The people of the land executed all who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.

On the twenty-fourth day of this same month the Israelites assembled; they were fasting and wearing sackcloth, their heads covered with dust.

Let its morning stars be darkened; let it wait for daylight but find none, nor let it see the first rays of dawn,

For he is our God; we are the people of his pasture, the sheep he owns. Today, if only you would obey him!

They surrounded me like bees. But they disappeared as quickly as a fire among thorns. Indeed, in the name of the Lord I pushed them away.

The Lord made a reliable promise to David; he will not go back on his word. He said, “I will place one of your descendants on your throne.

They say, “Let’s attack Judah, terrorize it, and conquer it. Then we’ll set up the son of Tabeel as its king.”

For evil burned like a fire, it consumed thorns and briers; it burned up the thickets of the forest, and they went up in smoke.

The splendor of his forest and his orchard will be completely destroyed, as when a sick man’s life ebbs away.

On every high mountain and every high hill there will be streams flowing with water, at the time of great slaughter when the fortified towers collapse.

(just as many were horrified by the sight of you) he was so disfigured he no longer looked like a man;

I was angry because of their sinful greed; I attacked them and angrily rejected them, yet they remained disobedient and stubborn.

For I solemnly warned your ancestors to obey me. I warned them again and again, ever since I delivered them out of Egypt until this very day.

not to many peoples of unintelligible speech and difficult language, whose words you cannot understand – surely if I had sent you to them, they would listen to you!

Then a wind lifted me up and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me as the glory of the Lord rose from its place,

I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again because of all your abominable practices.

In the four corners of the court were small courts, 70 feet in length and 52½ feet in width; the four were all the same size.

But the overseer of the court officials renamed them. He gave Daniel the name Belteshazzar, Hananiah he named Shadrach, Mishael he named Meshach, and Azariah he named Abednego.

As for the rest of the beasts, their ruling authority had already been removed, though they were permitted to go on living for a time and a season.

No one brings grain offerings or drink offerings to the temple of the Lord anymore. So the priests, those who serve the Lord, are in mourning.