Daniel 2 Cross References - DouayRheims

¹ In the second year of the reign of Nabuchodonosor, Nabuchodonosor had a dream, and his spirit was terrified, and his dream went out of his mind. ² Then the king commanded to call together the diviners and the wise men, and the magicians, and the Chaldeans: to declare to the king his dreams: so they came and stood before the king. ³ And the king said to them: I saw a dream: and being troubled in mind I know not what I saw. ⁴ And the Chaldeans answered the king in Syriac: O king, live for ever: tell to thy servants thy dream, and we will declare the interpretation thereof. ⁵ And the king, answering, said to the Chaldeans: The thing is gone out of my mind: unless you tell me the dream, and the meaning thereof, you shall be put to death, and your houses shall be confiscated. ⁶ but if you tell the dream, and the meaning of it, you shall receive of me rewards, and gifts, and great honour: therefore, tell me the dream, and the interpretation thereof. ⁷ They answered again and said: Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will declare the interpretation of it. ⁸ The king answered and said: I know for certain, that you seek to gain time, since you know that the thing is gone from me. ⁹ If, therefore, you tell me not the dream, there is one sentence concerning you, that you have also framed a lying interpretation, and full of deceit, to speak before me till the time pass away. Tell me, therefore, the dream, that I may know that you also give a true interpretation thereof. ¹⁰ Then the Chaldeans answered before the king, and said: There is no man upon earth, that can accomplish thy word, O king; neither doth any king, though great and mighty, ask such a thing of any diviner, or wise man, or Chaldean. ¹¹ For the thing that thou asketh, O king, is difficult: nor can any one be found that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose conversation is not with men. ¹² Upon hearing this, the king in fury, and in great wrath, commanded that all the wise men of Babylon should be put to death. ¹³ And the decree being gone forth, the wise men were slain: and Daniel and his companions were sought for, to be put to death. ¹⁴ Then Daniel inquired concerning the law and the sentence, of Arioch, the general of the king's army, who was gone forth to kill the wise men of Babylon. ¹⁵ And he asked him that had received the orders of the king, why so cruel a sentence was gone forth from the face of the king. And when Arioch had told the matter to Daniel, ¹⁶ Daniel went in, and desired of the king, that he would give him time to resolve the question, and declare it to the king. ¹⁷ And he went into his house, and told the matter to Ananias, and Misael, and Azarias, his companions: ¹⁸ To the end that they should ask mercy at the face of the God of heaven, concerning this secret, and that Daniel and his companions might not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. ¹⁹ Then was the mystery revealed to Daniel by a vision in the night: and Daniel blessed the God of heaven, ²⁰ And speaking, he said: Blessed be the name of the Lord from eternity and for evermore: for wisdom and fortitude are his. ²¹ And he changeth times and ages: taketh away kingdoms, and establisheth them: giveth wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to them that have understanding: ²² He revealeth deep and hidden things, and knoweth what is in darkness: and light is with him. ²³ To thee, O God of our fathers, I give thanks, and I praise thee: because thou hast given me wisdom and strength: and now thou hast shewn me what we desired of thee, for thou hast made known to us the king's discourse. ²⁴ After this Daniel went in to Arioch, to whom the king had given orders to destroy the wise men of Babylon, and he spoke thus to him: Destroy not the wise men of Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I will tell the solution to the king. ²⁵ Then Arioch in haste brought in Daniel to the king, and said to him: I have found a man of the children of the captivity of Juda, that will resolve the question to the king. ²⁶ The king answered, and said to Daniel, whose name was Baltassar: Thinkest thou indeed that thou canst tell me the dream that I saw, and the interpretation thereof? ²⁷ And Daniel made answer before the king, and said: The secret that the king desireth to know, none of the wise men, or the philosophers, or the diviners, or the soothsayers, can declare to the king. ²⁸ But there is a God in heaven that revealeth mysteries, who hath shewn to thee, O king Nabuchodonosor, what is to come to pass in the latter times. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these: ²⁹ Thou, O king, didst begin to think in thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he that revealeth mysteries shewed thee what shall come to pass. ³⁰ To me also this secret is revealed, not by any wisdom that I have more than all men alive: but that the interpretation might be made manifest to the king, and thou mightest know the thought of thy mind. ³¹ Thou, O king, sawest, and behold there was as it were a great statue: this statue, which was great and high, tall of stature, stood before thee, and the look thereof was terrible. ³² The head of this statue was of fine gold, but the breast and the arms of silver, and the belly and the thighs of brass. ³³ And the legs of iron, the feet part of iron and part of clay. ³⁴ Thus thou sawest, till a stone was cut out of a mountain without hands: and it struck the statue upon the feet thereof that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. ³⁵ Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of a summer's threshing floor, and they were carried away by the wind: and there was no place found for them: but the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. ³⁶ This is the dream: we will also tell the interpretation thereof before thee, O king. ³⁷ Thou art a king of kings: and the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, and strength, and power, and glory: ³⁸ And all places wherein the children of men, and the beasts of the field do dwell: he hath also given the birds of the air into thy hand, and hath put all things under thy power: thou, therefore, art the head of gold. ³⁹ And after thee shall rise up another kingdom, inferior to thee, of silver: and another third kingdom of brass, which shall rule over all the world. ⁴⁰ And the fourth kingdom shall be as iron. As iron breaketh into pieces, and subdueth all things, so shall that break, and destroy all these. ⁴¹ And whereas thou sawest the feet, and the toes, part of potter's clay, and part of iron: the kingdom shall be divided, but yet it shall take its origin from the iron, according as thou sawest the iron mixed with the miry clay. ⁴² And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay: the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. ⁴³ And whereas thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay, they shall be mingled indeed together with the seed of man, but they shall not stick fast one to another, as iron cannot be mixed with clay. ⁴⁴ But in the days of those kingdoms, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never by destroyed, and his kingdom shall not be delivered up to another people: and it shall break in pieces, and shall consume all these kingdoms: and itself shall stand for ever. ⁴⁵ According as thou sawest, that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and broke in pieces the clay and the iron, and the brass, and the silver, and the gold, the great God hath shewn the king what shall come to pass hereafter, and the dream is true, and the interpretation thereof is faithful. ⁴⁶ Then king Nabuchodonosor fell on his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer in sacrifice to him victims and incense. ⁴⁷ And the king spoke to Daniel, and said: Verily, your God is the God of gods, and Lord of kings, and a revealer of hidden things: seeing thou couldst discover this secret. ⁴⁸ Then the king advanced Daniel to a high station, and gave him many and great gifts: and he made him governor over all the provinces of Babylon: and chief of the magistrates over all the wise men of Babylon. ⁴⁹ And Daniel requested of the king, and he appointed Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, over the works of the province of Babylon: but Daniel himself was in the king's palace.
(13:1) Now there was a man that dwelt in Babylon, and his name was Joakim:
(13:2) And he took a wife, whose name was Susanna, the daughter of Helcias, a bery beautiful woman, and one that feared God.
(13:3) For her parents being just, had instructed their daughter according to the law of Moses.
(13:4) Now Joakim was very rich, and had an orchard near his house: and the Jews resorted to him, because he was the most honourable of them all.
(13:5) And there were two of the ancients of the people appointed judges that year, of whom the Lord said: That iniquity came out from Babylon, from the ancient judges, that seemed to govern the people.
(13:6) These men frequented the house of Joakim, and all that hand any maters of judgment came to them.
(13:7) And when the people departed away at noon, Susanna went in, and walked in her husband's orchard.
(13:8) And the old men saw her going in every day, and walking: and they were inflamed with lust towards her:
(13:9) And they perverted their own mind, and turned away their eyes, that they might not look unto heaven, nor remember just judgments.
(13:10) So they were both wounded with the love of her, yet they did not make known their grief one to the other.
(13:11) For they were ashamed to declare to one another their lust, being desirous to have to do with her:
(13:12) And they watched carefully every day to see her. And one said to the other:
(13:13) Let us now go home, for it is dinner time. So going out, they departed one from another.
(13:14) And turning back again, they came both to the same place: and asking one another the cause, they acknowledged their lust: and then they agreed together upon a time, when they might find her alone.
(13:15) And it fell out, as they watched a fit day, she went in on a time, as yesterday and the day before, with two maids only, and was desirous to wash herself in the orchard: for it was hot weather.
(13:16) And there was nobody there, but the two old men that had hid themselves, and were beholding her.
(13:17) So she said to the maids: Bring me oil, and washing balls, and shut the doors of the orchard, that I may wash me.
(13:18) And they did as she bade them: and they shut the doors of the orchard, and went out by a back door to fetch what she had commanded them, and they knew not that the elders were hid within.
(13:19) Now when the maids were gone forth, the two elders arose, and ran to her, and said:
(13:20) Behold the doors of the orchard are shut, and nobody seeth us, and we are in love with thee: wherefore consent to us, and lie with us.
(13:21) But if thou wilt not, we will bear witness against thee, that a young man was with thee, and therefore thou didst send away thy maids form thee.
(13:22) Susanna sighed, and said: I am straitened on every side: for if I do this thing, it is death to me: and if I do it not, I shall not escape your hands.
(13:23) But it is better for me to fall into your hands without doing it, than to sin in the sight of the Lord.
(13:24) With that Susanna cried out with a loud voice: and the elders also cried out against her.
(13:25) And one of them ran to the door of the orchard, and opened it.
(13:26) So when the servants of the house heard the cry in the orchard, they rushed in by the back door, to see what was the matter.
(13:27) But after the old men had spoken, the servants were greatly ashamed: for never had there been any such word said of Susanna. And on the next day,
(13:28) When the people were come to Joakim, her husband, the two elders also came full of wicked device against Susanna, to put her to death.
(13:29) And they said before the people: Send to Susanna, daughter of Helcias, the wife of Joakim. And presently they sent.
(13:30) And she came with her parents, and children and all her kindred.
(13:31) Now Susanna was exceeding delicate, and beautiful to behold.
(13:32) But those wicked men commanded that her face should be uncovered, (for she was covered) that so at least they might be satisfied with her beauty.
(13:33) Therefore her friends, and all her acquaintance wept.
(13:34) But the two elders rising up in the midst of the people, laid their hands upon her head.
(13:35) And she weeping, looked kup to heaven, for her heart had confidence in the Lord.
(13:36) And the elders said: As we walked in the orchard alone, this woman came in with two maids, and shut the doors of the orchard, ans sent away the maids from her.
(13:37) Then a young man that was there hid came to her, and lay with her.
(13:38) But we that were in a corner of the orchard, seeing this wickedness, ran up to them, and we saw them lie together.
(13:39) And him indeed we could not take, because he was stronger than us, and opening the doors, he leaped out:
(13:40) But having taken this woman, we asked who the young man was, but she would not tell us: of this thing we are witnesses.
(13:41) The multitude believed them, as being the elders, and the judges of the people, and they condemned her to death.
(13:42) Then Susanna cried out with a loud voice, and said: O eternal God, who knowest hidden things, who knowest all things before they come to pass,
(13:43) Thou knowest that they have borne false witness against me: and behold I must die, whereas I have done none of these things, which these men have maliciously forged against me.
(13:44) And the Lord heard her voice.
(13:45) And when she was led to be put to death, the Lord raised up the holy spirit of a young boy, whose name was Daniel:
(13:46) And he cried out with a loud voice: I am clear from the blood of this woman.
(13:47) Then all the people turning themselves towards him, said: What meaneth this word that thou hast spoken?
(13:48) But he standing in the midst of them, said: Are ye so foolish, ye children of Israel, that without examination or knowledge of the truth, you have condemned a daughter of Israel?
(13:49) Return to judgment, for they have borne false witness against her.
(13:50) So all the people turned again in haste, and the old men said to him: Come, and sit thou down among us, and shew it us: seeing God hath given thee the honour of old age.
(13:51) And Daniel said to the people: Separate these two far from one another, and I will examine them.
(13:52) So when they were put asunder one from the other, he called one of them, and said to him: O thou that art grown old in evil days, now are thy sins come out, which thou hast committed before:
(13:53) In judging unjust judgments, oppressing the innocent, and letting the guilty to go free, whereas the Lord saith: The innocent and the just thou shalt not kill.
(13:54) Now then if thou sawest her, tell me under what tree thou sawest them conversing together: He said: Under a mastic tree.
(13:55) And Daniel said: Welll hast thou lide against thy own head: for behold the angel of God having recieved the sentence of him, shall cut thee in two.
(13:56) And having put him aside, he commanded that the other should come, and he said to him: O thou seed of Chanaan, and not of Juda, beauty hath deceived tee, and lust hath perverted thy heart:
(13:57) Thus did you do to the daughters of Israel, and they for fear conversed with you: but a daughter of Juda would not abide your wickedness.
(13:58) Now, therefore, tell me, under what tree didst thou take them conversing together. And he answered: Under a holm tree.
(13:59) And Daniel said to him: Well hast thou also lied against thy own head: for the angel of the Lord waiteth with a sword to cut thee in two, and to destroy you.
(13:60) With that all the assembly cried out with a loud voice, and they blessed God, who saveth them that trust in him.
(13:61) And they rose up against the two elders, (for Daniel had convicted them of false witness by their own mouth) and they did to them as they had maliciously dealt against their neighbour,
(13:62) To fulfil the law of Moses: and they put them to death, and innocent blood was saved in that day.
(13:63) But Helcias, and his wife, praised God, for their daughter, Susanna, with Joakim, her husband, and all her kindred, because there was no dishonesty found in her.
(13:64) And Daniel became great in the sight of the people from that day, and thence forward.

²⁰ And blessed be the most high God, by whose protection, the enemies are in thy hands. And he gave him the tithes of all.

¹⁷ And the Lord said: Can I hide from Abraham what I am about to do:

²⁸ What if there be five less than fifty just persons? wilt thou for five and forty destroy the whole city: And he said: I will not destroy it, if I find five and forty.

⁴⁷ And Laban called it, The witness heap; and Jacob, The hillock of testimony: each of them according to the propriety of his language.

⁹ And Jacob said: O God of my fahter Abraham, and God of my father Isaac: O Lord who saidst to me, Return to thy land, and to the place of thy birth, and I will do well for thee. ¹⁰ I am not worthy of the least of all thy mercies, and of thy truth which thou hast fulfilled to thy servant. With my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I return with two companies. ¹¹ Deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am greatly afraid of him; lest perhaps he come, and kill the mother with the children.

⁵ Now it fell out also that he told his brethren a dream, that he had dreamed: which occasioned them to hate him the more. ⁶ And he said to them: Hear my dream which I dreamed. ⁷ I thought we were binding sheaves in the field: and my sheaf arose as it were, and stood, and your sheaves standing about bowed down before my sheaf. ⁸ His brethren answered: Shalt thou be our king? or shall we be subject to thy dominion? Therefore this matter of his dreams and words ministered nourishment to their envy and hatred. ⁹ He dreamed also another dream, which he told his brethren, saying: I saw in a dream, as it were the sun, and the moon, and eleven stars worshipping me.

³⁶ The Madianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Putiphar, an eunuch of Pharao, captain of the soldiers.

⁵ And they both dreamed a dream the same night, according to the interpretation agreeing to themselves: ⁶ And when Joseph was come into them in the morning, and saw them sad, ⁷ He asked them, saying: Why is your countenance sadder today than usual? ⁸ They answered: We have dreamed a dream, and there is nobody to interpret it to us. And Joseph said to them: Doth not interpretation belong to God? Tell me what you have dreamed:

⁸ They answered: We have dreamed a dream, and there is nobody to interpret it to us. And Joseph said to them: Doth not interpretation belong to God? Tell me what you have dreamed:

¹ After two years Pharao had a dream. He thought he stood by the river, ² Out of which came up seven kine, very beautiful and fat: and they fed in marshy places. ³ Other seven also came up out of the river, ill favoured, and lean fleshed: and they fed on the very bank of the river, in green places: ⁴ And they devoured them, whose bodies were very beautiful and well conditioned. So Pharao awoke. ⁵ He slept again, and dreamed another dream: Seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk full and fair: ⁶ Then seven other ears sprung up thin and blasted, ⁷ And devoured all the beauty of the former. Pharao awaked after his rest: ⁸ And when morning was come, being struck with fear, he sent to all the interpreters of Egypt, and to all the wise men: and they being called for, he told them his dream, and there was not any one that could interpret it.

⁸ And when morning was come, being struck with fear, he sent to all the interpreters of Egypt, and to all the wise men: and they being called for, he told them his dream, and there was not any one that could interpret it. ⁹ Then at length the chief butler remembering, said: I confess my sin: ¹⁰ The king being angry with his servants, commanded me and the chief baker to be cast into the prison of the captain of the soldiers. ¹¹ Where in one night both of us dreamed a dream forboding things to come. ¹² There was there a young man a Hebrew, servant to the same captain of the soldiers: to whom we told our dreams, ¹³ And we heard what afterwards the event of the thing proved to be so. For I was restored to my office: and he was hanged upon a gibbet. ¹⁴ Forthwith at the king's command Joseph was brought out of the prison, and they shaved him: and changing his apparel brought him in to him. ¹⁵ And he said to him: I have dreamed dreams, and there is no one that can expound them: Now I have heard that thou art very wise at interpreting them:

¹⁵ And he said to him: I have dreamed dreams, and there is no one that can expound them: Now I have heard that thou art very wise at interpreting them: ¹⁶ Joseph answered: Without me, God shall give Pharao a prosperous answer.

¹⁶ Joseph answered: Without me, God shall give Pharao a prosperous answer. ¹⁷ So Pharao told what he had dreamed: Methought I stood upon the bank of the river, ¹⁸ And seven kine came up out of the river, exceeding beautiful and full of flesh: and they grazed on green places in a marshy pasture. ¹⁹ And behold, there followed these, other seven kine, so very ill favoured and lean, that I never saw the like in the land of Egypt: ²⁰ And they devoured and consumed the former, ²¹ And yet gave no mark of their being full: but were as lean and ill favoured as before. I awoke, and then fell asleep again, ²² And dreamed a dream: Seven ears of corn grew up upon one stalk, full and very fair. ²³ Other seven also thin and blasted, sprung of the stalk: ²⁴ And they devoured the beauty of the former: I told this dream to the conjecturers, and there is no man that can expound it. ²⁵ Joseph answered: The king's dream is one: God hath shewn to Pharao what he is about to do.

²⁵ Joseph answered: The king's dream is one: God hath shewn to Pharao what he is about to do. ²⁶ The seven beautiful kine, and the seven full ears, are seven years of plenty: and both contain the same meaning of the dream.

²⁶ The seven beautiful kine, and the seven full ears, are seven years of plenty: and both contain the same meaning of the dream. ²⁷ And the seven lean and thin kine that came up after them, and the seven thin ears that were blasted with the burning wind, are seven years of famine to come:

²⁷ And the seven lean and thin kine that came up after them, and the seven thin ears that were blasted with the burning wind, are seven years of famine to come: ²⁸ Which shall be fulfilled in this order.

²⁸ Which shall be fulfilled in this order.

²⁸ Which shall be fulfilled in this order. ²⁹ Behold, there shall come seven years of great plenty in the whole land of Egypt: ³⁰ After which shall follow other seven years of so great scarcity, that all the abundance before shall be forgotten: for the famine shall consume all the land, ³¹ And the greatness of the scarcity shall destroy the greatness of the plenty. ³² And for that thou didst see the second time a dream pertaining to the same thing: it is a token of the certainty, and that the word of God cometh to pass, and is fulfilled speedily.

³² And for that thou didst see the second time a dream pertaining to the same thing: it is a token of the certainty, and that the word of God cometh to pass, and is fulfilled speedily. ³³ Now therefore let the king provide a wise and industrious man, and make him ruler over the land of Egypt: ³⁴ That he may appoint overseers over all the countries: and gather into barns the fifth part of the fruits, during the seven fruitful years, ³⁵ That shall now presently ensue: and let all the corn be laid up, under Pharao's hands, and be reserved in the cities. ³⁶ And let it be in readiness, against the famine of seven years to come, which shall oppress Egypt, and the land shall not be consumed with scarcity.

³⁹ He said therefore to Joseph: Seeing God hath shewn thee all that thou hast said, can I find one wiser and one like unto thee?

³⁹ He said therefore to Joseph: Seeing God hath shewn thee all that thou hast said, can I find one wiser and one like unto thee? ⁴⁰ Thou shalt be over my house, and at the commandment of thy mouth all the people shall obey: only in the kingly throne will I be above thee. ⁴¹ And again Pharao said to Joseph: Behold, I have appointed thee over the whole land of Egypt. ⁴² And he took his ring from his own hand, and gave it into his hand: and he put upon him a robe of silk, and put a chain of gold about his neck. ⁴³ And he made him go up into his second chariot, the crier proclaiming that all should bow their knee before him, and that they should know he was made governor over the whole land of Egypt.

¹ And Jacob called his sons, and said to them: Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you the things that shall befall you in the last days.

¹⁰ The sceptre shall not be taken away from Juda, nor a ruler from his thigh, till he come that is to be sent, and he shall be the expectation of nations.

¹⁵ And God said again to Moses: Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: The Lord God of your fathers the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob hath sent me to you; this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.

¹¹ And Pharao called the wise men and the magicians; and they also by Egyptian enchantments and certain secrets, did in like manner.

¹⁹ And the magicians said to Pharao: This is the finger of God. And Pharao's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them, as the Lord had commanded.

⁴⁵ And I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel, and will be their God:

³ And I have filled him with the spirit of God, with wisdom and understanding, and knowledge in all manner of work,

⁶ And I have given him for his companion Ooliab, the son of Achisamech, of the tribe of Dan. And I have put wisdom in the heart of every skilful man, that they may make all things which I have commanded thee,

³¹ Insomuch that I will bring your cities to be a wilderness: and I will make your sanctuaries desolate: and will receive no more your sweet odours.

⁶ He said to them: Hear my words: if there be among you a prophet of the Lord, I will appear to him in a vision, or I will speak to him in a dream.

⁷ And the ancients of Moab, and the elders of Madian, went with the price of divination in their hands. And where they were come to Balaam, and had told him all the words of Balac:

¹⁶ Who, when they were come to Balaam, said: Thus saith Balac the son of Sephor, Delay not to come to me: ¹⁷ For I am ready to honour thee, and will give thee whatsoever thou wilt: come and curse this people.

¹⁷ For I am ready to honour thee, and will give thee whatsoever thou wilt: come and curse this people.

³⁷ And he said to Balaam: I sent messengers to call thee, why didst thou not come immediately to me? was it because I am not able to reward thy coming?

¹¹ Return to thy place. I had determined indeed greatly to honour thee, but the Lord hath deprived thee of the honour designed for thee.

¹⁴ But yet going to my people, I will give thee counsel, what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.

³⁴ And thus shall your possession be cleansed, myself abiding with you. For I am the Lord that dwell among the children of Israel.

³⁰ After all the things aforesaid shall find thee, in the latter time thou shalt return to the Lord thy God, and shalt hear his voice.

¹⁷ Because the Lord your God he is the God of gods, and the Lord of lords, a great God and mighty and terrible, who accepteth no person nor taketh bribes.

¹⁶ And all the household goods that are there, thou shalt gather together in the midst of the streets thereof, and shall burn them with the city itself, so as to comsume all for the Lord thy God, and that it be a heap for ever: it shall be built no more.

¹⁰ Neither let there be found among you any one that shall expiate his son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire: or that consulteth soothsayers, or observeth dreams and omens, neither let there be any wizard, ¹¹ Nor charmer, nor any one that consulteth pythonic spirits, or fortune tellers, or that seeketh the truth from the dead. ¹² For the Lord abhorreth all these things, and for these abominations he will destroy them at thy coming.

¹⁹ Now therefore write you this canticle, and teach the children of Israel: that they may know it by heart, and sing it by mouth, and this song may be unto me for a testimony among the children of Israel.

²⁶ Cursed be the man before the Lord, that shall raise up and build the city of Jericho. In his firstborn may he lay the foundation thereof, and in the last of his children set up its gates.

²² The Lord the most mighty God, the Lord the most mighty God, he knoweth, and Israel also shall understand: If with the design of transgression we have set up this altar, let him not save us, but punish us immediately:

⁷ The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich, he humbleth and he exalteth: ⁸ He raiseth up the needy from the dust, and lifteth up the poor from the dunghill: that he may sit with princes, and hold the throne of glory. For the poles of the earth are the Lord's, and upon them he hath set the world.

²⁴ And Samuel said to all the people: Surely you see him whom the Lord hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people. And all the people cried and said: God save the king.

³³ And Samuel said: As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed him in pieces before the Lord in Galgal.

²⁵ And some one of Israel said: Have you seen this man that is come up, for he is come up to defy Israel. And the man that shall slay him, the king will enrich with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and will make his father's house free from tribute in Israel.

³³ And Saul said to David: Thou art not able to withstand this Philistine, nor to fight against him: for thou art but a boy, but he is a warrior from his youth.

³⁷ And David said: The Lord who delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said to David: Go, and the Lord be with thee.

² Now there was a certain man in the wilderness of Maon, and his possessions were in Carmel, and the man was very great: and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and it happened that he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

²² Therefore thou art magnified, O Lord God, because there is none like to thee, neither is there any God besides thee, in all the things that we have heard with our ears.

³² Now Berzellai the Galaadite was of a great age, that is to say, fourscore years old, and he provided the king with sustenance when he abode in the camp: for he was a man exceeding rich.

¹⁶ And a wise woman cried out from the city: Hear, hear, and say to Joab: Come near hither, and I will speak with thee. ¹⁷ And when he was come near to her, she said to him: Art thou Joab? And he answered: I am. And she spoke thus to him: Hear the words of thy handmaid. He answered: I do hear. ¹⁸ And she again said: A saying was used in the old proverb: They that inquire, let them inquire in Abela: and so they made an end. ¹⁹ Am not I she that answer truth in Israel, and thou seekest to destroy the city, and to overthrow a mother in Israel? Why wilt thou throw down the inheritance of the Lord? ²⁰ And Joab answering said: God forbid, God forbid that I should, I do not throw down, nor destroy. ²¹ The matter is not so, but a man of mount Ephraim, Seba the son of Bochri by name, hath lifted up his hand against king David: deliver him only, and we will depart from the city. And the woman said to Joab: Behold his head shall be thrown to thee from the wall. ²² So she went to all the people, and spoke to them wisely: and they cut off the head of Seba the son of Bochri, and cast it out to Joab. And he sounded the trumpet, and they departed from the city, every one to their home: and Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.

²⁵ Because he is gone down to day, and hath killed oxen, and fatlings, and many rams, and invited all the king's sons, and the captains of the army, and Abiathar the priest: and they are eating and drinking before him, and saying: God save king Adonias:

³¹ And Bethsabee, bowing with her face to the earth, worshipped the king, saying: May my lord David live for ever.

⁸ And thy servant is in the midst of the people which thou hast chosen, an immense people, which cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude. ⁹ Give therefore to thy servant an understanding heart, to judge thy people, and discern between good and evil. For who shall be able to judge this people, thy people, which is so numerous? ¹⁰ And the word was pleasing to the Lord, that Solomon had asked such a thing. ¹¹ And the Lord said to Solomon: Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life nor riches, nor the lives of thy enemies, but hast asked for thyself wisdom to discern jndgment; ¹² Behold I have done for thee according to thy words, and have given thee a wise and understanding heart, in so much that there hath been no one like thee before thee, nor shall arise after thee.

²⁸ And all Israel heard the judgment which the king had judged, and they feared the king, seeing that the wisdom of God was in him to do judgment.

²⁴ For he had all the country which was beyond the river, from Thaphsa to Gazan, and all the kings of those countries: and he had peace on every side round about.

²⁹ And God gave to Solomon wisdom, and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, as the sand that is on the sea shore.

²⁷ Is it then to be thought that God should indeed dwell upon earth? for if heaven, and the heavens of heavens, cannot contain thee, how much less this house which I have built?

⁵⁶ Blessed be the Lord, who hath given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed so much as one word of all the good things that he promised by his servant Moses. ⁵⁷ The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers, and not leave us, nor cast us off:

²⁴ And all the earth desired to see Solomon's face, to hear his wisdom, which God had given in his heart.

³⁶ And when it was now time to offer the holocaust, Elias, the prophet, came near and said: O Lord God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Israel, shew this day that thou art the God of Israel, and I thy servant, and that according to thy commandment I have done all these things.

⁶ Then the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about four hundred men, and he said to them: Shall I go to Ramoth Galaad to fight, or shall I forbear? They answered: Go up, and the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.

²² And he said: I will go forth, and be a lying spirit, in the mouth of all his prophets. And the Lord said: Thou shalt deceive him, and shalt prevail: go forth, and do so.

¹ Naaman, general of the army, of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable: for by him the Lord gave deliverance to Syria: and he was a valiant man, and rich, but a leper.

⁸ And the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying: In such and such a place, let us lay an ambush. ⁹ And the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying: Beware that thou pass not to such a place: for the Syrians are there in ambush. ¹⁰ And the king of Israel, sent to the place which the man of God had told him, and prevented him, and looked well to himself there not once nor twice. ¹¹ And the heart of the king of Syria, was troubled for this thing. And calling together his servants, he said: Why do you not tell me who it is that betrays me to the king of Israel? ¹² And one of his servants said: No one, my lord, O king: but Eliseus, the prophet, that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel all the words, that thou speakest in thy privy chamber.

²⁷ And broke it in pieces. They destroyed also the temple of Baal, and made a jakes in its place unto this day.

²⁵ For the Lord is great and exceedingly to be praised: and he is to be feared above all gods.

¹² The Lord also give thee wisdom and understanding, that thou mayest be able to rule Israel, and to keep the law of the Lord thy God.

¹⁰ And he blessed the Lord before all the multitude, and he said: Blessed art thou, O Lord the God of Israel, our father from eternity to eternity.

¹⁰ And he blessed the Lord before all the multitude, and he said: Blessed art thou, O Lord the God of Israel, our father from eternity to eternity. ¹¹ Thine, O Lord, is magnificence, and power, and glory, and victory: and to thee is praise: for all that is in heaven, and in earth, is thine: thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art above all princes. ¹² Thine are riches, and thine is glory, thou hast dominion over all, in thy hand is power and might: in thy hand greatness, and the empire of all things. ¹³ Now therefore our God we give thanks to thee, and we praise thy glorious name.

²⁰ And David commanded all the assembly: Bless ye the Lord our God. And all the assembly blessed the Lord the God of their fathers: and they bowed themselves and worshipped God, and then the king.

³⁰ And of all his reign, and his valour, and of the times that passed under him, either in Israel, or in all the kingdoms of the countries.

¹⁰ Give me wisdom and knowledge that I may come in and go out before thy people: for who can worthily judge this thy people, which is so great? ¹¹ And God said to Solomon: Because this choice hath pleased thy heart, and thou hast not asked riches, and wealth, and glory, nor the lives of them that hate thee, nor many days of life: but hast asked wisdom and knowledge, to be able to judge my people, over which I have made thee king, ¹² Wisdom and knowledge are granted to thee: and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and glory, so that none of the kings before thee, nor after thee, shall be like thee.

¹⁸ Is it credible then that God should dwell with men on the earth? If heaven and the heavens of heavens do not contain thee, how much less this house, which I have built?

⁶ And said: O Lord God of our fathers, thou art God in heaven, and rulest over all the kingdoms and nations, in thy hand is strength and power, and no one can resist thee.

²¹ And he gave counsel to the people, and appointed the singing men of the Lord, to praise him by their companies, and to go before the army, and with one voice to say: Give glory to the Lord, for his mercy endureth for ever.

⁵ Joakim was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did evil before the Lord his God. ⁶ Against him came up Nabuchodonosor king of the Chaldeans, and led him bound in chains into Babylon. ⁷ And he carried also thither the vessels of the Lord, and put them in his temple.

²³ Thus saith Cyrus king of the Persians: All the kingdoms of the earth hath the Lord the God of heaven given to me, and he hath charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judea: who is there among you of all his people? The Lord his God be with him, and let him go up.

² Thus saith Cyrus king of the Persians: The Lord the God of heaven hath given to me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he hath charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judea.

⁷ And in the days of Artaxerxes, Beselam, Mithridates, and Thabeel, and the rest that were in the council wrote to Artaxerxes king of the Persians: and the letter of accusation was written in Syrian, and was read in the Syrian tongue.

¹⁰ And let them offer oblations to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his children. ¹¹ And I have made a decree: That if any whosoever, shall alter this commandment, a beam be taken from his house, and set up, and he be nailed upon it, and his house be confiscated.

¹² Artaxerxes king of kings to Esdras the priest, the most learned scribe of the law of the God of heaven, greeting.

³ And I said to the king: O king, live for ever: why should not my countenance be sorrowful, seeing the city of the place of the sepulchres of my fathers is desolate, and the gates thereof are burnt with fire?

¹⁴ And I looked and rose up: and I said to the chief men and the magistrates, and to the rest of the common people: be not afraid of them. Remember the Lord who is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, and your wives, and your houses.

⁶ These are the children of the province, who came up from the captivity of them that had been carried away, whom Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon had carried away, and who returned into Judea, every one into his own city.

³² Now therefore our God, great, strong, and terrible, who keepest covenant and mercy, turn not away from thy face all the labour which hath come upon us, upon our kings, and our princes, and our priests, and our prophets, and our fathers, and all the people from the days of the king of Assur, until this day.

¹³ Asked the wise men, who according to the custom of the kings, were always near his person, and all he did was by their counsel, who knew the laws, and judgments of their forefathers:

¹⁹ And when the virgins were sought the second time, and gathered together, Mardochai stayed at the king's gate,

²¹ At that time, therefore, when Mardochai abode at the king's gate, Bagathan and Thares, two of the king's eunuchs, who were porters, and presided in the first entry of the palace, were angry: and they designed to rise up against the king, and to kill him.

² And all the king's servants, that were at the doors of the palace, bent their knees, and worshipped Aman: for so the emperor had commanded them, only Mardochai did not bend his knee, nor worship him.

¹² And the king's scribes were called in the first month Nisan, on the thirteenth day of the same mouth: and they wrote, as Aman had commanded, to all the king's lieutenants, and to the judges of the provinces, and of divers nations, as every nation could read, and hear according to their different languages, in the name of king Assuerus: and the letters, sealed with his ring, ¹³ Were sent by the king's messengers to all provinces, to kill and destroy all the Jews, both young and old, little children, and women, in one day, that is, on the thirteenth of the twelfth month, which is called Adar, and to make a spoil of their goods.
(13:1) And this was the copy of the letter: Artaxerxes the great king who reigneth from India to Ethiopia, to the princes and governors of the hundred and twenty-seven provinces, that are subject to his empire, greeting.
(13:2) Whereas I reigned over many nations, and had brought all the world under my dominion, I was not willing to abuse the greatness of my power, but to govern my subjects with clemency and that they might live quietly without any terror, and might enjoy peace, which is desired by all men,
(13:3) But when I asked my counsellors how this might be accomplished, one that excelled the rest in wisdom and fidelity, and was second after the king, Aman by name,
(13:4) Told me that there was a people scattered through the whole world, which used new laws, and acted against the customs of all nations, despised the commandments of kings, and violated by their opposition the concord of all nations.
(13:5) Wherefore having learned this, and seeing one nation in opposition to all mankind using perverse laws, and going against our commandments, and disturbing the peace and concord of the provinces subject to us,
(13:6) We have commanded that all whom Aman shall mark out, who is chief over all the provinces, and second after the king, and whom we honour as a father, shall be utterly destroyed by their enemies, with their wives and children, and that none shall have pity on them, on the fourteenth day of the twelfth month Adar of this present year:
(13:7) That these wicked men going down to hell in one day, may restore to our empire the peace which they had disturbed. ¹⁴ And the contents of the letters were to this effect, that all provinces might know and be ready against that day. ¹⁵ The couriers that were sent made haste to fulfil the king's commandment. And immediately the edict was hung up in Susan, the king and Aman feasting together, and all the Jews that were in the city weeping.

¹¹ All the king's servants, and all the provinces that are under his dominion, know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, cometh into the king's inner court, who is not called for, is immediately to be put to death without any delay: except the king shall hold out the golden sceptre to him, in token of clemency, that so he may live. How then can I go in to the king, who for these thirty days now have not been called unto him?

¹⁵ And again Esther sent to Mardochai in these words: ¹⁶ Go, and gather together all the Jews whom thou shalt find in Susan, and pray ye for me. Neither eat nor drink for three days and three nights: and I with my handmaids will fast in like manner, and then I will go in to the king, against the law, not being called, and expose myself to death and to danger. ¹⁷ So Mardochai went, and did all that Esther had commanded him.
(13:8) But Mardochai besought the Lord, remembering all his works,
(13:9) And said: O Lord, Lord, almighty king, for all things are in thy power, and there is none that can resist thy will, if thou determine to save Israel.
(13:10) Thou hast made heaven and earth and all things that are under the cope of heaven.
(13:11) Thou art Lord of all, and there is none that can resist thy majesty.
(13:12) Thou knowest all things, and thou knowest that it was not out of pride and or any desire of glory, that I refused to worship the proud Aman,
(13:13) (For I would willingly and readily for the salvation of Israel have kissed even the steps of his feet,)
(13:14) But I feared lest I should transfer the honour of my God to a man, and lest I should adore any one except my God.
(13:15) And now, O Lord, O king, O God of Abraham, have mercy on thy people, because our enemies resolve to destroy us, and extinguish thy inheritance.
(13:16) Despise not thy portion, which thou hast redeemed for thyself out of Egypt.
(13:17) Hear my supplication, and be merciful to thy lot and inheritance, and turn our mourning into joy, that we may live and praise thy name, O Lord, and shut not the mouths of them that sing to thee.
(13:18) And all Israel with like mind and supplication cried to the Lord, because they saw certain death hanging over their heads.
(14:1) Queen Esther also, fearing the danger that was at hand, had recourse to the Lord.
(14:2) And when she had laid away her royal apparel, she put on garments suitable for weeping and mourning: instead of divers precious ointments, she covered her head with ashes and dung, and she humbled her body with fasts: and all the places in which before she was accustomed to rejoice, she filled with her torn hair.
(14:3) And she prayed to the Lord the God of Israel, saying: O my Lord, who alone art our king, help me a desolate woman, and who have no other helper but thee.
(14:4) My danger is in my hands.
(14:5) I have heard of my father that thou, O Lord, didst take Israel from among all nations, and our fathers from all their predecessors, to possess them as an everlasting inheritance, and thou hast done to them as thou hast promised.
(14:6) We have sinned in thy sight, and therefore thou hast delivered us into the hands of our enemies:
(14:7) For we have worshipped their gods. Thou art just, O Lord.
(14:8) And now they are not content to oppress us with most hard bondage, but attributing the strength of their hands to the power of their idols.
(14:9) They design to change thy promises, and destroy thy inheritance, and shut the mouths of them that praise thee, and extinguish the glory of thy temple and altar,
(14:10) That they may open the mouths of Gentiles, and praise the strength of idols, and magnify for ever a carnal king.
(14:11) Give not, O Lord, thy sceptre to them that are not, lest they laugh at our ruin: but turn their counsel upon themselves, and destroy him that hath begun to rage against us.
(14:12) Remember, O Lord, and shew thyself to us in the time of our tribulation, and give me boldness, O Lord, king of gods, and of all power:
(14:13) Give me a well ordered speech in my mouth in the presence of the lion, and turn his heart to the hatred of our enemy, that both he himself may perish, and the rest that consent to him.
(14:14) But deliver us by thy hand, and help me, who have no other helper, but thee, O Lord, who hast the knowledge of all things.
(14:15) And thou knowest that I hate the glory of the wicked, and abhor the bed of the uncircumcised, and of every stranger.
(14:16) Thou knowest my necessity, that I abominate the sign of my pride and glory, which is upon my head in the days of my public appearance, and detest it as a menstruous rag, and wear it not in the days of my silence,
(14:17) And that I have not eaten at Aman's table, nor hath the king's banquet pleased me, and that I have not drunk the wine of the drink offerings:
(14:18) And that thy handmaid hath never rejoiced, since I was brought hither unto this day but in thee, O Lord, the God of Abraham.
(14:19) O God, who art mighty above all, hear the voice of them, that have no other hope, and deliver us from the hand of the wicked, and deliver me from my fear.

¹ That night the king passed without sleep, and he commanded the histories and chronicles of former times to be brought him. And when they were reading them before him,

³ And his possession was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a family exceedingly great: and this man was great among all the people of the east.

¹³ In the horror of a vision by night, when deep sleep is wont to hold men,

² Anger indeed killeth the foolish, and envy slayeth the little one.

¹² Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun: ¹³ Who catcheth the wise in their craftiness, and disappointeth the counsel of the wicked:

¹⁷ At the time when they shall be scattered they shall perish: and after it groweth hot, they shall be melted out of their place.

¹³ With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.

¹⁶ With him is strength and wisdom: he knoweth both the deceivers, and him that is deceived. ¹⁷ He bringeth counsellors to a foolish end, and judges to insensibility. ¹⁸ He looseth the belt of kings, and girdeth their loins with a cord.

¹⁸ He looseth the belt of kings, and girdeth their loins with a cord. ¹⁹ He leadeth away priests without glory, and overthroweth nobles.

¹⁹ He leadeth away priests without glory, and overthroweth nobles. ²⁰ He changeth the speech of the true speakers, and taketh away the doctrine of the aged. ²¹ He poureth contempt upon princes, and relieveth them that were oppressed. ²² He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth up to light the shadow of death.

²² He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth up to light the shadow of death.

⁶ Hell is naked before him, and there is no covering for destruction.

¹⁵ By a dream in a vision by night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, and they are sleeping in their beds:

¹⁵ By a dream in a vision by night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, and they are sleeping in their beds: ¹⁶ Then he openeth the ears of men, and teaching instructeth them in what they are to learn.

¹⁶ Then he openeth the ears of men, and teaching instructeth them in what they are to learn. ¹⁷ That he may withdraw a man from the things he is doing, and may deliver him from pride.

²⁴ He shall break in pieces many and innumerable, and shall make others to stand in their stead. ²⁵ For he knoweth their works: and therefore he shall bring night on them, and they shall be destroyed. ²⁶ He hath struck them, as being wicked, in open sight. ²⁷ Who as it were on purpose have revolted from him, and would not understand all his ways: ²⁸ So that they caused the cry of the needy to come to him, and he heard the voice of the poor. ²⁹ For when he granteth peace, who is there that can condemn? When he hideth his countenance, who is there that can behold him, whether it regard nations, or all men?

²⁶ Behold, God is great, exceeding our knowledge: the number of his years is inestimable.

⁴ Not so the wicked, not so: but like the dust, which the wind driveth from the face of the earth. ⁵ Therefore the wicked shall not rise again in judgment: nor sinners in the council of the just.

⁶ But I am appointed king by him over Sion, his holy mountain, preaching his commandment. ⁷ The Lord hath said to me: Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee. ⁸ Ask of me, and I will give thee the Gentiles for thy inheritance, and the utmost parts of the earth for thy possession. ⁹ Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron, and shalt break them in pieces like a potter's vessel. ¹⁰ And now, O ye kings, understand: receive instruction, you that judge the earth.

¹⁰ And now, O ye kings, understand: receive instruction, you that judge the earth. ¹¹ Serve ye the Lord with fear: and rejoice unto him with trembling.

¹¹ Serve ye the Lord with fear: and rejoice unto him with trembling. ¹² Embrace discipline, lest at any time the Lord be angry, and you perish from the just way. ^(2:13) When his wrath shall be kindled in a short time, blessed are all they that trust in him.

^{8 (21:9)} Let thy hand be found by all thy enemies: let thy right hand find out all them that hate thee. ^{9 (21:10)} Thou shalt make them as an oven of fire, in the time of thy anger: the Lord shall trouble them in his wrath, and fire shall devour them.

^{27 (22:28)} All the ends of the earth shall remember, and shall be converted to the Lord: And all the kindreds of the Gentiles shall adore in his sight.

¹⁴ The Lord is a firmament to them that fear him: and his covenant shall be made manifest to them.

^{14 (31:15)} But I have put my trust in thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my God. ^{15 (31:16)} My lots are in thy hands. Deliver me out of the hands of my enemies; and from them that persecute me.

^{9 (36:10)} For with thee is the fountain of life; and in thy light we shall see light.

¹⁰ For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: and thou shalt seek his place, and shalt not find it.

³⁶ And I passed by, and lo, he was not: and I sought him and his place was not found.

^{13 (41:14)} Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel from eternity to eternity. So be it. So be it.

^{9 (46:10)} Making wars to cease even to the end of the earth. He shall destroy the bow, and break the weapons: and the shield he shall burn in the fire.

¹ A psalm of a canticle, for the sons of Core, on the second day of the week. ^(48:2) Great is the Lord, and exceedingly to be praised in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

¹⁰ For all the beasts of the woods are mine: the cattle on the hills, and the oxen. ¹¹ I know all the fowls of the air: and with me is the beauty of the field.

¹⁴ Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows to the most High. ¹⁵ And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

²² Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you. ²³ The sacrifice of praise shall glorify me: and there is the way by which I will shew him the salvation of God.

^{7 (58:8)} They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened.

^{11 (62:12)} God hath spoken once, these two things have I heard, that power belongeth to God,

⁴ Let all the earth adore thee, and sing to thee: let it sing a psalm to thy name.

¹ Unto the end, in hymns, a psalm of a canticle for David. ^(67:2) May God have mercy on us, and bless us: may he cause the light of his countenance to shine upon us, and may he have mercy on us. ^{2 (67:3)} That we may know thy way upon earth: thy salvation in all nations.

^{18 (68:19)} Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive; thou hast received gifts in men. Yea for those also that do not believe, the dwelling of the Lord God.

¹ A psalm on Solomon. ^(72:2) Give to the king thy judgment, O God, and to the king's son thy justice: ² To judge thy people with justice, and thy poor with judgment. ³ Let the mountains receive peace for the people: and the hills justice. ⁴ He shall judge the poor of the people, and he shall save the children of the poor: and he shall humble the oppressor. ⁵ And he shall continue with the sun and before the moon, throughout all generations. ⁶ He shall come down like rain upon the fleece; and as showers falling gently upon the earth. ⁷ In his days shall justice spring up, and abundance of peace, till the moon be taken away. ⁸ And he shall rule from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth. ⁹ Before him the Ethiopians shall fall down: and his enemies shall lick the ground. ¹⁰ The kings of Tharsis and the islands shall offer presents: the kings of the Arabians and of Saba shall bring gifts: ¹¹ And all kings of the earth shall adore him: all nations shall serve him.

¹¹ And all kings of the earth shall adore him: all nations shall serve him. ¹² For he shall deliver the poor from the mighty: and the needy that had no helper. ¹³ He shall spare the poor and needy: and he shall save the souls of the poor. ¹⁴ He shall redeem their souls from usuries and iniquity: and their names shall be honourable in his sight. ¹⁵ And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Arabia, for him they shall always adore: they shall bless him all the day. ¹⁶ And there shall be a firmament on the earth on the tops of mountains, above Libanus shall the fruit thereof be exalted: and they of the city shall flourish like the grass of the earth.

¹⁶ And there shall be a firmament on the earth on the tops of mountains, above Libanus shall the fruit thereof be exalted: and they of the city shall flourish like the grass of the earth. ¹⁷ Let his name be blessed for evermore: his name continueth before the sun. And in him shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed: all nations shall magnify him.

¹⁷ Let his name be blessed for evermore: his name continueth before the sun. And in him shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed: all nations shall magnify him. ¹⁸ Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who alone doth wonderful things.

¹⁸ Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who alone doth wonderful things. ¹⁹ And blessed be the name of his majesty for ever: and the whole earth shall be filled with his majesty. So be it. So be it.

¹⁹ And blessed be the name of his majesty for ever: and the whole earth shall be filled with his majesty. So be it. So be it. ²⁰ The praises of David, the son of Jesse, are ended.

^{5 (75:6)} Lift not up your horn on high: speak not iniquity against God. ^{6 (75:7)} For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the desert hills: ^{7 (75:8)} For God is the judge. One he putteth down, and another he lifteth up:

^{10 (76:11)} For the thought of man shall give praise to thee: and the remainders of the thought shall keep holiday to thee.

^{9 (80:10)} Thou wast the guide of its journey in its sight: thou plantedst the roots thereof, and it filled the land. ^{10 (80:11)} The shadow of it covered the hills: and the branches thereof the cedars of God.

¹ A psalm for Asaph. God hath stood in the congregation of gods: and being in the midst of them he judgeth gods.

⁹ All the nations thou hast made shall come and adore before thee, O Lord: and they shall glorify thy name.

^{3 (89:4)} I have made a covenant with my elect: I have sworn to David my servant: ^{4 (89:5)} Thy seed will I settle for ever. And I will build up thy throne unto generation and generation.

^{19 (89:20)} Then thou spokest in a vision to thy saints, and saidst: I have laid help upon one that is mighty, and have exalted one chosen out of my people. ^{20 (89:21)} I have found David my servant: with my holy oil I have anointed him. ^{21 (89:22)} For my hand shall help him: and my arm shall strengthen him. ^{22 (89:23)} The enemy shall have no advantage over him: nor the son of iniquity have power to hurt him. ^{23 (89:24)} And I will cut down his enemies before his face; and them that hate him I will put to flight. ^{24 (89:25)} And my truth and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted. ^{25 (89:26)} And I will set his hand in the sea; and his right hand in the rivers. ^{26 (89:27)} He shall cry out to me: Thou art my father: my God, and the support of my salvation. ^{27 (89:28)} And I will make him my firstborn, high above the kings of the earth. ^{28 (89:29)} I will keep my mercy for him for ever: and my covenant faithful to him. ^{29 (89:30)} And I will make his seed to endure for evermore: and his throne as the days of heaven. ^{30 (89:31)} And if his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments: ^{31 (89:32)} If they profane my justices: and keep not my commandments: ^{32 (89:33)} I will visit their iniquities with a rod and their sins with stripes. ^{33 (89:34)} But my mercy I will not take away from him: nor will I suffer my truth to fail. ^{34 (89:35)} Neither will I profane my covenant: and the words that proceed from my mouth I will not make void. ^{35 (89:36)} Once have I sworn by my holiness: I will not lie unto David: ^{36 (89:37)} His seed shall endure for ever.

¹⁵ He shall cry to me, and I will hear him: I am with him in tribulation, I will deliver him, and I will glorify him.

²⁰ Doth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, who framest labour in commandment?

⁴ For the Lord is great, and exceedingly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods.

¹ For David himself. Bless the Lord, O my soul: and let all that is within me bless his holy name.

¹ For David himself. Bless the Lord, O my soul: and let all that is within me bless his holy name. ² Bless the Lord, O my soul, and never forget all he hath done for thee.

² Bless the Lord, O my soul, and never forget all he hath done for thee. ³ Who forgiveth all thy iniquities: who healeth all thy diseases. ⁴ Who redeemeth thy life from destruction: who crowneth thee with mercy and compassion.

¹⁶ For the spirit shall pass in him, and he shall not be: and he shall know his place no more.

² And art clothed with light as with a garment. Who stretchest out the heaven like a pavilion:

¹ A psalm for David. The Lord said to my Lord: Sit thou at my right hand: Until I make thy enemies thy footstool. ² The Lord will send forth the sceptre of thy power out of Sion: rule thou in the midst of thy enemies. ³ With thee is the principality in the day of thy strength: in the brightness of the saints: from the womb before the day star I begot thee. ⁴ The Lord hath sworn, and he will not repent: Thou art a priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedech. ⁵ The Lord at thy right hand hath broken kings in the day of his wrath. ⁶ He shall judge among nations, he shall fill ruins: he shall crush the heads in the land of many.

² Blessed be the name of the Lord, from henceforth now and for ever.

⁵ Who is as the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high: ⁶ And looketh down on the low things in heaven and in earth? ⁷ Raising up the needy from the earth, and lifting up the poor out of the dunghill: ⁸ That he may place him with princes, with the princes of his people.

³ But our God is in heaven: he hath done all things whatsoever he would.

¹⁸ But we that live bless the Lord: from this time now and for ever.

²² The stone which the builders rejected; the same is become the head of the corner.

¹⁴ This is my rest for ever and ever: here will I dwell, for I have chosen it.

⁵ For I have known that the Lord is great, and our God is above all gods.

² Praise ye the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for ever.

¹¹ And I said: Perhaps darkness shall cover me: and night shall be my light in my pleasures. ¹² But darkness shall not be dark to thee, and night shall be light all the day: the darkness thereof, and the light thereof are alike to thee.

¹ Praise, for David himself. I will extol thee, O God my king: and I will bless thy name for ever; yea, for ever and ever. ² Every day will I bless thee: and I will praise thy name for ever; yea, for ever and ever. ³ Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised: and of his greatness there is no end.

¹³ Thy kingdom is a kingdom of all ages: and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations. The Lord is faithful in all his words: and holy in all his works.

⁵ Great is our Lord, and great is his power: and of his wisdom there is no number.

⁶ The high praises of God shall be in their mouth: and two-edged swords in their hands: ⁷ To execute vengeance upon the nations, chastisements among the people: ⁸ To bind their kings with fetters, and their nobles with manacles of iron. ⁹ To execute upon them the judgment that is written: this glory is to all his saints. Alleluia.

⁶ Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth cometh prudence and knowledge. ⁷ He wilt keep the salvation of the righteous, and protect them that walk in simplicity,

⁵ Have confidence in the Lord with all thy heart, and lean not upon thy own prudence. ⁶ In all thy ways think on him, and he will direct thy steps.

¹⁴ Counsel and equity is mine, prudence is mine, strength is mine. ¹⁵ By me kings reign, and lawgivers decree just things.

¹⁵ By me kings reign, and lawgivers decree just things. ¹⁶ By me princes rule, and the mighty decree justice.

¹⁹ The lip of truth shall be steadfast for ever: but he that is a hasty witness, frameth a lying tongue.

¹⁴ The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: and the wise man will pacify it.

¹² As the roaring of a lion, so also is the anger of a king: and his cheerfulness as the dew upon the grass.

² As the roaring of a lion, so also is the dread of a king: he that provoketh him, sinneth against his own soul.

²² The wise man hath scaled the city of the strong, and hath cast down the strength of the confidence thereof.

⁵ A wise man is strong: and a knowing man, stout and valiant.

¹¹ Deliver them that are led to death: and those that are drawn to death, forbear not to deliver.

³ A stone is heavy, and sand weighty: but the anger of a fool is heavier than them both. ⁴ Anger hath no mercy: nor fury, when it breaketh forth: and who can bear the violence of one provoked?

¹² In the joy of the just there is great glory: when the wicked reign, men are ruined.

¹⁵ As a roaring lion, and a hungry bear, so is a wicked prince over the poor people. ¹⁶ A prince void of prudence shall oppress many by calumny: but he that hateth covetousness, shall prolong his days. ¹⁷ A man that doth violence to the blood of a person, if he flee even to the pit, no man will stay him.

²² A passionate man provoketh quarrels: and he that is easily stirred up to wrath, shall be more prone to sin.

¹ All things have their season, and in their times all things pass under heaven. ² A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted. ³ A time to kill, and a time to heal. A time to destroy, and a time to build. ⁴ A time to weep, and a time to laugh. A time to mourn, and a time to dance. ⁵ A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather. A time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces. ⁶ A time to get, and a time to lose. A time to keep, and a time to cast away. ⁷ A time to rend, and a time to sew. A time to keep silence, and a time to speak. ⁸ A time of love, and a time of hatred. A time of war, and a time of peace.

^{19 (7:20)} Wisdom hath strengthened the wise more than ten princes of the city.

¹⁰ Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening.

¹³ This wisdom also I have seen under the sun, and it seemed to me to be very great: ¹⁴ A little city, and few men in it: there came against it a great king, and invested it, and built bulwarks round about it, and the siege was perfect. ¹⁵ Now there was found in it a man poor and wise, and he delivered the city by his wisdom, and no man afterward remembered that poor man. ¹⁶ And I said that wisdom is better than strength: how then is the wisdom of the poor man slighted, and his words not heard?

¹⁶ And I said that wisdom is better than strength: how then is the wisdom of the poor man slighted, and his words not heard? ¹⁷ The words of the wise are heard in silence, more than the cry of a prince among fools. ¹⁸ Better is wisdom, than weapons of war: and he that shall offend in one, shall lose many good things.

¹⁸ Better is wisdom, than weapons of war: and he that shall offend in one, shall lose many good things.

⁴ If the spirit of him that hath power, ascend upon thee, leave not thy place: because care will make the greatest sins to cease.

² And in the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be prepared on the top of mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it.

² And in the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be prepared on the top of mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it. ³ And many people shall go, and say: Come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall come forth from Sion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

¹⁸ Behold I and my children, whom the Lord hath given me for a sign, and for a wonder in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Sion. ¹⁹ And when they shall say to you: Seek of pythons, and of diviners, who mutter in their enchantments: should not the people seek of their God, for the living of the dead?

⁶ For a CHILD IS BORN to us, and a son is given to us, and the government is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of Peace. ⁷ His empire shall be multiplied, and there shall be no end of peace: he shall sit upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom; to establish it and strengthen it with judgment and with justice, from henceforth and for ever: the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

¹ Woe to them that make wicked laws: and when they write, write injustice:

⁸ For he shall say:

⁹ They shall not hurt, nor shall they kill in all my holy mountain, for the earth is filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as the covering waters of the sea.

¹ And thou shalt say in that day: I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, for thou wast angry with me: thy wrath is turned away, and thou hast comforted me.

¹¹ And I will visit the evils of the world, and against the wicked for their iniquity: and I will make the pride of infidels to cease, and will bring down the arrogancy of the mighty.

⁴ Thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and shalt say: How is the oppressor come to nothing, the tribute hath ceased?

¹³ Nations shall make a noise like the noise of waters overflowing, but he shall rebuke him, and he shall flee far off: and he shall be carried away as the dust of the mountains before the wind, and as a whirlwind before a tempest. ¹⁴ In the time of the evening, behold there shall be trouble: the morning shall come, and he shall not be: this is the portion of them that have wasted us, and the lot of them that spoiled us.

³ And the spirit of Egypt shall be broken in the bowels thereof, and I will cast down their counsel: and they shall consult their idols, and their diviners, and their wizards, and soothsayers.

³ Therefore shall a strong people praise thee, the city of mighty nations shall fear thee. ⁴ Because thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress: a refuge from the whirlwind, a shadow from the heat. For the blast of the mighty is like a whirlwind beating against a wall. ⁵ Thou shalt bring down the tumult of strangers, as heat in thirst: and as with heat under a burning cloud, thou shalt make the branch of the mighty to wither away.

¹⁶ Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will lay a stone in the foundations of Sion, a tried stone, a corner stone, a precious stone, founded in the foundation. He that believeth, let him not hasten.

¹¹ And Eliacim, and Sobna, and Joahe said to Rabsaces: Speak to thy servants in the Syrian tongue: for we understand it: speak not to us in the Jews' language in the hearing of the people, that are upon the wall.

⁴ It may be the Lord thy God will hear the words of Rabsaces, whom the king of the Assyrians his master hath sent to blaspheme the living God, and to reproach with words which the Lord thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up by prayer for the remnant that is left.

¹⁵ I have made thee as a new thrashing wain, with teeth like a saw: thou shalt thrash the mountains, and break them in pieces: and shalt make the hills as chaff. ¹⁶ Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, in the Holy One of Israel thou shalt be joyful.

²² Let them come, and tell us all things that are to come: tell us the former things what they were: and we will set our heart upon them and shall know the latter end of them, and tell us the things that are to come.

²² Let them come, and tell us all things that are to come: tell us the former things what they were: and we will set our heart upon them and shall know the latter end of them, and tell us the things that are to come. ²³ Shew the things that are to come hereafter, and we shall know that ye are gods. Do ye also good or evil, if you can: and let us speak, and see together.

²³ Shew the things that are to come hereafter, and we shall know that ye are gods. Do ye also good or evil, if you can: and let us speak, and see together.

²⁶ Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know: and from time of old, that we may say: Thou art just. There is none that sheweth, nor that foretelleth, nor that heareth your words.

⁹ The things that were first, behold they are come: and new things do I declare: before they spring forth, I will make you hear them.

³ For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I have given Egypt for thy atonement, Ethiopia and Saba for thee. ⁴ Since thou becamest honourable in my eyes, thou art glorious: I have loved thee, and I will give men for thee, and people for thy life.

²⁵ That make void the tokens of diviners, and make the soothsayers mad. That turn the wise backward, and that make their knowledge foolish.

²⁸ Who say to Cyrus: Thou art my shepherd, and thou shalt perform all my pleasure. Who say to Jerusalem: Thou shalt be built: and to the temple: Thy foundations shall be laid.

⁴ For the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have made a likeness of thee, and thou hast not known me.

⁷ I form the light, and create darkness, I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord that do all these things.

⁵ Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called the lady of kingdoms.

¹² Stand now with thy enchanters, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, in which thou hast laboured from thy youth, if so be it may profit thee any thing, or if thou mayst become stronger.

¹² Stand now with thy enchanters, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, in which thou hast laboured from thy youth, if so be it may profit thee any thing, or if thou mayst become stronger. ¹³ Thou hast failed in the multitude of thy counsels: let now the astrologers stand and save thee, they that gazed at the stars, and counted the months, that from them they might tell the things that shall come to thee.

¹³ Thou hast failed in the multitude of thy counsels: let now the astrologers stand and save thee, they that gazed at the stars, and counted the months, that from them they might tell the things that shall come to thee. ¹⁴ Behold they are as stubble, fire hath burnt them, they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flames: there are no coals wherewith they may be warmed, nor fire, that they may sit thereat.

¹⁵ For thus saith the High and the Eminent that inhabiteth eternity: and his name is Holy, who dwelleth in the high and holy place, and with a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

¹² For the nation and the kingdom that will not serve thee, shall perish: and the Gentiles shall be wasted with desolation.

¹ Thus saith the Lord: Heaven is my throne, and the earth my footstool: what is this house that you will build to me? and what is this place of my rest? ² My hand made all these things, and all these things were made, saith the Lord. But to whom shall I have respect, but to him that is poor and little, and of a contrite spirit, and that trembleth at my words?

⁵ I will go therefore to the great men, and will speak to them: for they have known the way of the Lord, the judgment of their God: and behold these have altogether broken the yoke more, and have burst the bonds.

¹² Shall iron be allied with the iron from the north, and the brass?

²⁴ Shall a man be hid in secret places, and I not see him, saith the Lord? do not I fill heaven and earth, saith the Lord?

¹ The word that came to Jeremias concerning all the people of Juda, in the fourth year of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda, (the same is the first year of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon,)

⁵ I made the earth, and the men and the beasts that are upon the face of the earth, by my great power, and by my stretched out arm: and I have given it to whom it seemed good in my eyes. ⁶ And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon my servant: moreover also the beasts of the field I have given him to serve him. ⁷ And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son: till the time come for his land and himself: and many nations and great kings shall serve him.

¹⁴ For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, to serve Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and they shall serve him: moreover also I have given him the beasts of the earth.

²⁴ The Lord will not turn away the wrath of his indignation, till he have executed and performed the thought of his heart: in the latter days you shall understand these things.

¹⁸ Thou shewest mercy unto thousands, and returnest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: O most mighty, great, and powerful, the Lord of hosts is thy name. ¹⁹ Great in counsel, and incomprehensible in thought: whose eyes are open upon all the ways of the children of Adam, to render unto every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his devices.

¹⁹ Great in counsel, and incomprehensible in thought: whose eyes are open upon all the ways of the children of Adam, to render unto every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his devices.

³ Cry to me and I will hear thee: and I will shew thee great things, and sure things which thou knowest not.

³ And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate: Neregel, Sereser, Semegarnabu, Sarsachim, Rabsares, Neregel, Serezer, Rebmag, and all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.

⁹ And Nabuzardan the general of the army carried away captive to Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and the fugitives that had gone over to him, and the rest of the people that remained.

⁴⁷ And I will bring back the captivity of Moab in the last days, saith the Lord. Hitherto the judgments of Moab.

⁷ Babylon hath been a golden cup in the hand of the Lord, that made all the earth drunk: the nations have drunk of her wine, and therefore they have staggered.

¹² And in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, the same is the nineteenth year of Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came Nabuzardan the general of the army, who stood before the king of Babylon in Jerusalem.

¹⁴ And all the army of the Chaldeans that were with the general broke down all the wall of Jerusalem round about.

⁶ They see vain things, and they foretell lies, saying: The Lord saith: whereas the Lord hath not sent them: and they have persisted to confirm what they have said.

¹⁷ And thou, son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people that prophesy out of their own heart: and do thou prophesy against them,

¹⁹ And they violated me among my people, for a handful of barley, and a piece of bread, to kill souls which should not die, and to save souls alive which should not live, telling lies to my people that believe lies.

⁷ For thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will bring against Tyre Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, the king of kings, from the north, with horses, and chariots, and horsemen, and companies, and much people.

⁷ Therefore behold, I will bring upon thee strangers: the strongest of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy beauty.

²⁵ And they shall dwell in the land which I gave to my servant Jacob, wherein your fathers dwelt, and they shall dwell in it, they and their children, and their children's children, for ever: and David my servant shall be their prince for ever.

⁸ After many days thou shalt be visited: at the end of years thou shalt come to the land that is returned from the sword, and is gathered out of many nations, to the mountains of Israel which have been continually waste: but it hath been brought forth out of the nations, and they shall all of them dwell securely in it.

¹⁰ Thus saith the Lord God: In that day projects shall enter into thy heart, and thou shalt conceive a mischievous design.

¹⁶ And thou shalt come upon my people of Israel like a cloud, to cover the earth. Thou shalt be in the latter days, and I will bring thee upon my land: that the nations may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.

¹ In the third year of the reign of Joakim, king of Juda, Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem, and beseiged it. ² And the Lord delivered into his hands Joakim, the king of Juda, and part of the vessels of the house of God: and he carried them away into the land of Sennaar, to the house of his god, and the vessels he brought into the treasure house of his god. ³ And the king spoke to Asphenez, the master of the eunuchs, that he should bring in some of the children of Israel, and of the king's seed, and of the princes, ⁴ Children in whom there was no blemish, well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, acute in knowledge, and instructed in science, and such as might stand in the king's palace, that he might teach them the learning, and tongue of the Chaldeans. ⁵ And the king appointed them a daily provision, of his own meat, and of the wine of which he drank himself, that being nourished three years, afterwards they might stand before the king. ⁶ Now there was among them of the children of Juda, Daniel, Ananias, Misael, and Azarias.

⁶ Now there was among them of the children of Juda, Daniel, Ananias, Misael, and Azarias. ⁷ And the master of the eunuchs gave them names: to Daniel, Baltassar: to Ananias, Sidrach: to Misael, Misach: and to Azarias, Abdenago.

⁷ And the master of the eunuchs gave them names: to Daniel, Baltassar: to Ananias, Sidrach: to Misael, Misach: and to Azarias, Abdenago.

¹¹ And Daniel said to Malasar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Ananias, Misael, and Azarias:

¹⁷ And to these children God gave knowledge, and understanding in every book, and wisdom: but to Daniel the understanding also of all visions and dreams. ¹⁸ And when the days were ended, after which the king had ordered they should be brought in: the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nabuchodonosor. ¹⁹ And when the king had spoken to them, there were not found among them all such as Daniel, Ananias, Misael, and Azarias: and they stood in the king's presence.

¹⁹ And when the king had spoken to them, there were not found among them all such as Daniel, Ananias, Misael, and Azarias: and they stood in the king's presence. ²⁰ And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the diviners, and wise men, that were in all his kingdom.

²⁰ And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the diviners, and wise men, that were in all his kingdom.

¹ In the second year of the reign of Nabuchodonosor, Nabuchodonosor had a dream, and his spirit was terrified, and his dream went out of his mind. ² Then the king commanded to call together the diviners and the wise men, and the magicians, and the Chaldeans: to declare to the king his dreams: so they came and stood before the king. ³ And the king said to them: I saw a dream: and being troubled in mind I know not what I saw.

³ And the king said to them: I saw a dream: and being troubled in mind I know not what I saw. ⁴ And the Chaldeans answered the king in Syriac: O king, live for ever: tell to thy servants thy dream, and we will declare the interpretation thereof.

⁴ And the Chaldeans answered the king in Syriac: O king, live for ever: tell to thy servants thy dream, and we will declare the interpretation thereof. ⁵ And the king, answering, said to the Chaldeans: The thing is gone out of my mind: unless you tell me the dream, and the meaning thereof, you shall be put to death, and your houses shall be confiscated.

⁵ And the king, answering, said to the Chaldeans: The thing is gone out of my mind: unless you tell me the dream, and the meaning thereof, you shall be put to death, and your houses shall be confiscated. ⁶ but if you tell the dream, and the meaning of it, you shall receive of me rewards, and gifts, and great honour: therefore, tell me the dream, and the interpretation thereof.

⁶ but if you tell the dream, and the meaning of it, you shall receive of me rewards, and gifts, and great honour: therefore, tell me the dream, and the interpretation thereof. ⁷ They answered again and said: Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will declare the interpretation of it.

⁹ If, therefore, you tell me not the dream, there is one sentence concerning you, that you have also framed a lying interpretation, and full of deceit, to speak before me till the time pass away. Tell me, therefore, the dream, that I may know that you also give a true interpretation thereof.

⁹ If, therefore, you tell me not the dream, there is one sentence concerning you, that you have also framed a lying interpretation, and full of deceit, to speak before me till the time pass away. Tell me, therefore, the dream, that I may know that you also give a true interpretation thereof. ¹⁰ Then the Chaldeans answered before the king, and said: There is no man upon earth, that can accomplish thy word, O king; neither doth any king, though great and mighty, ask such a thing of any diviner, or wise man, or Chaldean.

¹⁰ Then the Chaldeans answered before the king, and said: There is no man upon earth, that can accomplish thy word, O king; neither doth any king, though great and mighty, ask such a thing of any diviner, or wise man, or Chaldean. ¹¹ For the thing that thou asketh, O king, is difficult: nor can any one be found that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose conversation is not with men.

¹¹ For the thing that thou asketh, O king, is difficult: nor can any one be found that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose conversation is not with men. ¹² Upon hearing this, the king in fury, and in great wrath, commanded that all the wise men of Babylon should be put to death.

¹² Upon hearing this, the king in fury, and in great wrath, commanded that all the wise men of Babylon should be put to death. ¹³ And the decree being gone forth, the wise men were slain: and Daniel and his companions were sought for, to be put to death. ¹⁴ Then Daniel inquired concerning the law and the sentence, of Arioch, the general of the king's army, who was gone forth to kill the wise men of Babylon.

¹⁷ And he went into his house, and told the matter to Ananias, and Misael, and Azarias, his companions:

¹⁷ And he went into his house, and told the matter to Ananias, and Misael, and Azarias, his companions: ¹⁸ To the end that they should ask mercy at the face of the God of heaven, concerning this secret, and that Daniel and his companions might not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

¹⁸ To the end that they should ask mercy at the face of the God of heaven, concerning this secret, and that Daniel and his companions might not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. ¹⁹ Then was the mystery revealed to Daniel by a vision in the night: and Daniel blessed the God of heaven, ²⁰ And speaking, he said: Blessed be the name of the Lord from eternity and for evermore: for wisdom and fortitude are his. ²¹ And he changeth times and ages: taketh away kingdoms, and establisheth them: giveth wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to them that have understanding:

²¹ And he changeth times and ages: taketh away kingdoms, and establisheth them: giveth wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to them that have understanding:

²¹ And he changeth times and ages: taketh away kingdoms, and establisheth them: giveth wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to them that have understanding: ²² He revealeth deep and hidden things, and knoweth what is in darkness: and light is with him.

²² He revealeth deep and hidden things, and knoweth what is in darkness: and light is with him. ²³ To thee, O God of our fathers, I give thanks, and I praise thee: because thou hast given me wisdom and strength: and now thou hast shewn me what we desired of thee, for thou hast made known to us the king's discourse.

²³ To thee, O God of our fathers, I give thanks, and I praise thee: because thou hast given me wisdom and strength: and now thou hast shewn me what we desired of thee, for thou hast made known to us the king's discourse. ²⁴ After this Daniel went in to Arioch, to whom the king had given orders to destroy the wise men of Babylon, and he spoke thus to him: Destroy not the wise men of Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I will tell the solution to the king.

²⁴ After this Daniel went in to Arioch, to whom the king had given orders to destroy the wise men of Babylon, and he spoke thus to him: Destroy not the wise men of Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I will tell the solution to the king.

²⁷ And Daniel made answer before the king, and said: The secret that the king desireth to know, none of the wise men, or the philosophers, or the diviners, or the soothsayers, can declare to the king.

²⁷ And Daniel made answer before the king, and said: The secret that the king desireth to know, none of the wise men, or the philosophers, or the diviners, or the soothsayers, can declare to the king.

²⁷ And Daniel made answer before the king, and said: The secret that the king desireth to know, none of the wise men, or the philosophers, or the diviners, or the soothsayers, can declare to the king. ²⁸ But there is a God in heaven that revealeth mysteries, who hath shewn to thee, O king Nabuchodonosor, what is to come to pass in the latter times. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these:

²⁸ But there is a God in heaven that revealeth mysteries, who hath shewn to thee, O king Nabuchodonosor, what is to come to pass in the latter times. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these:

²⁸ But there is a God in heaven that revealeth mysteries, who hath shewn to thee, O king Nabuchodonosor, what is to come to pass in the latter times. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these: ²⁹ Thou, O king, didst begin to think in thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he that revealeth mysteries shewed thee what shall come to pass.

²⁹ Thou, O king, didst begin to think in thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he that revealeth mysteries shewed thee what shall come to pass. ³⁰ To me also this secret is revealed, not by any wisdom that I have more than all men alive: but that the interpretation might be made manifest to the king, and thou mightest know the thought of thy mind.

³² The head of this statue was of fine gold, but the breast and the arms of silver, and the belly and the thighs of brass. ³³ And the legs of iron, the feet part of iron and part of clay.

³³ And the legs of iron, the feet part of iron and part of clay. ³⁴ Thus thou sawest, till a stone was cut out of a mountain without hands: and it struck the statue upon the feet thereof that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.

³⁴ Thus thou sawest, till a stone was cut out of a mountain without hands: and it struck the statue upon the feet thereof that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. ³⁵ Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of a summer's threshing floor, and they were carried away by the wind: and there was no place found for them: but the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

³⁷ Thou art a king of kings: and the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, and strength, and power, and glory:

³⁷ Thou art a king of kings: and the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, and strength, and power, and glory: ³⁸ And all places wherein the children of men, and the beasts of the field do dwell: he hath also given the birds of the air into thy hand, and hath put all things under thy power: thou, therefore, art the head of gold. ³⁹ And after thee shall rise up another kingdom, inferior to thee, of silver: and another third kingdom of brass, which shall rule over all the world. ⁴⁰ And the fourth kingdom shall be as iron. As iron breaketh into pieces, and subdueth all things, so shall that break, and destroy all these. ⁴¹ And whereas thou sawest the feet, and the toes, part of potter's clay, and part of iron: the kingdom shall be divided, but yet it shall take its origin from the iron, according as thou sawest the iron mixed with the miry clay. ⁴² And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay: the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. ⁴³ And whereas thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay, they shall be mingled indeed together with the seed of man, but they shall not stick fast one to another, as iron cannot be mixed with clay. ⁴⁴ But in the days of those kingdoms, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never by destroyed, and his kingdom shall not be delivered up to another people: and it shall break in pieces, and shall consume all these kingdoms: and itself shall stand for ever.

⁴⁴ But in the days of those kingdoms, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never by destroyed, and his kingdom shall not be delivered up to another people: and it shall break in pieces, and shall consume all these kingdoms: and itself shall stand for ever. ⁴⁵ According as thou sawest, that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and broke in pieces the clay and the iron, and the brass, and the silver, and the gold, the great God hath shewn the king what shall come to pass hereafter, and the dream is true, and the interpretation thereof is faithful.

⁴⁷ And the king spoke to Daniel, and said: Verily, your God is the God of gods, and Lord of kings, and a revealer of hidden things: seeing thou couldst discover this secret. ⁴⁸ Then the king advanced Daniel to a high station, and gave him many and great gifts: and he made him governor over all the provinces of Babylon: and chief of the magistrates over all the wise men of Babylon. ⁴⁹ And Daniel requested of the king, and he appointed Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, over the works of the province of Babylon: but Daniel himself was in the king's palace.
(13:1) Now there was a man that dwelt in Babylon, and his name was Joakim:
(13:2) And he took a wife, whose name was Susanna, the daughter of Helcias, a bery beautiful woman, and one that feared God.
(13:3) For her parents being just, had instructed their daughter according to the law of Moses.
(13:4) Now Joakim was very rich, and had an orchard near his house: and the Jews resorted to him, because he was the most honourable of them all.
(13:5) And there were two of the ancients of the people appointed judges that year, of whom the Lord said: That iniquity came out from Babylon, from the ancient judges, that seemed to govern the people.
(13:6) These men frequented the house of Joakim, and all that hand any maters of judgment came to them.
(13:7) And when the people departed away at noon, Susanna went in, and walked in her husband's orchard.
(13:8) And the old men saw her going in every day, and walking: and they were inflamed with lust towards her:
(13:9) And they perverted their own mind, and turned away their eyes, that they might not look unto heaven, nor remember just judgments.
(13:10) So they were both wounded with the love of her, yet they did not make known their grief one to the other.
(13:11) For they were ashamed to declare to one another their lust, being desirous to have to do with her:
(13:12) And they watched carefully every day to see her. And one said to the other:
(13:13) Let us now go home, for it is dinner time. So going out, they departed one from another.
(13:14) And turning back again, they came both to the same place: and asking one another the cause, they acknowledged their lust: and then they agreed together upon a time, when they might find her alone.
(13:15) And it fell out, as they watched a fit day, she went in on a time, as yesterday and the day before, with two maids only, and was desirous to wash herself in the orchard: for it was hot weather.
(13:16) And there was nobody there, but the two old men that had hid themselves, and were beholding her.
(13:17) So she said to the maids: Bring me oil, and washing balls, and shut the doors of the orchard, that I may wash me.
(13:18) And they did as she bade them: and they shut the doors of the orchard, and went out by a back door to fetch what she had commanded them, and they knew not that the elders were hid within.
(13:19) Now when the maids were gone forth, the two elders arose, and ran to her, and said:
(13:20) Behold the doors of the orchard are shut, and nobody seeth us, and we are in love with thee: wherefore consent to us, and lie with us.
(13:21) But if thou wilt not, we will bear witness against thee, that a young man was with thee, and therefore thou didst send away thy maids form thee.
(13:22) Susanna sighed, and said: I am straitened on every side: for if I do this thing, it is death to me: and if I do it not, I shall not escape your hands.
(13:23) But it is better for me to fall into your hands without doing it, than to sin in the sight of the Lord.
(13:24) With that Susanna cried out with a loud voice: and the elders also cried out against her.
(13:25) And one of them ran to the door of the orchard, and opened it.
(13:26) So when the servants of the house heard the cry in the orchard, they rushed in by the back door, to see what was the matter.
(13:27) But after the old men had spoken, the servants were greatly ashamed: for never had there been any such word said of Susanna. And on the next day,
(13:28) When the people were come to Joakim, her husband, the two elders also came full of wicked device against Susanna, to put her to death.
(13:29) And they said before the people: Send to Susanna, daughter of Helcias, the wife of Joakim. And presently they sent.
(13:30) And she came with her parents, and children and all her kindred.
(13:31) Now Susanna was exceeding delicate, and beautiful to behold.
(13:32) But those wicked men commanded that her face should be uncovered, (for she was covered) that so at least they might be satisfied with her beauty.
(13:33) Therefore her friends, and all her acquaintance wept.
(13:34) But the two elders rising up in the midst of the people, laid their hands upon her head.
(13:35) And she weeping, looked kup to heaven, for her heart had confidence in the Lord.
(13:36) And the elders said: As we walked in the orchard alone, this woman came in with two maids, and shut the doors of the orchard, ans sent away the maids from her.
(13:37) Then a young man that was there hid came to her, and lay with her.
(13:38) But we that were in a corner of the orchard, seeing this wickedness, ran up to them, and we saw them lie together.
(13:39) And him indeed we could not take, because he was stronger than us, and opening the doors, he leaped out:
(13:40) But having taken this woman, we asked who the young man was, but she would not tell us: of this thing we are witnesses.
(13:41) The multitude believed them, as being the elders, and the judges of the people, and they condemned her to death.
(13:42) Then Susanna cried out with a loud voice, and said: O eternal God, who knowest hidden things, who knowest all things before they come to pass,
(13:43) Thou knowest that they have borne false witness against me: and behold I must die, whereas I have done none of these things, which these men have maliciously forged against me.
(13:44) And the Lord heard her voice.
(13:45) And when she was led to be put to death, the Lord raised up the holy spirit of a young boy, whose name was Daniel:
(13:46) And he cried out with a loud voice: I am clear from the blood of this woman.
(13:47) Then all the people turning themselves towards him, said: What meaneth this word that thou hast spoken?
(13:48) But he standing in the midst of them, said: Are ye so foolish, ye children of Israel, that without examination or knowledge of the truth, you have condemned a daughter of Israel?
(13:49) Return to judgment, for they have borne false witness against her.
(13:50) So all the people turned again in haste, and the old men said to him: Come, and sit thou down among us, and shew it us: seeing God hath given thee the honour of old age.
(13:51) And Daniel said to the people: Separate these two far from one another, and I will examine them.
(13:52) So when they were put asunder one from the other, he called one of them, and said to him: O thou that art grown old in evil days, now are thy sins come out, which thou hast committed before:
(13:53) In judging unjust judgments, oppressing the innocent, and letting the guilty to go free, whereas the Lord saith: The innocent and the just thou shalt not kill.
(13:54) Now then if thou sawest her, tell me under what tree thou sawest them conversing together: He said: Under a mastic tree.
(13:55) And Daniel said: Welll hast thou lide against thy own head: for behold the angel of God having recieved the sentence of him, shall cut thee in two.
(13:56) And having put him aside, he commanded that the other should come, and he said to him: O thou seed of Chanaan, and not of Juda, beauty hath deceived tee, and lust hath perverted thy heart:
(13:57) Thus did you do to the daughters of Israel, and they for fear conversed with you: but a daughter of Juda would not abide your wickedness.
(13:58) Now, therefore, tell me, under what tree didst thou take them conversing together. And he answered: Under a holm tree.
(13:59) And Daniel said to him: Well hast thou also lied against thy own head: for the angel of the Lord waiteth with a sword to cut thee in two, and to destroy you.
(13:60) With that all the assembly cried out with a loud voice, and they blessed God, who saveth them that trust in him.
(13:61) And they rose up against the two elders, (for Daniel had convicted them of false witness by their own mouth) and they did to them as they had maliciously dealt against their neighbour,
(13:62) To fulfil the law of Moses: and they put them to death, and innocent blood was saved in that day.
(13:63) But Helcias, and his wife, praised God, for their daughter, Susanna, with Joakim, her husband, and all her kindred, because there was no dishonesty found in her.
(13:64) And Daniel became great in the sight of the people from that day, and thence forward.

¹ King Nabuchodonosor made a statue of gold, of sixty cubits high, and six cubits broad, and he set it up in the plain of Dura, of the province of Babylon.

⁹ And said to king Nabuchodonosor: O king, live for ever:

¹² Now there are certain Jews, whom thou hast set over the works of the province of Babylon, Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago: these men, O king, have slighted thy decree: they worship not thy gods, nor do they adore the golden statue which thou hast set up.

¹² Now there are certain Jews, whom thou hast set over the works of the province of Babylon, Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago: these men, O king, have slighted thy decree: they worship not thy gods, nor do they adore the golden statue which thou hast set up. ¹³ Then Nabuchodonosor in fury, and in wrath, commanded that Sidrach, Misach, ad Abdenago should be brought: who immediately were brought before the king.

¹³ Then Nabuchodonosor in fury, and in wrath, commanded that Sidrach, Misach, ad Abdenago should be brought: who immediately were brought before the king. ¹⁴ And Nabuchodonosor, the king, spoke to them, and said: Is it true, O Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, that you do not worship my gods, nor adore the golden statue that I have set up? ¹⁵ Now, therefore, if you be ready, at what hour soever, you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, flute, harp, sackbut, and psaltery, and symphony, and of all kind of music, prostrate yourselves, and adore the statue which I have made: but if you do not adore, you shall be cast the same hour into the furnace of burning fire: and who is the God that shall deliver you out of my hand?

¹⁵ Now, therefore, if you be ready, at what hour soever, you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, flute, harp, sackbut, and psaltery, and symphony, and of all kind of music, prostrate yourselves, and adore the statue which I have made: but if you do not adore, you shall be cast the same hour into the furnace of burning fire: and who is the God that shall deliver you out of my hand? ¹⁶ Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, answered, and said to king Nabuchodonosor: We have no occasion to answer thee concerning this matter. ¹⁷ For behold our God, whom we worship, is able to save us from the furnace of burning fire, and to deliver us out of thy hands, O king.

¹⁷ For behold our God, whom we worship, is able to save us from the furnace of burning fire, and to deliver us out of thy hands, O king. ¹⁸ But if he will not, be it known to thee, O king, that we will not worship thy gods, nor adore the golden statue which thou hast set up. ¹⁹ Then was Nabuchodonosor filled with fury: and the countenance of his face was changed against Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, and he commanded that the furnace should be heated seven times more than it had been accustomed to be heated.

¹⁹ Then was Nabuchodonosor filled with fury: and the countenance of his face was changed against Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, and he commanded that the furnace should be heated seven times more than it had been accustomed to be heated. ²⁰ And he commanded the strongest men that were in his army, to bind the feet of Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, and to cast them into the furnace of burning fire. ²¹ And immediately these men were bound, and were cast into the furnace of burning fire, with their coats, and their caps, and their shoes, and their garments. ²² For the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace was heated exceedingly. And the flame of the fire slew those men that had cast in Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago. ²³ But these three men, that is, Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, fell down bound in the midst of the furnace of burning fire.
(3:24) And they walked in the midst of the flame, praising God, and blessing the Lord.
(3:25) Then Azarias standing up, prayed in this manner, and opening his mouth in the midst of the fire, he said:
(3:26) Blessed art thou, O Lord, the God of our fathers, and thy name is worthy of praise, and glorious for ever:
(3:27) For thou art just in all that thou hast done to us, and all thy works are true, and thy ways right, and all thy judgments true.
(3:28) For thou hast executed true judgments in all the things that thou hast brought upon us, and upon Jerusalem, the holy city of our fathers: for according to truth and judgment, thou hast brought all these things upon us for our sins.
(3:29) For we have sinned, and committed iniquity, departing from thee: and we have trespassed in all things:
(3:30) And we have not hearkened to thy commandments, nor have we observed nor done as thou hadst commanded us, that it might go well with us.
(3:31) Wherefore, all that thou hast brought upon us, and every thing that thou hast done to us, thou hast done in true judgment:
(3:32) And thou hast delivered us into the hands of our enemies that are unjust, and most wicked, and prevaricators, and to a king unjust, and most wicked beyond all that are upon the earth.
(3:33) And now we cannot open our mouths: we are become a shame, and a reproach to thy servants, and to them that worship thee.
(3:34) Deliver us not up for ever, we beseech thee, for thy name's sake, and abolish not thy covenant.
(3:35) And take not away thy mercy from us, for the sake of Abraham, thy beloved, and Isaac, thy servant, and Israel, thy holy one:
(3:36) To whom thou hast spoken, promising that thou wouldst multiply their seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is on the sea shore.
(3:37) For we, O Lord, are diminished more than any nation, and are brought low in all the earth this day for our sins.
(3:38) Neither is there at this time prince, or leader, or prophet, or holocaust, or sacrifice, or oblation, or incense, or place of first fruits before thee,
(3:39) That we may find thy mercy: nevertheless, in a contrite heart and humble spirit let us be accepted.
(3:40) As in holocausts of rams, and bullocks, and as in thousands of fat lambs: so let our sacrifice be made in thy sight this day, that it may please thee: for there is no confusion to them that trust in thee.
(3:41) And now we follow thee with all our heart, and we fear thee, and seek thy face.
(3:42) Put us not to confusion, but deal with us according to thy meekness, and according to the multitude of thy mercies.
(3:43) And deliver us, according to thy wonderful works, and give glory to thy name, O Lord:
(3:44) And let all them be confounded that shew evils to thy servants, let them be confounded in all thy might, and let their strength be broken:
(3:45) And let them know that thou art the Lord, the only God, and glorious over all the world.
(3:46) Now the king's servants that had cast them in, ceased not to heat the furnace with brimstone and tow, and pitch, and dry sticks,
(3:47) And the flame mounted up above the furnace nine and forth cubits:
(3:48) And it broke forth, and burnt such of the Chaldeans as it found near the furnace.
(3:49) But the angel of the Lord went down with Azarias and his companions into the furnace: and he drove the flame of the fire out of the furnace,
(3:50) And made the midst of the furnace like the blowing of a wind bringing dew, and the fire touched them not at all, nor troubled them, nor did them any harm.
(3:51) Then these three, as with one mouth, praised and glorified and blessed God, in the furnace, saying:
(3:52) Blessed art thou, O Lord, the God of our fathers; and worthy to be praised, and glorified, and exalted above all for ever: and blessed is the holy name of thy glory: and worthy to be praised and exalted above all, in all ages.
(3:53) Blessed art thou in the holy temple of thy glory: and exceedingly to be praised and exalted above all for ever.
(3:55) Blessed art thou that beholdest the depths, and sittest upon the cherubims: and worthy to be praised and exalted above all for ever.
(3:56) Blessed art thou in the firmament of heaven: and worthy of praise, and glorious for ever.
(3:57) All ye works of the Lord, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
(3:58) O ye angels of the Lord, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
(3:59) O ye heavens, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
(3:60) O all ye waters that are above the heavens, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
(3:61) O all ye powers of the Lord, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
(3:62) O ye sun and moon, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
(3:63) O ye stars of heaven, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
(3:64) O every shower and dew, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
(3:65) O all ye spirits of God, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
(3:66) O ye fire and heat, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
(3:67) O ye cold and heat, bless the Lord, praise and exalt him above all for ever.
(3:68) O ye dews and hoar frost, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
(3:69) O ye frost and cold, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
(3:70) O ye ice and snow, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
(3:71) O ye nights and days, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
(3:72) O ye light and darkness, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
(3:73) O ye lightnings and clouds, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
(3:74) O let the earth bless the Lord: let it praise and exalt him above all for ever.
(3:76) O all ye things that spring up in the earth, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
(3:77) O ye fountains, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
(3:78) O ye seas and rivers, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
(3:79) O ye whales, and all that move in the waters, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
(3:80) O all ye fowls of the air, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
(3:81) O all ye beasts and cattle, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
(3:82) O ye sons of men, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
(3:83) O let Israel bless the Lord: let them praise and exalt him above all for ever.
(3:84) O ye priests of the Lord, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
(3:85) O ye servants of the Lord, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
(3:86) O ye spirits and souls of the just, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
(3:87) O ye holy and humble of heart, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
(3:88) O Ananias, Azarias, Misael, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever. For he hath delivered us from hell, ad saved us out of the hand of death, and delivered us out of the midst of the burning flame, and saved us out of the midst of the fire.
(3:89) O give thanks to the Lord, because he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever and ever.
(3:90) O all ye religious, bless the Lord, the God of gods: praise him, and give him thanks, because his mercy endureth for ever and ever. ^{24 (3:91)} Then Nabuchodonosor, the king, was astonished, and rose up in haste, and said to his nobles: Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered the king, and said: True, O king. ^{25 (3:92)} He answered, and said: Behold, I see four men loose, and walking in the midst of the fire, and there is no hurt in them, and the form of the fourth is like the son of God. ^{26 (3:93)} Then Nabuchodonosor came to the door of the burning fiery furnace, and said: Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, ye servants of the most high God, go ye forth, and come. And immediately Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, went out from the midst of the fire. ^{27 (3:94)} And the nobles, and the magistrates, and the judges, and the great men of the king, being gathered together, considered these men, that the fire had no power on their bodies, and that not a hair of their head had been singed, nor their garments altered, nor the smell of the fire had passed on them. ^{28 (3:95)} Then Nabuchodonosor breaking forth, said: Blessed be the God of them, to wit, of Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that believed in him: and they changed the king's word, and delivered up their bodies, that they might not serve nor adore any god except their own God. ^{29 (3:96)} By me, therefore, this decree is made: That every people, tribe, and tongue, which shall speak blasphemy against the God of Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, shall be destroyed, and their houses laid waste: for there is no other God that can save in this manner.

^{29 (3:96)} By me, therefore, this decree is made: That every people, tribe, and tongue, which shall speak blasphemy against the God of Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, shall be destroyed, and their houses laid waste: for there is no other God that can save in this manner. ^{30 (3:97)} Then the king promoted Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, in the province of Babylon.

^{30 (3:97)} Then the king promoted Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, in the province of Babylon.

^{3 (3:100)} His signs, because they are great: and his wonders, because they are mighty: and his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his power to all generations.

^{5 (4:2)} I saw a dream that affrighted me: and my thoughts in my bed, and the visions of my head, troubled me. ^{6 (4:3)} Then I set forth a decree, that all the wise men of Babylon should be brought in before me, and that they should shew me the interpretation of the dream. ^{7 (4:4)} Then came in the diviners, the wise men, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers, and I told the dream before them: but they did not shew me the interpretation thereof. ^{8 (4:5)} Till their colleague, Daniel, came in before me, whose name is Baltassar, according to the name of my god, who hath in him the spirit of the holy gods: and I told the dream before him.

^{8 (4:5)} Till their colleague, Daniel, came in before me, whose name is Baltassar, according to the name of my god, who hath in him the spirit of the holy gods: and I told the dream before him. ^{9 (4:6)} Baltassar, prince of the diviners, because I know that thou hast in thee the spirit of the holy gods, and that no secret is impossible to thee, tell me the visions of my dreams that I have seen, and the interpretation of them?

^{9 (4:6)} Baltassar, prince of the diviners, because I know that thou hast in thee the spirit of the holy gods, and that no secret is impossible to thee, tell me the visions of my dreams that I have seen, and the interpretation of them?

^{17 (4:14)} This is the decree by the sentence of the watchers, and the word and demand of the holy ones: till the living know, that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men: and he will give it to whomsoever it shall please him, and he will appoint the basest man over it. ^{18 (4:15)} I, king Nabuchodonosor, saw this dream: thou, therefore, O Baltassar, tell me quickly the interpretation: for all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to declare the meaning of it to me: but thou art able, because the spirit of the holy gods is in thee. ^{19 (4:16)} Then Daniel, whose name was Baltassar, began silently to think within himself for about one hour: and his thought troubled him. But the king answering, said: Baltassar, let not the dream and the interpretation thereof trouble thee. Baltassar answered, and said: My lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thy enemies.

^{19 (4:16)} Then Daniel, whose name was Baltassar, began silently to think within himself for about one hour: and his thought troubled him. But the king answering, said: Baltassar, let not the dream and the interpretation thereof trouble thee. Baltassar answered, and said: My lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thy enemies.

^{21 (4:18)} And the branches thereof were most beautiful, and its fruit exceeding much, and in it was food for all, under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and the birds of the air had their abode in its branches. ^{22 (4:19)} It is thou, O king, who art grown great, and become mighty: for thy greatness hath grown, and hath reached to heaven, and thy power unto the ends of the earth.

^{22 (4:19)} It is thou, O king, who art grown great, and become mighty: for thy greatness hath grown, and hath reached to heaven, and thy power unto the ends of the earth.

^{25 (4:22)} They shall cast thee out from among men, and thy dwelling shall be with cattle, and with wild beasts, and thou shalt eat grass, as an ox, and shalt be wet with the dew of heaven: and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth over the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.

^{30 (4:27)} And the king answered, and said: Is not this the great Babylon, which I have built, to be the seat of the kingdom, by the strength of my power, and in the glory of my excellence?

^{32 (4:29)} And they shall cast thee out from among men, and thy dwelling shall be with cattle and wild beasts: thou shalt eat grass like an ox, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.

^{34 (4:31)} Now at the end of the days, I, Nabuchodonosor, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my sense was restored to me: and I blessed the most High, and I praised and glorified him that liveth for ever: for his power is an everlasting power, and his kingdom is to all generations.

⁷ And the king cried out aloud to bring in the wise men, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spoke, and said to the wise men of Babylon: Whosoever shall read this writing, and shall make known to me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with purple, and shall have a golden chain on his neck, and shall be the third man in my kingdom.

⁷ And the king cried out aloud to bring in the wise men, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spoke, and said to the wise men of Babylon: Whosoever shall read this writing, and shall make known to me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with purple, and shall have a golden chain on his neck, and shall be the third man in my kingdom. ⁸ Then came in all the king's wise men, but they could neither read the writing, nor declare the interpretation to the king.

⁸ Then came in all the king's wise men, but they could neither read the writing, nor declare the interpretation to the king.

¹⁰ Then the queen, on occasion of what had happened to the king, and his nobles, came into the banquet-house: and she spoke, and said: O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, neither let thy countenance be changed. ¹¹ There is a man in thy kingdom that hath the spirit of the holy gods in him: and in the days of thy father knowledge and wisdom were found in him: for king Nabuchodonosor, thy father, appointed him prince of the wise men, enchanters, Chaldeans, and soothsayers, thy father, I say, O king: ¹² Because a greater spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, and interpretation of dreams, and shewing of secrets, and resolving of difficult things, were found in him, that is, in Daniel: whom the king named Baltassar. Now, therefore, let Daniel be called for, and he will tell the interpretation. ¹³ Then Daniel was brought in before the king. And the king spoke, and said to him: Art thou Daniel, of the children of the captivity of Juda, whom my father, the king, brought out of Judea? ¹⁴ I have heard of thee, that thou hast the spirit of the gods, and excellent knowledge, and understanding, and wisdom are found in thee.

¹⁶ But I have heard of thee, that thou canst interpret obscure things, and resolve difficult things: now if thou art able to read the writing, and to shew me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with purple, and shalt have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third prince in my kingdom.

¹⁶ But I have heard of thee, that thou canst interpret obscure things, and resolve difficult things: now if thou art able to read the writing, and to shew me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with purple, and shalt have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third prince in my kingdom. ¹⁷ To which Daniel made answer, and said before the king: thy rewards be to thyself, and the gifts of thy house give to another: but the writing I will read to thee, O king, and shew thee the interpretation thereof. ¹⁸ O king, the most high God gave to Nabuchodonosor, thy father, a kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and honour.

²⁸ PHARES: thy kingdom is divided, and is given to the Medes and Persians.

²⁸ PHARES: thy kingdom is divided, and is given to the Medes and Persians. ²⁹ Then by the king's command, Daniel was clothed with purple, and a chain of gold was put about his neck: and it was proclaimed of him that he had power as the third man in the kingdom.

²⁹ Then by the king's command, Daniel was clothed with purple, and a chain of gold was put about his neck: and it was proclaimed of him that he had power as the third man in the kingdom. ³⁰ The same night Baltasar, the Chaldean king, was slain. ³¹ And Darius, the Mede, succeeded to the kingdom, being threescore and two years old.

³¹ And Darius, the Mede, succeeded to the kingdom, being threescore and two years old.

¹ It seemed good to Darius, and he appointed over the kingdom a hundred and twenty governors, to be over his whole kingdom. ² And three princes over them of whom Daniel was one: that the governors might give an account to them, and the king might have no trouble.

⁶ Then the princes, and the governors, craftily suggested to the king, and spoke thus unto him: King Darius, live for ever:

⁹ So king Darius set forth the decree, and established it. ¹⁰ Now, when Daniel knew this, that is to say, that the law was made, he went into his house: and opening the windows in his upper chamber towards Jerusalem, he knelt down three times a day, and adored and gave thanks before his God, as he had been accustomed to do before. ¹¹ Wherefore those men carefully watching him, found Daniel praying and making supplication to his God. ¹² And they came and spoke to the king concerning the edict: O king, hast thou not decreed, that every man that should make a request to any of the gods, or men, for thirty days, but to thyself, O king, should be cast into the den of the lions? And the king answered them, saying: The word is true, according to the decree of the Medes and Persians, which it is not lawful to violate. ¹³ Then they answered, and said before the king: Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Juda, hath not regarded thy law, nor the decree that thou hast made: but three times a day he maketh his prayer.

¹³ Then they answered, and said before the king: Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Juda, hath not regarded thy law, nor the decree that thou hast made: but three times a day he maketh his prayer. ¹⁴ Now when the king had heard these words, he was very much grieved, and in behalf of Daniel he set his heart to deliver him, and even till sunset he laboured to save him. ¹⁵ But those men perceiving the king's design, said to him: Know thou, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, that no decree which the king hath made, may be altered.

¹⁸ And the king went away to his house, and laid himself down without taking supper, and meat was not set before him, and even sleep departed from him.

²¹ And Daniel answering the king, said: O king, live for ever:

²⁶ It is decreed by me, that in all my empire and my kingdom, all men dread and fear the God of Daniel. For he is the living and eternal God for ever: and his kingdom shall not be destroyed, and his power shall be for ever.

³ And four great beasts, different one from another, came up out of the sea. ⁴ The first was like a lioness, and had the wings of an eagle: I beheld till her wings were plucked off, and she was lifted up from the earth, and stood upon her feet as a man, and the heart of a man was given to her.

⁴ The first was like a lioness, and had the wings of an eagle: I beheld till her wings were plucked off, and she was lifted up from the earth, and stood upon her feet as a man, and the heart of a man was given to her. ⁵ And behold another beast, like a bear, stood up on one side: and there were three rows in the mouth thereof, and in the teeth thereof, and thus they said to it: Arise, devour much flesh.

⁵ And behold another beast, like a bear, stood up on one side: and there were three rows in the mouth thereof, and in the teeth thereof, and thus they said to it: Arise, devour much flesh.

⁵ And behold another beast, like a bear, stood up on one side: and there were three rows in the mouth thereof, and in the teeth thereof, and thus they said to it: Arise, devour much flesh. ⁶ After this I beheld, and lo, another like a leopard, and it had upon it four wings, as of a fowl, and the beast had four heads, and power was given to it.

⁶ After this I beheld, and lo, another like a leopard, and it had upon it four wings, as of a fowl, and the beast had four heads, and power was given to it.

⁶ After this I beheld, and lo, another like a leopard, and it had upon it four wings, as of a fowl, and the beast had four heads, and power was given to it. ⁷ After this I beheld in the vision of the night, and lo, a fourth beast, terrible and wonderful, and exceeding strong, it had great iron teeth, eating and breaking in pieces, and treading down the rest with his feet: and it was unlike to the other beasts which I had seen before it, and had ten horns.

⁷ After this I beheld in the vision of the night, and lo, a fourth beast, terrible and wonderful, and exceeding strong, it had great iron teeth, eating and breaking in pieces, and treading down the rest with his feet: and it was unlike to the other beasts which I had seen before it, and had ten horns.

⁷ After this I beheld in the vision of the night, and lo, a fourth beast, terrible and wonderful, and exceeding strong, it had great iron teeth, eating and breaking in pieces, and treading down the rest with his feet: and it was unlike to the other beasts which I had seen before it, and had ten horns.

⁷ After this I beheld in the vision of the night, and lo, a fourth beast, terrible and wonderful, and exceeding strong, it had great iron teeth, eating and breaking in pieces, and treading down the rest with his feet: and it was unlike to the other beasts which I had seen before it, and had ten horns. ⁸ I considered the horns, and behold another little horn sprung out of the midst of them: and three of the first horns were plucked up at the presence thereof: and behold eyes like the eyes of a man were in this horn, and a mouth speaking great things.

⁸ I considered the horns, and behold another little horn sprung out of the midst of them: and three of the first horns were plucked up at the presence thereof: and behold eyes like the eyes of a man were in this horn, and a mouth speaking great things. ⁹ I beheld till thrones were placed, and the ancient of days sat: his garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like clean wool: his throne like flames of fire: the wheels of it like a burning fire. ¹⁰ A swift stream of fire issued forth from before him: thousands of thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times a hundred thousand stood before him: the judgment sat, and the books were opened. ¹¹ I beheld, because of the voice of the great words which that horn spoke: and I saw that the beast was slain, and the body thereof was destroyed, and given to the fire to be burnt: ¹² And that the power of the other beasts was taken away: and that times of life were appointed them for a time, and a time. ¹³ I beheld, therefore, in the vision of the night, and lo, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and he came even to the ancient of days: and they presented him before him.

¹³ I beheld, therefore, in the vision of the night, and lo, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and he came even to the ancient of days: and they presented him before him. ¹⁴ And he gave him power, and glory, and a kingdom: and all peoples, tribes, and tongues shall serve him: his power is an everlasting power that shall not be taken away: and his kingdom that shall not be destroyed.

¹⁴ And he gave him power, and glory, and a kingdom: and all peoples, tribes, and tongues shall serve him: his power is an everlasting power that shall not be taken away: and his kingdom that shall not be destroyed. ¹⁵ My spirit trembled; I, Daniel, was affrighted at these things, and the visions of my head troubled me. ¹⁶ I went near to one of them that stood by, and asked the truth of him concerning all these things, and he told me the interpretation of the words, and instructed me: ¹⁷ These four great beasts, are four kingdoms, which shall arise out of the earth.

¹⁹ After this I would diligently learn concerning the fourth beast, which was very different from all, and exceeding terrible: his teeth and claws were of iron: he devoured and broke in pieces, and the rest he stamped upon with his feet: ²⁰ And concerning the ten horns that he had on his head: and concerning the other that came up, before which three horns fell: and of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth speaking great things, and was greater than the rest. ²¹ I beheld, and lo, that horn made war against the saints, and prevailed over them, ²² Till the ancient of days came and gave judgment to the saints of the most High, and the time came, and the saints obtained the kingdom. ²³ And thus he said: The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be greater than all the kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.

²³ And thus he said: The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be greater than all the kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. ²⁴ And the ten horns of the same kingdom, shall be ten kings: and another shall rise up after them, and he shall be mightier than the former, and he shall bring down three kings.

²⁴ And the ten horns of the same kingdom, shall be ten kings: and another shall rise up after them, and he shall be mightier than the former, and he shall bring down three kings. ²⁵ And he shall speak words against the High One, and shall crush the saints of the most High: and he shall think himself able to change times and laws, and they shall be delivered into his hand until a time, and times, and half a time.

²⁵ And he shall speak words against the High One, and shall crush the saints of the most High: and he shall think himself able to change times and laws, and they shall be delivered into his hand until a time, and times, and half a time. ²⁶ And a judgment shall sit, that his power may be taken away, and be broken in pieces, and perish even to the end. ²⁷ And that the kingdom, and power, and the greatness of the kingdom, under the whole heaven, may be given to the people of the saints of the most High: whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all kings shall serve him, and shall obey him.

³ And I lifted up my eyes, and saw: and behold a ram stood before the water, having two high horns, and one higher than the other, and growing up. Afterward

³ And I lifted up my eyes, and saw: and behold a ram stood before the water, having two high horns, and one higher than the other, and growing up. Afterward ⁴ I saw the ram pushing with his horns against the west, and against the north, and against the south: and no beasts could withstand him, nor be delivered out of his hand: and he did according to his own will, and became great.

⁴ I saw the ram pushing with his horns against the west, and against the north, and against the south: and no beasts could withstand him, nor be delivered out of his hand: and he did according to his own will, and became great. ⁵ And I understood: and behold a he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and he touched not the ground, and the he goat had a notable horn between his eyes.

⁵ And I understood: and behold a he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and he touched not the ground, and the he goat had a notable horn between his eyes. ⁶ And he went up to the ram that had the horns, which I had seen standing before the gate, and he ran towards him in the force of his strength.

⁶ And he went up to the ram that had the horns, which I had seen standing before the gate, and he ran towards him in the force of his strength. ⁷ And when he was come near the ram, he was enraged against him, and struck the ram: and broke his two horns, and the ram cound not withstand him: and when he had cast him down on the ground, he stamped upon him, and none could deliver the ram out of his hand.

⁷ And when he was come near the ram, he was enraged against him, and struck the ram: and broke his two horns, and the ram cound not withstand him: and when he had cast him down on the ground, he stamped upon him, and none could deliver the ram out of his hand. ⁸ And the he goat became exceeding great: and when he was grown, the great horn was broken, and there came up four horns under it towards the four winds of heaven.

⁸ And the he goat became exceeding great: and when he was grown, the great horn was broken, and there came up four horns under it towards the four winds of heaven. ⁹ And out of one of them came forth a little horn: and it became great against the south, and against the east, and against the strength. ¹⁰ And it was magnified even unto the strength of heaven: and it threw down of the strength, and of the stars, and trod upon them. ¹¹ And it was magnified even to the prince of the strength: and it took away from him the continual sacrifice, and cast down the place of his sanctuary. ¹² And strength was given him against the continual sacrifice, because of sins: and truth shall be cast down on the ground, and he shall do and shall prosper. ¹³ And I heard one of the saints speaking, and one saint said to another I know not to whom, that was speaking: How long shall be the vision, concerning the continual sacrifice, and the sin of the desolation that is made: and the sanctuary, and the strength be trodden under foot? ¹⁴ And he said to him: Unto evening and morning two thousand three hundred days: and the sanctuary shall be cleansed.

²⁰ The ram, which thou sawest with horns, is the king of the Medes and Persians.

²⁴ And his power shall be strengthened, but not by his own force: and he shall lay all things waste, and shall prosper, and do more than can be believed. And he shall destroy the mighty, and the people of the saints, ²⁵ According to his will, and craft shall be successful in his hand: and his heart shall be puffed up, and in the abundance of all things he shall kill many: and he shall rise up aginst the prince of princes, and shall be broken without hand.

²⁶ And after sixty-two weeks Christ shall be slain: and the people that shall deny him shall not be his. And a people, with their leader, that shall come, shall destroy the city, and the sanctuary: and the end thereof shall be waste, and after the end of the war the appointed desolation.

¹⁴ But I am come to teach thee what things shall befall thy people in the latter days, for as yet the vision is for days.

²⁰ And he said: Dost thou know wherefore I am come to thee? And now I will return, to fight against the prince of the Persians. When I went forth, there appeared the prince of the Greeks coming.

² And now I will shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand yet three kings in Persia, and the fourth shall be enriched exceedingly above them all: and when he shall be grown mighty by his riches, he shall stir up all against the kingdom of Greece. ³ But there shall rise up a strong king, and shall rule with great power: and he shall do what he pleaseth. ⁴ And when he shall come to his height, his kingdom shall be broken, and it shall be divided towards the four winds of the heaven: but not to his posterity, nor according to his pwoer with wheich he ruled. For his kingdom shall be rent in peices, even for strangers, besides these. ⁵ And the king of the south shall be strengthened, and one of his princes shall prevail over him, and he shall rule with great power: for his dominions shall be great. ⁶ And after the end of years they shall be in league together: and the daughter of the king of the south shall come to the king of the north to make friendship, but she shall not obtain the strength of the arm, neither shall her seed stand: and she shall be given up, and her young men that brought her, and they that strengthened her in these times.

⁶ And after the end of years they shall be in league together: and the daughter of the king of the south shall come to the king of the north to make friendship, but she shall not obtain the strength of the arm, neither shall her seed stand: and she shall be given up, and her young men that brought her, and they that strengthened her in these times. ⁷ And a plant of the bud of her roots shall stand up: and he shall come with an army, and shall enter into the province of the king of the north: and he shall abuse them, and shall prevail. ⁸ And he shall also carry away captive into Egypt their gods, and their graven things, and their precious vessels of gold and silver: he shall prevail aginst the king of the north. ⁹ And the king of the south shall enter into the kingdom, and shall return to his own land. ¹⁰ And his sons shall be provoked, and they shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and he shall come with haste like a flood: and he shall return, and be stirred up, and he shall join battle with his force. ¹¹ And the king of the south being provoked, shall go forth, and shall fight against the king of the north, and shall prepare an exceeding great multitude, and a multitude shall be given into his hands. ¹² And he shall take a multitude, and his heart shall be lifted up, and he shall cast down many thousands: but he shall not prevail. ¹³ For the king of the north shall return, and shall prepare a multitude much greater than before: and in the end of times, and years, he shall come in haste with a great army, and much riches. ¹⁴ And in those times many shall rise up against the king of the south, and the children of prevaricators of thy people shall lift up themselves to fulfil the vision, and they shall fall. ¹⁵ And the king of the north shall come, and shall cast up a mount, and shall take the best fenced citits: and the arms of the south shall not withstand, and his chosen ones shall rise up to resist, and they shall not have strength. ¹⁶ And he shall come upon him, and do according to his pleasure, and there shall be none to stand against his face: and he shall stand in the glorious land, and it shall be consumed by his hand. ¹⁷ And he shall set his face to come to possess all his kingdom, and he shall make upright conditions with him: and he shall give him a daughter of women, to overthrow it: and she shall not stand, neither shall she be for him. ¹⁸ And he shall turn his face to the islands, and shall take many: and he shall cause the prince of his reproach to cease, and his reproach shall be turned upon him. ¹⁹ And he shall turn his face to the empire of his own land, and he shall stumble, and fall, ans shall not be found. ²⁰ And there shall stand up in his place one most vile, and unworthy of kingly honour: and in a few days he shall be destroyed, not in rage nor in battle.

³⁶ And the king shall do according to his will, and he shall be lifted up, and shall magnify himself against every god: and he shall speak great things against the God of gods, and shall prosper, till the wrath be accomplished. For the determination is made.

³⁶ And the king shall do according to his will, and he shall be lifted up, and shall magnify himself against every god: and he shall speak great things against the God of gods, and shall prosper, till the wrath be accomplished. For the determination is made. ³⁷ And he shall make no account of the God of his fathers: and he shall follow the lust of women, and he shall not regard any gods: for he shall rise up against all things. ³⁸ But he shall worship the god Maozim, in his place: and a god whom his fathers knew not, he shall worship with gold, and silver, and precious stones, and things of great price. ³⁹ And he shall do this to fortify Maozim with a strange god, whom he hath acknowledged, and he shall increase glory, and shall give them power over many, and shall divide the land gratis. ⁴⁰ And at the time prefixed the king of the south shall fight against him, and the king of the north shall come against him like a tempest, with chariots, andwith horsemen, and with a great navy, and he shall enter into the countries, and shall destroy, and pass through. ⁴¹ And he shal enter into the glorious land, ansd many shall fall: and these only shakll be saved out of his hand, Edom, and Moab, and the principality of the children of Ammon. ⁴² And he shall lay his hand upon the lands: and the land of Egypt shall not escape. ⁴³ And he shall have power over the treasures of gold, and of silver, and all the precious things of Egypt: and he shall pass through Lybia, and Ethiopia. ⁴⁴ And tidings out of the east, and out of the north, shall trouble him: and he shall come with a great multitude to destroy and slay many. ⁴⁵ And he shall fix his tabernacle, Apadno, between the seas, upon a glorious and holy mountain: and he shall come even to the top thereof, and none shall help him.

⁵ And after this the children of Israel shall return and shall seek the Lord, their God, and David, their king: and they shall fear the Lord, and his goodness, in the last days.

¹⁰ But even though they shall have hired the nations, now will I gather them together: and they shall rest a while from the burden of the king, and the princes.

³ Therefore they shall be as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the dust that is driven with a whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

²¹ And I will cleanse their blood, which I had not cleansed: and the Lord will dwell in Sion.

³ Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Damascus, and for four I will not convert it: because they have thrashed Galaad with iron wains.

⁷ For the Lord God doth nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.

¹³ For behold he that formeth the mountains and createth the wind, and declareth his word to man, he that maketh the morning mist, and walketh upon the high places of the earth: the Lord the God of hosts is his name.

¹⁵ Hate evil, and love good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be the Lord the God of hosts may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.

¹ And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be prepared in the top of the mountains, and high above the hills: and people shall flow to it. ² And many nations shall come in haste, and say: Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob: and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth out of Sion, and the word of the Lord out of Jerusalem.

⁷ And I will make her that halted, a remnant: and her that had been afflicted, a mighty nation: and the Lord will reign over them in Mount Sion, from this time now and forever.

¹³ Arise, and tread, O daughter of Sion: for I will make thy horn iron, and thy hoofs I will make brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many peoples, and shalt immolate the spoils of them to the Lord, and their strength to the Lord of the whole earth.

⁷ They are dreadful, and terrible: from themselves shall their judgment, and their burden proceed.

⁶ And he answered, and spoke to me, saying: This is the word of the Lord to Zorobabel, saying: Not with an army, nor by might, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.

³ And in the third chariot white horses, and in the fourth chariot grisled horses, and strong ones.

⁶ That in which were the black horses went forth into the land of the north, and the white went forth after them: and the grisled went forth to the land the south.

³ And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone to all people: all that shall lift it up shall be rent and torn, and all the kingdoms of the earth shall be gathered together against her.

⁸ And it shall come to pass in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem: half of them to the east sea, and half of them to the last sea: they shall be in summer and in winter. ⁹ And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day there shall be one Lord, and his name shall be one.

¹¹ For from the rising of the sun even to the going down, my name is great among the Gentiles, and in every place there is sacrifice, and there is offered to my name a clean oblation: for my name is great among the Gentiles, saith the Lord of hosts.

¹⁸ And you shall return, and shall see the difference between the just and the wicked: and between him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not.

¹² And having received an answer in sleep that they should not return to Herod, they went back another way into their country. ¹³ And after they were departed, behold an angel of the Lord appeared in sleep to Joseph, saying: Arise, and take the child and his mother, and fly into Egypt: and be there until I shall tell thee. For it will come to pass that Herod will seek the child to destroy him.

¹⁶ Then Herod perceiving that he was deluded by the wise men, was exceeding angry: and sending killed all the menchildren that were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.

² And saying: Do penance: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. ³ For this is he that was spoken of by Isaias the prophet, saying: A voice of one crying in the desert, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.

⁸ Again the devil took him up into a very high mountain, and shewed him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them,

²² But I say to you, that whosoever is angry with his brother, shall be in danger of the judgment. And whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council. And whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

⁹ Thus therefore shall you pray: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

¹³ And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from evil. Amen.

²⁵ At that time Jesus answered and said: I confess to thee, O Father, Lord of Heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to little ones.

¹³ Therefore do I speak to them in parables: because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

¹⁸ And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

¹² What think you? If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them should go astray: doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the mountains, and goeth to seek that which is gone astray?

¹⁹ Again I say to you, that if two of you shall consent upon earth, concerning anything whatsoever they shall ask, it shall be done to them by my Father who is in heaven.

²⁶ And Jesus beholding, said to them: With men this is impossible: but with God all things are possible.

⁹ And the multitudes that went before and that followed cried, saying: Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.

²⁴ Jesus answering, said to them: I also will ask you one word, which if you shall tell me, I will also tell you by what authority I do these things.

²² And unless those days had been shortened, no flesh should be saved: but for the sake of the elect those days shall be shortened.

³⁵ Heaven and earth shall pass: but my words shall not pass.

¹⁸ And Jesus coming, spoke to them, saying: All power is given to me in heaven and in earth.

⁹ And they that went before and they that followed cried, saying: Hosanna: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. ¹⁰ Blessed be the kingdom of our father David that cometh: Hosanna in the highest.

²⁰ And unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh should be saved: but, for the sake of the elect which he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.

³² He shall be great and shall be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of David his father: and he shall reign in the house of Jacob for ever. ³³ And of his kingdom there shall be no end.

⁵¹ He hath shewed might in his arm: he hath scattered the proud in the conceit of their heart. ⁵² He hath put down the mighty from their seat and hath exalted the humble.

⁵ And the devil led him into a high mountain and shewed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

²¹ In that same hour, he rejoiced in the Holy Ghost and said: I confess to thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hidden these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them to little ones. Yea, Father, for so it hath seemed good in thy sight.

² For there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed: nor hidden that shall not be known. ³ For whatsoever things you have spoken in darkness shall be published in the light: and that which you have spoken in the ear in the chambers shall be preached on the housetops.

¹⁶ And he fell on his face before his feet, giving thanks. And this was a Samaritan.

²⁰ And being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God should come, he answering them and said: The kingdom of God cometh not with observation.

¹⁵ For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to resist and gainsay.

¹ In the beginning was the Word: and the Word was with God: and the Word was God. ² The same was in the beginning with God. ³ All things were made by him: and without him was made nothing that was made.

⁹ That was the true light, which enlighteneth every man that cometh into this world.

¹³ Who are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. ¹⁴ And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us (and we saw his glory, the glory as it were of the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth.

¹² Again therefore, Jesus spoke to: them, saying: I am the light of the world. He that followeth me walketh not in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

⁴¹ They took therefore the stone away. And Jesus lifting up his eyes, said: Father, I give thee thanks that thou hast heard me.

⁴⁸ If we let him alone so, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and take away our place and nation.

³⁴ The multitude answered him: We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever. And how sayest thou: The Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?

⁴⁵ And he that seeth me, seeth him that sent me. ⁴⁶ I am come, a light into the world, that whosoever believeth in me may not remain in darkness.

¹⁷ The spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, nor knoweth him. But you shall know him; because he shall abide with you and shall be in you.

²³ Jesus answered and said to him: If any one love me, he will keep my word. And my Father will love him and we will come to him and will make our abode with him.

¹⁵ I will not now call you servants: for the servant knoweth not what his lord doth. But I have called you friends. because all things, whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you.

¹¹ Jesus answered: Thou shouldst not have any power against me, unless it were given thee from above. Therefore, he that hath delivered me to thee hath the greater sin.

¹⁷ He said to him the third time: Simon, son of John, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he had said to him the third time: Lovest thou me? And he said to him: Lord, thou knowest all things: thou knowest that I love thee. He said to him: Feed my sheep.

¹² But Peter seeing, made answer to the people: Ye men of Israel, why wonder you at this? Or why look you upon us, as if by our strength or power we had made this man to walk?

¹¹ This is the stone which was rejected by you the builders, which is become the head of the corner.

²⁴ Who having heard it, with one accord lifted up their voice to God and said: Lord, thou art he that didst make heaven and earth, the sea and all things that are in them. ²⁵ Who, by the Holy Ghost, by the mouth of our father David, thy servant, hast said: Why did the Gentiles rage: and the people meditate vain things? ²⁶ The kings of the earth stood up: and the princes assembled together against the Lord and his Christ. ²⁷ For of a truth there assembled together in this city against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, ²⁸ To do what thy hand and thy counsel decreed to be done. ²⁹ And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants that with all confidence they may speak thy word, ³⁰ By stretching forth thy hand to cures and signs and wonders, to be done by the name of thy holy Son, Jesus. ³¹ And when they had prayed, the place was moved wherein they were assembled: and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost: and they spoke the word of God with confidence.

²⁵ And it came to pass that when Peter was come in, Cornelius came to meet him and falling at his feet adored.

⁴ And when he had apprehended him, he cast him into prison, delivering him to four files of soldiers, to be kept, intending, after the pasch, to bring him forth to the people.

²¹ And after that they desired a king: and God gave them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, forty years. ²² And when he had removed him, he raised them up David to be king: to whom giving testimony, he said: I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man according to my own heart, who shall do all my wills.

^{13 (14:12)} The priest also of Jupiter that was before the city, bringing oxen and garlands before the gate, would have offered sacrifice with the people.

²⁴ Saying: Fear not, Paul, thou must be brought before Caesar; and behold, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.

⁶ But they supposed that he would begin to swell up and that he would suddenly fall down and die. But expecting long and seeing that there came no harm to him, changing their minds, they said that he was a god.

²⁸ And we know that to them that love God all things work together unto good: to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints.

³⁰ I beseech you therefore, brethren, through our Lord Jesus Christ and by the charity of the Holy Ghost, that you help me in your prayers for me to God,

²⁵ Now to him that is able to establish you, according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which was kept secret from eternity; ²⁶ (Which now is made manifest by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the precept of the eternal God, for the obedience of faith) known among all nations:

²⁷ But the foolish things of the world hath God chosen, that he may confound the wise: and the weak things of the world hath God chosen, that he may confound the strong. ²⁸ And the base things of the world and the things that are contemptible, hath God chosen: and things that are not, that he might bring to nought things that are:

³⁰ But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom and justice and sanctification and redemption:

⁹ But, as it is written: That eye hath not seen, nor ear heard: neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for them that love him.

⁹ But, as it is written: That eye hath not seen, nor ear heard: neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for them that love him. ¹⁰ But to us God hath revealed them by his Spirit. For the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

¹⁰ But to us God hath revealed them by his Spirit. For the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. ¹¹ For what man knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man that is in him? So the things also that are of God, no man knoweth, but the Spirit of God.

²¹ Let no man therefore glory in men. ²² For all things are yours, whether it be Paul or Apollo or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. For all are yours. ²³ And you are Christ's. And Christ is God's.

⁵ Therefore, judge not before the time: until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts. And then shall every man have praise from God.

⁸ And last of all, he was seen also by me, as by one born out of due tine. ⁹ For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. ¹⁰ But by the grace of God, I am what I am. And his grace in me hath not been void: but I have laboured more abundantly than all they. Yet not I, but the grace of God with me: ¹¹ For whether I or they, so we preach: and so you have believed. ¹² Now if Christ be preached, that he arose again from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

²⁴ Afterwards the end: when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God and the Father: when he shall have brought to nought all principality and power and virtue. ²⁵ For he must reign, until he hath put all his enemies under his feet.

²⁵ For he must reign, until he hath put all his enemies under his feet.

¹⁷ For we are not as many, adulterating the word of God: but with sincerity: but as from God, before God, in Christ we speak.

¹⁵ For all things are for your sakes: that the grace, abounding through many, may abound in thanksgiving unto the glory of God.

¹ For we know, if our earthly house of this habitation be dissolved, that we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.

¹⁶ And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God: as God saith: I will dwell in them and walk among them. And I will be their God: and they shall be my people.

⁴ For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty to God, unto the pulling down of fortifications, destroying counsels, ⁵ And every height that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God: and bringing into captivity every understanding unto the obedience of Christ:

²⁰ Which he wrought in Christ, raising him up from the dead and setting him on his right hand in the heavenly places. ²¹ Above all principality and power and virtue and dominion and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come. ²² And he hath subjected all things under his feet and hath made him head over all the church,

⁵ Which in other generations was not known to the sons of men, as it is now revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit:

¹⁶ But as wise: redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

⁵ Walk with wisdom towards them that are without, redeeming the time.

¹⁵ Which in his times he shall shew, who is the Blessed and only Mighty, the King of kings and Lord of lords: ¹⁶ Who only hath immortality and inhabiteth light inaccessible: whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and empire everlasting. Amen.

¹ Know also this, that in the last days shall come dangerous times.

¹⁷ But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that by me the preaching may be accomplished and that all the Gentiles may hear. And I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. ¹⁸ The Lord hath delivered me from every evil work and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom. To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

¹ God, who, at sundry times and in divers manners, spoke in times past to the fathers by the prophets, last of all,

¹³ Neither is there any creature invisible in his sight: but all things are naked and open to his eyes, to whom our speech is.

²⁴ For Jesus is not entered into the Holies made with hands, the patterns of the true: but into Heaven itself, that he may appear now in the presence of God for us.

⁵ But if any of you want wisdom, let him ask of God who giveth to all men abundantly and upbraideth not. And it shall be given him.

¹⁷ Every best gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change nor shadow of alteration.

¹⁵ For this is not wisdom, descending from above: but earthly, sensual, devilish. ¹⁶ For where envying and contention is: there is inconstancy and every evil work. ¹⁷ But the wisdom that is from above, first indeed is chaste, then peaceable, modest, easy to be persuaded, consenting to the good, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging, without dissimulation.

⁷ To you therefore that believe, he is honour: but to them that believe not, the stone which the builders rejected, the same is made the head of the corner:

⁹ The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly from temptation, but to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be tormented:

³ Knowing this first: That in the last days there shall come deceitful scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

⁵ And this is the declaration which we have heard from him and declare unto you: That God is light and in him there is no darkness.

²⁴ Now to him who is able to preserve you without sin and to present you spotless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:

¹ The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to make known to his servants the things which must shortly come to pass: and signified, sending by his angel to his servant John,

⁵ And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the first begotten of the dead and the prince of the kings of the earth, who hath loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood

¹⁹ Write therefore the things which thou hast seen: and which are: and which must be done hereafter.

²⁷ And he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and as the vessel of a potter they shall be broken:

¹ Aftengs which must be done hereafter.

¹¹ Thou art worthy, O Lord our God, to receive glory and honour and power. Because thou hast created all things: and for thy will they were and have been created.

⁵ And one of the ancients said to me: Weep not: behold the lion of the tribe of Juda, the root of David, hath prevailed to open the book and to loose the seven seals thereof.

¹² Saying with a loud voice: The Lamb that was slain is worthy to receive power and divinity and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and benediction.

¹⁵ And the seventh angel sounded the trumpet: and there were great voices in heaven, saying: The kingdom of this world is become our Lord's and his Christ's, and he shall reign for ever and ever. Amen. ¹⁶ And the four and twenty ancients who sit on their seats in the sight of God, fell on their faces and adored God, saying:

³ And there was seen another sign in heaven. And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns and on his heads seven diadems.

⁸ And they prevailed not: neither was their place found any more in heaven.

^{1 (12:18) (}And he stood upon the sand of the sea.⁾ And I saw a beast coming up out the sea, having seven heads and ten horns: and upon his horns, ten diadems: and upon his heads, names of blasphemy.

⁴ And the woman was clothed round about with purple and scarlet, and gilt with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand, full of the abomination and filthiness of her fornication.

¹² And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, who have not yet received a kingdom: but shall receive power as kings, one hour after the beast.

¹⁴ These shall fight with the Lamb. And the Lamb shall overcome them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings: and they that are with him are called and elect and faithful.

¹⁰ And I fell down before his feet, to adore him. And he saith to me: See thou do it not. I am thy fellow servant and of thy brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Adore God. For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. ¹¹ And I saw heaven opened: and behold a white horse. And he that sat upon him was called faithful and true: and with justice doth he judge and fight. ¹² And his eyes were as a flame of fire: and on his head were many diadems. And he had a name written, which no man knoweth but himself. ¹³ And he was clothed with a garment sprinkled with blood. And his name is called: THE WORD OF GOD. ¹⁴ And the armies that are in heaven followed him on white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. ¹⁵ And out of his mouth proceedeth a sharp two-edged sword, that with it he may strike the nations. And he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of God the Almighty.

¹⁵ And out of his mouth proceedeth a sharp two-edged sword, that with it he may strike the nations. And he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of God the Almighty. ¹⁶ And he hath on his garment and on his thigh written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.

¹⁶ And he hath on his garment and on his thigh written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.

¹⁶ And he hath on his garment and on his thigh written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. ¹⁷ And I saw an angel standing in the sun: and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that did fly through the midst of heaven: Come, gather yourselves together to the great supper of God:

¹⁷ And I saw an angel standing in the sun: and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that did fly through the midst of heaven: Come, gather yourselves together to the great supper of God:

¹⁷ And I saw an angel standing in the sun: and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that did fly through the midst of heaven: Come, gather yourselves together to the great supper of God: ¹⁸ That you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of tribunes and the flesh of mighty men and the flesh of horses and of them that sit on them: and the flesh of all freemen and bondmen and of little and of great.

¹⁸ That you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of tribunes and the flesh of mighty men and the flesh of horses and of them that sit on them: and the flesh of all freemen and bondmen and of little and of great. ¹⁹ And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies, gathered together to make war with him that sat upon the horse and with his army.

¹⁹ And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies, gathered together to make war with him that sat upon the horse and with his army. ²⁰ And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who wrought signs before him, wherewith he seduced them who received the character of the beast and who adored his image. These two were cast alive into the pool of fire burning with brimstone.

²⁰ And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who wrought signs before him, wherewith he seduced them who received the character of the beast and who adored his image. These two were cast alive into the pool of fire burning with brimstone. ²¹ And the rest were slain by the sword of him that sitteth upon the horse, which proceedeth out of his mouth: and all the birds were filled with their flesh.

² And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. ³ And he cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up and set a seal upon him, that he should no more seduce the nations till the thousand years be finished. And after that, he must be loosed a little time.

¹¹ And I saw a great white throne and one sitting upon it, from whose face the earth and heaven fled away: and there was no place found for them

³ And I heard a great voice from the throne, saying: Behold the tabernacle of God with men: and he will dwell with them. And they shall be his people: and God himself with them shall be their God.

⁸ And I, John, who have heard and seen these things. And, after I had heard and seen, I fell down to adore before the feet of the angel who shewed me the things.