Bible verses about "watcher" | Bishops

¹ Holde not thy tongue O Lorde: kepe not styll scilence, refraine not thy selfe O Lorde 2 For beholde, thyne enemies make an vprore: and they that hate thee, haue lifted vp their head ³ They haue deuised shrewde counsell against thy people: and they haue consulted against thyne, whom thou defendest ⁴ They haue said, come, and let vs roote them out, that they be no more a people: and that the name of Israel may be no more in remembraunce ⁵ For they haue conspired all in one minde: & are confederate against thee ⁶ The pauilions of Edom and the Ismaelites: of Moab, and Hagerites ⁷ Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalec: the Philistines with the inhabitauntes of Tyre ⁸ Assur also is ioyned vnto them: they were a great ayde to the chyldren of Lot. Selah ⁹ But do thou vnto them, as vnto Midian: as vnto Sisera, as vnto Iabin at the brooke Kishon ¹⁰ Whiche perished at Ein Dor: and became as the doung of the earth ¹¹ Make them, their princes, [and] al their captaynes: lyke Oreb, and lyke Zeeb, and lyke Salmunna ¹² Whiche sayd, let vs take to our selues: the houses of God in possession ¹³ O my Lorde, make them lyke vnto a wheele: and as chaffe before the winde ¹⁴ Lyke as a fire that burneth vp the wood: and as the flambe that consumeth the mountaynes ¹⁵ Persecute them euen so with thy tempest: and make them afrayde with thy storme ¹⁶ Make shame to appeare in their faces: that they may seeke thy name O God ¹⁷ Let them be confounded and astonied with feare euer more & more: let them be put to shame, and perishe ¹⁸ And let them knowe that thou in thy name God eternall art only: O thou the most highest ouer all the earth

¹ In the first yere of Darius the sonne of Ahasuerus, which was of the seede of the Medes, & was made king ouer the realme of the Chaldees ² Euen in the first yere of his raigne, I Daniel vnderstoode by bookes the number of the yeres, wherof the Lorde spake vnto Ieremie the prophete, that he woulde accomplishe seuentie yeres in the desolation of Hierusalem ³ And I turned my face vnto the Lord God, and sought by prayer and supplication, with fasting, sackcloth, and asshes ⁴ I prayed vnto the Lorde my God, & made my confession, saying. O Lorde God, great and feare full, which kepeth couenaunt and mercie with them that loue him and kepe his commaundementes ⁵ We haue sinned and haue committed iniquitie, and haue done wickedly, yea we haue rebelled, & haue departed from thy preceptes, & from thy iudgementes ⁶ We woulde not obey thy seruauntes the prophetes, that spake in thy name to our kinges and princes, to our forefathers, and to all the people of the lande ⁷ O Lorde, righteousnesse belongeth vnto thee, vnto vs open shame, as is came to passe this day vnto euery man of Iuda, and to them that dwel at Hierusalem yea vnto all Israel, whether they be farre or nye throughout all the landes whither thou hast driuen them, because of their offences that they haue done against thee ⁸ Yea O Lorde, vnto vs, to our kinges & princes, to our forefathers that haue offended thee, belongeth open shame ⁹ Unto the Lorde our God pertayneth compassion and forgeuenesse, though we haue rebelled against him ¹⁰ And we haue not obeyed the voyce of the Lorde our God, to walke in his lawes which he layde before vs, by the hande of his seruauntes the prophetes ¹¹ Yea all Israel haue transgressed and gone backe from thy lawe, so that they haue not hearkened vnto thy voyce: wherefore the curse and oth that is written in the lawe of Moyses the seruaunt of God, against whom we haue offended, is poured vpon vs ¹² And he hath confirmed his wordes, which he spake against vs and against our iudges that iudged vs, to bring vpon vs such a great plague as neuer was vnder heauen, lyke as it is now come to passe in Hierusalem ¹³ Yea, all this plague as it is written in the lawe of Moyses, is come vpon vs: yet made we not our prayers before the Lorde our God, that we might turne againe from our wickednes, and vnderstand thy trueth ¹⁴ Therfore hath the Lord watched vpon the plague, and brought it vpon vs: for the Lorde our God is righteous in all his workes which he doth: for we would not hearken vnto his voyce ¹⁵ And now O Lord our God, thou that with a mightie hande hast brought thy people out of the lande of Egypt to get thy selfe a name, which remayneth this day, we haue sinned, we haue done wickedly ¹⁶ O Lorde, according to all thy righteousnes, I beseche thee let thyne anger and thy wrath be turned away from thy citie of Hierusalem, thy holy hill: for because of our sinnes, and for the wickednesse of our fathers, Hierusalem and thy people are a reproche to all them that are about vs ¹⁷ Now therefore O our God heare the prayer of thy seruaunt, and his intercession: O let thy face thine ouer thy sanctuarie that lyeth waste, for the Lordes sake ¹⁸ O my God, encline thyne eare & hearken, open thyne eyes, beholde howe we be desolated, yea and the citie also which is called after thy name: for we do not present our prayers before thee in our owne righteousnes, but in thy great mercies ¹⁹ O Lorde heare, O forgeue Lorde, O Lorde consider and do it, defer not, for thyne owne sake O my God: because thy name is called vpon thy citie, & vpon thy people ²⁰ As I was yet a speaking at my prayers, knowledging myne owne sinnes & the sinnes of my people Israel, presenting so myne intercession before the Lord my God for the holy hill of my God ²¹ Yea, while I was yet speaking in my prayer, the man Gabriel (whom I had seene afore in the vision) came fleeing, & touched me about the time of the euening oblation ²² And he enfourmed me, & talked with me, and saide: O Daniel, I am nowe come foorth to geue thee knowledge & vnderstanding ²³ At the beginning of thy supplications, the commaundement came foorth, and I am come to shewe thee, for thou art greatly beloued: therefore vnderstande the matter and consider the vision ²⁴ Seuetie weekes are determined ouer thy people, & ouer thy holy citie, to finish the wickednes, and to seale vp ye sinnes, and to reconcile the iniquitie, & to bring in euerlasting righteousnes, to seale vp the vision and prophecie, & to annoynt the most holy ²⁵ Knowe therfore and vnderstand, that from the going foorth of the commaudement, to bring againe the [people] and to builde Hierusalem, vnto Messiah the prince, there shalbe seuen weekes and threescore and two weekes: and the streete shalbe built againe, and the wall, [euen] in the straitnes of time ²⁶ After these threescore & two weekes shall Messiah be slaine, & not for him selfe: and the people of the prince that shal come, shall destroy the citie and the sanctuarie, and the ende thereof shalbe with a fludde, and vnto the ende of the battel it shalbe destroyed by desolatios ²⁷ He shall confirme the couenaunt with many for one weeke, and in the midst of the weeke he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to ceasse, and for the ouerspreading of the abhominations, he shal make it desolate, [euen] vntil the consummation determined shalbe powred vpon the desolate

¹ In the third yere of the raigne of king Balthasar, there appeared a vision vnto me [euen] vnto me Daniel, after that which I had seene in the beginning ² I saw in a vision (and when I saw it, I was in the palace of Susis, which is in the prouince of Elam) and in the vision me thought I was by the riuer of Ulai ³ Then I loked vp and saw, & beholde, there stoode before the riuer a ramme which had two hornes: and these two hornes were hye, but one was hyer then the other, & the hyest came vp last ⁴ I saw that this ramme pushed with his hornes against the west, against the north, and against the south: so that no beastes might stand before him, nor defend them from his power, but he did as him listed, and became great ⁵ And as I considered, beholde there came a hee goate from the west, ouer the whole earth, and touched not the grounde: and this goate had a horne appeared betwixt his eyes ⁶ And he came vnto the ramme that had the two hornes (whom I had seene standing by the riuer) and ranne fiercely vpon him with his might ⁷ And I sawe him drawe nye vnto the ramme, being very fierce vpon him, yea he smote the ramme and brake his two hornes, neither had the ramme so much strength as to stande before him: but he cast him downe to the grounde, trode him vnder his feete, & there was none able to deliuer the ramme out of his power ⁸ Therefore the goate waxed exceeding great, & when he was at the strongest, his great horne was broken: Then grew there other foure notable ones in the steade of it, towarde the foure windes of the heauen ⁹ And out of one of them came foorth a litle horne, which waxed very great toward the south, toward the east, and toward the pleasaunt lande ¹⁰ It grewe vp vnto the hoast of heauen, whereof it did cast some downe to the grounde, and of the starres also, and trode them vnder foote ¹¹ Yea, it grewe vp against the prince of the hoast, from whom the dayly [sacrifice] was taken away, and the places of his sanctuarie caste downe ¹² And power was geuen vnto it ouer the dayly [sacrifice] for the iniquitie, and it shall cast downe the trueth to the grounde: and thus shall it do, and prosper ¹³ Upon this, I heard one of the sainctes speaking, and one of the sainctes spake vnto Palmoni, saying: how long shal the vision of the dayly [sacrifice] and of the iniquitie of desolation [endure,] to geue both the sanctuarie and the power to be troden vnder foote ¹⁴ And he aunswered me: Unto the euening and the morning, two thousand and three hundred: then shal the sanctuarie be cleansed ¹⁵ Now when I Daniel had seene this vision, and sought for the vnderstanding of it: beholde, there stoode before me like the similitude of a man ¹⁶ And I heard a mans voyce betweene Ulai, which cryed, and saide: O Gabriel make this man vnderstande the vision ¹⁷ So he came and stoode by me: but I was afraide at his comming, and fell downe vpo my face: Then said he vnto me, Understand O thou sonne of man: for at the time of the ende this vision [shalbe. ¹⁸ Now as he was speaking vnto me, I fell in a slumber vpon my face to the grounde: but he touched me, and set me vp in my place ¹⁹ And he saide, Beholde, I wyll shewe thee what shalbe in the last wrath: for in the time appoynted it shalbe fulfilled ²⁰ The ramme which thou sawest hauing two hornes, is the king of the Medes and Perses ²¹ And the goate, is the king of Grecia: and the great horne that is betwixt his eyes, that is the first king ²² But where as it brake, & foure other rose vp in the steade: [it signifieth,] that out of this people shall stande vp foure kingdomes, but not so mightie as it ²³ And in the ende of their kingdome, when the wicked are come to the full, a king of a fierce countenaunce, and vnderstanding harde sentences, shall stand vp ²⁴ His power shalbe mightie, but not in his strength, & he shall destroy wonderfully, he shall prosper & practise, and destroy the mightie and the holy people ²⁵ And through his policie also he shall cause craft to prosper in his handes, he shall extoll him selfe in his heart, and in prosperitie he shall destroy many, & many one shalbe put to death in his wealthinesse: he shall stande vp against the prince of princes, but he shalbe destroyed without hande ²⁶ And the vision of the euening and the morning, which is declared, is true: therfore seale thou vp the vision, for it shalbe after many dayes ²⁷ Upon this was I Daniel feeble, so that I lay sicke [certaine] dayes: but when I rose vp, I went about ye kinges busines, and was astonied at the vision, neuerthelesse, no man vnderstoode it

¹ Concernyng spirituall gyftes, brethren, I woulde not haue you ignoraunt ² Ye knowe yt ye were gentiles, and caryed away vnto dumbe idols, as ye were led ³ Wherfore I declare vnto you, that no man speakyng by the spirite of God, defieth Iesus. Also no man can say that Iesus is ye Lord, but by the holy ghost ⁴ There are diuersities of gyftes, but the spirite [is] one ⁵ And there are differences of administrations, but the Lorde [is] one ⁶ And there are diuers maners of operations, but God is one, which worketh all in all ⁷ The manifestation of the spirite, is geuen to euery man, to profite withall ⁸ For to one is geuen by the spirite, the worde of wisdome, to another the word of knowledge, by the same spirite ⁹ To another [is geuen] fayth, by the same spirite: to another the giftes of healyng by the same spirite ¹⁰ To another, power to do miracles, to another, prophesie, to another [iudgement] to discerne spirites, to another, diuers kyndes of tongues, to another, the interpretation of tongues ¹¹ But these all worketh euen one and the selfe same spirite, deuidyng to euery man a seuerall gyft, as he wyll ¹² For as the body is one, & hath many members, and all the members of one body, though they be many, [yet] are [but] one body: euen so is Christe ¹³ For by one spirite, are we all baptized into one body, whether [we be] Iewes or gentiles, whether [we be] bonde or free: and haue all drunke of one spirite ¹⁴ For the body is not one member, but many ¹⁵ If the foote woulde say, because I am not the hande, I am not of the body: is it therfore not of the body ¹⁶ And yf the eare woulde say, because I am not the eye, I am not of the body: is it therfore not of the body ¹⁷ If all the body [were] an eye, where were then the hearyng? If all [were] hearyng, where were the smellyng ¹⁸ But nowe hath God set ye members, euery one seuerally in the body, as it hath pleased hym ¹⁹ For yf they were all one member, where were the body ²⁰ Nowe are there many members, yet but one body ²¹ And the eye can not say vnto ye hande, I haue no neede of thee: Nor, the head agayne to the feete, I haue no neede of you ²² Yea, rather a great deale, those members of the body which seeme to be more feeble, are necessary ²³ And vpon those members of the body which we thynke least honest, put we more honestie on. And our vncomely partes, haue more comelynesse on ²⁴ For our comely members neede it not: But God hath tempered the body together, and hath geuen the more honour to that [part] which lacked ²⁵ Lest there shoulde be any stryfe in the body: but that the members shoulde haue the same care one for another ²⁶ And yf one member suffer, all suffer with it. If one member be had in honour, all the members reioyce with it ²⁷ Ye are the body of Christe, and members one of another ²⁸ And God hath ordayned some in the Churche, first Apostles, secondarely, prophetes, thirdely teachers, then them that do miracles: after that, the giftes of healyng, helpers, gouernours, diuersitie of tongues ²⁹ Are all, Apostles? are all, prophetes? are all, teachers ³⁰ Are all, doers of miracles? Haue all the giftes of healyng? Do all speake with tongues? Do all interprete ³¹ Couet after the best giftes: And yet shew I vnto you a more excellent way

⁴³ And wheras thou sawest iron mixt with clay and earth, they shall mingle themselues with the seede of men, and yet not ioyne one with another, as iron will not be mixt with clay

¹ And at that tyme shal Michael stande vp, the great prince, which standeth for the chyldren of thy people: for there shalbe a tyme of trouble, suche as neuer was since there began to be a nation, vnto that same tyme: and at that tyme thy people shalbe deliuered euery one that shalbe found written in the booke ² And many of them that sleepe in the dust of the earth, shal awake, some to euerlasting life, & some to shame & perpetuall contempt ³ They that be wyse, shall shine as the brightnesse of the firmament: and they that turne many to righteousnesse, as the starres for euer and euer ⁴ But thou O Daniel shut vp the wordes, and seale the booke till the time of the ende: many shall go about here and there, and knowledge shalbe encreased ⁵ Then I Daniel looked, and beholde there stoode other two, the one on this side of the banke of the riuer, and the other on that side of the banke of the riuer ⁶ And [one] sayde vnto the man clothed in linnen, whiche was ouer the waters of the riuer, When shal the ende of these wonders be ⁷ And I hearde the man clothed in linnen, which was ouer the waters of the riuer, when he held vp his right hand and his left hande vnto heauen, and sware by hym that liueth for euer, that [it shall tary] for a tyme, tymes, and a halfe: and when he shall haue accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these thinges shalbe finished ⁸ Then I hearde it, but I vnderstoode it not: then sayde I, O my Lord, what shall be the ende of these thinges ⁹ And he saide, Go thy way Daniel, for the wordes are closed vp and sealed tyll the tyme of the ende ¹⁰ Many shalbe purified, made white, and tryed: but the wicked shall do wickedly, and none of the wicked shal haue vnderstanding, but the wyse shall vnderstande ¹¹ And from the tyme that the dayly [sacrifice] shalbe taken away, and the abhominable desolation set vp, there shalbe a thousande two hundred, and ninetie dayes ¹² Blessed is he that wayteth and commeth to the thousande, three hundred, and fiue and thirtie dayes ¹³ But go thou thy way tyll the ende be, for thou shalt rest, and stande vp in thy lot at the ende of the dayes

¹³ Upon this, I heard one of the sainctes speaking, and one of the sainctes spake vnto Palmoni, saying: how long shal the vision of the dayly [sacrifice] and of the iniquitie of desolation [endure,] to geue both the sanctuarie and the power to be troden vnder foote ¹⁴ And he aunswered me: Unto the euening and the morning, two thousand and three hundred: then shal the sanctuarie be cleansed ¹⁵ Now when I Daniel had seene this vision, and sought for the vnderstanding of it: beholde, there stoode before me like the similitude of a man ¹⁶ And I heard a mans voyce betweene Ulai, which cryed, and saide: O Gabriel make this man vnderstande the vision ¹⁷ So he came and stoode by me: but I was afraide at his comming, and fell downe vpo my face: Then said he vnto me, Understand O thou sonne of man: for at the time of the ende this vision [shalbe.

¹³ But the prince of the kingdome of Persia withstoode me one and twentie dayes: but lo, Michael one of the chiefe princes came to helpe me, & I remained there by the kinges of Persia ¹⁴ And I am come to shew thee what shall come vnto thy people in the latter dayes: for it wyll be long yet or the vision be fulfilled ¹⁵ Now whe he had spoken these words vnto me, I cast downe my head to the grounde, and held my tongue ¹⁶ And beholde, there touched my lippes one very lyke vnto a man: then opened I my mouth and spake, and saide vnto him that stoode before me, O my lorde, by the vision my ioyntes are turned out of [their] place, and I haue reteyned no strength ¹⁷ For howe can the seruaunt of this my Lorde, talke with my Lorde [being] such a one? And as for me, straight way there remayned no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me ¹⁸ Then there came againe and touched me one lyke the appearaunce of a man, and he strengthened me ¹⁹ And saide, O man greatly beloued feare not, peace be vnto thee, be strong and of good courage. So when he had spoken vnto me, I was strengthened and saide, Speake on my Lorde: for thou hast strengthened me ²⁰ Thus saide he: Knowest thou wherefore I am come vnto thee? now wyll I returne to fight with the prince of the Perses: assoone as I go foorth, lo, the prince of Greke lande shall come ²¹ Neuerthelesse, I wyll shew thee that that is noted in the scripture of trueth: and there is none that helpeth me in these thinges, but Michael your prince

¹⁶ For where enuiyng and strife is, there is sedition & all maner of euyll workes ¹⁷ But the wisdome that is from aboue, is first pure, then peaseable, gentle, and easie to be entreated, full of mercie and good fruites, without iudgyng, without simulation ¹⁸ Yea, and the fruite of ryghteousnes is sowen in peace, of the that make peace

¹ And it came to passe, that when men began to be multiplied in the vpper face of the earth, there were daughters borne vnto the ² And the sonnes of God also sawe the daughters of men that they were fayre, & they toke them wyues, such as theyliked, from among them all ³ And the Lorde sayde: My spirite shall not alwayes stryue with man, because he is fleshe: yet his dayes shalbe an hundreth and twentie yeres ⁴ But there were Giantes in those dayes in ye earth: yea & after that the sonnes of God came vnto the daughters of me, and hadde begotten chyldren of them, the same became myghtie men of the worlde, and men of renowme ⁵ But God sawe that the malice of man was great in the earth, and all the imagination of the thoughtes of his heart [was] only euyll euery day ⁶ And it repented the Lord that he had made man vpon the earth, & he was touched with sorowe in his heart ⁷ And the Lorde sayde: I wyll from the vpper face of the earth, destroy man whom I haue created, from man vnto cattell, vnto worme, and vnto foules of the ayre: For it repenteth me that I haue made them ⁸ But Noah founde grace in the eyes of the Lorde ⁹ These are the generations of Noah: Noah [was] a iust man, and perfect in his generations: And Noah walked with God ¹⁰ Noah begat three sonnes, Sem, Ham, and Iapheth ¹¹ The earth also was corrupt before God, and the same earth was fylled with crueltie ¹² And God loked vpon the earth, and beholde it was corrupt: for all fleshe had corrupt his way vpon earth ¹³ And God sayd vnto Noah: the ende of all fleshe is come before me, for the earth is fylled with crueltie through them, and beholde I wyl destroy them with the earth ¹⁴ Make thee an Arke of Pine trees: Habitations shalt thou make in the arke, and shalt pitch it within and with out with pitche ¹⁵ And of this fashion shalt thou make it: The length of the arke [shalbe] three hundreth cubites, the breadth of it fiftie cubites, & the height of it thirtie cubites ¹⁶ A wyndowe shalt thou make in the arke, and in a cubite shalt thou finishe it aboue: but the doore of the arke shalt thou set in the syde therof. With three loftes one aboue another shalt thou make it ¹⁷ And beholde, I, euen I do bryng a fludde of waters vpon the earth, to destroy all fleshe wherin is the breath of lyfe vnder heauen, and euery thyng that is in the earth shall perishe ¹⁸ With thee also wyll I make my couenaunt: and thou shalt come into the arke, thou and thy sonnes, thy wife, and thy sonnes wyues with thee ¹⁹ And of euery lyuyng thyng of all fleshe, a payre of euery one shalt thou bryng into the arke to kepe them alyue with thee, they shalbe male & female ²⁰ Of fethered foules also after their kinde, and of all cattell after their kinde: of euery worme of the earth after his kynde, two of euery one shall come vnto thee, to kepe [them] alyue ²¹ And take thou with thee of all meate that is eaten, and thou shalt lay it vp with thee, that it may be meate for thee and them ²² Noah therfore dyd according vnto all that God commaunded hym [euen] so dyd he

³⁷ But as the dayes of Noe were, so shall also the commyng of the sonne of man be

¹² For we wrastle not agaynst blood & flesshe: but agaynst rule, agaynst power, agaynst worldly gouernours of the darknesse of this worlde, agaynst spirituall craftynesse in heauenly [places.

² Be not forgetfull to lodge straungers: For therby some hauyng lodged Angels, were vnawares therof

¹ And it came to passe, that when men began to be multiplied in the vpper face of the earth, there were daughters borne vnto the ² And the sonnes of God also sawe the daughters of men that they were fayre, & they toke them wyues, such as theyliked, from among them all ³ And the Lorde sayde: My spirite shall not alwayes stryue with man, because he is fleshe: yet his dayes shalbe an hundreth and twentie yeres ⁴ But there were Giantes in those dayes in ye earth: yea & after that the sonnes of God came vnto the daughters of me, and hadde begotten chyldren of them, the same became myghtie men of the worlde, and men of renowme

¹⁷ This sentence [is] according to the decree of the watchers, and the request according to the word of the holy ones: because liuing men should knowe that the hyghest hath power ouer the kingdome of men, and geueth it to whom it liketh hym, and setteth vp ouer it the basese among men

²³ But wheras the king saw a watcher, and a holy one that came downe from heauen, and sayd, Hewe downe the tree, & destroy it, yet leaue the stumpe of the rootes therof in the earth, and with a band of iron & brasse binde it among the grasse of the fielde, & let it be wet with the dewe of the heauen, and let his portion be with the beastes of the fielde, till seuen times passe ouer him

¹³ I sawe in the visions of my head vpon my bed, and beholde a watcher and a holy one came downe from heauen