He entered Jerusalem in the fifth month of the seventh year of the king.

Are your days like the days of a mortal, or your years like the years of a mortal,

For the years that lie ahead are few, and then I will go on the way of no return.

I said to myself, ‘Age should speak, and length of years should make wisdom known.’

If they obey and serve him, they live out their days in prosperity and their years in pleasantness.

You crown the year with your good blessings, and you leave abundance in your wake.

Then I said, “I am sickened by the thought that the sovereign One might become inactive.

for they will provide a long and full life, and they will add well-being to you.

Listen, my child, and accept my words, so that the years of your life will be many.

For because of me your days will be many, and years will be added to your life.

Fearing the Lord prolongs life, but the life span of the wicked will be shortened.

In the year King Ahaz died, this message was revealed:

For the Lord has planned a day of revenge, a time when he will repay Edom for her hostility toward Zion.

For I looked forward to the day of vengeance, and then payback time arrived.

In the seventh month of that very same year the prophet Hananiah died.

(On the fifth day of the month – it was the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s exile –

Now Daniel lived on until the first year of Cyrus the king.

This was my lot for twenty years in your house: I worked like a slave for you – fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, but you changed my wages ten times!

According to the number of the days you have investigated this land, forty days – one day for a year – you will suffer for your iniquities, forty years, and you will know what it means to thwart me.

During David’s reign there was a famine for three consecutive years. So David inquired of the Lord. The Lord said, “It is because of Saul and his bloodstained family, because he murdered the Gibeonites.”