So I told the exiles everything the Lord had shown me.

The inhabited towns will be left in ruins and the land will be devastated. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

I will make the land desolate because they have acted unfaithfully, declares the sovereign Lord.”

For I take no delight in the death of anyone, declares the sovereign Lord. Repent and live!

So I have poured my anger on them, and destroyed them with the fire of my fury. I hereby repay them for what they have done, declares the sovereign Lord.”

They will repay you for your obscene conduct, and you will be punished for idol worship. Then you will know that I am the sovereign Lord.”

To arouse anger, to take vengeance, I have placed her blood on an exposed rock so that it cannot be covered up.

and her daughters who are in the field will be slaughtered by the sword. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

All who know you among the peoples are shocked at you; you have become terrified and will be no more.’”

Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all the foreigners, Libya, and the people of the covenant land will die by the sword along with them.

Yet you say, ‘The behavior of the Lord is not right.’ House of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his behavior.”

And you, my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are my people, and I am your God, declares the sovereign Lord.’”

Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of the temple, all of its service and all that will be done in it.

The priests will not eat any bird or animal that has died a natural death or was torn to pieces by a wild animal.

Thus they will provide the lamb, the grain offering, and the olive oil morning by morning, as a perpetual burnt offering.

This is the land which you will allot to the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions, declares the sovereign Lord.

So Daniel went in and requested the king to grant him time, that he might disclose the interpretation to the king.

Then Nebuchadnezzar promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the province of Babylon.

So this Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

But the wise will shine like the brightness of the heavenly expanse. And those bringing many to righteousness will be like the stars forever and ever.