The officials of Succoth said, “You have not yet overpowered Zebah and Zalmunna. So why should we give bread to your army?”

Manoah said, “Now, when your announcement comes true, how should the child be raised and what should he do?”

“So now, take your positions and watch this great thing that the Lord is about to do in your sight.

Realize now that the Lord has chosen you to build a temple as his sanctuary. Be strong and do it!”

“Now, my God, may you be attentive and responsive to the prayers offered in this place.

Now I will be attentive and responsive to the prayers offered in this place.

Now I intend to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, so that he may relent from his raging anger.

But because it is heavier than the sand of the sea, that is why my words have been wild.

if you become pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself for you, and will restore your righteous abode.

Wild dogs will yip in her ruined fortresses, jackals will yelp in the once-splendid palaces. Her time is almost up, her days will not be prolonged.

Now they come into being, not in the past; before today you did not hear about them, so you could not say, ‘Yes, I know about them.’

Yes, your land lies in ruins; it is desolate and devastated. But now you will be too small to hold your residents, and those who devoured you will be far away.

No, a wind too strong for that will come at my bidding. Yes, even now I, myself, am calling down judgment on them.’

Now the coastlands will tremble on the day of your fall; the coastlands by the sea will be terrified by your passing.’

Now they must put away their spiritual prostitution and the pillars of their kings far from me, and then I will live among them forever.

He spoke with me, instructing me as follows: “Daniel, I have now come to impart understanding to you.

Israel has rebelled like a stubborn heifer! Soon the Lord will put them out to pasture like a lamb in a broad field!

They have committed treason against the Lord, because they bore illegitimate children. Soon the new moon festival will devour them and their fields.

They do not realize that I remember all of their wicked deeds. Their evil deeds have now surrounded them; their sinful deeds are always before me.

Israel will be swallowed up among the nations; they will be like a worthless piece of pottery.