For her blood was in it; she poured it on an exposed rock; she did not pour it on the ground to cover it up with dust.

They will fall among those killed by the sword. The sword is drawn; they carry her and all her hordes away.

Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate. He measured the south gate; it had the same dimensions as the others.

“For seven days you will provide every day a goat for a sin offering; a young bull and a ram from the flock, both without blemish, will be provided.

The allotment you set apart to the Lord will be eight and a quarter miles in length and three and one-third miles in width.

But if you can disclose the dream and its interpretation, you will receive from me gifts, a reward, and considerable honor. So disclose to me the dream and its interpretation!”

Daniel replied to the king, “The mystery that the king is asking about is such that no wise men, astrologers, magicians, or diviners can possibly disclose it to the king.

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!