“Yet your people say, ‘The behavior of the Lord is not right,’ when it is their behavior that is not right.

My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.

They may eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, and every devoted thing in Israel will be theirs.

The king told them, “I have had a dream, and I am anxious to understand the dream.”

In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three whole weeks.

I will have no pity on her children, because they are children conceived in adultery.

Although they bring their flocks and herds to seek the favor of the Lord, They will not find him – he has withdrawn himself from them!

Then I will return again to my lair until they have suffered their punishment. Then they will seek me; in their distress they will earnestly seek me.

They have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey that wanders off. Ephraim has hired prostitutes as lovers.

Even on male and female servants I will pour out my Spirit in those days.

(4:1) For look! In those days and at that time I will return the exiles to Judah and Jerusalem.

They sing to the tune of stringed instruments; like David they invent musical instruments.

But they do not know what the Lord is planning; they do not understand his strategy. He has gathered them like stalks of grain to be threshed at the threshing floor.

Nineveh was like a pool of water throughout her days, but now her people are running away; she cries out: “Stop! Stop!” – but no one turns back.

Because of his success he offers sacrifices to his throw net and burns incense to his dragnet; for because of them he has plenty of food, and more than enough to eat.

This is how they will be repaid for their arrogance, for they taunted and verbally harassed the people of the Lord who commands armies.

I asked the messenger who was speaking to me, “Where are they taking the basket?”

Then the Lord will go to battle and fight against those nations, just as he fought battles in ancient days.

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days (and also after this) when the sons of God were having sexual relations with the daughters of humankind, who gave birth to their children. They were the mighty heroes of old, the famous men.

But appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, over all its furnishings and over everything in it. They must carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; and they must attend to it and camp around it.