has ended, they surely indulge in sexual orgies. They love lewdness more than theirHebrew "her" glory.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Hear this, O priests! Give heed, O house of Israel! Listen, O house of the king! Because the judgment applies to you; because you have been a snare for Mizpah, and a net spread out on Tabor;


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 3
c3content:
I myself know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; because now you have played the whore, O Ephraim-- Israel is defiled.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Their deeds do not permit them to return them to God. Because a spirit of whoredom is in their midst, they do not know Yahweh.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 5
c3content:
The pride of Israel testifies {against him},Literally "against his face;" see 7:10 and Israel and Ephraim stumble in their guilt, and Judah stumbles with them.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 6
c3content:
With their flocksHebrew "flock" and herdsHebrew "herd" they will go to seek Yahweh, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 7
c3content:
They have dealt faithlessly with Yahweh because they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Blow the {horn}Hebrew "shofar" in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah. Sound the alarm in Beth-aven; look behind you, Benjamin.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Ephraim will be a desolation in the day of punishment; among the tribes of Israel I will reveal what is true.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 10
c3content:
The princes of Judah have become like those who remove a landmark; on them I will pour out my wrath like water.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he was determined to go after filth.Hebrew uncertain; another possible translation is "that he follows human commands"


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And when Ephraim saw his illness, and Judah his wound, Ephraim went to Assyria, he sent to the great king.Some translate literally "King Jareb" (see the NASB, NKJV) But he was unable to cure you and heal your wound.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Because I will be 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.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 15
c3content:
{I will return again}Literally "I will go, I will return" to my place until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face; in their distress they will searchOr "they will beg favor of" me.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Come, let us return to Yahweh; because it is he who has torn, and he will heal us; he has struck us down and will bind us up.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 2
c3content:
He will revive us after two days; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live in his presence.Or "before his face"


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Let us know, let us press on to know Yahweh; his rising is sure like the dawn. He will come like the showers to us, like the spring rain that waters the earth.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 4
c3content:
What will I do with you, O Ephraim? What will I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes away early in the morning.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Therefore, I have hewn them by the prophets; I have killed them by the words of my mouth, and my judgmentHebrew "your judgments" goes forth like the light.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Because I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, and knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Gilead is a city of evil, a cunning city because of blood.The Hebrew is difficult; NRSV translates "tracked with blood"


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Like bandits lying in wait, so is a band of priests; they murder on the road to Shechem; indeed, they commit a monstrous crime.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 10
c3content:
In the house of Israel I have seen something horrible; Ephraim's unfaithfulness is there. Israel is defiled.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 1
c3content:
when I would heal Israel, and the corruption of Ephraim is revealed, and the wicked deeds of Samaria; because they deal in falsehood, the thief breaks in,Or "comes in" and the bandit raids the outside.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 2
c3content:
{But they did not consider}Literally "But they did not say to their heart" that I remember all their wickedness. Now their deeds surround them; they are before my face.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 4
c3content:
All of them commit adultery, like a burning oven whose baker has stopped from stirring the fire, and from kneading the dough until it is leavened.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 5
c3content:
On the day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine;This phrase refers to the effects of wine on the body he stretched out his hand with mockers.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Because they are kindledHebrew "they drew near;" other ancient translations read "they are kindled" like an oven, their heart burns within them; all night their anger {smolders},Literally "sleeps" in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 7
c3content:
All of them are hot as an oven, and they devourOr "they eat" their rulers. All their kings have fallen; there is none who calls to me amongst them.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Foreigners devourOr "Foreigners eat" his strength, and he does not know it; {mold}Literally "grey hair," but in this case the word refers to the "hairs of mold" on food is also sprinkled upon him, and he does not know it.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 10
c3content:
The pride of Israel {testifies against him}Literally "answers against his face"-- they do not return to Yahweh their God; they do not seek him for all of this.Or "in all of this"


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Ephraim was like a dove, silly, {without sense};Literally "without heart" they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Just as they go, I will cast my net over them; I will bring them down like the birdsHebrew "bird" of the heavens;Or "sky" I will discipline them according to a report to their assembly.Hebrew uncertain


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 13
c3content:
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.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 14
c3content:
They do not cry out to me from their heart, but they wail on their beds; because of grain and new wine they lacerateOr "gash" themselves; they depart from me.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 16
c3content:
They turn, not to the Most High,Hebrew uncertain; the NRSV translates "to that which does not profit"; the NASB translates "but not upward" like a slack bow; their officials will fall by the sword because of the anger of their tongue. This is their scornThe NRSV translates "So much for their babbling" in the land of Egypt.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Put to your lips the trumpet like a vulture over the house of Yahweh, because they have {broken my covenant}Literally "transgressed my covenant" and rebelled against my law.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 4
c3content:
They appointed kings, but not through me; they made officials, but without my knowledge. With their silver and gold they made idols for themselves for theirHebrew "his" own {destruction}.Literally "cut off"


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Your calf is rejected,Hebrew "he rejects" or "has rejected you" O Samaria; my anger burns against them. How longHebrew "Until when" will they be incapable of innocence?


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Because it is from Israel, an artisan made it, it is not a god; for the calf of Samaria will be broken to pieces.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Because they sow the wind, they will reap the whirlwind. The standing grain does not have heads;Hebrew "head" it will not yield flour. And if it would yield, strangers would devour it.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 9
c3content:
For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild donkey alone to itself; Ephraim has sold itself for lovers.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Even though they have sold themselves to the nations, now I will gather them. They will soon writhe from the burden of kingsHebrew "king" and princes.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 13
c3content:
They offer sacrifices of my choiceHebrew uncertain; or "loved ones" and they eat flesh; Yahweh does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins; they will return to Egypt.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 14
c3content:
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.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Do not rejoice, O 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.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 3
c3content:
They will not remain in the land of Yahweh. But Ephraim will return to Egypt, and in Assyria they will eat unclean food.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 4
c3content:
They will not pour drink offerings of wine to Yahweh, and their sacrifices will not please him. They are like mourners' bread for them; all those who eat it will be defiled. For their bread will be {for their hunger};Literally "for their soul" it will not come to the house of Yahweh.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 6
c3content:
For look! If they flee from the destruction, Egypt will gather them; MemphisHebrew "Noph" will bury them. Nettles will possess their precious things of silver; thorns will be in their tents.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 7
c3content:
The days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have come; Israel knows! The prophet is a fool, the man of the spirit is acting like a madman. Because of the greatness of your sin, your hostility is great.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 8
c3content:
The prophet keeps watch over Ephraim for my God; the snare of a fowler is on all his ways, and hostility in the house of his God.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 9
c3content:
{They deeply corrupted themselves}Literally "They made deep, they corrupted themselves" as in the days of Gibeah; he will remember their sin, he will punish their sins.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Like the grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like early ripened fruit on the fig tree in the first season,Or "in the beginning" I saw your ancestors.Or "fathers" They themselves came to Baal Peor, and they consecrated themselves to shame. And they became detestable things, like {the thing they love}.Literally "like loving things"


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Even though they bring up their children, I will bereave them before maturity.Or "until no one is left" Woe to them indeed, when I depart from them!


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Ephraim, as I see it, is like a palm in a meadow; but Ephraim must bring out his children to the slayer.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Every evil of theirs began at Gilgal, so I began 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 are rebels.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 16
c3content:
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.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 17
c3content:
My God will reject them because they did not listen to him, and they will be wanderers among the nations.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Israel is a luxuriant vine;Or "ravaged vine" he yields fruit for himself. The more his fruit increased, the more he made numerous altars. The more his land prospered, the more heHebrew "they" improvedOr "made beautiful" his stone pillars.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Their heart is false; now they must bear their guilt. He himselfThat is, "Yahweh himself" will break down their altars; he will destroy their stone pillars.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 3
c3content:
For now they will say, "We have no king; indeed, we did not fear Yahweh, and what can a king do for us?"


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 4
c3content:
They utter words of vain oaths when {making covenants},Literally "cutting covenant" and judgment blossoms like a poisonous plant on the furrows of the field.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 5
c3content:
The inhabitantsHebrew "inhabitant" of Samaria tremble for the calfHebrew "calves" of Beth-aven. Indeed, his people will mourn for it, and his idolatrous priests will wailOr "rejoice" over it-- over its glory because it has departed from it.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 6
c3content:
It will also be brought to Assyria, as tribute to the great king.See 5:13; some translate literally "King Jareb" Ephraim will obtain disgrace and Israel will be ashamed from his advice.Or "counsel"


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 8
c3content:
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."


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 9
c3content:
From the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel; there {they have remained}.Literally "they stood" Will not war in Gibeah overtake them against the children of evil?


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 10
c3content:
In my desireThe LXX translates "I will come" I will punish them; nations will be gathered against them when they are punished for {their double iniquities}.So Qere; Masoretic Hebrew text (Kethib) "their two eyes"


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Ephraim was a trained heifer, that loved to thresh grain, and I myself {spared}Literally "passed over" the fairness of her neck; I will make Ephraim break the ground, Judah will plow, Jacob must till for himself.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Sow for yourselves righteousness; {reap loyal love}.Literally "reap according to loyal love" Break up for yourself fallow ground; it is time to seek Yahweh so he will come and rain righteousness upon you.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 13
c3content:
You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped injustice, you have eaten the fruit of lies,Hebrew "lie" because you have trusted in your strength, in the multitude of your warriors.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 14
c3content:
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 their children.Or "upon their children"


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 15
c3content:
So it will be done to you, O Bethel, because of the evil of your wickedness; at dawn, the king of Israel will be utterly destroyed.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 2
c3content:
When I calledHebrew "When they called"; the LXX and modern translations read "When I called" them, they went from my face.Hebrew "their face" They sacrificed to the Baals, and they sacrificed to idols.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And I myself taught Ephraim to walk; I took themHebrew uncertain in myHebrew "his" arms, but they did not know that I healed them.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 4
c3content:
I drew them {with human ties},Literally "ropes of a human" with the bands of love. I was to them like one who lifted upOr "like one who imposed" a yoke on their jaws,Or "infants to their cheeks" though I bent down to themHebrew "him" and let themHebrew "him" eat.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 5
c3content:
He will returnOr "They will not return" to the land of Egypt, and Assyria will be his king,That is "Israel's king" because they refused to return.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 7
c3content:
My people are bent on backsliding from me. To the Most High they call, he does not raise them at all.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 8
c3content:
How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I hand you over, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is disturbedOr "My heart is overturned" within me; {all}Literally "together" my compassions are aroused.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 9
c3content:
{I will not execute}Literally "I will not do" {my fierce anger},Literally "the anger of my nose" I will not again destroy Ephraim; because I am God and not a mortal,Or "human" the Holy One in your midst; and I will not come in wrath.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 10
c3content:
They will go after Yahweh; he roars like a lion. When he roars, his children will come trembling from the sea.That is, "the West"


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 11
c3content:
They will tremble like birdsHebrew "bird" from Egypt, and like dovesHebrew "dove" from the land of Assyria; and I will let them returnHebrew "I will cause them to live" to their homes-- a declaration of Yahweh.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Hosea 11:12-12:14 in the English Bible is 12:1-15 in the Hebrew Bible Ephraim has surrounded me with lies,Hebrew "lie" and the house of Israel with deceit; and Judah is still wandering with God and is faithful to the Holy One.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Ephraim herds the windOr "Ephraim befriends the wind" and is pursuing the east wind all day long; he multiplies deception and violence and heHebrew "they" {makes a treaty with Assyria},Literally "cuts a covenant with Assyria" and oil is brought to Egypt.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Yahweh has a quarrelThis word in Hebrew conveys a legal setting with Judah and will punish Jacob according to his ways and repay him according to his deeds.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 4
c3content:
He struggled with the angel and prevailed; he pleaded for his mercy. He met him at Bethel, and there he spoke with him.Hebrew "us"


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And Ephraim said, "Surely, I am rich, I gainedOr "I found" wealth for myself; in all my toil they have not found guilt in me that is sin.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 9
c3content:
But I am Yahweh your God sinceOr "from" the land of Egypt; I will make you live in tents again, like the days of the appointed festival.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 10
c3content:
I spoke to the prophets; I myself multiplied revelationsHebrew "revelation" and through the hand of the prophets I will destroy.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 11
c3content:
If in Gilead there is evil, surely they will come to nothing. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls, also their altars will be like stone heaps on furrows of the field.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Jacob fled to the open field of Aram,Or "the land of Aram" and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he watched over sheep.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Ephraim has caused bitter provocation, and his Lord will {hold him responsible for his crimes}Literally "will bring down on him his blood" and pay back to him his insults.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 1
c3content:
When Ephraim spoke,Hebrew "speaks" there was terror; he was exalted in Israel, but he incurred guilt through Baal and died.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 2
c3content:
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.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Therefore, they will be like the morning cloud, and like the dew of early morning going away, like chaff swirling from the threshing floor, or like smoke from a window.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 4
c3content:
I am Yahweh your God sinceOr "from" the land of Egypt; you know no god except me, and no one saves besides me.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 6
c3content:
When I fed them,Hebrew "According to their pasture" they were satisfied; they were satisfied and their heart was lifted up; therefore they forgot me.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 8
c3content:
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.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 9
c3content:
I will destroy you,Hebrew "He destroys you" O Israel; who will help you?Hebrew "for in me, in your help"


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Where now is your king that he may save you? Where in all your cities are your judges, of whom you said, "Give to me a king and rulers?"


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 13
c3content:
The labor pains of childbirth come for him; he is an unwise son because at the proper time, he does not present himself {at the mouth of the womb}.Literally "the place where the sons burst forth"


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Should I redeem them from {the power}Literally "the hand" of Sheol? "Sheol" is a Hebrew term for the place where the dead reside, i.e., the underworld Should I deliver them from death? Where are your plagues, O Death? Where is your destruction, O Sheol?"Sheol" is a Hebrew term for the place where the dead reside, i.e., the underworld Compassion is hidden from my eyes.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Although he may flourish among reeds,Hebrew "brothers" the east wind will come, a wind of Yahweh rising from the desert; his fountain will dry up, his spring will be parched. It will plunder his treasury,Or "its treasury" every object of desire.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Hosea 13:16-14:9 in the English Bible is 14:1-10 in the Hebrew Bible Samaria will be guilty, because she has rebelled against her God; they will fall by the sword, their children will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Say to him, "Take away all guilt; accept good, and we will offer the fruitHebrew uncertain of our lips.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Assyria will not save us; we will not ride on horses,Hebrew "horse" and we will say no more, "Our God," to the work of our hands because in you the fatherless child finds mercy.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 4
c3content:
I will heal their disloyalty;Or "backsliding" I will love them freely because my anger has turned back from them.Hebrew "him"


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 5
c3content:
I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily plant, and he will strike his roots like the trees of Lebanon.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 6
c3content:
His new plant shoots will spread out; his splendor will be like the olive tree, and his scent like the trees of Lebanon.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 7
c3content:
{They will again dwell}Literally "They shall return, they shall dwell" in myHebrew "his" shadow; they will grow grain and they will blossom like the plant vine; his fame will be like the wine of Lebanon.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 8
c3content:
O Ephraim, {what have I to do}Literally "what for me" with idols? I myself have answered and looked after you.Hebrew "him" I am like a luxuriant cypress; your fruitOr "your faithfulness" comes from me.


c0book: Hos
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Who is wise that he can understand these things? Who is discerning that he knows them? The ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; but transgressors stumble in them.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 2
c3content:
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?


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Tell it to your children, and your children to their children, and their children to the following generation.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 4
c3content:
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.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Wake up, drunkards, and weep! Wail, all drinkers of wine, over the new wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Because a nation has {invaded}Literally "come up against" my land, strong {and beyond counting}.Literally "without number" Its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and its fangs are those of a lioness.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 7
c3content:
It has made my vine a desolation, and my fig tree a completely splintered stump. It has stripped them bare and thrown them down; their branches have turned white.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 9
c3content:
The offering and libation are withheld from the houseOr "temple" of Yahweh. The priests mourn, the ministers of Yahweh.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 10
c3content:
The field is destroyed; the earth mourns because the grain is destroyed, the new wine dries up, the olive oil languishes.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Be ashamed, farmers; Wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and over the barley, because the harvest of the field is ruined.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 12
c3content:
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.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Gird yourselves and lament, O priests! Wail, O ministers of the altar! Come spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because offering and libation are withheld from the house of your God.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Solemnize a fast! Call an assembly! Gather the elders, all of the inhabitants of the land in the house of Yahweh your God, and cry out to Yahweh.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Ah! For the day! For the day of Yahweh is near. It will come like destruction from Shaddai.Often translated "the Almighty"


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 17
c3content:
The seeds shrivel under their clods; the storehouses are desolate. The grain storage places are destroyed because grain has dried out.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 18
c3content:
How the beastsHebrew "beast" groan; the herds of cattle wander around because there is no pasture for them; the flocks of sheep are in distress.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 19
c3content:
To you, O Yahweh, I cry out, because fire has devoured the pastures of the desert, and flamesHebrew "flame" burned all the trees of the field.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Also, the beasts of the field long for you, because the courses of water are dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the desert.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Blow the trumpetHebrew "shofar" in Zion, and sound the alarm on {my holy mountain}!Literally "mountain of my holiness" Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of Yahweh is coming --it is indeed near.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 2
c3content:
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}.Literally "until years of generations"


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 3
c3content:
{Before them}Literally "before the presence of it" a fire devours, and behind them a flame burns. Like the garden of Eden is the land {before them},Literally "before the presence of it" and after them it is like a desolate desert, and nothing can escape them.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 5
c3content:
like the sound of chariots on the tops of the mountains, they leap about; like the sound of a flame of fire devouring stubble; like a strong army arranged in rows for battle.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 6
c3content:
{From before them}Or "From in front of it," or "From the presence of it" nations writhe, all faces {turn pale}.Literally "gather paleness"


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 7
c3content:
They run like mighty warriors,That is, the "great and strong army" (see 2:2) they scale the wall like men of war; each goes on its own way, and they do not swerve from their paths.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 8
c3content:
They do not jostle {one another};Literally "each man his brother" each goes on its own trail; and through the falling weapons,Hebrew "weapon" they are not halted.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 9
c3content:
In the city they rush forth; on the wallsHebrew "wall" they run. Into the houses they climb up; through the windows they enter like a thief.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 10
c3content:
{Before them}Literally "Before the presence of it" the earth quakes; the heavens tremble; the sun and the moon grow dark, and the stars {have withheld}Literally "gathered" their splendor


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And Yahweh {utters}Literally "gives" his voice before his army, because his encampment is very large; strong is the one who carries out his decree, for great is the day of Yahweh and exceedingly fearful. Who can endure it?


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 12
c3content:
"And even now," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting, and weeping, and wailing."


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Rend your heartsHebrew "heart" and not your garments, and return to Yahweh your God, because he is gracious and compassionate, {slow to anger}Or "patient"; literally "long of anger" and great in loyal love, and relenting from harm.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Who knows whether he will turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, an offering and a libation, for Yahweh your God?


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 16
c3content:
gather the people, consecrate the assembly; assemble the elders, gather the children, even those who are breast-feeding; let the bridegroom come out from his private room, and the bride from her canopy.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 17
c3content:
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 the nations. Why should they say among the nations, 'Where is their God?'"


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And Yahweh answered and said to his people, "Look at me, I am sending to you grain, new wine, and olive oil, and you will be satisfied by it. I will not give you over any more as a disgrace among the nations.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 20
c3content:
{The northerners}Or "The northern army" I will remove from you; I will drive them to a desert and desolate land, itsThat is, the northern army front to the eastern sea, and its rear into the western sea; its stench and odor will rise up because heThat is, Yahweh (see v. 21) has done great things.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Do not fear, wild animals of the field, because the pastures of the desert have put forth new green shoots, because the tree has produced its fruit, the fig tree and the vine have yielded their produce.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Be glad, O children of Zion, be glad and rejoice in Yahweh your God, because he has given for you the autumn rains for your righteousness,Or "vindication" and he has {poured down}Literally "brought down" for you rainwater, the autumn and spring rains, as before.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 24
c3content:
The threshing floors will be full with grain, and the vats will overflow with new wine and olive oil.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 25
c3content:
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.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And you will eat abundantly and be satisfied, and praise the name of Yahweh your God, who has dealt with you {wondrously}.Literally "to do a wonder" My people {will never be ashamed}.Literally "will forever not be ashamed"


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And you will know that I am in the midst of Israel, and I am Yahweh, your God, and there is no other. My people {will never be ashamed again}.Literally "will forever no longer be ashamed"


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Joel 2:28-32 in the English Bible is 3:1-5 in the Hebrew Bible 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.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 30
c3content:
And I will {set}Literally "give" wonders in the heavens, and on earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 31
c3content:
The sun will be changed to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of Yahweh.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 32
c3content:
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},Literally, "an escape" as Yahweh said, and among the survivors whom Yahweh is calling. 


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Joel 3:1-21 in the English Bible is 4:1-21 in the Hebrew Bible For look! In those days, and in that time, when I will returnOr "restore" the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 2
c3content:
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}Literally "a matter with them" there concerning my people and my inheritance Israel whom they have scattered among the nations, and my land that they have divided.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 3
c3content:
For my people they cast lots,Hebrew "lot" and {they traded}Literally "gave" the male child for the prostitute, and the female child they sold for wine and they drank it. 


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 4
c3content:
What are you to me, O Tyre and O Sidon, and all of the regions of Philistia? Are you repaying to me what is deserved? If you are recompensing me, I will return swiftly and quickly what you deserve on your head!


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 5
c3content:
For you have taken my silver and my gold, and my beautiful treasures you have carried into your temples.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And the sons of Judah and Jerusalem you sold to the sons of the Greeks, in order to remove them from their border.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Look! I am rousing them from the place where you have sold them, and I will return what you deserve on your head!


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 8
c3content:
I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans and to a nation far away, for Yahweh has spoken. 


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Proclaim this among the nations: {Prepare for war}!Literally "Sanctify a battle" Stir up the mighty warriors; let them approach and come up; let all the men of war approach.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Beat your cutting tools of iron into swords and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weakling say, 'I am a mighty warrior!'


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Hurry and come, all the nations, from all around, and gather yourselves there. Bring down your mighty warriors, O Yahweh!


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 12
c3content:
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.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Send forth the sickle, for the harvest is ripe! Go tread, for the winepress is full! The vats overflow, because their evil is great!


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Commotion, commotion in the valley of decision! For the day of Yahweh is near in the valley of decision!


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And Yahweh roars from Zion; from Jerusalem he utters his voice, and the heavens and the earth shake. But Yahweh is a refuge for his people, and a protection for the children of Israel.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And you will know that I, Yahweh your God, am dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem will be a place of holiness, and strangers will pass through it no longer.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 18
c3content:
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.Or "the wadi Shittim"


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Egypt will become a desolation, and Edom will become a {desolate desert},Literally "desert of desolation" because of the violence they did against the children of Judah, in whose land they have shed innocent blood.


c0book: Joel
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 21
c3content:
{I will cleanse their bloodguilt}Literally "I will not leave unpunished their blood" that {I did not cleanse},Or "I did not consider innocent" for Yahweh is dwelling in Zion.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 1
c3content:
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}Literally "to the face of" the earthquake. 


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 2
c3content:
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."


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Thus says Yahweh, "For three transgressions of Damascus and for four I will not revoke the punishment,Or "it" because they threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron!


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 5
c3content:
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. 


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Gaza and for four I will not revoke the punishment,Or "it" because they exiled a whole community, handing them over to Edom!


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 8
c3content:
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. 


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Tyre and for four I will not revoke the punishment,Or "it" because they delivered up a whole community to Edom and they did not remember the covenant of brotherhood!


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Edom and for four I will not revoke the punishment,Or "it" because he pursued his brother with the sword! He stifled his compassion and his anger tore them apart {continually},Literally "forever" and he kept his rage forever.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Ammon and for four I will not revoke the punishment,Or "it" because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge their territory!


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 14
c3content:
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.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Moab and for four I will not revoke the punishment,Or "it" because he burned to lime the bones of the king of Edom.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 2
c3content:
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 and amid the sound of a horn.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And I will cut off the ruler from its midst and I will kill all of its officials with him," says Yahweh. 


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Judah and for four I will not revoke the punishment,Or "it" 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}!Literally "which their ancestors walked after them"


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Israel and for four I will not revoke the punishment,Or "it" because they sell the righteous for money and the poor for a pair of sandals!


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 7
c3content:
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}Literally "go to" the same girl, so that they profane my holy name.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 8
c3content:
They stretch themselves out beside every altar on clothing taken in pledge and they drink wine, bought with fines imposed,Literally "imposing a fine" in the house of their God.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Yet I destroyed the Amorite {before them},Literally "from the face of them" {who was as tall as}Literally "whose height was as the height of" cedars and was as strong as the oaks. I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 10
c3content:
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.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And I raised up some of your sons to be prophets and some of your young men to be Nazirites. Is it not so, O {people}Literally "children" of Israel? This is the declaration of Yahweh!


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Look! I am going to press you down in your place just as a utility cart full of mature stalks of grain is pressed down.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Flight will perish from the swift and the strong person will not muster his strength and the warrior will not save his life.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And the one who takes hold of the bow will not stand and the one who is swift on his feet will not save himself, nor will the one who rides the horse save his life.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Even those who are strong of heart among the mighty will flee away naked from the city on that day. This is the declaration of Yahweh!" 


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 1
c3content:
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:Hebrew "Egypt, saying"


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"You only have I {chosen}Literally "known" of all the clans of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Does a lion roar in the forest {when he has no prey}?Literally "and there is no prey to him" Does a fierce, young lion cry out from his den unless he has caught something?


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 5
c3content:
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?


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 6
c3content:
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 it?


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 9
c3content:
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!"


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 10
c3content:
"They do not know how to do right," {declares Yahweh},Literally "the declaration of Yahweh" "those who store up violence and destruction in their citadel fortresses."


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Therefore, thus says my Lord Yahweh, "A foe shall surround the land and bring down your strongholds, and your citadel fortresses shall be plundered."


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 12
c3content:
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}Literally "children" of Israel who dwell in Samaria, with the corner of a couch and the damask of a bed."


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 13
c3content:
"Listen and testify against the house of Jacob," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" my Lord Yahweh, the God of hosts.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 14
c3content:
"For on the day I punish Israel for {its transgression},Literally "the transgression of Israel upon it" I will also punish the altars of Bethel and the horns of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 15
c3content:
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}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh. 


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Hear this word, you cows of Bashan who live on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the powerless, who crush the poor, who say to their husbands, "Bring something so that we may drink!"


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 2
c3content:
My Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that, "Behold, the days are coming upon you {when they}Literally "and he" will take you away with hooks, even the last of you with fishing hooks.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And you shall leave through breaches in the wall, each one in front of her. You will be dragged off toward Harmon,"The meaning of this Hebrew word is uncertain {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 4
c3content:
"Come to Bethel and transgress; to Gilgal and {multiply transgression}!Literally "increase to transgress" Bring your sacrifices in the morning and your tithes on the {third day}.Literally "for three of days"


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And bring a thank offering of unleavened bread, and proclaim freewill offerings, pronounce them, for so you love to do, O {people}Literally "children" of Israel," is the declaration of my Lord Yahweh.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 6
c3content:
"And IEmphatic use of personal pronoun 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," is the declaration of Yahweh.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 7
c3content:
"And I also withheld the rain from you when there were 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 the tract of land {on which it does not rain}Literally "which does not rain down on it" will dry up.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 8
c3content:
So two or three cities wandered to one city to drink water and they were not satisfied, yet you did not return to me," is the declaration of Yahweh.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 9
c3content:
"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," is the declaration of Yahweh.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 10
c3content:
"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," is the declaration of Yahweh.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 11
c3content:
"I overthrew some of you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a stick snatched from the fire, and yet you did not return to me," is the declaration of Yahweh.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 12
c3content:
"Therefore, thus I will do to you, O Israel. Because I will do this to you, O Israel, prepare to meet your God!


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Yes, here is the one who forms the mountains, and the one who creates the wind, and the one who reveals to humans what his thoughts are, and the one who treads on the heights of the earth; Yahweh, the God of hosts, is his name!" 


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Virgin Israel has fallen and will not rise again. She is deserted on her land; there is no one to raise her up.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 3
c3content:
For thus says my Lord Yahweh, "The city that marches out with a thousand will only have a hundred left. And the one that marches out with a hundred will only have ten left for the house of Israel."


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 5
c3content:
But do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal or cross over to Beersheba, for Gilgal will certainly go into exile and Bethel will come to disaster."


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Seek Yahweh so that you may live, so that he will not break out like a fire against the house of Joseph! And it will devour, {with none to quench}Literally "and there is not one to quench" it for Bethel.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 8
c3content:
The one who made the Pleiades and Orion and who turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens day into night, the one who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name!


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 9
c3content:
The one who makes destruction flash upon the fierce, {so that}Literally "and" destruction comes upon the fortification.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Therefore, because you trample on the 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.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 12
c3content:
For I know your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous, you foes of the righteous, those who take a bribe, and {those who}Literally "they" push aside the poor ones in the gate!


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 14
c3content:
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.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Hate evil and love good and establish justice in the gate; perhaps Yahweh, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Therefore, thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, my Lord, "In all of the public squares there will be wailing, and in all of the streets they will say, 'Alas, alas, alas!' They shall call the farmers to mourning and to wailing, to those who are skilled in lamentation.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And in all of the vineyards there will be wailing, because I will pass in your midst," says Yahweh. 


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Alas, those who desire the day of Yahweh, why is this for you the day of Yahweh? It will be darkness and not light!


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 19
c3content:
It will be as if a man fled from a lion and a bear met him; or he went into the house and leaned his hand against the wall and a snake bit him.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Yes, even if you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them, and I will not look at the fellowship offerings of your fattened animals.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And you will take up Sikkuth, your king, and Kaiwan, your images, the star of your gods which you made for yourselves.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Alas for 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.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Cross over to Calneh and see, and go from there to Hamath Rabbah and go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms, or is their territory greater than your territory?


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Alas for those who lie on beds of ivory and lounge on their couches, and those eating young rams from the sheep and goats, and bull-calves from the middle of the animal stall.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Alas for those 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.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Therefore, they shall now go into exile at the head of the exiles and the feast of lounging shall pass away. 


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 8
c3content:
My Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself, {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, the God of hosts: "I abhor the pride of Jacob and I hate his citadel fortresses and I will deliver the city and its fullness!"


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And if one's relative, who burns the body, lifts it up and brings the body out of the house and he will say to someone in the innermost part of the house, "Are there any more with you?" and he will say, "None," then he will say, "Silence," because we must not invoke the name of Yahweh.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Look, Yahweh is going to command and the great house will be destroyed to bits and the little house to pieces.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Do horses run on rocks, or does one plow the sea with oxen?Or "does one plow them with oxen" But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood!


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Indeed, I am going to raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, the God of hosts. And they shall oppress you from Lebo-hamath up to the wadi of the Arabah. 


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 1
c3content:
This is what my Lord Yahweh showed me, and look, he is going to form locusts at the beginning of the sprouting of the second crop, and look, after the mowings of the king.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And then when theyHebrew "he/it" finished eating the vegetation of the land, I said, "O Lord Yahweh, please forgive! How can Jacob stand, because he is small?"


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 4
c3content:
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.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 7
c3content:
This is what he showed me: Behold, my Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plummet, and a plummet was in his hand.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And Yahweh said to me, "What do you see?" And I said, "A plummet." And my Lord said, "Look, I am going to set a plummet in the midst of my people, Israel. I will not pass them by again.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 9
c3content:
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." 


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 10
c3content:
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.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 11
c3content:
For this Amos has said, 'Jeroboam will die by the sword and Israel will certainly go into exile away from his land.'"


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And Amaziah said to Amos, "O seer, go, flee to the land of Judah and earn food there and prophesy there!"


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 13
c3content:
But do not prophesy again at Bethel, because this is a sanctuary of a king and this is a temple of a kingdom."


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And Amos answered and said to Amaziah, "I am not a prophet and I am not a son of a prophet, but I am a herdsman and I am one taking care of sycamore trees.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And Yahweh took me from following behind the sheep and goats and Yahweh said to me, "Go, prophesy to my people Israel!


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 16
c3content:
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!'


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 17
c3content:
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 youEmphatic second person pronoun will die in an unclean land and Israel will surely go into exile from this land.'" 


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 2
c3content:
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!"


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 3
c3content:
"And the songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" my Lord Yahweh. "The corpses are numerous; he throws them in every place. Be quiet!"


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 5
c3content:
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 the ephah small and make the shekel large, and can practice deceit with a set of scales of deceit?


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 6
c3content:
{That we can}Literally "to buy" buy the powerless with silver and the poor for the sake of a pair of sandals, and we can sell the waste of the grain?"


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 8
c3content:
On account of this, will not the land tremble and will not every living thing 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.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And then in that day," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" my Lord Yahweh, "ILiterally "and I" will make the sun go down at noon and I will darken the land on a day of light.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 10
c3content:
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.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Look, the days are coming," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" 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}Literally "but if to hear" the words of Yahweh!


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And they will wander from sea to sea and from the north and to the east. They will roam about to seek the word of Yahweh, but they will not find it!


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 14
c3content:
These are 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." 


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 1
c3content:
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.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 2
c3content:
If they dig into Sheol, from there my hand will take them, and even if they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And even if they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, from there I will search and will take them, and even 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.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And even 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."


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And thus will do 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 the Nile of Egypt,


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 6
c3content:
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.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 7
c3content:
"Are you not like the Cushites to me, O people of Israel?" {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh. "Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt and the Philistines from Caphtor and {the Arameans}Literally "Aram" from Kir?


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Look, the eyes of my Lord Yahweh are 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}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 9
c3content:
"Yes, look, I am 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 to the ground.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 10
c3content:
All the sinners of my people will die by the sword, who say, 'Evil will not overtake or confront us.' 


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 11
c3content:
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.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Thus they may take possession of the remnant of Edom and all the nations {who are called by my name},"Literally "who my name is called over them" {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, who does this.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 13
c3content:
"Look, days are coming," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "when the one who plows will overtake the one who reaps, the one who treads grapes will catch up with the one who sows the seed. And the mountains will drip sweet wine and all of the hills will flow with it.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel, and they will rebuild the desolated cities and will inhabit them. And they will plant vineyards and will drink their wine, and they will make gardens and will eat their fruit.


c0book: Amos
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 15
c3content:
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. 


c0book: Obad
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Look, I willThe 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" make you insignificant among the nations. You will be utterly despised!


c0book: Obad
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 3
c3content:
The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of a rock, the heights of its dwelling, you who say in your heart: 'Who can bring me down to the ground?'


c0book: Obad
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Even if you soar like the eagle, even if your nest is set among the stars, from there I will bring you down!" {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh:


c0book: Obad
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 5
c3content:
"If thieves came to you, if plunderers of the night--How you have been destroyed!--would they not steal {what they wanted}?Literally "their sufficiency" If grape gatherers came, would they not leave gleanings?


c0book: Obad
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 7
c3content:
All of your {allies}Literally "men of your covenant" have driven you up to the boundary; your {confederates}Literally "men of your peace" have deceived you and have prevailed against you. Those who eat your bread have set an ambush for you, there is noThe preposition בּ plus אֵין indicates the absence of a thing within a location understanding of it.Or "in him"


c0book: Obad
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 8
c3content:
On that day," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "will I not destroy the wise men from Edom, and understanding from the mountain of Esau?


c0book: Obad
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And your warriors will be shattered, O Teman, so that {everyone}Literally "each" from the mountain of Esau will be cut off because of the slaughter! 


c0book: Obad
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 10
c3content:
"Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you and you will be cut off forever.


c0book: Obad
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 11
c3content:
On {the day you stood nearby},Literally "the day of your standing nearby" {on the day strangers took}Literally "the day of the taking captive by strangers" his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots over Jerusalem, you were also like one of them.


c0book: Obad
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 12
c3content:
But you should not have gloatedThe Hebrew expression "to look upon" often has the sense of "to feast the eyes upon" or "to gloat over" over your brother's day, on the day of his misfortune, and you should not have rejoiced over the {people}Literally "son" of Judah on the day of their perishing, and you should not have opened your mouth wide on the day of distress.


c0book: Obad
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 13
c3content:
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 your hands on the day of his disaster.


c0book: Obad
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And you should not have stood at the crossroads to cut off his fugitives and you should not have handed over his survivors on the day of distress. 


c0book: Obad
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 15
c3content:
"For the day of Yahweh is near against all the nations! Just as you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return on your own head.


c0book: Obad
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 16
c3content:
For just as you have drunk on {my holy mountain},Literally "the mountain of my holiness" all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and they will slurp, and they will be as if they had never been.


c0book: Obad
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 17
c3content:
But on Mount Zion there will be an escape, and it will be holy, and the house of Jacob will take possession of their dispossessors.


c0book: Obad
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 18
c3content:
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. 


c0book: Obad
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Those of the Negev will take possession of the mountain of Esau, and those of the Shephelah will possess the land of the Philistines, and they shall take possession of the territory of Ephraim and the territory of Samaria, and Benjamin will take possession of Gilead.


c0book: Obad
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And the exilesHebrew "exile" of this army of the people of Israel will possess Canaan up to Zarephath, and the exilesHebrew "exile" of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will take possession of the cities of the Negev.


c0book: Obad
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And those who have been saved will go up on Mount Zion to rule the mountain of Esau. And the kingdom {will belong to}Literally "will be for" Yahweh. 


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Get up! Go to the great city Nineveh and cry out against her, because their evil has come up {before me}."Literally "to my face"


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 3
c3content:
But Jonah set out to flee toward Tarshish from {the presence of}Literally "from to face of" Yahweh. And he went down to Joppa and found a merchant ship going to Tarshish, and paid her fare, and went on board her to go with them toward Tarshish from {the presence of}Literally "from to face of" Yahweh. 


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 4
c3content:
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}.Literally "threatened to be broken up"


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And the mariners were afraid, and each cried out to his god. And they threw the {contents}Literally "objects" that were in the merchant ship into the sea to lighten it for them. And meanwhile Jonah went down into the hold of the vessel and lay down and fell asleep.


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And the captainOr "commander" of the ship approached him and said to him, "Why are you {sound asleep}?Literally "in a deep sleep" Get up! Call on your god! Perhaps your godLiterally "the god," with the article indicating previous reference will take notice of us and we won't perish!"


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And they said {to one another},Literally "each to his friend/companion" "Come, let us cast lots so that we may know on whose account this disaster has come on us!" And they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 8
c3content:
So they said to him, "Please tell us whoever is responsible that this disaster has come upon us! What is your occupation? And from where do you come? What is your country? And from which people are you?"


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And he said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land."


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Then the men {were greatly afraid},Literally "were afraid with a great fear" and they said to him, "What is this you have done?" because theyLiterally "the men" but this is redundant in English knew that he was fleeing {from the presence of}Literally "from before the face of" Yahweh (because he had told them).


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 11
c3content:
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}.Literally "going/growing and storming"


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 12
c3content:
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 has come upon you all."


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 13
c3content:
But the men rowed hard to bring the shipHere the direct object is supplied from context back to the dry land, and they could not do so because the sea {was growing more and more tempestuous}Literally "going/growing and storming" against them.


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 14
c3content:
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},Literally "do not give innocent blood on us" because you, O Yahweh, did what you wanted."


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 16
c3content:
So the men feared Yahweh {greatly},Literally "with a great fear" and they offered a sacrifice to Yahweh and {made}Literally "vowed" vows. 


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Jonah 1:17-2:10 in the English Bible is 2:1-11 in the Hebrew Bible And Yahweh provided a large fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. 


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And you threw me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the sea currents surrounded me; all your breakers and your surging waves passed over me.


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And I said, 'I am banishedOr "expelled," or "driven away" from your sight; howOr "however, I will continue to look on your holy temple" {will I continue to look}Literally "will I do again to look," meaning "will I continue to look" {on your holy temple}?'Literally "on the temple of your holiness"


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 5
c3content:
The waters encompassed me up to my neck; the deep surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head.


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 6
c3content:
I went down to the foundations of the mountains; the Underworld--its bars were around me forever. But you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 7
c3content:
When my life was ebbing away from me, I remembered Yahweh, and my prayer came to you, {to your holy temple}.Literally "to the temple of your holiness"


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Those who worship vain idols forsake their loyal love.This could mean (1) they forsake the loyal love they should show to God or (2) they forfeit forsake the loyal love that God would have shown to them


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 9
c3content:
But I, with a voice of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to you; I will fulfill what I have vowed. DeliveranceOr "salvation" belongs to Yahweh!"


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 3
c3content:
So Jonah got upOr "set out" and went to Nineveh according to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was {an extraordinarily great city}Literally "a great city to God" or "a great city to the 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)--a journey of three days across.This phrase may also refer to a journey on which business was done, so that "three days" is the total elapsed time


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 4
c3content:
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!"Or "overthrown"


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 5
c3content:
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}.Literally "to the smallest of them" 


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 6
c3content:
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.


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And the human beings and the animals must be covered with sackcloth! And they must call forcefully to God, and each must turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in hisHebrew "their" hands.


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Who knows? God may relent and change his mind and turn {from his blazing anger}Literally "from the heat of his anger" {so that}Hebrew "and" we will not perish." 


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And God saw their deeds--that they turned from their evil ways--and God changed his mind about the evil that he had said he would bring upon them, and he did not do it.Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation 


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And thisHebrew "it" {was greatly displeasing}Literally "was displeasing with great displeasure" to Jonah, and {he became furious}.Literally "it was hot for him"


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And he prayed to Yahweh and said, "O Yahweh, was this not {what I said}Literally "my word" while I was in my homeland? Therefore {I originally fled}Literally "I did the first time to flee" to Tarshish, because I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger {and having great steadfast love},Literally "and great of steadfast love" and one who relents concerning calamity.That is, calamity sent by God as judgment


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And Yahweh said, "{Is it right for you to be angry}?"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) 


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And Jonah went out from the city and sat down east of the city, and he made for himself a shelter there. And he sat under it in the shade, {waiting to see}Literally "until he would see" what would happen with the city.


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And Yahweh God appointed a plant,Probably a castor oil plant, though some have suggested some type of gourd plant 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}Literally "was glad with great joy" about the plant.


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 7
c3content:
So God appointed a worm {at daybreak}Literally "at the coming up of the dawn" the next day, and it attacked the plant, and it withered.


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 8
c3content:
{And when the sun rose},Literally "and it happened at the rising of the sun" 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}Literally "and he asked his soul to die" and said, "My death is better than my life!"


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 9
c3content:
So God said to Jonah, "{Is it right for you to be angry}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) about the plant?" And he said, "{It is right for me to be angry enough to die}!"Literally "Rightfully it is hot for me until death" 


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 10
c3content:
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}!Literally "Which was a son of a night and as a son of a night it perished"


c0book: Jonah
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And should I not be concerned about Nineveh, the great city, {in which there are}Literally "which there are in it" more {than one hundred and twenty thousand}Literally "than two ten myriad" (12 x 10,000) people who do not know right from left,"hand" is often supplied, but it is not clear just what deficiency is meant by this expression, which occurs only here in biblical Hebrew plus many animals?" 


c0book: Mic
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 1
c3content:
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: 


c0book: Mic
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 2
c3content:
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}.Literally "the temple of his holiness"


c0book: Mic
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 3
c3content:
For behold, Yahweh is coming out from his place, and he will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth.


c0book: Mic
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 4
c3content:
The mountains will melt under him and the valleys will burst open, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.


c0book: Mic
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 5
c3content:
All this is for the rebellion of Jacob, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the rebellion of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what are the high places of Judah? Are they not Jerusalem?


c0book: Mic
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 6
c3content:
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.


c0book: Mic
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 7
c3content:
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 them, and to the wage of a prostitute they will return.


c0book: Mic
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 8
c3content:
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}.Literally "daughters of an ostrich"


c0book: Mic
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 9
c3content:
For her wounds are incurable, because it has come to Judah. It has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.


c0book: Mic
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 11
c3content:
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.


c0book: Mic
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 12
c3content:
For the inhabitants of Maroth writhed for good, because disaster has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem.


c0book: Mic
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Harness the chariot to the team of horses, O inhabitants of Lachish; it is the beginning of sin for the daughter of Zion, for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.


c0book: Mic
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Therefore you will give parting gifts to Moresheth-Gath; the houses of Achzib will be a deception to the kings of Israel.


c0book: Mic
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 15
c3content:
I will again bring the conqueror upon you, O inhabitants of Mareshah; the glory of Israel will come to Adullam.


