“Son of man, prophesy and say, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: “‘Wail, “Alas, the day is here!”

Then you will live in the land I gave to your fathers; you will be my people, and I will be your God.

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

and the altar hearth, 7 feet, and from the altar hearth four horns projecting upward.

“As for the rest of the tribes: From the east side to the west side, Benjamin will have one portion.

“Please test your servants for ten days by providing us with some vegetables to eat and water to drink.

Because of this the king got furiously angry and gave orders to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

Now if you are ready, when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, trigon, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music, you must bow down and pay homage to the statue that I had made. If you don’t pay homage to it, you will immediately be thrown into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire. Now, who is that god who can rescue you from my power?”

this is the interpretation, O king! It is the decision of the Most High that this has happened to my lord the king.

How awful that day will be! For the day of the Lord is near; it will come as destruction from the Divine Destroyer.

The Israelites turn justice into bitterness; they throw what is fair and right to the ground.

The chariot drivers will crack their whips; the chariot wheels will shake the ground; the chariot horses will gallop; the war chariots will bolt forward!

All of them intend to do violence; every face is determined. They take prisoners as easily as one scoops up sand.

And people will settle there, and there will no longer be the threat of divine extermination – Jerusalem will dwell in security.

Then the devil took him to the holy city, had him stand on the highest point of the temple,

Let your word be ‘Yes, yes’ or ‘No, no.’ More than this is from the evil one.

Give to the one who asks you, and do not reject the one who wants to borrow from you.

“The eye is the lamp of the body. If then your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.

“To what should I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to one another,

But on Herod’s birthday, the daughter of Herodias danced before them and pleased Herod,