When the magicians, astrologers, wise men, and diviners entered, I recounted the dream for them. But they were unable to make known its interpretation to me.

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.”

Does a lion roar in the woods if he has not cornered his prey? Does a young lion bellow from his den if he has not caught something?

“The virgin Israel has fallen down and will not get up again. She is abandoned on her own land with no one to help her get up.”

Even if they could dig down into the netherworld, my hand would pull them up from there. Even if they could climb up to heaven, I would drag them down from there.

I will plant them on their land and they will never again be uprooted from the land I have given them,” says the Lord your God.

With what should I enter the Lord’s presence? With what should I bow before the sovereign God? Should I enter his presence with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?

Nineveh is taken into exile and is led away; her slave girls moan like doves while they beat their breasts.

Destruction, devastation, and desolation! Their hearts faint, their knees tremble, each stomach churns, each face turns pale!

I asked, “What is it?” And he replied, “It is a basket for measuring grain that is moving away from here.” Moreover, he said, “This is their ‘eye’ throughout all the earth.”

The chariot with the black horses is going to the north country and the white ones are going after them, but the spotted ones are going to the south country.

The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed; it was utterly destroyed!”

Then his lord called the first slave and said to him, ‘Evil slave! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me!

“For it is like a man going on a journey, who summoned his slaves and entrusted his property to them.

To one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey.

Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A slave girl came to him and said, “You also were with Jesus the Galilean.”

So he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis what Jesus had done for him, and all were amazed.

Then the woman, with fear and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before him and told him the whole truth.

He was not able to do a miracle there, except to lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them.

They all ate and were satisfied,