Then he said, “I am going to inform you about what will happen in the latter time of wrath, for the vision pertains to the appointed time of the end.

After these things happened, the cupbearer to the king of Egypt and the royal baker offended their master, the king of Egypt.

The Israelites regretted what had happened to their brother Benjamin. They said, “Today we cut off an entire tribe from Israel!

Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, wrote down what happened. Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was in charge of the records.

I said, “During the night I will remember the song I once sang; I will think very carefully.” I tried to make sense of what was happening.

So Moab wails over its demise – they all wail! Completely devastated, they moan about what has happened to the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth.

They howl in the streets because of what happened to the wine; all joy turns to sorrow; celebrations disappear from the earth.

All this will happen because the Lord said, “The whole land will be desolate; however, I will not completely destroy it.

The prophets will prove to be full of wind. The Lord has not spoken through them. So, let what they say happen to them.’”

Listen to what they are saying to me. They are saying, “Where are the things the Lord threatens us with? Come on! Let’s see them happen!”

But if you refuse to surrender, the Lord has shown me a vision of what will happen. Here is what I saw:

Indeed, the residents of Maroth hope for something good to happen, though the Lord has sent disaster against the city of Jerusalem.

At that time those who live on this coast will say, ‘Look what has happened to our source of hope to whom we fled for help, expecting to be rescued from the king of Assyria! How can we escape now?’”

After threatening them further, they released them, for they could not find how to punish them on account of the people, because they were all praising God for what had happened.

saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go in front of us, for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt – we do not know what has happened to him!’

After Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines happened to look out a window and observed Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.

He said, “I will reject them, I will see what will happen to them; for they are a perverse generation, children who show no loyalty.

This happened because of the sins which Jeroboam committed and which he made Israel commit. These sins angered the Lord God of Israel.

So it happened that the Jews who were living near them came and warned us repeatedly about all the schemes they were plotting against us.

So I loathed life because what happens on earth seems awful to me; for all the benefits of wisdom are futile – like chasing the wind.