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¹ A Song. A Psalm of Asaph. O God do not keep silence to Yourself; do not be speechless; yea, do not be still, O God. ² For lo, Your enemies are roaring; and those who hate You have lifted up their head. ³ They take shrewd counsel against Your people; they plot against Your hidden ones. ⁴ They have said, Come, and we will cut them off from being a nation; and, The name of Israel will not be recalled again. ⁵ For they plotted to together with one heart; they have cut a covenant against You; ⁶ even the tents of Edom, and of the Ishmaelites; Moab and the Hagarites; ⁷ Gebal and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia and the inhabitants of Tyre. ⁸ Also Assyria has joined with them; they were an arm to the sons of Lot. Selah. ⁹ Do to them as to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin at the torrent Kishon. ¹⁰ At Endor they were destroyed; they became dung for the ground. ¹¹ Make their nobles as Oreb and Zeeb, and all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna; ¹² who said, Let us take possession of God's pastures for ourselves. ¹³ O my God, make them as whirling dust, as the stubble before the wind. ¹⁴ As the fire burns a forest, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire, ¹⁵ so pursue them with Your tempest, and frighten them with Your storm. ¹⁶ Fill their faces with shame and they will seek Your name, O Jehovah. ¹⁷ Let them be ashamed and terrified for ever; yea, let them be confounded and perish. ¹⁸ And let them know Your name is Jehovah, that You alone are the Most High over all the earth.

¹ In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans, ² in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood the number of the years by books, which came as the word of Jehovah to Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. ³ And I set my face toward the Lord God, to seek by prayer and holy desires, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes. ⁴ And I prayed to Jehovah my God. and made my confession, saying, O Lord, the great and awesome God, keeping the covenant and mercy of those who love Him, and to those who keep His commandments, ⁵ we have sinned and have committed iniquity and have done evilly, and we have rebelled, even by departing from Your commandments and from Your judgments. ⁶ And we have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our rulers, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. ⁷ O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us the shame of our faces, as it is this day to the men of Judah, and to the dwellers of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near and who are afar through all the lands where You have scattered them for their unfaithfulness which they have done against You. ⁸ O Lord, shame of face belongs to us, to our kings, to our rulers and to our fathers, because we have sinned against You. ⁹ To the Lord our God belong mercies and pardons, for we have rebelled against Him. ¹⁰ We have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in His laws which he set before us by His servants the prophets. ¹¹ Yea, all Israel has transgressed Your law and turned aside that they might not obey Your voice. For this reason the curse has poured out on us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against Him. ¹² And He has confirmed His words which He spoke against us, and against our judges who judge us, by bringing on us a great evil. For under the whole heavens it has not been done as it has been done to Jerusalem. ¹³ As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we did not make our prayer before Jehovah our God that we might turn from our perversities and understand Your truth. ¹⁴ And Jehovah has looked on the evil and has made it come on us. For Jehovah our God is righteous in all His works which He does. For we did not obey His voice. ¹⁵ And now, O Lord our God, who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and made for Yourself a name, as it is this day; we have sinned; we have done evilly. ¹⁶ O Lord, I pray to You, according to all Your righteousness, let Your anger and Your fury be turned away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain. For because of our sins and of our fathers' iniquities, Jerusalem and Your people have become a reproach to all those around us. ¹⁷ And now, hear, O our God, the prayer of Your servant and his holy desires, and cause Your face to shine on Your sanctuary that is desolate, for the sake of the Lord. ¹⁸ O my God, bow down Your ear and hear; open Your eyes and see our ruins and the city which is called by Your name. For we do not present our prayers before You on account of our righteousnesses, but because of Your great mercies. ¹⁹ O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and act! Do not delay, for Your own sake, O my God. For Your name is called on Your city and on Your people. ²⁰ And while I was speaking and praying and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and making my cry fall before Jehovah my God for the holy mountain of my God. ²¹ And while I was setting my prayer in order, then the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, touched me in my severe exhaustion about the time of the evening sacrifice. ²² And he enlightened me and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I have now come out to give you skill in understanding. ²³ At the beginning of your prayers the word came forth, and I have come to explain it . For you are greatly beloved. Then understand the matter and pay attention to the vision: ²⁴ Seventy weeks are decreed as to your people, and as to your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make atonement for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy. ²⁵ Know, then, and understand that from the going out of a word to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem, to Messiah the Prince, shall be seven weeks and sixty two weeks. The street shall be built again, and the wall, even in times of affliction. ²⁶ And after sixty two weeks, Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself. And the people of a coming prince shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end shall be with the flood, and ruins are determined, and war shall be until the end. ²⁷ And he shall confirm a covenant with the many for one week. And in the middle of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease. And on a wing of the altar will be abominations that desolate, even until the end. And that which was decreed shall pour out on the desolator.

¹ In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar, a vision appeared to me, Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first. ² And I looked in the vision, and it happened when I looked that I was at Shushan the palace, which is in the province of Elam. And in a vision I looked, and I was by the Ulai Canal. ³ Then I lifted up my eyes and looked. And behold! A ram was standing before the canal, having two horns. And the two horns were high, but one was higher than the other, and the higher one came up last. ⁴ I saw the ram pushing westward and northward and southward, so that no beasts could stand before him, and none could deliver out of his hand. But he did according to his will and became great. ⁵ And I was considering. And behold! A male of the goats came from the west, over the face of all the earth and did not touch the ground. And the he goat had an outstanding horn between his eyes. ⁶ And he came to the ram with two horns which I had seen standing before the canal. And he ran to it in the fury of his power. ⁷ And I saw him touched beside the ram. And he was moved with anger against him. And he struck the ram and shattered his two horns. And there was no power in the ram to stand before him. But he threw him down to the ground and trampled him. And no one could deliver the ram from his hand. ⁸ Then the he goat became very great. And when he was mighty, the great horn was broken. And in its place came up four outstanding ones toward the four winds of the heavens. ⁹ And out of one of them came a little horn which became very great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the bountiful land . ¹⁰ And it became great, even to the host of the heavens. And it caused some of the host and of the stars to fall to the ground, and it trampled them. ¹¹ Yea, he magnified himself even to the leader of the host. And the regular sacrifice was taken away by him, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. ¹² And a host was given with the regular sacrifice because of transgression. And it threw the truth down to the ground, and it worked and prospered. ¹³ Then I heard a certain holy one speaking, and another holy one said to that one who spoke, Until when is the vision, the regular sacrifice and the desolating transgression, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trampled? ¹⁴ And he said to me, For two thousand, three hundred evenings and mornings, then the sanctuary will be vindicated. ¹⁵ And it happened when I, Daniel, had seen the vision, then I sought the meaning. And, behold, the form of a man stood before me. ¹⁶ And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai, and he called and said, Gabriel, make this one understand the vision. ¹⁷ And he came beside my place. And when he came, I feared and fell on my face. But he said to me, O son of man, understand, for the vision is for the time of the end. ¹⁸ And while he was speaking with me, I was stunned and on my face toward the ground. But he touched me and made me stand. ¹⁹ And he said, Behold, I will make you know what shall happen in the last end of the indignation. For it is for the time appointed for the end. ²⁰ The ram which you saw with two horns are the kings of Media and Persia. ²¹ And the shaggy goat is the king of Greece. And the great horn between his eyes is the first king. ²² And as for that which was broken, and four stood up in its place, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in its power. ²³ And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have come to the full, a king, strong of face and skilled at intrigues, shall stand up. ²⁴ And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power. And he shall destroy wondrously, and he shall prosper, and work, and destroy the mighty, and the holy people. ²⁵ And also through his skill he will make deceit succeed in his land. And he will lift himself up in his heart, and be at ease; he shall destroy many. He shall also stand up against the Ruler of rulers, but he shall be broken without a hand. ²⁶ And the morning and evening vision that was told is true. But you shall shut up the vision, for it shall be for many days. ²⁷ And I, Daniel, was faint. And I was sick for days. Afterwards, I got up and did the king's business. And I was amazed at the vision. But there was no understanding.

¹ But concerning the spiritual things, brothers, I do not wish you to be ignorant. ² You know that being led away, you nations were led to dumb idols. ³ Because of this I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, Jesus is a curse. And no one is able to say Jesus is Lord, except by the Holy Spirit. ⁴ And there are differences of gifts, but the same Spirit; ⁵ and there are differences of ministries, yet the same Lord. ⁶ And there are differences of workings, but the same God is working all things in all. ⁷ And to each one is given the showing forth of the Spirit to our profit. ⁸ For through the Spirit is given to one a word of wisdom, and to another a word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit; ⁹ and to another, faith by the same Spirit, and to another, gifts of healing by the same Spirit, ¹⁰ and to another, workings of powers, and to another, prophecy, and to another, discerning of spirits, and to another, kinds of languages, and to another, interpretation of languages. ¹¹ But the one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing separately to each as He wills. ¹² Even as the body is one, and has many members, but all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. ¹³ For also we all were baptized by one Spirit into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, even all were given to drink into one Spirit. ¹⁴ For also the body is not one member, but many. ¹⁵ If the foot says, Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body, on account of this, is it not of the body? ¹⁶ And if the ear says, Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body, on account of this, is it not of the body? ¹⁷ If all the body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If all hearing, where the smelling? ¹⁸ But now God set the members, each one of them, in the body, even as He desired. ¹⁹ But if all was one member, where would the body be ? ²⁰ But now, indeed, many are the members, but one body. ²¹ And the eye is not able to say to the hand, I have no need of you; or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. ²² But much rather the members of the body seeming to be weaker are necessary. ²³ And those of the body we think to be less honorable, to these we put more abundant honor around them . And our unpresentable members have more abundant propriety. ²⁴ But our presentable members have no need. But God tempered the body together, giving more abundant honor to the member having need, ²⁵ that there not be division in the body, but that the members might have the same care for one another. ²⁶ And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it . If one member is glorified, all the members rejoice with it . ²⁷ And you are Christ's body, and members in part. ²⁸ And God placed some in the church: firstly apostles; secondly, prophets; thirdly, teachers; then works of power; then gifts of healing, helps, governings, kinds of languages. ²⁹ Are all apostles? All prophets? All teachers? All workers of power? ³⁰ Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak languages? Do all interpret? ³¹ But zealously strive after the better gifts. And yet I show you a way according to excellence:

⁴³ And as you saw the iron mixed with the clay of the clay, they shall be mixed with the seed of men. But they shall not adhere to one another, even as iron does not mix with clay.

¹ And at that time, Michael shall stand up, the great ruler who stands for the sons of your people. And there shall be a time of distress, such as has not been from the existence of a nation until that time. And at that time, your people shall be delivered, everyone that shall be found written in the Book. ² And many of those sleeping in the earth's dust shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to reproaches and to everlasting abhorrence. ³ And those who are wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and those turning many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever. ⁴ But you, O Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, to the end time. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. ⁵ And I, Daniel, looked. And, behold! Another two stood there, the one on this side, and one on that side of the river's edge. ⁶ And one said to the man clothed in linen, who was on the waters of the river, Until when is the end of the wonders? ⁷ And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was on the waters of the river, when he held up his right and his left hand to the heavens and swore by Him who lives forever, that it shall be for a time, times, and a half. And when they have made an end of scattering the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished. ⁸ And I heard, but I did not understand. And I said, O my lord, what shall be the end of these things ? ⁹ And He said, Go, Daniel! For the words are closed up and sealed until the end time. ¹⁰ Many shall be purified and made white and tested. But the wicked shall do wickedly. And not one of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand. ¹¹ And from the time the regular sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that desolates set up, a thousand, two hundred and ninety days shall occur . ¹² Blessed is he who waits and comes to the thousand, three hundred and thirty five days. ¹³ But you go on to the end, for you shall rest and stand for your lot at the end of the days.

¹³ Then I heard a certain holy one speaking, and another holy one said to that one who spoke, Until when is the vision, the regular sacrifice and the desolating transgression, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trampled? ¹⁴ And he said to me, For two thousand, three hundred evenings and mornings, then the sanctuary will be vindicated. ¹⁵ And it happened when I, Daniel, had seen the vision, then I sought the meaning. And, behold, the form of a man stood before me. ¹⁶ And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai, and he called and said, Gabriel, make this one understand the vision. ¹⁷ And he came beside my place. And when he came, I feared and fell on my face. But he said to me, O son of man, understand, for the vision is for the time of the end.

¹³ But the king of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty one days. But, lo, Michael, one of the first rulers, came to help me. And I stayed there with the kings of Persia. ¹⁴ Now I have come to make you understand what shall happen to your people in the latter days. For the vision is yet for many days. ¹⁵ And when he had spoken such words to me, I set my face to the ground, and I became speechless. ¹⁶ And, behold, one in form as the sons of men touched my lips. And I opened my mouth and spoke and said to him who stood before me, O lord, my pangs have come over me because of the vision, and I have no strength left. ¹⁷ For how can the servant of my lord speak this with this my lord? For as for me, there is no power left in me; yea, there is no breath left in me. ¹⁸ And again one in form as a man touched me and made me strong. ¹⁹ And he said, O man greatly beloved, do not fear. Peace to you. Be strong. Yea, be strong! And when he had spoken to me I was made strong. And I said, Speak, my lord, for you have made me strong. ²⁰ And he said, Do you know why I have come to you? And now I will return to fight with the ruler of Persia. And when I have gone out, then, lo, the ruler of Greece shall come. ²¹ But I will tell you what is written in the Scripture of Truth. And no one makes himself strong with Me in these things except Michael your ruler.

¹⁶ For where jealousy and contention are, there is confusion and every foul deed. ¹⁷ But the wisdom from above is firstly truly pure, then peaceable, forbearing, yielding, full of mercy and of good fruits, not partial and not pretended. ¹⁸ And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for the ones making peace.

¹ And it came about that men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them. ² The sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were good. And they took wives for themselves from all those whom they chose. ³ And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not always strive with man; in their erring he is flesh. And his days shall be a hundred and twenty years. ⁴ The giants were in the earth in those days, and even afterwards when the sons of God came into the daughters of men, and they bore to them; they were heroes which existed from ancient time, the men of name. ⁵ And Jehovah saw that the evil of man was great on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the day long. ⁶ And Jehovah repented that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved to His heart. ⁷ And Jehovah said, I will wipe off man whom I have created from the face of the earth, from man to beast, to the creeping thing and to the birds of the heavens; for I repent that I made them. ⁸ And Noah found grace in the eyes of Jehovah. ⁹ These are the generations of Noah. Noah, a righteous man, had been perfected among his family. Noah walked with God. ¹⁰ And Noah fathered three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. ¹¹ And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. ¹² And God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupted. For all flesh had corrupted its way on the earth. ¹³ And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. And behold, I will destroy them along with the earth. ¹⁴ Make an ark of cyprus timbers for yourself. You shall make rooms in the ark; and you shall cover it with asphalt inside and out. ¹⁵ And you shall make it this way: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. ¹⁶ You shall make a window in the ark, and you shall finish it above to a cubit. And you shall set the door of the ark in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third stories. ¹⁷ And behold, I, even I, am bringing a flood of waters on the earth in order to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from under the heavens. Everything which is on the earth shall die. ¹⁸ And I will establish My covenant with you. And you shall come into the ark, you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you. ¹⁹ And you shall bring into the ark two of every kind, of every living thing of all flesh, to keep alive with you; they shall be male and female; ²⁰ from the birds according to its kind, and from the cattle according to its kind, from every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind. Two from each shall come in to you to keep alive. ²¹ And take for yourself all food that is eaten, and gather to yourself. And let it be for you and for them for food. ²² And Noah did so, according to all that God commanded him, so he did.

³⁷ But as the days of Noah, so also will be the coming of the Son of man.

² Do not forget hospitality, for by this some unknowingly took in angels as guests.

¹² because we are not wrestling against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world's rulers, of the darkness of this age, against the spiritual powers of evil in the heavenlies.

¹ And it came about that men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them. ² The sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were good. And they took wives for themselves from all those whom they chose. ³ And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not always strive with man; in their erring he is flesh. And his days shall be a hundred and twenty years. ⁴ The giants were in the earth in those days, and even afterwards when the sons of God came into the daughters of men, and they bore to them; they were heroes which existed from ancient time, the men of name.

¹⁷ This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the command by the word of the holy ones, so that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men and gives it to whomever He will. And He sets up over it the lowest of men.

²³ And as the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from the heavens, and saying, Cut the tree down, and destroy it. Yet leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and bronze, in the grass of the field. And let him be wet with the dew of the heavens, and his portion be with the animals of the field, until seven times pass over him.

¹³ I was looking in the visions of my head on my bed. And, behold, a watcher, even a holy one, came down from the heaven