2 Timothy 4:3

4:3 For there will be a time when people ¹  will not tolerate sound teaching. Instead, following their own desires, ²  they will accumulate teachers for themselves, because they have an insatiable curiosity to hear new things. ³ 

Genesis 49:1

The Blessing of Jacob

49:1 Jacob called for his sons and said, “Gather together so I can tell you ⁴  what will happen to you in the future. ⁵ 

Isaiah 2:2

2:2 In the future ⁶ 

the mountain of the Lord’s temple will endure ⁷ 

as the most important of mountains,

and will be the most prominent of hills. ⁸ 

All the nations will stream to it,

Jeremiah 48:47

48:47 Yet in days to come

I will reverse Moab’s ill fortune.” ⁹ 

says the Lord. ¹⁰ 

The judgment against Moab ends here.

Jeremiah 49:39

49:39 “Yet in days to come

I will reverse Elam’s ill fortune.” ¹¹ 

says the Lord. ¹² 

Ezekiel 38:16

38:16 You will advance ¹³  against my people Israel like a cloud covering the earth. In the latter days I will bring you against my land so that the nations may acknowledge me, when before their eyes I magnify myself ¹⁴  through you, O Gog.

Daniel 10:14

10:14 Now I have come to help you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision pertains to future days.”

Hosea 3:5

3:5 Afterward, the Israelites will turn and seek the Lord their God and their Davidic king. ¹⁵  Then they will submit to the Lord in fear and receive his blessings ¹⁶  in the future. ¹⁷ 

Micah 4:1

Better Days Ahead for Jerusalem

4:1 In the future ¹⁸  the Lord’s Temple Mount will be the most important mountain of all; ¹⁹ 

it will be more prominent than other hills. ²⁰ 

People will stream to it.

Micah 4:1

Better Days Ahead for Jerusalem

4:1 In the future ²¹  the Lord’s Temple Mount will be the most important mountain of all; ²² 

it will be more prominent than other hills. ²³ 

People will stream to it.

Micah 4:1-2

Better Days Ahead for Jerusalem

4:1 In the future ²⁴  the Lord’s Temple Mount will be the most important mountain of all; ²⁵ 

it will be more prominent than other hills. ²⁶ 

People will stream to it.

4:2 Many nations will come, saying,

“Come on! Let’s go up to the Lord’s mountain,

to the temple ²⁷  of Jacob’s God,

so he can teach us his commands ²⁸ 

and we can live by his laws.” ²⁹ 

For Zion will be the source of instruction;

the Lord’s teachings will proceed from Jerusalem. ³⁰ 

Micah 3:3

3:3 You ³¹  devour my people’s flesh,

strip off their skin,

and crush their bones.

You chop them up like flesh in a pot ³²  –

like meat in a kettle.

Micah 3:1

God Will Judge Judah’s Sinful Leaders

3:1 I said,

“Listen, you leaders ³³  of Jacob,

you rulers of the nation ³⁴  of Israel!

You ought to know what is just, ³⁵ 

Micah 2:1

Land Robbers Will Lose their Land

2:1 Those who devise sinful plans are as good as dead, ³⁶ 

those who dream about doing evil as they lie in bed. ³⁷ 

As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, ³⁸ 

because they have the power to do so.

Jude 1:17

Exhortation to the Faithful

1:17 But you, dear friends – recall the predictions ³⁹  foretold by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁴⁰ 

[4:3]  ¹ tn Grk “they”; the referent (the people in that future time) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[4:3]  ² tn Grk “in accord with.”

[4:3]  ³ tn Grk “having an itching in regard to hearing,” “having itching ears.”

[49:1]  ⁴ tn After the imperative, the cohortative with prefixed vav (ו) indicates purpose/result.

[49:1]  ⁵ tn The expression “in the future” (אַחֲרִית הַיָּמִים, ’akharit hayyamim, “in the end of days”) is found most frequently in prophetic passages; it may refer to the end of the age, the eschaton, or to the distant future. The contents of some of the sayings in this chapter stretch from the immediate circumstances to the time of the settlement in the land to the coming of Messiah. There is a great deal of literature on this chapter, including among others C. Armerding, “The Last Words of Jacob: Genesis 49,” BSac 112 (1955): 320-28; H. Pehlke, “An Exegetical and Theological Study of Genesis 49:1-28” (Th.D. dissertation, Dallas Theological Seminary, 1985); and B. Vawter, “The Canaanite Background of Genesis 49,” CBQ 17 (1955): 1-18.

[2:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “in the end of the days.” This phrase may refer generally to the future, or more technically to the final period of history. See BDB 31 s.v. ַאחֲרִית. The verse begins with a verb that functions as a “discourse particle” and is not translated. In numerous places throughout the OT, the “to be” verb with a prefixed conjunction (וְהָיָה [vÿhayah] and וַיְהִי [vayÿhi]) occurs in this fashion to introduce a circumstantial clause and does not require translation.

[2:2]  ⁷ tn Or “be established” (KJV, NIV, NRSV).

[2:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “as the chief of the mountains, and will be lifted up above the hills.” The image of Mount Zion being elevated above other mountains and hills pictures the prominence it will attain in the future.

[48:47]  ⁹ tn See 29:14; 30:3 and the translator’s note on 29:14 for the idiom used here.

[48:47]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[49:39]  ¹¹ tn See Jer 29:14; 30:3 and the translator’s note on 29:14 for the idiom used here.

[49:39]  ¹² tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[38:16]  ¹³ tn Heb “come up.”

[38:16]  ¹⁴ tn Or “reveal my holiness.”

[3:5]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “David their king”; cf. NCV “the king from David’s family”; TEV “a descendant of David their king”; NLT “David’s descendant, their king.”

[3:5]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “his goodness”; NLT “his good gifts.”

[3:5]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “in the end of the days.” Cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NCV, NLT “in the last days.”

[4:1]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “at the end of days.”

[4:1]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “will be established as the head of the mountains.”

[4:1]  ²⁰ tn Heb “it will be lifted up above the hills.”

[4:1]  ²¹ tn Heb “at the end of days.”

[4:1]  ²² tn Heb “will be established as the head of the mountains.”

[4:1]  ²³ tn Heb “it will be lifted up above the hills.”

[4:1]  ²⁴ tn Heb “at the end of days.”

[4:1]  ²⁵ tn Heb “will be established as the head of the mountains.”

[4:1]  ²⁶ tn Heb “it will be lifted up above the hills.”

[4:2]  ²⁷ tn Heb “house.”

[4:2]  ²⁸ tn Heb “ways.”

[4:2]  ²⁹ tn Heb “and we can walk in his paths.”

[4:2]  ³⁰ tn Heb “instruction [or, “law”] will go out from Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.”

[3:3]  ³¹ tn Heb “who.”

[3:3]  ³² tc The MT reads “and they chop up as in a pot.” The translation assumes an emendation of כַּאֲשֶׁר (ka’asher, “as”) to כִּשְׁאֵר (kish’er, “like flesh”).

[3:1]  ³³ tn Heb “heads.”

[3:1]  ³⁴ tn Heb “house.”

[3:1]  ³⁵ tn Heb “Should you not know justice?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course you should!”

[2:1]  ³⁶ tn Heb “Woe to those who plan sin.” The Hebrew term הוֹי (hoy, “woe”; “ah”) was a cry used in mourning the dead.

[2:1]  ³⁷ tn Heb “those who do evil upon their beds.”

[2:1]  ³⁸ tn Heb “at the light of morning they do it.”

[1:17]  ³⁹ tn Grk “words.” In conjunction with προεῖπον (proeipon), however, the meaning of the construction is that the apostles uttered prophecies.

[1:17]  ⁴⁰ sn This verse parallels 2 Pet 3:2 both conceptually and in much of the verbiage. There is one important difference, however: In 2 Pet 3:2 the prophets and apostles speak; here, just the apostles speak. This makes good sense if Jude is using 2 Peter as his main source and is urging his readers to go back to the authoritative writings, both OT and now especially NT.