Matthew 24 Cross References - BBE

¹ And Jesus went out of the Temple, and on the way his disciples came to him, pointing out the buildings of the Temple. ² But he, answering, said to them, See you not all these things? truly I say to you that here there will not be one stone resting on another, which will not be pulled down. ³ And while he was seated on the Mountain of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, Make clear to us, when will these things be? and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the world? ⁴ And Jesus said to them in answer, Take care that you are not tricked. ⁵ For people will come in my name, saying, I am the Christ; and a number will be turned from the true way through them. ⁶ And news will come to you of wars and talk of wars: do not be troubled, for these things have to be; but it is still not the end. ⁷ For nation will be moved against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and men will be without food, and the earth will be shaking in different places; ⁸ But all these things are the first of the troubles. ⁹ Then they will be cruel to you, and will put you to death: and you will be hated by all nations because of my name. ¹⁰ And numbers of people will be turned from the right way, and will give one another up and have hate for one another. ¹¹ And a number of false prophets will come, causing error. ¹² And because wrongdoing will be increased, the love of most people will become cold. ¹³ But he who goes through to the end will get salvation. ¹⁴ And this good news of the kingdom will be given through all the world for a witness to all nations; and then the end will come. ¹⁵ When, then, you see in the holy place the unclean thing which makes destruction, of which word was given by Daniel the prophet let this be clear to the reader, ¹⁶ Then let those who are in Judaea go in flight to the mountains: ¹⁷ Let not him who is on the house-top go down to take anything out of his house: ¹⁸ And let not him who is in the field go back to get his coat. ¹⁹ But it will be hard for women who are with child and for those with babies at the breast in those days. ²⁰ And say a prayer that your flight may not be in the winter, or on a Sabbath. ²¹ Because in those days there will be great sorrow, such as there has not been from the start of the world till now, or ever will be. ²² And if those days had not been made short there would have been no salvation for any, but because of the saints those days will be made short. ²³ Then if any man says to you, See, here is the Christ, or, Here; do not put faith in him; ²⁴ For there will come up false Christs, and false prophets, who will do great signs and wonders; so that if possible even the saints might be tricked. ²⁵ See, I have made it clear to you before it comes about. ²⁶ If, then, they say to you, See, he is in the waste land; go not out: See, he is in the inner rooms; put no faith in it. ²⁷ Because as in a thunderstorm the bright light coming from the east is seen even in the west; so will be the coming of the Son of man. ²⁸ Wherever the dead body is, there will the eagles come together. ²⁹ But straight away, after the trouble of those days, the sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light and the stars will come down from heaven and the powers of heaven will be moved: ³⁰ And then the sign of the Son of man will be seen in heaven: and then all the nations of the earth will have sorrow, and they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. ³¹ And he will send out his angels with a great sound of a horn, and they will get his saints together from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. ³² Now take an example from the fig-tree: when her branch has become soft and puts out its leaves, you are certain that the summer is near; ³³ Even so, when you see all these things, you may be certain that he is near, even at the doors. ³⁴ Truly I say to you, This generation will not come to an end till all these things are complete. ³⁵ Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end. ³⁶ But of that day and hour no one has knowledge, not even the angels in heaven, or the Son, but the Father only. ³⁷ And as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of man. ³⁸ Because as in those days before the overflowing of the waters, they were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day when Noah went into the ark, ³⁹ And they had no care till the waters came and took them all away; so will be the coming of the Son of man. ⁴⁰ Then two men will be in the field; one is taken, and one let go; ⁴¹ Two women will be crushing grain; one is taken, and one let go. ⁴² Be watching, then! for you have no knowledge on what day your Lord will come. ⁴³ But be certain of this, that if the master of the house had had knowledge of the time when the thief was coming, he would have been watching, and would not have let his house be broken into. ⁴⁴ Be ready then; for at a time which you have no thought of the Son of man will come. ⁴⁵ Who is the true and wise servant, whom his lord has put over those in his house, to give them their food at the right time? ⁴⁶ A blessing on that servant, who will be doing so when his lord comes. ⁴⁷ Truly, I say to you, he will put him over all he has. ⁴⁸ But if that evil servant says in his heart, My lord is a long time in coming; ⁴⁹ And is cruel to the other servants, taking his pleasure with those who are overcome with wine; ⁵⁰ The lord of that servant will come in a day when he is not looking for him, and in an hour of which he has no knowledge, ⁵¹ And will have him cut in two, and will give him a part in the fate of the false ones: there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.

¹ And after a time, when men were increasing on the earth, and had daughters, ² The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them.

² The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them. ³ And the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever, for he is only flesh; so the days of his life will be a hundred and twenty years. ⁴ There were men of great strength and size on the earth in those days; and after that, when the sons of God had connection with the daughters of men, they gave birth to children: these were the great men of old days, the men of great name. ⁵ And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil. ⁶ And the Lord had sorrow because he had made man on the earth, and grief was in his heart. ⁷ And the Lord said, I will take away man, whom I have made, from the face of the earth, even man and beast and that which goes on the earth and every bird of the air; for I have sorrow for having made them.

⁶ And Noah was six hundred years old when the waters came flowing over all the earth. ⁷ And Noah, with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the flowing of the waters.

⁷ And Noah, with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the flowing of the waters. ⁸ Of clean beasts, and of beasts which are not clean, and of birds, and of everything which goes on the earth, ⁹ In twos, male and female, they went into the ark with Noah, as God had said. ¹⁰ And after the seven days, the waters came over all the earth. ¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open; ¹² And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights. ¹³ On the same day Noah, with Shem, Ham, and Japheth, his sons, and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark; ¹⁴ And with them, every sort of beast and cattle, and every sort of thing which goes on the earth, and every sort of bird. ¹⁵ They went with Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which is the breath of life. ¹⁶ Male and female of all flesh went in, as God had said, and the ark was shut by the Lord. ¹⁷ And for forty days the waters were over all the earth; and the waters were increased so that the ark was lifted up high over the earth. ¹⁸ And the waters overcame everything and were increased greatly on the earth, and the ark was resting on the face of the waters. ¹⁹ And the waters overcame everything on the earth; and all the mountains under heaven were covered. ²⁰ The waters went fifteen cubits higher, till all the mountains were covered. ²¹ And destruction came on every living thing moving on the earth, birds and cattle and beasts and everything which went on the earth, and every man. ²² Everything on the dry land, in which was the breath of life, came to its end. ²³ Every living thing on the face of all the earth, man and cattle and things moving on the face of the earth, and birds of the air, came to destruction: only Noah and those who were with him in the ark, were kept from death.

¹⁵ And when morning came, the angels did all in their power to make Lot go, saying, Get up quickly and take your wife and your two daughters who are here, and go, for fear that you come to destruction in the punishment of the town. ¹⁶ But while he was waiting, the men took him and his wife and his daughters by the hand, for the Lord had mercy on them, and put them outside the town. ¹⁷ And when they had put them out, he said, Go for your life, without looking back or waiting in the lowland; go quickly to the mountain or you will come to destruction.

²⁰ Then everyone among the servants of Pharaoh who had the fear of the Lord, made his servants and his cattle come quickly into the house: ²¹ And he who gave no attention to the word of the Lord, kept his servants and his cattle in the field.

⁵ And death will come to every mother's first male child in all the land of Egypt, from the child of Pharaoh on his seat of power, to the child of the servant-girl crushing the grain; and the first births of all the cattle.

²⁹ See, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, he gives you on the sixth day bread enough for two days; let every man keep where he is; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

² If a thief is taken in the act of forcing his way into a house, and his death is caused by a blow, the owner of the house is not responsible for his blood. ³ But if it is after dawn, he will be responsible.

¹⁸ And if, even after these things, you will not give ear to me, then I will send you punishment seven times more for your sins. ¹⁹ And the pride of your strength will be broken, and I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as brass; ²⁰ And your strength will be used up without profit; for your land will not give her increase and the trees of the field will not give their fruit. ²¹ And if you still go against me and will not give ear to me, I will put seven times more punishments on you because of your sins. ²² I will let loose the beasts of the field among you, and they will take away your children and send destruction on your cattle, so that your numbers will become small and your roads become waste. ²³ And if by these things you will not be turned to me, but still go against me; ²⁴ Then I will go against you, and I will give you punishment, I myself, seven times for all your sins. ²⁵ And I will send a sword on you to give effect to the punishment of my agreement; and when you come together into your towns I will send disease among you and you will be given up into the hands of your haters. ²⁶ When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough. ²⁷ And if, after all this, you do not give ear to me, but go against me still, ²⁸ Then my wrath will be burning against you, and I will give you punishment, I myself, seven times for your sins. ²⁹ Then you will take the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters for food;

¹ And the Lord said to Moses, ² Make two silver horns of hammered work, to be used for getting the people together and to give the sign for the moving of the tents. ³ When they are sounded, all the people are to come together to you at the door of the Tent of meeting. ⁴ If only one of them is sounded, then the chiefs, the heads of the thousands of Israel, are to come to you. ⁵ When a loud note is sounded, the tents placed on the east side are to go forward. ⁶ At the sound of a second loud note, the tents on the south side are to go forward: the loud note will be the sign to go forward. ⁷ But when all the people are to come together, the horn is to be sounded but not loudly. ⁸ The horns are to be sounded by the sons of Aaron, the priests; this is to be a law for you for ever, from generation to generation. ⁹ And if you go to war in your land against any who do you wrong, then let the loud note of the horn be sounded; and the Lord your God will keep you in mind and give you salvation from those who are against you. ¹⁰ And on days of joy and on your regular feasts and on the first day of every month, let the horns be sounded over your burned offerings and your peace-offerings; and they will put the Lord in mind of you: I am the Lord your God.

¹⁹ God is not a man, to say what is false; or the son of man, that his purpose may be changed: what he has said, will he not do? and will he not give effect to the words of his mouth?

⁴ And after the Lord has sent them in flight from before you, say not in your heart, Because of my righteousness the Lord has given me this land; when it is because of their evil-doing that the Lord is driving these nations out before you.

¹ If ever you have among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams and he gives you a sign or a wonder,

¹ If ever you have among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams and he gives you a sign or a wonder, ² And the sign or the wonder takes place, and he says to you, Let us go after other gods, which are strange to you, and give them worship; ³ Then give no attention to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God is testing you, to see if all the love of your heart and soul is given to him.

⁹ And see that there is no evil thought in your heart, moving you to say to yourself, The seventh year, the year of forgiveness is near; and so looking coldly on your poor countryman you give him nothing; and he will make an outcry to the Lord against you, and it will be judged as sin in you.

⁸ If you are building a house, make a railing for the roof, so that the blood of any man falling from it will not come on your house.

⁴⁹ The Lord will send a nation against you from the farthest ends of the earth, coming with the flight of an eagle; a nation whose language is strange to you;

⁵³ And your food will be the fruit of your body, the flesh of the sons and daughters which the Lord your God has given you; because of your bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters. ⁵⁴ That man among you who is soft and used to comfort will be hard and cruel to his brother, and to his dear wife, and to of those his children who are still living; ⁵⁵ And will not give to any of them the flesh of his children which will be his food because he has no other; in the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns. ⁵⁶ The most soft and delicate of your women, who would not so much as put her foot on the earth, so delicate is she, will be hard-hearted to her husband and to her son and to her daughter;

⁵⁹ Then the Lord your God will make your punishment, and the punishment of your seed, a thing to be wondered at; great punishments and cruel diseases stretching on through long years.

⁴ Even if those who have been forced out are living in the farthest part of heaven, the Lord your God will go in search of you, and take you back;

³⁴ And they came in front of Gibeah, ten thousand of the best men in all Israel, and the fighting became more violent; but the children of Benjamin were not conscious that evil was coming on them.

¹³ And the priests' way with the people was this: when any man made an offering, the priest's servant came while the flesh was being cooked, having in his hand a meat-hook with three teeth; ¹⁴ This he put into the pot, and everything which came up on the hook the priest took for himself. This they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there. ¹⁵ And more than this, before the fat was burned, the priest's servant would come and say to the man who was making the offering, Give me some of the flesh to be cooked for the priest; he has no taste for meat cooked in water, but would have you give it uncooked. ¹⁶ And if the man said to him, First let the fat be burned, then take as much as you will; then the servant would say, No, you are to give it to me now, or I will take it by force.

²⁹ Why then are you looking with envy on my offerings of meat and of meal which were ordered by my word, honouring your sons before me, and making yourselves fat with all the best of the offerings of Israel, my people?

²⁵ And when they had come down from the high place into the town, where a bed was made ready for Saul, he went to rest.

³⁶ And Abigail went back to Nabal; and he was feasting in his house like a king; and Nabal's heart was full of joy, for he had taken much wine; so she said nothing to him till dawn came. ³⁷ And in the morning, when the effect of the wine was gone, Nabal's wife gave him an account of all these things, and all the heart went out of him, and he became like stone. ³⁸ And about ten days after, the Lord sent disease on Nabal and death came to him.

¹⁶ And when he had taken him down, they saw them all, seated about on all sides, feasting and drinking among all the mass of goods which they had taken from the land of the Philistines and the land of Judah. ¹⁷ And David went on fighting them from evening till the evening of the day after; and not one of them got away but only four hundred young men who went in flight on camels.

⁴ Now Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son whose feet were damaged. He was five years old when news of the death of Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and the woman who took care of him took him up and went in flight: and while she was getting him away as quickly as she was able, he had a fall and his feet were damaged. His name was Mephibosheth.

⁷ Then I will have Israel cut off from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for myself, I will put away from before my eyes; and Israel will be a public example, and a word of shame among all peoples. ⁸ And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder at it and make whistling sounds; and they will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?

²⁶ And he said to him, Did not my heart go with you, when the man got down from his carriage and went back to you? Is this a time for getting money, and clothing, and olive-gardens and vine-gardens, and sheep and oxen, and men-servants and women-servants?

¹⁶ Then Menahem sent destruction on Tappuah and all the people in it, and its limits, from Tirzah, because they would not let him come in; and he had all the women who were with child cut open.

⁶ And they were broken by divisions, nation against nation and town against town, because God sent all sorts of trouble on them.

¹² And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers, ¹³ And made prayer to him; and in answer to his prayer God let him come back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh was certain that the Lord was God. ¹⁴ After this he made an outer wall for the town of David, on the west side of Gihon in the valley, as far as the way into the town by the fish doorway; and he put a very high wall round the Ophel; and he put captains of the army in all the walled towns of Judah. ¹⁵ He took away the strange gods and the image out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars he had put up on the hill of the Lord's house and in Jerusalem, and put them out of the town. ¹⁶ And he put the altar of the Lord in order, offering peace-offerings and praise-offerings on it, and said that all Judah were to be servants of the Lord, the God of Israel. ¹⁷ However, the people still made offerings in the high places, but only to the Lord their God. ¹⁸ Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words which the seers said to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, are recorded among the acts of the kings of Israel. ¹⁹ And the prayer which he made to God, and how God gave him an answer, and all his sin and his wrongdoing, and the places where he made high places and put up pillars of wood and images, before he put away his pride, are recorded in the history of the seers. ²⁰ So Manasseh went to rest with his fathers, and they put his body to rest in his house, and Amon his son became king in his place. ²¹ Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king; and he was ruling for two years in Jerusalem. ²² He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done; and Amon made offerings to all the images which his father Manasseh had made, and was their servant. ²³ He did not make himself low before the Lord, as his father Manasseh had done, but went on sinning more and more. ²⁴ And his servants made a secret design against him, and put him to death in his house.

⁴ And the Satan said in answer to the Lord, Skin for skin, all a man has he will give for his life.

²⁹ This is the reward of the evil man, and the heritage given to him by God.

¹⁵ Will you keep the old way by which evil men went? ¹⁶ Who were violently taken away before their time, who were overcome by the rush of waters: ¹⁷ Who said to God, Go away from us; and, What is the Ruler of all able to do to us?

³ He sends it out through all the heaven, and his thunder-flame to the ends of the earth.

³⁵ Do you send out the thunder-flames, so that they may go, and say to you, Here we are?

²⁷ Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high? ²⁸ On the rock is his house, and on the mountain-top his strong place. ²⁹ From there he is watching for food; his eye sees it far off. ³⁰ His young have blood for their drink, and where the dead bodies are, there is he to be seen.

⁷ The law of the Lord is good, giving new life to the soul: the witness of the Lord is certain, giving wisdom to the foolish.

²⁷ All the ends of the earth will keep it in mind and be turned to the Lord: all the families of the nations will give him worship.

¹ Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; who is then a cause of fear to me? the Lord is the strength of my life; who is a danger to me? ² When evil-doers, even my haters, came on me to put an end to me, they were broken and put to shame. ³ Even if an army came against me with its tents, my heart would have no fear: if war was made on me, my faith would not be moved.

¹ To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah; put to Alamoth. A Song. God is our harbour and our strength, a very present help in trouble. ² For this cause we will have no fear, even though the earth is changed, and though the mountains are moved in the heart of the sea; ³ Though its waters are sounding and troubled, and though the mountains are shaking with their violent motion. Selah.

⁷ God will give us his blessing; so let all the ends of the earth be in fear of him.

²² Let their table before them be for their destruction; let their feasts become a net to take them. ²³ Let their eyes be blind so that they may not see; let their bodies for ever be shaking. ²⁴ Let your curse come on them; let the heat of your wrath overtake them. ²⁵ Give their houses to destruction, and let there be no one in their tents. ²⁶ Because they are cruel to him against whom your hand is turned; they make bitter the grief of him who is wounded by you. ²⁷ Let their punishment be increased; let them not come into your righteousness. ²⁸ Let their names be taken from the book of the living, let them not be numbered with the upright.

³ Let the horn be sounded in the time of the new moon, at the full moon, on our holy feast-day:

³⁴ I will be true to my agreement; the things which have gone out of my lips will not be changed.

²⁶ They will come to an end, but you will still go on; they all will become old like a coat, and like a robe they will be changed:

⁷ He will have no fear of evil news; his heart is fixed, for his hope is in the Lord.

⁴ Give no sleep to your eyes, or rest to them; ⁵ Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her.

¹⁹ For the master of the house is away on a long journey:

³ The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble.

³⁵ They have overcome me, you will say, and I have no pain; they gave me blows without my feeling them: when will I be awake from my wine? I will go after it again.

¹² If you say, See, we had no knowledge of this: does not the tester of hearts give thought to it? and he who keeps your soul, has he no knowledge of it? and will he not give to every man the reward of his work?

¹ A man hating sharp words and making his heart hard, will suddenly be broken and will not be made well again.

⁷ The upright man gives attention to the cause of the poor: the evil-doer gives no thought to it.

⁵ Every word of God is tested: he is a breastplate to those who put their faith in him.

¹¹ Because punishment for an evil work comes not quickly, the minds of the sons of men are fully given to doing evil.

¹³ And even if there is still a tenth part in it, it will again be burned, like a tree of the woods whose broken end is still in the earth after the tree has been cut down the holy seed is the broken end.

¹² Do not say, It is holy, about everything of which this people says, It is holy; and do not be in fear of what they go in fear of. ¹³ But let the Lord of armies be holy to you, and go in fear of him, giving honour to him. ¹⁴ And he will be for a holy place: but for a stone of falling and a rock of trouble to the two houses of Israel, and to the men of Jerusalem, for a net in which they may be taken.

¹² Aram on the east, and the Philistines on the west, who have come against Israel with open mouths. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

¹⁷ For this cause the Lord will have no pleasure in their young men, and no pity on their widows and the children without fathers: for they are all haters of God and evil-doers, and foolish words come from every mouth. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

¹⁹ The land was dark with the wrath of the Lord of armies: the people were like those who take men's flesh for food. ²⁰ On the right a man was cutting off bits and was still in need; on the left a man took a meal but had not enough; no man had pity on his brother; every man was making a meal of the flesh of his neighbour. ²¹ Manasseh was making a meal of Ephraim, and Ephraim of Manasseh; and together they were attacking Judah. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

²¹ Manasseh was making a meal of Ephraim, and Ephraim of Manasseh; and together they were attacking Judah. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

⁴ (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

¹² And he will put up a flag as a sign to the nations, and he will get together those of Israel who had been sent away, and the wandering ones of Judah, from the four ends of the earth.

² See, God is my salvation; I will have faith in the Lord, without fear: for the Lord Jah is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.

⁵ They come from a far country, from the farthest part of heaven, even the Lord and the instruments of his wrath, with destruction for all the land.

¹⁰ For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light.

² And I will send the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they will be fighting every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; town against town, and kingdom against kingdom.

¹² And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief: ¹³ But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes. ¹⁴ And the Lord of armies said to me secretly, Truly, this sin will not be taken from you till your death, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.

¹⁹ The earth is completely broken, it is parted in two, it is violently moved. ²⁰ The earth will be moving uncertainly, like a man overcome by drink; it will be shaking like a tent; and the weight of its sin will be on it, crushing it down so that it will not get up again. ²¹ And in that day the Lord will send punishment on the army of the high ones on high, and on the kings of the earth on the earth. ²² And they will be got together, like prisoners in the prison-house; and after a long time they will have their punishment. ²³ Then the moon will be veiled, and the sun put to shame; for the Lord of armies will be ruling in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before his judges he will let his glory be seen.

²³ Then the moon will be veiled, and the sun put to shame; for the Lord of armies will be ruling in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before his judges he will let his glory be seen.

³ The man whose heart is unmoved you will keep in peace, because his hope is in you. ⁴ Let your hope be in the Lord for ever: for the Lord Jah is an unchanging Rock.

²⁰ Come, my people, into your secret places, and let your doors be shut: keep yourself safe for a short time, till his wrath is over. ²¹ For the Lord is coming out of his place to send punishment on the people of the earth for their evil-doing: the earth will let the blood drained out on her be seen, and will keep her dead covered no longer.

¹³ And it will be in that day that a great horn will be sounded; and those who were wandering in the land of Assyria, and those who had been sent away into the land of Egypt, will come; and they will give worship to the Lord in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

³⁰ And the Lord will send out the sound of his great voice, and they will see his arm stretched out, with the heat of his wrath, and the flame of a burning fire; with a cloud-burst, and storm, and a rain of ice.

⁶ For the foolish man will say foolish things, having evil thoughts in his heart, working what is unclean, and talking falsely about the Lord, to keep food from him who is in need of it, and water from him whose soul is desiring it.

¹⁴ The sinners in Zion are full of fear; the haters of God are shaking with wonder. Who among us may keep his place before the burning fire? who among us may see the eternal burnings?

⁴ And the heavens will be rolled together like the roll of a book: and all their army will be gone, like a dead leaf from the vine, or a dry fruit from the fig-tree.

³ A voice of one crying, Make ready in the waste land the way of the Lord, make level in the lowland a highway for our God.

⁸ The grass is dry, the flower is dead; but the word of our God is eternal.

¹⁰ Make a new song to the Lord, and let his praise be sounded from the end of the earth; you who go down to the sea, and everything in it, the sea-lands and their people.

²⁵ For this reason he let loose on him the heat of his wrath, and his strength was like a flame; and it put fire round about him, but he did not see it; he was burned, but did not take it to heart.

⁶ I will say to the north, Give them up; and to the south, Do not keep them back; send back my sons from far, and my daughters from the end of the earth;

⁷ If there is one like me, let him come forward and say it, let him make it clear and put it in order before me: who has made clear in the past the things to come? let him make clear the future to me. ⁸ Have no fear, be strong in heart; have I not made it clear to you in the past, and let you see it? and you are my witnesses. Is there any God but me, or a Rock of whom I have no knowledge?

¹⁸ They have no knowledge or wisdom; for he has put a veil over their eyes, so that they may not see; and on their hearts, so that they may not give attention. ¹⁹ And no one takes note, no one has enough knowledge or wisdom to say, I have put part of it in the fire, and made bread on it; I have had a meal of the flesh cooked with it: and am I now to make the rest of it into a false god? am I to go down on my face before a bit of wood?

²² Let your hearts be turned to me, so that you may have salvation, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is no other.

¹⁰ Making clear from the first what is to come, and from past times the things which have not so far come about; saying, My purpose is fixed, and I will do all my pleasure; ¹¹ Sending for a bird of strong flight from the east, the man of my purpose from a far country; I have said it, and I will give effect to it; the thing designed by me will certainly be done.

² Take the crushing-stones and get the meal crushed: take off your veil, put away your robe, let your legs be uncovered, go through the rivers.

⁵ For this reason I made it clear to you in the past, before it came I gave you word of it: for fear that you might say, My god did these things, and my pictured and metal images made them come about. ⁶ All this has come to your ears and you have seen it; will you not give witness to it? I am now making clear new things, even secret things, of which you had no knowledge.

¹⁸ Let your eyes be lifted up round about, and see: they are all coming together to you. By my life, says the Lord, truly you will put them all on you as an ornament, and be clothed with them like a bride.

⁶ Let your eyes be lifted up to the heavens, and turned to the earth which is under them: for the heavens will go in flight like smoke, and the earth will become old like a coat, and its people will come to destruction like insects: but my salvation will be for ever, and my righteousness will not come to an end.

¹⁰ For the mountains may be taken away, and the hills be moved out of their places, but my love will not be taken from you, or my agreement of peace broken, says the Lord, who has had mercy on you.

¹¹ So will my word be which goes out of my mouth: it will not come back to me with nothing done, but it will give effect to my purpose, and do that for which I have sent it.

¹² Come, they say, I will get wine, and we will take strong drink in full measure; and tomorrow will be like today, full of pleasure.

⁴ Let your eyes be lifted up, and see: they are all coming together to you: your sons will come from far, and your daughters taken with loving care.

⁸ This is the word of the Lord: As the new wine is seen in the grapes, and they say, Do not send destruction on it, for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants, in order that I may not put an end to them all. ⁹ And I will take a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah one who will have my mountains for a heritage: and the people I have taken to be mine will have it for themselves, and my servants will have their resting-place there.

¹² Your fate will be the sword, and you will all go down to death: because when my voice came to you, you made no answer; you did not give ear to my word; but you did what was evil in my eyes, desiring what was not pleasing to me. ¹³ For this cause says the Lord God, My servants will have food, but you will be in need of food: my servants will have drink, but you will be dry: my servants will have joy, but you will be shamed: ¹⁴ My servants will make songs in the joy of their hearts, but you will be crying for sorrow, and making sounds of grief from a broken spirit. ¹⁵ And your name will become a curse to my people, and the Lord God will put you to death, and give his servants another name: ¹⁶ So that he who is requesting a blessing will make use of the name of the true God, and he who takes an oath will do so by the true God; because the past troubles are gone out of mind, and because they are covered from my eyes.

⁵ Give ear to the word of the Lord, you who are in fear at his word: your countrymen, hating you, and driving you out because of my name, have said, Let the Lord's glory be made clear, so that we may see your joy; but they will be put to shame.

¹⁵ For the Lord is coming with fire, and his war-carriages will be like the storm-wind; to give punishment in the heat of his wrath, and his passion is like flames of fire. ¹⁶ For with fire and sword will the Lord come, judging all the earth, and his sword will be on all flesh: and great numbers will be put to death by him.

¹⁹ My soul, my soul! I am pained to my inmost heart; my heart is troubled in me; I am not able to be quiet, because the sound of the horn, the note of war, has come to my ears. ²⁰ News is given of destruction on destruction; all the land is made waste: suddenly my tents, straight away my curtains, are made waste. ²¹ How long will I go on seeing the flag and hearing the sound of the war-horn? ²² For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good. ²³ Looking at the earth, I saw that it was waste and without form; and to the heavens, that they had no light. ²⁴ Looking at the mountains, I saw them shaking, and all the hills were moved about. ²⁵ Looking, I saw that there was no man, and all the birds of heaven had gone in flight. ²⁶ Looking, I saw that the fertile field was a waste, and all its towns were broken down before the Lord and before his burning wrath. ²⁷ For this is what the Lord has said: All the land will become a waste; I will make destruction complete. ²⁸ The earth will be weeping for this, and the heavens on high will be black: because I have said it, and I will not go back from it; it is my purpose, and it will not be changed.

¹ Go in flight out of Jerusalem, so that you may be safe, you children of Benjamin, and let the horn be sounded in Tekoa, and the flag be lifted up on Beth-haccherem: for evil is looking out from the north, and a great destruction.

⁸ Undergo teaching, O Jerusalem, or my soul will be turned away from you, and I will make you a waste, an unpeopled land.

²² The Lord has said, See, a people is coming from the north country, a great nation will be put in motion from the inmost parts of the earth. ²³ Bows and spears are in their hands; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice is like the thunder of the sea, and they go on horses; everyone in his place like men going to the fight, against you, O daughter of Zion. ²⁴ The news of it has come to our ears; our hands have become feeble: trouble has come on us and pain, like the pain of a woman in childbirth.

¹⁵ We were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there is only a great fear. ¹⁶ The loud breathing of the horses comes to our ears from Dan: at the sound of the outcry of his war-horses, all the land is shaking with fear; for they have come, and have made a meal of the land and everything in it; the town and the people living in it.

¹⁴ Then the Lord said to me, The prophets say false words in my name, and I gave them no orders, and I said nothing to them: what they say to you is a false vision and wonder-working words without substance, the deceit of their hearts.

¹⁶ See, I will send for great numbers of fishermen, says the Lord, and they will take them like fish in a net; and after that, I will send for numbers of bowmen, and they will go after them, driving them from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

²¹ I did not send these prophets, but they went running: I said nothing to them, but they gave out the prophet's word.

²⁵ My ears have been open to what the prophets have said, who say false words in my name, saying, I have had a dream, I have had a dream, I have had a dream,

¹⁸ Micah the Morashtite, who was a prophet in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, said to all the people of Judah, This is what the Lord of armies has said: Zion will become like a ploughed field, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like the high places of the woodland.

⁸ For this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Do not let yourselves be tricked by the prophets who are among you, and the readers of signs, and give no attention to their dreams which they may have;

³⁵ These are the words of the Lord, who has given the sun for a light by day, ordering the moon and stars for a light by night, who puts the sea in motion, causing the thunder of its waves; the Lord of armies is his name. ³⁶ If the order of these things before me is ever broken, says the Lord, then will the seed of Israel come to an end as a nation before me for ever.

¹¹ And it came about that when the Chaldaean army outside Jerusalem had gone away for fear of Pharaoh's army, ¹² Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, with the purpose of taking up his heritage there among the people.

⁶ O sword of the Lord, how long will you have no rest? put yourself back into your cover; be at peace, be quiet.

³ Even the beasts of the waste land have full breasts, they give milk to their young ones: the daughter of my people has become cruel like the ostriches in the waste land. ⁴ The tongue of the child at the breast is fixed to the roof of his mouth for need of drink: the young children are crying out for bread, and no man gives it to them.

¹⁰ The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

² And you, son of man, say, This is what the Lord has said to the land of Israel: An end has come, the end has come on the four quarters of the land. ³ Now the end has come on you, and I will send my wrath on you, judging you for your ways, I will send punishment on you for all your disgusting acts. ⁴ My eye will not have mercy on you, and I will have no pity: but I will send the punishment of your ways on you, and your disgusting works will be among you: and you will be certain that I am the Lord. ⁵ This is what the Lord has said: An evil, even one evil; see, it is coming.

⁵ This is what the Lord has said: An evil, even one evil; see, it is coming. ⁶ An end has come, the end has come; see, it is coming on you.

⁶ An end has come, the end has come; see, it is coming on you. ⁷ The crowning time has come on you, O people of the land: the time has come, the day is near; the day will not be slow in coming, it will not keep back.

⁷ The crowning time has come on you, O people of the land: the time has come, the day is near; the day will not be slow in coming, it will not keep back. ⁸ Now, in a little time, I will let loose my passion on you, and give full effect to my wrath against you, judging you for your ways, and sending punishment on you for all your disgusting works. ⁹ My eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity: I will send on you the punishment of your ways, and your disgusting works will be among you; and you will see that I am the Lord who gives punishment. ¹⁰ See, the day; see, it is coming: the crowning time has gone out; the twisted way is flowering, pride has put out buds.

¹⁰ See, the day; see, it is coming: the crowning time has gone out; the twisted way is flowering, pride has put out buds. ¹¹ Violent behaviour has been lifted up into a rod of evil; it will not be slow in coming, it will not keep back. ¹² The time has come, the day is near: let not him who gives a price for goods be glad, or him who gets the price have sorrow: ¹³ For the trader will not go back to the things for which he had his price, even while he is still living: ¹⁴ And he who has given a price for goods will not get them, for my wrath is on all of them.

²⁰ As for their beautiful ornament, they had put it on high, and had made the images of their disgusting and hated things in it: for this cause I have made it an unclean thing to them. ²¹ And I will give it into the hands of men from strange lands who will take it by force, and to the evil-doers of the earth to have for themselves; and they will make it unholy. ²² And my face will be turned away from them, and they will make my secret place unholy: violent men will go into it and make it unholy.

²⁴ For this reason I will send the worst of the nations and they will take their houses for themselves: I will make the pride of their strength come to an end; and their holy places will be made unclean. ²⁵ Shaking fear is coming; and they will be looking for peace, and there will be no peace. ²⁶ Destruction will come on destruction, and one story after another; and the vision of the prophet will be shamed, and knowledge of the law will come to an end among the priests, and wisdom among the old.

⁶ And he said to me, Son of man, do you see what they are doing? even the very disgusting things which the children of Israel are doing here, causing me to go far away from my holy place? but you will see other most disgusting things.

¹⁷ When they were at rest in their place, these were at rest; when they were lifted up, these went up with them: for the spirit of life was in them. ¹⁸ Then the glory of the Lord went out from the doorstep of the house, and came to rest over the winged ones. ¹⁹ And the winged ones, lifting up their wings, went up from the earth before my eyes, with the wheels by their side: and they came to rest at the east doorway of the Lord's house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them on high.

²² Then the wings of the winged ones were lifted up, and the wheels were by their side; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them on high. ²³ And the glory of the Lord went up from inside the town, and came to rest on the mountain on the east side of the town.

²² Son of man, what is this saying which you have about the land of Israel, The time is long and every vision comes to nothing?

²⁷ Son of man, see, the children of Israel say, The vision which he sees is for the days which are a long way off, and his words are of times still far away.

¹⁷ Or if I send a sword against that land, and say, Sword, go through the land, cutting off from it man and beast: ¹⁸ Even if these three men were in it, by my life, says the Lord, they would not keep safe their sons or daughters, but only themselves. ¹⁹ Or if I send disease into that land, letting loose my wrath on it in blood, cutting off from it man and beast: ²⁰ Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, by my life, says the Lord, they would not keep son or daughter safe; only themselves would they keep safe through their righteousness. ²¹ For this is what the Lord has said: How much more when I send my four bitter punishments on Jerusalem, the sword and need of food and evil beasts and disease, cutting off from it man and beast?

²¹ For this is what the Lord has said: How much more when I send my four bitter punishments on Jerusalem, the sword and need of food and evil beasts and disease, cutting off from it man and beast?

⁴⁹ Truly, this was the sin of your sister Sodom: pride, a full measure of food, and the comforts of wealth in peace, were seen in her and her daughters, and she gave no help to the poor or to those in need. ⁵⁰ They were full of pride and did what was disgusting to me: and so I took them away as you have seen.

⁹ Son of man, say as a prophet, These are the words of the Lord: Say, A sword, a sword which has been made sharp and polished: ¹⁰ It has been made sharp to give death; it is polished so that it may be like a thunder-flame: (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) ¹¹ And I have given it to the polisher so that it may be taken in the hand: he has made the sword sharp, he has had it polished, to put it into the hand of him who gives death. ¹² Give loud cries and make sounds of grief, O son of man: for it has come on my people, it has come on all the rulers of Israel: fear of the sword has come on my people: for this cause give signs of grief. ¹³ (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) ¹⁴ So then, son of man, be a prophet, and put your hands together with a loud sound, and give two blows with the sword, and even three; it is the sword of those who are wounded, even the sword of the wounded; the great sword which goes round about them. ¹⁵ In order that hearts may become soft, and the number of those who are falling may be increased, I have sent death by the sword against all their doors: you are made like a flame, you are polished for death.

²⁷ I will let it be overturned, overturned, overturned: this will not be again till he comes whose right it is; and I will give it to him. ²⁸ And you, son of man, say as a prophet, This is what the Lord has said about the children of Ammon and about their shame: Say, A sword, even a sword let loose, polished for death, to make it shining so that it may be like a flame:

⁷ And when I put out your life, the heaven will be covered and its stars made dark; I will let the sun be covered with a cloud and the moon will not give her light. ⁸ All the bright lights of heaven I will make dark over you, and put dark night on your land, says the Lord.

² Son of man, be a prophet against the keepers of the flock of Israel, and say to them, O keepers of the sheep! this is the word of the Lord: A curse is on the keepers of the flock of Israel who take the food for themselves! is it not right for the keepers to give the food to the sheep? ³ You take the milk and are clothed with the wool, you put the fat beasts to death, but you give the sheep no food.

⁴ And the man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes and give hearing with your ears, and take to heart everything I am going to let you see; for in order that I might let you see them, you have come here: and give an account of all you see to the children of Israel.

² I had a vision by night, and saw the four winds of heaven violently moving the great sea.

¹¹ Then I saw--because of the voice of the great words which the horn said--I saw till the beast was put to death, and its body was given to destruction, and the beast was given to the burning of fire. ¹² As for the rest of the beasts, their authority was taken away: but they let them go on living for a measure of time. ¹³ I saw in visions of the night, and there was coming with the clouds of heaven one like a man, and he came to the one who was very old, and they took him near before him.

²³ At the first word of your prayer a word went out, and I have come to give you knowledge; for you are a man dearly loved: so give thought to the word and let the vision be clear to you. ²⁴ Seventy weeks have been fixed for your people and your holy town, to let wrongdoing be complete and sin come to its full limit, and for the clearing away of evil-doing and the coming in of eternal righteousness: so that the vision and the word of the prophet may be stamped as true, and to put the holy oil on a most holy place. ²⁵ Have then the certain knowledge that from the going out of the word for the building again of Jerusalem till the coming of a prince, on whom the holy oil has been put, will be seven weeks: in sixty-two weeks its building will be complete, with square and earthwork.

²⁵ Have then the certain knowledge that from the going out of the word for the building again of Jerusalem till the coming of a prince, on whom the holy oil has been put, will be seven weeks: in sixty-two weeks its building will be complete, with square and earthwork. ²⁶ And at the end of the times, even after the sixty-two weeks, one on whom the holy oil has been put will be cut off and have no (UNTRANSLATED TEXT);and the town and the holy place will be made waste together with a prince; and the end will come with an overflowing of waters, and even to the end there will be war; the making waste which has been fixed.

²⁶ And at the end of the times, even after the sixty-two weeks, one on whom the holy oil has been put will be cut off and have no (UNTRANSLATED TEXT);and the town and the holy place will be made waste together with a prince; and the end will come with an overflowing of waters, and even to the end there will be war; the making waste which has been fixed. ²⁷ And a strong order will be sent out against the great number for one week; and so for half of the week the offering and the meal offering will come to an end; and in its place will be an unclean thing causing fear; till the destruction which has been fixed is let loose on him who has made waste.

²⁷ And a strong order will be sent out against the great number for one week; and so for half of the week the offering and the meal offering will come to an end; and in its place will be an unclean thing causing fear; till the destruction which has been fixed is let loose on him who has made waste.

¹² Then he said to me, Have no fear, Daniel; for from the first day when you gave your heart to getting wisdom and making yourself poor in spirit before your God, your words have come to his ears: and I have come because of your words. ¹³ But the angel of the kingdom of Persia put himself against me for twenty-one days; but Michael, one of the chief angels, came to my help; and when I came he was still there with the angel of the kings of Persia. ¹⁴ Now I have come to give you knowledge of the fate of your people in the later days; for there is still a vision for the days.

¹ And as for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede I was on his side to make his position safe and make him strong. ² And now I will make clear to you what is true. There are still three kings to come in Persia, and the fourth will have much greater wealth than all of them: and when he has become strong through his wealth, he will put his forces in motion against all the kingdoms of Greece. ³ And a strong king will come to power, ruling with great authority and doing whatever is his pleasure. ⁴ And when he has become strong, his kingdom will be broken and parted to the four winds of heaven; but not to his offspring, for it will be uprooted; and his kingdom will be for the others and not for these: but not with the same authority as his. ⁵ And the king of the south will be strong, but one of his captains will be stronger than he and will be ruler; and his rule will be a great rule. ⁶ And at the end of years they will be joined together; and the daughter of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she will not keep the strength of her arm; and his offspring will not keep their place; but she will be uprooted, with those who were the cause of her coming, and her son, and he who took her in those times. ⁷ But out of a branch from her roots one will come up to take his place, who will come against the army, forcing his way into the strong place of the king of the north, and he will take them in hand and overcome them: ⁸ And their gods and their metal images and their fair vessels of silver and gold he will take away into the south; and for some years he will keep away from the king of the north. ⁹ And he will come into the kingdom of the king of the south, but he will go back to his land. ¹⁰ And his son will make war, and will get together an army of great forces, and he will make an attack on him, overflowing and going past: and he will again take the war even to his strong place. ¹¹ And the king of the south will be moved with wrath, and will come out and make war on him, on this same king of the north: and he will get together a great army, but the army will be given into his hand. ¹² And the army will be taken away, and his heart will be uplifted: he will be the cause of the downfall of tens of thousands, but he will not be strong. ¹³ And again the king of the north will get together an army greater than the first; and he will make an attack on him at the end of years, with a great army and much wealth. ¹⁴ In those times, a number will take up arms against the king of the south: and the children of the violent among your people will be lifting themselves up to make the vision come true; but it will be their downfall. ¹⁵ So the king of the north will come, and put up earthworks and take a well-armed town: and the forces of the king of the south will make an attempt to keep their position, even the best of his army, but they will not have strength to do so. ¹⁶ And he who comes against him will do his pleasure, and no one will be able to keep his place before him: he will take up his position in the beautiful land and in his hand there will be destruction. ¹⁷ And it will be his purpose to come with the strength of all his kingdom, but in place of this he will make an agreement with him; and he will give him the daughter of women to send destruction on it; but this will not take place or come about. ¹⁸ After this, his face will be turned to the islands, and he will take a number of them: but a chief, by his destruction, will put an end to the shame offered by him; and more than this, he will make his shame come back on him. ¹⁹ Then his face will be turned to the strong places of his land: but his way will be stopped, causing his downfall, and he will not be seen again. ²⁰ Then his place will be taken by one who will send out a man with the glory of a king to get wealth together; but after a short time destruction will overtake him, but not in wrath or in the fight. ²¹ And his place will be taken by a low person, to whom the honour of the kingdom had not been given: but he will come in time of peace and will get the kingdom by fair words. ²² And his forces will be completely taken away from before him and broken; and even the ruler of the agreement will have the same fate. ²³ And from the time when they make an agreement with him, he will be working falsely: for he will take up arms suddenly with a small force, ²⁴ Against fertile places, and will make waste a part of the country; and he will do what his fathers have not done, or his fathers' fathers; he will make distribution among them of goods taken in war and by force, and of property: he will even make designs against the strong places for a time. ²⁵ And he will put in motion his power and his strength against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south will go to war with a very great and strong army: but he will be forced to give way, because of their designs against him; ²⁶ And his fears will overcome him and be the cause of his downfall, and his army will come to complete destruction, and a great number will be put to the sword. ²⁷ And as for these two kings, their hearts will be fixed on doing evil and they will say false words at one table; but it will come to nothing: for the end will be at the time fixed. ²⁸ And he will go back to his land with great wealth; and his heart will be against the holy agreement; and he will do his pleasure and go back to his land. ²⁹ At the time fixed he will come back and come into the south; but in the later time it will not be as it was before. ³⁰ For those who go out from the west will come against him, and he will be in fear and will go back, full of wrath against the holy agreement; and he will do his pleasure: and he will go back and be united with those who have given up the holy agreement. ³¹ And armies sent by him will take up their position and they will make unclean the holy place, even the strong place, and take away the regular burned offering and put in its place an unclean thing causing fear.

³¹ And armies sent by him will take up their position and they will make unclean the holy place, even the strong place, and take away the regular burned offering and put in its place an unclean thing causing fear. ³² And those who do evil against the agreement will be turned to sin by his fair words: but the people who have knowledge of their God will be strong and do well. ³³ And those who are wise among the people will be the teachers of the mass of the people: but they will come to their downfall by the sword and by the flame, being made prisoners and undergoing loss for a long time. ³⁴ Now at the time of their downfall they will have a little help, but numbers will be joined to them in the town, and in their separate heritages. ³⁵ And some of those who are wise will have wisdom in testing themselves and making themselves clean, till the time of the end: for it is still for the fixed time. ³⁶ And the king will do his pleasure; he will put himself on high, lifting himself over every god, and saying things to be wondered at against the God of gods; and all will be well for him till the wrath is complete; for what has been purposed will be done. ³⁷ He will have no respect for the gods of his fathers or for the god desired by women; he will have no respect for any god: for he will put himself on high over all. ³⁸ But in place of this he will give honour to the god of armed places, and to a god of whom his fathers had no knowledge he will give honour with gold and silver and jewels and things to be desired. ³⁹ And he will make use of the people of a strange god to keep his strongest places; to those whom he takes note of he will give high honour: and he will make them rulers over the mass of the people, and will make division of the land for a price. ⁴⁰ And at the time of the end, the king of the south will make an attack on him: and the king of the north will come against him like a storm-wind, with war-carriages and horsemen and numbers of ships; and he will go through many lands like overflowing waters. ⁴¹ And he will come into the beautiful land, and tens of thousands will be overcome: but these will be kept from falling into his hands: Edom and Moab and the chief of the children of Ammon. ⁴² And his hand will be stretched out on the countries: and the land of the south will not be safe from him. ⁴³ But he will have power over the stores of gold and silver, and over all the valued things of the south: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians will be at his steps. ⁴⁴ But he will be troubled by news from the east and from the north; and he will go out in great wrath, to send destruction on, and put an end to, great numbers. ⁴⁵ He will put the tents of his great house between the sea and the beautiful holy mountain: but he will come to his end with no helper.

¹ And at that time Michael will take up his place, the great angel, who is the supporter of the children of your people: and there will be a time of trouble, such as there never was from the time there was a nation even till that same time: and at that time your people will be kept safe, everyone who is recorded in the book.

³ And those who are wise will be shining like the light of the outstretched sky; and those by whom numbers have been turned to righteousness will be like the stars for ever and ever.

⁶ And I said to the man clothed in linen, who was over the waters of the river, How long will it be to the end of these wonders? ⁷ Then in my hearing the man clothed in linen, who was over the river, lifting up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, took an oath by him who is living for ever that it would be a time, times, and a half; and when the power of the crusher of the holy people comes to an end, all these things will be ended. ⁸ And the words came to my ears, but the sense of them was not clear to me: then I said, O my lord, what is the sense of these things?

¹¹ And from the time when the regular burned offering is taken away, and an unclean thing causing fear is put up, there will be a thousand, two hundred and ninety days.

¹² Even though their children have come to growth I will take them away, so that not a man will be there; for their evil-doing will be complete and they will be put to shame because of it.

¹⁶ Samaria will be made waste, for she has gone against her God: they will be cut down by the sword, their little children will be broken on the rocks, their women who are with child will be cut open.

² Give ear to this, you old men, and take note, you people of the land. Has this ever been in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

² For a day of dark and deep shade is near, a day of cloud and black night: like a black cloud a great and strong people is covering the mountains; there has never been any like them and will not be after them again, from generation to generation.

¹⁰ The earth is troubled before them and the heavens are shaking: the sun and the moon have become dark, and the stars keep back their shining:

³⁰ And I will let wonders be seen in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and pillars of smoke. ³¹ The sun will be made dark and the moon turned to blood, before the great day of the Lord comes, a day to be feared.

¹⁵ The sun and the moon have become dark, and the stars keep back their shining.

²⁰ Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it?

³ You who put far away the evil day, causing the rule of the violent to come near; ⁴ Who are resting on beds of ivory, stretched out on soft seats, feasting on lambs from the flock and young oxen from the cattle-house; ⁵ Making foolish songs to the sound of corded instruments, and designing for themselves instruments of music, like David; ⁶ Drinking wine in basins, rubbing themselves with the best oils; but they have no grief for the destruction of Joseph.

⁹ And it will come about in that day, says the Lord God, that I will make the sun go down in the middle of the day, and I will make the earth dark in daylight:

¹ I saw the Lord stationed by the side of the altar, giving blows to the tops of the pillars so that the doorsteps were shaking: and he said, I will let all of them be broken with earth-shocks; I will put the last of them to the sword: if any one of them goes in flight he will not get away, not one of them will be safe. ² Even if they go deep into the underworld, my hand will take them up from there; if they go up to heaven, I will get them down: ³ Though they take cover on the top of Carmel, I will go in search of them and get them out; though they keep themselves from my eyes in the bed of the sea, I will give orders to the great snake there and he will give them a bite: ⁴ And though they are taken away as prisoners by their attackers, even there will I give orders to the sword to put them to death: my eyes will be fixed on them for evil and not for good.

⁵ This is what the Lord has said about the prophets by whom my people have been turned from the right way; who, biting with their teeth, say, Peace; and if anyone puts nothing in their mouths they make ready for war against him.

¹² For this reason, Zion will be ploughed like a field because of you, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like a high place in the woods.

⁵ Put no faith in a friend, do not let your hope be placed in a relation: keep watch on the doors of your mouth against her who is resting on your breast. ⁶ For the son puts shame on his father, the daughter goes against her mother and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man's haters are those of his family.

¹⁶ Hearing it, my inner parts were moved, and my lips were shaking at the sound; my bones became feeble, and my steps were uncertain under me: I gave sounds of grief in the day of trouble, when his forces came up against the people in bands. ¹⁷ For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house: ¹⁸ Still, I will be glad in the Lord, my joy will be in the God of my salvation.

¹⁴ The great day of the Lord is near, it is near and coming very quickly; the bitter day of the Lord is near, coming on more quickly than a man of war. ¹⁵ That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and sorrow, a day of wasting and destruction, a day of dark night and deep shade, a day of cloud and thick dark.

²¹ Say to Zerubbabel, ruler of Judah, I will make a shaking of the heavens and the earth, ²² Overturning the power of kingdoms; and I will send destruction on the strength of the kingdoms of the nations; by me war-carriages will be overturned with those who are in them; and the horses and the horsemen will come down, everyone by the sword of his brother.

⁶ Ho, ho! go in flight from the land of the north, says the Lord: for I have sent you far and wide to the four winds of heaven, says the Lord.

¹⁰ And he will have the war-carriage cut off from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the bow of war will be cut off: and he will say words of peace to the nations: and his rule will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.

¹⁴ And the Lord will be seen over them, and his arrow will go out like the thunder-flame: and the Lord God, sounding the war-horn, will go in the storm-winds of the South.

⁸ And in one month I put an end to the three keepers of the flock; for my soul was tired of them, and their souls were disgusted with me. ⁹ And I said, I will not take care of you: If death comes to any, let death be its fate; if any is cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest take one another's flesh for food.

¹⁰ And I will send down on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing for his oldest son.

⁸ And it will come about that in all the land, says the Lord, two parts of it will be cut off and come to an end; but the third will be still living there.

² For I will get all the nations together to make war against Jerusalem; and the town will be overcome, and the goods taken from the houses, and the women taken by force: and half the town will go away as prisoners, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the town.

² For I will get all the nations together to make war against Jerusalem; and the town will be overcome, and the goods taken from the houses, and the women taken by force: and half the town will go away as prisoners, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the town.

² For I will get all the nations together to make war against Jerusalem; and the town will be overcome, and the goods taken from the houses, and the women taken by force: and half the town will go away as prisoners, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the town. ³ Then the Lord will go out and make war against those nations, as he did in the day of the fight.

³ Then the Lord will go out and make war against those nations, as he did in the day of the fight. ⁴ And in that day his feet will be on the Mount of Olives, which is opposite Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives will be parted in the middle to the east and to the west, forming a very great valley; and half the mountain will be moved to the north and half of it to the south. ⁵ And the valley will be stopped (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) and you will go in flight as you went in flight from the earth-shock in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah: and the Lord my God will come, and all his holy ones with him.

⁷ And it will be unbroken day, such as the Lord has knowledge of, without change of day and night, and even at nightfall it will be light.

¹³ And it will be on that day that a great fear will be sent among them from the Lord; and everyone will take his neighbour's hand, and every man's hand will be lifted against his neighbour's.

² But by whom may the day of his coming be faced? and who may keep his place when he is seen? for he is like the metal-tester's fire and the cleaner's soap.

¹ For see, the day is coming, it is burning like an oven; all the men of pride and all who do evil will be dry stems of grass: and in the day which is coming they will be burned up, says the Lord of armies, till they have not a root or a branch.

⁵ See, I am sending you Elijah the prophet before the day of the Lord comes, that great day, greatly to be feared.

¹ And in those days John the Baptist came preaching in the waste land of Judaea,

²³ And Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their Synagogues and preaching the good news of the kingdom, and making well those who were ill with any disease among the people.

¹⁸ Truly I say to you, Till heaven and earth come to an end, not the smallest letter or part of a letter will in any way be taken from the law, till all things are done.

²⁵ So I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about food or drink, or about clothing for your body. Is not life more than food, and the body more than its clothing?

¹⁵ Be on the watch for false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inside they are cruel wolves.

²⁴ Everyone, then, to whom my words come and who does them, will be like a wise man who made his house on a rock;

¹² But the sons of the kingdom will be put out into the dark, and there will be weeping and cries of pain.

²⁰ And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of heaven have a resting-place; but the Son of man has nowhere to put his head.

³⁵ And Jesus went about all the towns and small places, teaching in their Synagogues and preaching the good news of the kingdom and making well all sorts of disease and pain.

⁷ And, on your way, say, The kingdom of heaven is near.

¹⁶ See, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Be then as wise as snakes, and as gentle as doves. ¹⁷ But be on the watch against men: for they will give you up to the Sanhedrins, and in their Synagogues they will give you blows; ¹⁸ And you will come before rulers and kings because of me, for a witness to them and to the Gentiles. ¹⁹ But when you are given up into their hands, do not be troubled about what to say or how to say it: for in that hour what you are to say will be given to you; ²⁰ Because it is not you who say the words, but the Spirit of your Father in you. ²¹ And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child: and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death.

²¹ And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child: and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death. ²² And you will be hated by all men because of my name: but he who is strong to the end will have salvation.

²² And you will be hated by all men because of my name: but he who is strong to the end will have salvation.

²⁷ What I say to you in the dark, say in the light: and what comes to your ear secretly, say publicly from the house-tops.

³⁵ For I have come to put a man against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: ³⁶ And a man will be hated by those of his house.

⁶ And a blessing will be on him who has no doubts about me.

⁴⁵ Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits worse than himself, and they go in and make it their living-place: and the last condition of that man is worse than the first. Even so will it be with this evil generation.

¹⁰ And the disciples came and said to him, Why do you say things to them in the form of stories? ¹¹ And he said to them in answer, To you is given the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

¹³ For this reason I put things into the form of stories; because they see without seeing, and give ear without hearing, and the sense is not clear to them. ¹⁴ And for them the words of Isaiah have come true, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you: ¹⁵ For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

²¹ But having no root in himself, he goes on for a time; and when trouble comes or pain, because of the word, he quickly becomes full of doubts.

³⁶ Then he went away from the people, and went into the house; and his disciples came to him, saying, Make clear to us the story of the evil plants in the field.

³⁹ And he who put them in the earth is Satan; and the getting in of the grain is the end of the world; and those who get it in are the angels. ⁴⁰ As then the evil plants are got together and burned with fire, so will it be in the end of the world. ⁴¹ The Son of man will send out his angels, and they will take out of his kingdom everything which is a cause of error, and all those who do wrong,

⁴⁹ So will it be in the end of the world: the angels will come and take out the bad from the good,

⁵² And he said to them, For this reason every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house, who gives out from his store things new and old.

⁵⁷ And they were bitter against him. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is nowhere without honour but in his country and among his family.

¹² Then the disciples came and said to him, Did you see that the Pharisees were troubled when these words came to their ears?

²⁷ For the Son of man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he will give to every man the reward of his works. ²⁸ Truly I say to you, There are some of those here who will not have a taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.

²⁸ Truly I say to you, There are some of those here who will not have a taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.

¹⁹ Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, Why were we not able to send it out?

¹⁹ Again, I say to you, that if two of you are in agreement on earth about anything for which they will make a request, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.

³² Then his lord sent for him and said, You evil servant; I made you free of all that debt, because of your request to me:

¹¹ And when they got it, they made a protest against the master of the house,

¹ And when they were near Jerusalem, and had come to Beth-phage, to the Mountain of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples,

²³ And when he had come into the Temple, the chief priests and those in authority over the people came to him while he was teaching, and said, By what authority do you do these things? and who gave you this authority?

⁶ And the rest put violent hands on his servants, and did evil to them, and put them to death.

¹³ Then the king said to the servants, Put cords round his hands and feet and put him out into the dark; there will be weeping and cries of sorrow. ¹⁴ For out of all to whom the good news has come, only a small number will get salvation.

³⁰ For when they come back from the dead there are no husbands and wives, but they are as the angels in heaven.

³⁴ For this reason, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you will put to death and put on the cross, and to some of them you will give blows in your Synagogues, driving them from town to town;

³⁶ Truly I say to you, All these things will come on this generation.

³⁹ For I say to you, You will not see me from this time till you say, A blessing on him who comes in the name of the Lord.

³ And while he was seated on the Mountain of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, Make clear to us, when will these things be? and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the world?

⁵ For people will come in my name, saying, I am the Christ; and a number will be turned from the true way through them. ⁶ And news will come to you of wars and talk of wars: do not be troubled, for these things have to be; but it is still not the end.

⁸ But all these things are the first of the troubles.

¹¹ And a number of false prophets will come, causing error.

¹⁴ And this good news of the kingdom will be given through all the world for a witness to all nations; and then the end will come.

²¹ Because in those days there will be great sorrow, such as there has not been from the start of the world till now, or ever will be. ²² And if those days had not been made short there would have been no salvation for any, but because of the saints those days will be made short.

²⁴ For there will come up false Christs, and false prophets, who will do great signs and wonders; so that if possible even the saints might be tricked.

²⁷ Because as in a thunderstorm the bright light coming from the east is seen even in the west; so will be the coming of the Son of man.

²⁹ But straight away, after the trouble of those days, the sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light and the stars will come down from heaven and the powers of heaven will be moved:

³¹ And he will send out his angels with a great sound of a horn, and they will get his saints together from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. ³² Now take an example from the fig-tree: when her branch has become soft and puts out its leaves, you are certain that the summer is near; ³³ Even so, when you see all these things, you may be certain that he is near, even at the doors.

³⁶ But of that day and hour no one has knowledge, not even the angels in heaven, or the Son, but the Father only. ³⁷ And as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of man.

³⁹ And they had no care till the waters came and took them all away; so will be the coming of the Son of man.

⁴² Be watching, then! for you have no knowledge on what day your Lord will come.

⁴² Be watching, then! for you have no knowledge on what day your Lord will come. ⁴³ But be certain of this, that if the master of the house had had knowledge of the time when the thief was coming, he would have been watching, and would not have let his house be broken into.

⁴³ But be certain of this, that if the master of the house had had knowledge of the time when the thief was coming, he would have been watching, and would not have let his house be broken into. ⁴⁴ Be ready then; for at a time which you have no thought of the Son of man will come.

⁴⁴ Be ready then; for at a time which you have no thought of the Son of man will come.

² And five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

¹⁰ And while they went to get oil, the master came; and those who were ready went in with him to the feast: and the door was shut.

¹³ Keep watch, then, because you are not certain of the day or of the hour.

²¹ His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord.

²³ His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord.

²⁶ But his lord in answer said to him, You are a bad and unready servant; if you had knowledge that I get in grain where I did not put seed, and make profits for which I have done no work,

³⁰ And put out the servant who is of no profit into the outer dark: there will be weeping and cries of sorrow. ³¹ But when the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then will he be seated in his glory:

³⁴ Then will the King say to those on his right, Come, you who have the blessing of my Father, into the kingdom made ready for you before the world was: ³⁵ For I was in need of food, and you gave it to me: I was in need of drink, and you gave it to me: I was wandering, and you took me in; ³⁶ I had no clothing, and you gave it to me: when I was ill, or in prison, you came to me. ³⁷ Then will the upright make answer to him, saying, Lord, when did we see you in need of food, and give it to you? or in need of drink, and give it to you? ³⁸ And when did we see you wandering, and take you in? or without clothing, and give it to you? ³⁹ And when did we see you ill, or in prison, and come to you? ⁴⁰ And the King will make answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, Because you did it to the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.

²¹ And while they were taking food, he said, Truly I say to you that one of you will be false to me. ²² And they were very said, and said to him, one by one, Is it I, Lord? ²³ And he made answer and said, He who puts his hand into the plate with me, the same will be false to me. ²⁴ The Son of man goes, even as the Writings say of him: but a curse is on that man through whom the Son of man is given up; it would have been well for that man if he had never come into the world.

³¹ Then said Jesus to them, All of you will be turned away from me this night: for it is said in the Writings, I will put to death the keeper of the sheep, and the sheep of the flock will be put to flight. ³² But after I am come back from the dead, I will go before you into Galilee. ³³ But Peter made answer and said to him, Though all may be turned away from you, I will never be turned away. ³⁴ Jesus said to him, Truly I say to you that this night, before the hour of the cock's cry, you will say three times that you have no knowledge of me.

³⁸ Then says he to them, My soul is very sad, even to death: keep watch with me here. ³⁹ And he went forward a little, and falling down on his face in prayer, he said, O my Father, if it is possible, let this cup go from me; but let not my pleasure, but yours be done. ⁴⁰ And he comes to the disciples, and sees that they are sleeping, and says to Peter, What, were you not able to keep watch with me one hour? ⁴¹ Keep watch with prayer, so that you may not be put to the test: the spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is feeble.

⁵⁴ But how then would the Writings come true, which say that so it has to be?

⁶⁴ Jesus says to him, You say so: but I say to you, From now you will see the Son of man seated at the right hand of power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.

¹⁸ And Jesus came to them and said, All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

²⁰ Teaching them to keep all the rules which I have given you: and see, I am ever with you, even to the end of the world.

¹⁷ And they have no root in themselves, but go on for a time; then, when trouble comes or pain, because of the word, they quickly become full of doubts.

²¹ Because from inside, from the heart of men, come evil thoughts and unclean pleasures,

¹ And when he was going out of the Temple, one of his disciples said to him, Master, see, what stones and what buildings! ² And Jesus said to him, Do you see these great buildings? there is not one stone here resting on another which will not be overturned. ³ And while he was seated on the Mountain of Olives opposite the Temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew said to him privately,

³ And while he was seated on the Mountain of Olives opposite the Temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew said to him privately, ⁴ Say when these things will be, and what will be the sign when these things are all about to be done.

⁴ Say when these things will be, and what will be the sign when these things are all about to be done.

⁴ Say when these things will be, and what will be the sign when these things are all about to be done. ⁵ And Jesus said to them, Take care that you are not tricked by anyone.

⁵ And Jesus said to them, Take care that you are not tricked by anyone. ⁶ People will come in my name, saying, I am he; and a number will be turned from the true way.

⁶ People will come in my name, saying, I am he; and a number will be turned from the true way. ⁷ And when you have news of wars and talk of wars, do not be troubled; these things have to be, but it is still not the end.

⁷ And when you have news of wars and talk of wars, do not be troubled; these things have to be, but it is still not the end. ⁸ Nation will go to war with nation, and kingdom with kingdom: there will be earth-shocks in different places; there will be times when there is no food; these things are the first of the troubles.

⁸ Nation will go to war with nation, and kingdom with kingdom: there will be earth-shocks in different places; there will be times when there is no food; these things are the first of the troubles. ⁹ But take care: for they will give you up to the Sanhedrins; and in Synagogues you will be whipped; and you will be taken before rulers and kings because of me, for a sign to them.

⁹ But take care: for they will give you up to the Sanhedrins; and in Synagogues you will be whipped; and you will be taken before rulers and kings because of me, for a sign to them.

⁹ But take care: for they will give you up to the Sanhedrins; and in Synagogues you will be whipped; and you will be taken before rulers and kings because of me, for a sign to them. ¹⁰ And the good news has first to be given to all the nations.

¹⁰ And the good news has first to be given to all the nations. ¹¹ And when you are taken and given up to be judged, do not be troubled about what to say: but whatever is given to you in that hour, say: because it is not you who say it, but the Holy Spirit.

¹¹ And when you are taken and given up to be judged, do not be troubled about what to say: but whatever is given to you in that hour, say: because it is not you who say it, but the Holy Spirit. ¹² And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child; and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death.

¹² And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child; and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death.

¹² And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child; and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death. ¹³ And you will be hated by all men, because of my name; but he who goes through to the end will have salvation.

¹³ And you will be hated by all men, because of my name; but he who goes through to the end will have salvation.

¹³ And you will be hated by all men, because of my name; but he who goes through to the end will have salvation. ¹⁴ But when you see the unclean thing which makes destruction, in the place where it has no right to be let this be clear to the reader, then let those who are in Judaea go quickly to the mountains:

¹⁴ But when you see the unclean thing which makes destruction, in the place where it has no right to be let this be clear to the reader, then let those who are in Judaea go quickly to the mountains: ¹⁵ And let him who is on the house-top not go down, or go in, to take anything out of his house:

¹⁵ And let him who is on the house-top not go down, or go in, to take anything out of his house: ¹⁶ And let not him who is in the field go back to take his coat.

¹⁶ And let not him who is in the field go back to take his coat. ¹⁷ And it will be hard for women who are with child and for her who has a baby at the breast in those days.

¹⁷ And it will be hard for women who are with child and for her who has a baby at the breast in those days. ¹⁸ And say a prayer that it may not be in the winter.

¹⁸ And say a prayer that it may not be in the winter. ¹⁹ For in those days there will be sorrow, such as there has not been from the time when God made the world till now, and will not ever be again. ²⁰ And if the Lord had not made the time short, no flesh would have been kept from destruction; but because of the saints he has made the time short.

²⁰ And if the Lord had not made the time short, no flesh would have been kept from destruction; but because of the saints he has made the time short. ²¹ And then if any man says to you, See, here is Christ; or, See, there; have no faith in it:

²¹ And then if any man says to you, See, here is Christ; or, See, there; have no faith in it: ²² Because there will be false Christs and false prophets, and they will give signs and wonders in the hope of turning even the saints from the true way.

²² Because there will be false Christs and false prophets, and they will give signs and wonders in the hope of turning even the saints from the true way. ²³ But take care; see, I have made all things clear to you before the time. ²⁴ But in those days, after that time of trouble, the sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light,

²⁴ But in those days, after that time of trouble, the sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light, ²⁵ And the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers which are in the heavens will be moved.

²⁵ And the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers which are in the heavens will be moved. ²⁶ And then they will see the Son of man coming in clouds with great power and glory.

²⁶ And then they will see the Son of man coming in clouds with great power and glory. ²⁷ And then he will send out the angels, and will get together his saints from the four winds, from the farthest part of the earth to the farthest part of heaven.

²⁷ And then he will send out the angels, and will get together his saints from the four winds, from the farthest part of the earth to the farthest part of heaven. ²⁸ Take an example from the fig-tree: when its branches become soft and put out their leaves, you see that the summer is near;

²⁸ Take an example from the fig-tree: when its branches become soft and put out their leaves, you see that the summer is near; ²⁹ Even so, when you see these things taking place, you may be certain that he is near, even at the doors.

²⁹ Even so, when you see these things taking place, you may be certain that he is near, even at the doors. ³⁰ Truly, I say to you, This generation will not come to an end till all these things are complete.

³⁰ Truly, I say to you, This generation will not come to an end till all these things are complete. ³¹ Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.

³¹ Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end. ³² But of that day or that hour no one has knowledge, not even the angels in heaven, or the Son, but the Father.

³² But of that day or that hour no one has knowledge, not even the angels in heaven, or the Son, but the Father. ³³ Take care, keep watch with prayer: for you are not certain when the time will be. ³⁴ It is as when a man who is in another country for a time, having gone away from his house, and given authority to his servants and to everyone his work, gives the porter an order to keep watch. ³⁵ So you are to keep watch: because you are not certain when the master of the house is coming, in the evening, or in the middle of the night, or at the cock's cry, or in the morning; ³⁶ For fear that, coming suddenly, he sees you sleeping. ³⁷ And what I say to you, I say to all, Keep watch.

⁶² And Jesus said, I am: and you will see the Son of man seated at the right hand of power, and coming with the clouds of heaven. ⁶³ And the high priest, violently parting his robes, said, What more need have we of witnesses? ⁶⁴ His words against God have come to your ears: what is your opinion? And they all said it was right for him to be put to death.

¹⁵ And he said to them, Go into all the world, and give the good news to everyone. ¹⁶ He who has faith and is given baptism will get salvation; but he who has not faith will be judged.

¹ Now it came about in those days that an order went out from Caesar Augustus that there was to be a numbering of all the world.

² When Annas and Caiaphas were high priests, the word of the Lord came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the waste land. ³ And he came into all the country round about Jordan, preaching baptism as a sign of forgiveness of sin for those whose hearts were changed.

⁵ And he took him up and let him see all the kingdoms of the earth in a minute of time.

¹⁹ And because of the mass of people, there was no way to get him in; so they went up on the top of the house and let him down through the roof, on his bed, into the middle in front of Jesus.

¹⁵ And those in the good earth are those who, having given ear to the word, keep it with a good and true heart, and in quiet strength give fruit.

⁴⁹ For this reason the wisdom of God has said, I will send them prophets and teachers, and to some of them they will give death and cruel pains; ⁵⁰ So that punishment may come on this generation for the blood of all the prophets which was given from the earliest days;

³ So, whatever you have said in the dark, will come to men's hearing in the light, and what you have said secretly inside the house, will be made public from the house-tops.

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy.

³⁵ Be ready, dressed as for a journey, with your lights burning. ³⁶ And be like men who are looking for their lord, when he comes back from the bride-feast; so that when he comes to the door, it will be open to him quickly. ³⁷ Happy are those servants who are watching when the lord comes; truly I say to you, he will make himself their servant and, placing them at the table, he will come out and give them food.

³⁷ Happy are those servants who are watching when the lord comes; truly I say to you, he will make himself their servant and, placing them at the table, he will come out and give them food. ³⁸ And if he comes in the second division of the night or in the third, and they are watching for him, happy are those servants. ³⁹ But be certain of this, that if the master of the house had had knowledge of the time when the thief was coming, he would have been watching, and would not have let his house be broken into.

³⁹ But be certain of this, that if the master of the house had had knowledge of the time when the thief was coming, he would have been watching, and would not have let his house be broken into. ⁴⁰ So be ready: for the Son of man is coming at a time when you are not looking for him.

⁴⁰ So be ready: for the Son of man is coming at a time when you are not looking for him. ⁴¹ And Peter said to him, Lord, are these words said to us only, or to all men? ⁴² And the Lord said, Who then is the wise and responsible servant whom his lord will put in control of his family, to give them their food at the right time? ⁴³ Happy is that servant who, when his lord comes, is doing so.

⁴³ Happy is that servant who, when his lord comes, is doing so. ⁴⁴ Truly I say to you, he will put him in control of all his goods. ⁴⁵ But if that servant says to himself, My lord is a long time coming; and goes about giving blows to the men-servants and the women-servants, feasting and taking overmuch wine; ⁴⁶ The lord of that servant will come at a time when he is not looking for him, and at an hour when he is not ready for him, and he will have him cut in two and will give him his part in the fate of those who have no faith;

²⁸ There will be weeping and cries of sorrow when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves are shut outside.

¹⁸ And they all gave reasons why they were not able to come. The first said to him, I have got a new field, and it is necessary for me to go and see it: I am full of regret that I am unable to come. ¹⁹ And another said, I have got some cattle, and I am going to make a test of them: I am full of regret that I am unable to come. ²⁰ And another said, I have been married, and so I am not able to come.

¹⁰ He who is true in a little, is true in much; he who is false in small things, is false in great. ¹¹ If, then, you have not been true in your use of the wealth of this life, who will give into your care the true wealth? ¹² And if you have not been true in your care of the property of other people, who will give you that which is yours?

²³ And if they say to you, See, it is there! or, It is here! do not go away, or go after them. ²⁴ For as in a thunderstorm the bright light is seen from one end of the sky to the other, so will the Son of man be when his time comes.

²⁴ For as in a thunderstorm the bright light is seen from one end of the sky to the other, so will the Son of man be when his time comes. ²⁵ But first, he will have to undergo much and be put on one side by this generation. ²⁶ And as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the day of the Son of man.

²⁶ And as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the day of the Son of man.

²⁶ And as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the day of the Son of man. ²⁷ They were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day of the overflowing of the waters, when Noah went into the ark, and they all came to destruction.

²⁷ They were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day of the overflowing of the waters, when Noah went into the ark, and they all came to destruction.

²⁷ They were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day of the overflowing of the waters, when Noah went into the ark, and they all came to destruction. ²⁸ In the same way, in the days of Lot; they were feasting and trading, they were planting and building;

²⁸ In the same way, in the days of Lot; they were feasting and trading, they were planting and building; ²⁹ But on the day when Lot went out of Sodom, fire came down from heaven and destruction came on them all. ³⁰ So will it be in the day of the revelation of the Son of man. ³¹ On that day, if anyone is on the roof of the house, and his goods are in the house, let him not go down to take them away; and let him who is in the field not go back to his house.

³¹ On that day, if anyone is on the roof of the house, and his goods are in the house, let him not go down to take them away; and let him who is in the field not go back to his house. ³² Keep in mind Lot's wife.

³² Keep in mind Lot's wife. ³³ If anyone makes an attempt to keep his life, it will be taken from him, but if anyone gives up his life, he will keep it.

³³ If anyone makes an attempt to keep his life, it will be taken from him, but if anyone gives up his life, he will keep it. ³⁴ I say to you, In that night there will be two men sleeping in one bed, and one will be taken away and the other let go. ³⁵ Two women will be crushing grain together; one will be taken away and the other let go.

³⁵ Two women will be crushing grain together; one will be taken away and the other let go. ³⁶ (OMITTED TEXT) ³⁷ And they, answering him, said, Where, Lord? And he said to them, Where the body is, there will the eagles come together.

³⁷ And they, answering him, said, Where, Lord? And he said to them, Where the body is, there will the eagles come together.

⁷ And will not God do right in the cause of his saints, whose cries come day and night to his ears, though he is long in doing it?

¹⁷ And he said to him, You have done well, O good servant: because you have done well in a small thing you will have authority over ten towns.

²² He said to him, By the words of your mouth you will be judged, you bad servant. You had knowledge that I am a hard man, taking up what I have not put down and getting in grain where I have not put seed;

⁴³ For the time will come when your attackers will put a wall round you, and come all round you and keep you in on every side,

⁴³ For the time will come when your attackers will put a wall round you, and come all round you and keep you in on every side, ⁴⁴ And will make you level with the earth, and your children with you; and there will not be one stone resting on another in you, because you did not see that it was your day of mercy.

⁴⁴ And will make you level with the earth, and your children with you; and there will not be one stone resting on another in you, because you did not see that it was your day of mercy.

⁵ And some were talking about the Temple, how it was made fair with beautiful stones and with offerings, but he said, ⁶ As for these things which you see, the days will come when not one stone will be resting on another, but all will be broken down. ⁷ And they said to him, Master, when will these things be? and what sign will there be when these events are to take place?

⁷ And they said to him, Master, when will these things be? and what sign will there be when these events are to take place? ⁸ And he said, Take care that you are not tricked: for a number of people will come in my name, saying, I am he; and, The time is near: do not go after them.

⁸ And he said, Take care that you are not tricked: for a number of people will come in my name, saying, I am he; and, The time is near: do not go after them. ⁹ And when news of wars and troubled times comes to your ears, have no fear; for these things have to be, but the end will not be now.

⁹ And when news of wars and troubled times comes to your ears, have no fear; for these things have to be, but the end will not be now. ¹⁰ Then he said to them, Nation will be moved against nation and kingdom against kingdom: ¹¹ There will be great earth-shocks and outbursts of disease in a number of places, and men will be without food; and there will be wonders and great signs from heaven.

¹¹ There will be great earth-shocks and outbursts of disease in a number of places, and men will be without food; and there will be wonders and great signs from heaven. ¹² But before all this, they will take you and be very cruel to you, giving you up to the Synagogues and to prisons, taking you before kings and rulers, because of my name.

¹² But before all this, they will take you and be very cruel to you, giving you up to the Synagogues and to prisons, taking you before kings and rulers, because of my name. ¹³ And it will be turned to a witness for you.

¹³ And it will be turned to a witness for you. ¹⁴ So take care not to be troubled before the time comes, about what answers you will give: ¹⁵ For I will give you words and wisdom, so that not one of those who are against you will be able to get the better of you, or to put you in the wrong. ¹⁶ But you will be given up even by your fathers and mothers, your brothers and relations and friends; and some of you will be put to death.

¹⁶ But you will be given up even by your fathers and mothers, your brothers and relations and friends; and some of you will be put to death.

¹⁶ But you will be given up even by your fathers and mothers, your brothers and relations and friends; and some of you will be put to death. ¹⁷ And you will be hated by all men, because of me.

¹⁷ And you will be hated by all men, because of me. ¹⁸ But not a hair of your head will come to destruction. ¹⁹ By going through all these things, you will keep your lives.

¹⁹ By going through all these things, you will keep your lives. ²⁰ But when you see armies all round about Jerusalem, then be certain that her destruction is near.

²⁰ But when you see armies all round about Jerusalem, then be certain that her destruction is near. ²¹ Then let those who are in Judaea go in flight to the mountains; and those who are in the middle of the town go out; and let not those who are in the country come in.

²¹ Then let those who are in Judaea go in flight to the mountains; and those who are in the middle of the town go out; and let not those who are in the country come in. ²² For these are the days of punishment, in which all the things in the Writings will be put into effect.

²² For these are the days of punishment, in which all the things in the Writings will be put into effect. ²³ It will be hard for women who are with child, and for her with a baby at the breast, in those days. For great trouble will come on the land, and wrath on this people.

²³ It will be hard for women who are with child, and for her with a baby at the breast, in those days. For great trouble will come on the land, and wrath on this people. ²⁴ And they will be put to death with the sword, and will be taken as prisoners into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be crushed under the feet of the Gentiles, till the times of the Gentiles are complete.

²⁴ And they will be put to death with the sword, and will be taken as prisoners into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be crushed under the feet of the Gentiles, till the times of the Gentiles are complete. ²⁵ And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars; and on the earth, fear among the nations and doubt because of the loud noise of the sea and the waves;

²⁵ And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars; and on the earth, fear among the nations and doubt because of the loud noise of the sea and the waves; ²⁶ Men's strength will go from them in fear and in waiting for the things which are coming on the earth; for the powers of the heavens will be moved.

²⁶ Men's strength will go from them in fear and in waiting for the things which are coming on the earth; for the powers of the heavens will be moved. ²⁷ And then they will see the Son of man coming in a cloud, with power and great glory.

²⁷ And then they will see the Son of man coming in a cloud, with power and great glory. ²⁸ But when these things come about, let your heads be lifted up, because your salvation is near. ²⁹ And he made a story for them: See the fig-tree, and all the trees;

²⁹ And he made a story for them: See the fig-tree, and all the trees; ³⁰ When they put out their young leaves, you take note of it, and it is clear to you that summer is coming.

³⁰ When they put out their young leaves, you take note of it, and it is clear to you that summer is coming. ³¹ In the same way, when you see these things taking place you may be certain that the kingdom of God is near. ³² Truly I say to you, This generation will not come to an end till all things are complete.

³² Truly I say to you, This generation will not come to an end till all things are complete. ³³ Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.

³³ Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end. ³⁴ But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:

³⁴ But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net: ³⁵ For so it will come on all those who are living on the face of all the earth. ³⁶ But keep watch at all times with prayer, that you may be strong enough to come through all these things and take your place before the Son of man.

³⁶ But keep watch at all times with prayer, that you may be strong enough to come through all these things and take your place before the Son of man.

²⁹ And I will give you a kingdom as my Father has given one to me, ³⁰ So that you may take food and drink at my table in my kingdom, and be seated like kings, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

³⁷ For I say to you that these words will be put into effect in me, And he was numbered among the evil-doers: for what has been said in the Writings about me has an end.

⁶⁹ But in the future the Son of man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.

²⁹ For the days are coming in which they will say, Happy are those who have had no children, whose bodies have never given birth, whose breasts have never given milk. ³⁰ And they will say to the mountains, Come down on us, and to the hills, Be a cover over us.

³⁹ And one of the evil-doers on the cross, with bitter feeling, said to him, Are you not the Christ? Get yourself and us out of this. ⁴⁰ But the other, protesting, said, Have you no fear of God? for you have a part in the same punishment, ⁴¹ And with reason; for we have the right reward of our acts, but this man has done nothing wrong. ⁴² And he said, Jesus, keep me in mind when you come in your kingdom. ⁴³ And he said to him, Truly I say to you, Today you will be with me in Paradise.

⁴⁷ And that teaching about a change of heart and forgiveness of sins is to be given to Jerusalem first and to all nations in his name.

²⁰ The Jews said, The building of this Temple took forty-six years; and you will put it up in three days!

²⁰ The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.

⁴³ I have come in my Father's name, and your hearts are not open to me. If another comes with no other authority but himself, you will give him your approval.

³⁷ Whatever the Father gives to me will come to me; and I will not send away anyone who comes to me.

³⁹ And this is the pleasure of him who sent me, that I am not to let out of my hands anything which he has given me, but I am to give it new life on the last day.

⁶⁰ Then, hearing this, a number of his disciples said, This is a hard saying; who is able to take in such teaching? ⁶¹ When Jesus became conscious that his disciples were protesting about what he said, he said to them, Does this give you trouble?

⁶⁶ Because of what he said, a number of the disciples went back and would no longer go with him. ⁶⁷ So Jesus said to the twelve, Have you a desire to go away?

²⁸ And I give them eternal life; they will never come to destruction, and no one will ever take them out of my hand. ²⁹ That which my Father has given to me has more value than all; and no one is able to take anything out of the Father's hand. ³⁰ I and my Father are one.

⁴⁸ If we let him go on in this way, everybody will have belief in him and the Romans will come and take away our place and our nation.

⁵² And not for that nation only, but for the purpose of uniting in one body the children of God all over the world.

²⁶ If any man is my servant, let him come after me; and where I am, there will my servant be. If any man becomes my servant, my Father will give him honour.

² So while a meal was going on, the Evil One having now put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to be false to him,

¹ Let not your heart be troubled: have faith in God and have faith in me.

²⁷ May peace be with you; my peace I give to you: I give it not as the world gives. Let not your heart be troubled; let it be without fear.

¹⁹ If you were of the world, you would be loved by the world: but because you are not of the world, but I have taken you out of the world, you are hated by the world. ²⁰ Keep in mind the words I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord. If they were cruel to me, they will be cruel to you; if they kept my words, they will keep yours.

¹ I have said these things to you so that you may not be in doubt. ² They will put you out of the Synagogues: yes, the time is coming when whoever puts you to death will have the belief that he is doing God's pleasure.

¹⁵ Then when they had taken food, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, is your love for me greater than the love of these others? He said to him, Yes, Lord; you are certain of my love for you. He said to him, Then give my lambs food. ¹⁶ Again, a second time, he said to him, Simon, son of John, have you any love for me? Yes, Lord, he said, you are certain of my love for you. Then take care of my sheep, said Jesus. ¹⁷ He said to him a third time, Simon, son of John, am I dear to you? Now Peter was troubled in his heart because he put the question a third time, Am I dear to you? And he said to him, Lord, you have knowledge of all things; you see that you are dear to me. Jesus said to him, Then give my sheep food.

²¹ Seeing him, Peter said to Jesus, What about this man? ²² Jesus said to him, If it is my desire for him to be here till I come back, what is that to you? come yourself after me.

² Till the day when he was taken up to heaven after he had given his orders, through the Holy Spirit, to the Apostles of whom he had made selection:

⁷ And he said to them, It is not for you to have knowledge of the time and the order of events which the Father has kept in his control.

¹¹ And said, O men of Galilee, why are you looking up into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken from you into heaven, will come again, in the same way as you saw him go into heaven. ¹² Then they went back to Jerusalem from the mountain named Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey away.

¹⁹ And wonders will be seen in heaven, and signs on the earth, blood and fire and smoke:

¹⁹ And wonders will be seen in heaven, and signs on the earth, blood and fire and smoke: ²⁰ The sun will become dark and the moon will be turned to blood, before that great day of the Lord comes in glory:

² Being greatly troubled because they were teaching the people and preaching Jesus as an example of the coming back from the dead. ³ And they took them and put them in prison till the morning, for it was now evening.

³ But Peter said, Ananias, why has the Evil One put it into your heart to be false to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

³⁶ For before this there was Theudas, who said he was someone important, to whom about four hundred men gave their support: he was put to death, and his band was broken up and came to nothing. ³⁷ After this man, there was Judas of Galilee, at the time of the numbering, and some of the people went after him: he was put to death, and all his supporters were put to flight.

⁴⁰ And he seemed to them to be right: and they sent for the Apostles, and, after having them whipped and giving them orders to give no teaching in the name of Jesus, they let them go. ⁴¹ So they went away from the Sanhedrin, happy to undergo shame for the Name.

¹³ And they got false witnesses who said, This man is for ever saying things against this holy place and against the law:

⁵⁹ And Stephen, while he was being stoned, made prayer to God, saying, Lord Jesus, take my spirit.

⁹ But there was a certain man named Simon, who in the past had been a wonder-worker and a cause of surprise to the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was a great man: ¹⁰ To whom they all gave attention, from the smallest to the greatest, saying, This man is that power of God which is named Great.

²² Let your heart be changed, and make prayer to God that you may have forgiveness for your evil thoughts.

⁹ Now the day after, when they were on their journey and were near the town, Peter went up to the top of the house for prayer, about the sixth hour:

²⁸ And one of them, named Agabus, said publicly through the Spirit that there would be serious need of food all over the earth: which came about in the time of Claudius.

¹ Now, about that time, Herod the king made cruel attacks on the Christians. ² And he put James, the brother of John, to death with the sword. ³ And when he saw that this was pleasing to the Jews he went on to take Peter in addition. This was at the time of the feast of unleavened bread. ⁴ And having taken him, he put him in prison, with four bands of armed men to keep watch over him; his purpose being to take him out to the people after the Passover. ⁵ So Peter was kept in prison: but the church made strong prayer to God for him.

⁴¹ See, you doubters, have wonder and come to your end; for I will do a thing in your days to which you will not give belief, even if it is made clear to you.

⁶ And when they were not able to get them, they took Jason and some of the brothers by force before the rulers of the town, crying, These men, who have made trouble all over the world have now come here;

¹⁶ For Paul's purpose was to go past Ephesus, so that he might not be kept in Asia; for he was going quickly, in order, if possible, to be at Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.

²⁵ And now I am conscious that you, among whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom, will not see my face again.

²⁸ Give attention to yourselves, and to all the flock which the Holy Spirit has given into your care, to give food to the church of God, for which he gave his blood.

³⁰ And from among yourselves will come men who will give wrong teaching, turning away the disciples after them.

²⁸ Crying out, Men of Israel, come to our help: this is the man who is teaching all men everywhere against the people and the law and this place: and in addition, he has taken Greeks into the Temple, and made this holy place unclean.

³¹ And while they were attempting to put him to death, news came to the chief captain of the band that all Jerusalem was out of control. ³² And straight away he took some armed men and went quickly down to them: and the Jews, seeing them, gave no more blows to Paul.

³⁸ Are you by chance the Egyptian who, before this, got the people worked up against the government and took four thousand men of the Assassins out into the waste land?

¹⁹ And I said, Lord, they themselves have knowledge that I went through the Synagogues putting in prison and whipping all those who had faith in you: ²⁰ And when Stephen your witness was put to death, I was there, giving approval, and looking after the clothing of those who put him to death. ²¹ And he said to me, Go, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles. ²² And they gave him a hearing as far as this word; then with loud voices they said, Away with this man from the earth; it is not right for him to be living.

¹⁹ So, then, King Agrippa, I did not go against the vision from heaven; ²⁰ But I went about, first to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, and through all the country of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, preaching a change of heart, so that they, being turned to God, might give, in their works, the fruits of a changed heart.

²⁴ Saying, Have no fear, Paul, for you will come before Caesar, and God has given to you all those who are sailing with you. ²⁵ And so, O men, be of good heart, for I have faith in God that it will be as he said to me. ²⁶ But we will be sent on to a certain island.

²² But we have a desire to give hearing to your opinion: for as to this form of religion, we have knowledge that in all places it is attacked.

²⁸ And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;

⁷ To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:

²⁸ And we are conscious that all things are working together for good to those who have love for God, and have been marked out by his purpose. ²⁹ Because those of whom he had knowledge before they came into existence, were marked out by him to be made like his Son, so that he might be the first among a band of brothers: ³⁰ And those who were marked out by him were named; and those who were named were given righteousness; and to those to whom he gave righteousness, in the same way he gave glory. ³¹ What may we say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? ³² He who did not keep back his only Son, but gave him up for us all, will he not with him freely give us all things? ³³ Who will say anything against the saints of God? It is God who makes us clear from evil; ³⁴ Who will give a decision against us? It is Christ Jesus who not only was put to death, but came again from the dead, who is now at the right hand of God, taking our part. ³⁵ Who will come between us and the love of Christ? Will trouble, or pain, or cruel acts, or the need of food or of clothing, or danger, or the sword? ³⁶ As it is said in the holy Writings, Because of you we are put to death every day; we are like sheep ready for destruction. ³⁷ But we are able to overcome all these things and more through his love. ³⁸ For I am certain that not death, or life, or angels, or rulers, or things present, or things to come, or powers, ³⁹ Or things on high, or things under the earth, or anything which is made, will be able to come between us and the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹¹ Before the children had come into existence, or had done anything good or bad, in order that God's purpose and his selection might be effected, not by works, but by him whose purpose it is,

¹⁸ But I say, Did not the word come to their ears? Yes, certainly: Their sound has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.

²⁵ For it is my desire, brothers, that this secret may be clear to you, so that you may not have pride in your knowledge, that Israel has been made hard in part, till all the Gentiles have come in; ²⁶ And so all Israel will get salvation: as it is said in the holy Writings, There will come out of Zion the One who makes free; by him wrongdoing will be taken away from Jacob: ²⁷ And this is my agreement with them, when I will take away their sins. ²⁸ As far as the good news is in question, they are cut off from God on account of you, but as far as the selection is in question, they are loved on account of the fathers. ²⁹ Because God's selection and his mercies may not be changed. ³⁰ For as you, in time past, were not under the rule of God, but now have got mercy through their turning away, ³¹ So in the same way these have gone against the orders of God, so that by the mercy given to you they may now get mercy.

¹⁸ As far as it is possible for you be at peace with all men.

¹¹ See then that the time has come for you to be awake from sleep: for now is your salvation nearer than when you first had faith.

¹³ With right behaviour as in the day; not in pleasure-making and drinking, not in bad company and unclean behaviour, not in fighting and envy. ¹⁴ But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not give thought to the flesh to do its desires.

¹⁸ And I will keep myself from talking of anything but those things which Christ has done by me to put the Gentiles under his rule in word and in act, ¹⁹ By signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and round about as far as Illyricum I have given all the good news of Christ; ²⁰ Making it my purpose not to take the good news where Christ was named, so that my work might not be resting on that of others; ²¹ But as it is said in the holy Writings, They will see, to whom the news of him had not been given, and those to whose ears it had not come will have knowledge.

¹⁸ For such people are not servants of the Lord Christ, but of their stomachs; and by their smooth and well-said words the hearts of those who have no knowledge of evil are tricked.

²⁵ Now to him who is able to make you strong in agreement with the good news which I gave you and the preaching of Jesus Christ, in the light of the revelation of that secret which has been kept through times eternal, ²⁶ But is now made clear; and by the writings of the prophets, by the order of the eternal God, the knowledge of it has been given to all the nations, so that they may come under the rule of the faith;

⁸ Who will give you strength to the end, to be free from all sin in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹ And the teaching I gave you, my brothers, was such as I was able to give, not to those who have the Spirit, but to those who are still in the flesh, even to children in Christ. ² I gave you milk and not meat, because you were, then, unable to take it, and even now you are not able;

¹ Let us be judged as servants of Christ, and as those who are responsible for the secret things of God. ² And it is right for such servants to be safe persons.

⁷ For who made you better than your brother? or what have you that has not been given to you? but if it has been given to you, what cause have you for pride, as if it had not been given to you?

²⁹ But I say this, my brothers, the time is short; and from now it will be wise for those who have wives to be as if they had them not; ³⁰ And for those who are in sorrow, to give no signs of it; and for those who are glad, to give no signs of joy; and for those who are getting property, to be as if they had nothing; ³¹ And for those who make use of the world, not to be using it fully; for this world's way of life will quickly come to an end.

⁵² In a second, in the shutting of an eye, at the sound of the last horn: for at that sound the dead will come again, free for ever from the power of death, and we will be changed.

¹³ Be on the watch, unmoved in the faith, and be strong like men.

¹³ For such men are false Apostles, workers of deceit, making themselves seem like Apostles of Christ. ¹⁴ And it is no wonder; for even Satan himself is able to take the form of an angel of light. ¹⁵ So it is no great thing if his servants make themselves seem to be servants of righteousness; whose end will be the reward of their works.

²⁰ You put up with a man if he makes servants of you, if he makes profit out of you, if he makes you prisoners, if he puts himself in a high place, if he gives you blows on the face.

¹⁵ Where then is that happy condition of yours? because I give you witness, that, if possible, you would have taken out your eyes and given them to me.

¹⁰ The ordering of the times when they are complete, so that all things might come to a head in Christ, the things in heaven and the things on the earth; in him, I say,

¹¹ And he gave some as Apostles, and some, prophets; and some, preachers of the good news; and some to give care and teaching; ¹² For the training of the saints as servants in the church, for the building up of the body of Christ: ¹³ Till we all come to the harmony of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to full growth, to the full measure of Christ: ¹⁴ So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error;

⁶ Do not be turned from the right way by foolish words; for because of these things the punishment of God comes on those who do not put themselves under him.

²¹ For to me life is Christ and death is profit. ²² But if I go on living in the flesh--if this is the fruit of my work--then I do not see what decision to make. ²³ I am in a hard position between the two, having a desire to go away and be with Christ, which is very much better:

¹⁹ Whose end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth.

⁵ Let your gentle behaviour be clear to all men. The Lord is near.

⁶ Which has come to you; and which in all the world is giving fruit and increase, as it has done in you from the day when it came to your ears and you had true knowledge of the grace of God;

²³ If you keep yourselves safely based in the faith, not moved from the hope of the good news which came to you, and which was given to every living being under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

⁸ Take care that no one takes you away by force, through man's wisdom and deceit, going after the beliefs of men and the theories of the world, and not after Christ:

¹⁸ Let no man take your reward from you by consciously making little of himself and giving worship to angels; having his thoughts fixed on the things which he has seen, being foolishly lifted up in his natural mind,

¹⁴ For you, my brothers, took as your examples the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; because you underwent the same things from your countrymen as they did from the Jews; ¹⁵ Who put to death the Lord Jesus and the prophets, violently driving us out; who are unpleasing to God and against all men; ¹⁶ Who, to make the measure of their sins complete, kept us from giving the word of salvation to the Gentiles: but the wrath of God is about to come on them in the fullest degree.

¹⁶ Who, to make the measure of their sins complete, kept us from giving the word of salvation to the Gentiles: but the wrath of God is about to come on them in the fullest degree.

¹⁶ Because the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a word of authority, with the voice of the chief angel, with the sound of a horn: and the dead in Christ will come to life first;

¹ But about the times and their order, my brothers, there is no need for me to say anything to you. ² For you yourselves have the knowledge that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

² For you yourselves have the knowledge that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

² For you yourselves have the knowledge that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

² For you yourselves have the knowledge that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. ³ When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.

³ When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.

³ When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.

³ When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it. ⁴ But you, my brothers, are not in the dark, for that day to overtake you like a thief:

⁴ But you, my brothers, are not in the dark, for that day to overtake you like a thief: ⁵ For you are all sons of light and of the day: we are not of the night or of the dark.

⁵ For you are all sons of light and of the day: we are not of the night or of the dark. ⁶ So then, let us not take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake.

⁶ So then, let us not take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake.

⁶ So then, let us not take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake. ⁷ For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night; ⁸ But let us, who are of the day, be serious, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and on our heads, the hope of salvation. ⁹ For God's purpose for us is not wrath, but salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁰ Who was put to death for us, so that, awake or sleeping, we may have a part in his life. ¹¹ So then, go on comforting and building up one another, as you have been doing.

⁷ And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus comes from heaven with the angels of his power in flames of fire,

¹ Now as to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, and our meeting with him, it is our desire, my brothers, ² That you may not be moved in mind or troubled by a spirit, or by a word, or by a letter as from us, with the suggestion that the day of the Lord is even now come; ³ Give no belief to false words: because there will first be a falling away from the faith, and the revelation of the man of sin, the son of destruction,

⁹ Even the one whose coming is marked by the working of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders, ¹⁰ And with every deceit of wrongdoing among those whose fate is destruction; because they were quite without that love of the true faith by which they might have salvation. ¹¹ And for this cause, God will give them up to the power of deceit and they will put their faith in what is false:

¹² I give praise to him who gave me power, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he took me to be true, making me his servant,

¹ But the Spirit says clearly that in later times some will be turned away from the faith, giving their minds to spirits of deceit, and the teachings of evil spirits,

¹⁵ You have had news that all those in Asia went away from me; among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes:

² And the things which I have said to you before a number of witnesses, give to those of the faith, so that they may be teachers of others.

¹⁰ But I undergo all things for the saints, so that they may have salvation in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

¹² If we go on to the end, then we will be ruling with him: if we say we have no knowledge of him, then he will say he has no knowledge of us:

¹⁹ But God's strong base is unchanging, having this sign, The Lord has knowledge of those who are his: and, Let everyone by whom the name of the Lord is named be turned away from evil.

⁶ For I am even now being offered, and my end is near. ⁷ I have made a good fight, I have come to the end of my journey, I have kept the faith: ⁸ From now on, the crown of righteousness is made ready for me, which the Lord, the upright judge, Will give to me at that day: and not only to me, but to all those who have had love for his revelation.

¹⁰ For Demas has gone away from me, for love of this present life, and has gone to Thessalonica: Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

¹⁶ At my first meeting with my judges, no one took my part, but all went away from me. May it not be put to their account.

² In the hope of eternal life, which was made certain before eternal time, by the word of God who is ever true;

¹¹ By whom some families have been completely overturned; who take money for teaching things which are not right; these will have to be stopped. ¹² One of their prophets has said, The men of Crete are ever false, evil beasts, lovers of food, hating work.

¹¹ They will come to their end; but you are for ever; they will become old as a robe; ¹² They will be rolled up like a cloth, even like a robe, and they will be changed: but you are the same and your years will have no end.

¹ For this reason there is the more need for us to give attention to the things which have come to our ears, for fear that by chance we might be slipping away.

⁵ And Moses certainly kept faith as a servant, in all his house, and as a witness of those things which were to be said later; ⁶ But Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we keep our hearts fixed in the glad and certain hope till the end.

¹⁴ For if we keep the substance of the faith which we had at the start, even till the end, we have a part with Christ;

²⁶ For then he would have undergone a number of deaths from the time of the making of the world: but now he has come to us at the end of the old order, to put away sin by the offering of himself.

²⁶ For if we do evil on purpose after we have had the knowledge of what is true, there is no more offering for sins, ²⁷ But only a great fear of being judged, and of the fire of wrath which will be the destruction of the haters of God. ²⁸ A man who has gone against the law of Moses is put to death without pity on the word of two or three witnesses: ²⁹ But will not the man by whom the Son of God has been crushed under foot, and the blood of the agreement with which he was washed clean has been taken as an unholy thing, and who has had no respect for the Spirit of grace, be judged bad enough for a very much worse punishment?

³⁷ In a very little time he who is coming will come; he will not be slow.

³⁹ But we are not of those who go back to destruction; but of those who have faith even to the salvation of the soul.

⁷ By faith Noah, being moved by the fear of God, made ready an ark for the salvation of his family, because God had given him news of things which were not seen at the time; and through it the world was judged by him, and he got for his heritage the righteousness which is by faith.

²⁷ And the words, Still one more, make it clear that there will be a taking away of those things which are shaking, as of things which are made, so that there may be only those things of which no shaking is possible.

¹ What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies? ² You are burning with desire, and have not your desire, so you put men to death; you are full of envy, and you are not able to get your desire, so you are fighting and making war; you have not your desire, because you do not make request for it. ³ You make your request but you do not get it, because your request has been wrongly made, desiring the thing only so that you may make use of it for your pleasure. ⁴ O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.

¹ Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you. ² Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing. ³ Your gold and your silver are wasted and their waste will be a witness against you, burning into your flesh. You have put by your store in the last days. ⁴ See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies. ⁵ You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure; you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction. ⁶ You have given your decision against the upright man and have put him to death. He puts up no fight against you.

⁸ Be as calm in your waiting; let your hearts be strong: because the coming of the Lord is near. ⁹ Say no hard things against one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged; see, the judge is waiting at the doors.

⁵ Who, by the power of God are kept, through faith, for that salvation, which will be seen at the last day.

²⁵ But the word of the Lord is eternal. And this is the word of the good news which was given to you.

¹⁴ But you are happy if you undergo pain because of righteousness; have no part in their fear and do not be troubled; ¹⁵ But give honour to Christ in your hearts as your Lord; and be ready at any time when you are questioned about the hope which is in you, to give an answer in the fear of the Lord and without pride;

²⁰ Who, in the days of Noah, went against God's orders; but God in his mercy kept back the punishment, while Noah got ready the ark, in which a small number, that is to say eight persons, got salvation through water: ²¹ And baptism, of which this is an image, now gives you salvation, not by washing clean the flesh, but by making you free from the sense of sin before God, through the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead;

⁷ But the end of all things is near: so be serious in your behaviour and keep on the watch with prayer;

¹⁰ Making distribution among one another of whatever has been given to you, like true servants of the unmeasured grace of God; ¹¹ If anyone has anything to say, let it be as the words of God; if anyone has the desire to be the servant of others, let him do it in the strength which is given by God; so that in all things God may have the glory through Jesus Christ, whose are the glory and the power for ever.

¹⁶ But if he undergoes punishment as a Christian, that is no shame to him; let him give glory to God in this name. ¹⁷ For the time has come for the judging, starting with the church of God; but if it makes a start with us, what will be the end of those who are not under the rule of God? ¹⁸ And if it is hard for even the good man to get salvation, what chance has the man without religion or the sinner?

¹ I who am myself one of the rulers of the church, and a witness of the death of Christ, having my part in the coming glory, send this serious request to the chief men among you: ² Keep watch over the flock of God which is in your care, using your authority, not as forced to do so, but gladly; and not for unclean profit but with a ready mind; ³ Not as lords over God's heritage, but making yourselves examples to the flock.

³ Not as lords over God's heritage, but making yourselves examples to the flock. ⁴ And at the coming of the chief Keeper of the sheep, you will be given the eternal crown of glory.

⁸ Be serious and keep watch; the Evil One, who is against you, goes about like a lion with open mouth in search of food;

¹³ And it seems right to me, as long as I am in this tent of flesh, to keep your minds awake by working on your memory; ¹⁴ For I am conscious that in a short time I will have to put off this tent of flesh, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me. ¹⁵ And I will take every care so that you may have a clear memory of these things after my death.

¹ But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly put forward wrong teachings for your destruction, even turning away from the Lord who gave himself for them; whose destruction will come quickly, and they themselves will be the cause of it.

¹ But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly put forward wrong teachings for your destruction, even turning away from the Lord who gave himself for them; whose destruction will come quickly, and they themselves will be the cause of it. ² And a great number will go with them in their evil ways, through whom the true way will have a bad name. ³ And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.

⁵ And did not have mercy on the world which then was, but only kept safe Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when he let loose the waters over the world of the evil-doers;

⁷ And kept safe Lot, the upright man, who was deeply troubled by the unclean life of the evil-doers ⁸ Because the soul of that upright man living among them was pained from day to day by seeing and hearing their crimes: ⁹ The Lord is able to keep the upright safe in the time of testing, and to keep evil-doers under punishment till the day of judging;

¹³ For the evil which overtakes them is the reward of their evil-doing: such men take their pleasure in the delights of the flesh even in the daytime; they are like the marks of a disease, like poisoned wounds among you, feasting together with you in joy; ¹⁴ Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy;

³ Having first of all the knowledge that in the last days there will be men who, ruled by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things, ⁴ Saying, Where is the hope of his coming? From the death of the fathers till now everything has gone on as it was from the making of the world.

⁴ Saying, Where is the hope of his coming? From the death of the fathers till now everything has gone on as it was from the making of the world. ⁵ But in taking this view they put out of their minds the memory that in the old days there was a heaven, and an earth lifted out of the water and circled by water, by the word of God;

⁵ But in taking this view they put out of their minds the memory that in the old days there was a heaven, and an earth lifted out of the water and circled by water, by the word of God; ⁶ And that the world which then was came to an end through the overflowing of the waters. ⁷ But the present heaven and the present earth have been kept for destruction by fire, which is waiting for them on the day of the judging and destruction of evil men. ⁸ But, my loved ones, keep in mind this one thing, that with the Lord one day is the same as a thousand years, and a thousand years are no more than one day. ⁹ The Lord is not slow in keeping his word, as he seems to some, but he is waiting in mercy for you, not desiring the destruction of any, but that all may be turned from their evil ways. ¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; and in that day the heavens will be rolled up with a great noise, and the substance of the earth will be changed by violent heat, and the world and everything in it will be burned up.

¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; and in that day the heavens will be rolled up with a great noise, and the substance of the earth will be changed by violent heat, and the world and everything in it will be burned up.

¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; and in that day the heavens will be rolled up with a great noise, and the substance of the earth will be changed by violent heat, and the world and everything in it will be burned up. ¹¹ Seeing then that all these things are coming to such an end, what sort of persons is it right for you to be, in all holy behaviour and righteousness,

¹¹ Seeing then that all these things are coming to such an end, what sort of persons is it right for you to be, in all holy behaviour and righteousness,

¹¹ Seeing then that all these things are coming to such an end, what sort of persons is it right for you to be, in all holy behaviour and righteousness, ¹² Looking for and truly desiring the coming of the day of God, when the heavens will come to an end through fire, and the substance of the earth will be changed by the great heat?

¹⁷ For this reason, my loved ones, having knowledge of these things before they take place, take care that you are not turned away by the error of the uncontrolled, so falling from your true faith.

¹⁸ Little children, it is the last hour; and as you were given word that the Antichrist would come, so now a number of Antichrists have come to you; and by this we are certain that it is the last hour.

²⁶ I am writing these things to you about those whose purpose is that you may be turned out of the true way.

¹ My loved ones, do not put your faith in every spirit, but put them to the test, to see if they are from God: because a great number of false prophets have gone out into the world.

¹⁸ We are certain that one who is a child of God will do no sin, but the Son of God keeps him so that he is not touched by the Evil One.

⁹ I sent a letter to the church, but Diotrephes, whose desire is ever to have the first place among them, will not have us there. ¹⁰ So if I come, I will keep in mind the things he does, talking against us with evil words: and as if this was not enough, he does not take the brothers into his house, and those who are ready to take them in, he keeps from doing so, putting them out of the church if they do.

⁴ For certain men have come among you secretly, marked out before in the holy Writings for this evil fate, men without the fear of God, turning his grace into an unclean thing, and false to our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

¹² These men are unseen rocks at your love-feasts, when they take part in them with you, keepers of sheep who without fear take the food of the sheep; clouds without water rushing before the wind, wasted trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots,

³ A blessing be on the reader, and on those who give ear to the prophet's words, and keep the things which he has put in the book: for the time is near.

⁷ See, he comes with the clouds, and every eye will see him, and those by whom he was wounded; and all the tribes of the earth will be sorrowing because of him. Yes, so be it.

²⁰ The secret of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and of the seven gold vessels with burning lights. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven lights are the seven churches.

⁴ But I have this against you, that you are turned away from your first love. ⁵ So keep in mind where you were at first, and be changed in heart and do the first works; or I will come to you, and will take away your light from its place, if your hearts are not changed.

¹⁰ Have no fear of the things which you will have to undergo: see, the Evil One will send some of you into prison, so that you may be put to the test; and you will have great trouble for ten days. Be true till death, and I will give you the crown of life.

¹³ I have knowledge that your living-place is where Satan has his seat: and you are true to my name, and were not turned away from your faith in me, even in the days of Antipas, my true witness, who was put to death among you, where Satan has his place.

¹⁹ I have knowledge of your works, and your love and faith and help and strength in trouble, and that your last works are more than the first.

² Be on the watch, and make strong the rest of the things which are near to death; because as judged by me your works have not come up to God's measure. ³ Keep in mind, then, the teaching which was given to you, and be ruled by it and have a change of heart. If then you do not keep watch, I will come like a thief, and you will have no knowledge of the hour when I will come on you.

³ Keep in mind, then, the teaching which was given to you, and be ruled by it and have a change of heart. If then you do not keep watch, I will come like a thief, and you will have no knowledge of the hour when I will come on you.

¹⁰ Because you have kept my word in quiet strength, I will keep you from the hour of testing which is coming on all the world, to put to the test those who are on earth.

¹⁴ And to the angel of the church in Laodicea say: These things says the true and certain witness, the head of God's new order: ¹⁵ I have knowledge of your works, that you are not cold or warm: it would be better if you were cold or warm.

²⁰ See, I am waiting at the door and giving the sign; if my voice comes to any man's ears and he makes the door open, I will come in to him, and will take food with him and he with me. ²¹ To him who overcomes I will give a place with me on my high seat, even as I overcame, and am seated with my Father on his high seat. ²² He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches.

⁸ And I saw a grey horse, and the name of him who was seated on it was Death; and Hell came after him. And there was given to them authority over the fourth part of the earth, to put to destruction by the sword, and by taking away their food, and by death, and by the beasts of the earth. ⁹ And when the fifth stamp was undone, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been put to death for the word of God, and for the witness which they kept. ¹⁰ And they gave a great cry, saying, How long will it be, O Ruler, holy and true, before you take your place as judge and give punishment for our blood to those on the earth? ¹¹ And there was given to every one a white robe, and they were ordered to take their rest for a little time, till the number was complete of the other servants, their brothers, who would be put to death, even as they had been. ¹² And I saw when the sixth stamp was undone, and there was a great earth-shock; and the sun became black as haircloth, and all the moon became as blood;

¹² And I saw when the sixth stamp was undone, and there was a great earth-shock; and the sun became black as haircloth, and all the moon became as blood; ¹³ And the stars of heaven were falling to the earth, like green fruit from a tree before the force of a great wind. ¹⁴ And the heaven was taken away like the roll of a book when it is rolled up; and all the mountains and islands were moved out of their places.

¹⁴ And the heaven was taken away like the roll of a book when it is rolled up; and all the mountains and islands were moved out of their places. ¹⁵ And the kings of the earth, and the rulers, and the chief captains, and the men of wealth, and the strong, and every servant and free man, took cover in the holes and the rocks of the mountains; ¹⁶ And they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Come down on us, covering us from the face of him who is seated on the high seat, and from the wrath of the Lamb: ¹⁷ For the great day of their wrath is come, and who may keep his place?

¹ After this I saw four angels in their places at the four points of the earth, keeping back the four winds in their hands, so that there might be no moving of the wind on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree.

¹⁴ And I said to him, My lord, you have knowledge. And he said to me, These are they who came through the great testing, and their robes have been washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb.

² And I saw the seven angels who had their place before God; and seven horns were given to them.

¹² And at the sounding of the fourth angel, a third part of the sun, and of the moon, and of the stars was made dark, so that there was no light for a third part of the day and of the night.

¹⁵ And at the sounding of the seventh angel there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ, and he will have rule for ever and ever.

⁹ And the great dragon was forced down, the old snake, who is named the Evil One and Satan, by whom all the earth is turned from the right way; he was forced down to the earth, and his angels were forced down with him. ¹⁰ And a great voice in heaven came to my ears, saying, Now is come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ: because he who says evil against our brothers before our God day and night is forced down. ¹¹ And they overcame him through the blood of the Lamb and the word of their witness; and loving not their lives they freely gave themselves up to death.

⁷ And it was given to him to make war on the saints and to overcome them: and there was given to him authority over every tribe and people and language and nation.

⁷ And it was given to him to make war on the saints and to overcome them: and there was given to him authority over every tribe and people and language and nation. ⁸ And all who are on the earth will give him worship, everyone whose name has not been from the first in the book of life of the Lamb who was put to death.

⁸ And all who are on the earth will give him worship, everyone whose name has not been from the first in the book of life of the Lamb who was put to death.

¹³ And he does great signs, even making fire come down from heaven on the earth before the eyes of men. ¹⁴ And those who are on the earth are turned from the true way by him through the signs which he was given power to do before the beast; giving orders to those who are on the earth to make an image to the beast, who was wounded by the sword, and came to life.

⁶ And I saw another angel in flight between heaven and earth, having eternal good news to give to those who are on the earth, and to every nation and tribe and language and people,

⁶ And I saw another angel in flight between heaven and earth, having eternal good news to give to those who are on the earth, and to every nation and tribe and language and people, ⁷ Saying with a loud voice, Have fear of God and give him glory; because the hour of his judging is come; and give worship to him who made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of water. ⁸ And a second angel came after, saying, Destruction has come to Babylon the great, which gave to all the nations the wine of the wrath of her evil ways. ⁹ And a third angel came after them, saying with a loud voice, If any man gives worship to the beast and his image, and has his mark on his brow or on his hand,

⁶ For they made the blood of saints and prophets come out like a stream, and blood have you given them for drink; which is their right reward.

¹⁴ For they are evil spirits, working signs; who go out even to the kings of all the earth, to get them together to the war of the great day of God, the Ruler of all. ¹⁵ See, I come as a thief. Happy is he who is watching and keeps his robes, so that he may not go unclothed, and his shame be seen.

⁶ And I saw the woman overcome as with the wine of the blood of the saints, and the blood of those put to death because of Jesus. And when I saw her, I was overcome with a great wonder.

⁷ Let us be glad with delight, and let us give glory to him: because the time is come for the Lamb to be married, and his wife has made herself ready.

²⁰ And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, by which they were turned from the true way who had the mark of the beast, and who gave worship to his image: these two were put living into the sea of ever-burning fire.

¹¹ And I saw a great white seat, and him who was seated on it, before whose face the earth and the heaven went in flight; and there was no place for them.

⁷ He who overcomes will have these things for his heritage; and I will be his God, and he will be my son.