You engaged in prostitution with the Egyptians, your sexually aroused neighbors, multiplying your promiscuity and provoking me to anger.

“For this is what the sovereign Lord says: Bring up an army against them and subject them to terror and plunder.

It has tried my patience; yet its thick rot is not removed from it. Subject its rot to the fire!

This is what the sovereign Lord says: The enemy has spoken against you, saying “Aha!” and, “The ancient heights have become our property!”’

“‘I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries; then I will bring you to your land.

When your people say to you, ‘Will you not tell us what these things mean?’

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

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

Then the herald made a loud proclamation: “To you, O peoples, nations, and language groups, the following command is given:

Then King Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and language groups who were living in all the land: “Peace and prosperity!

O LORD, we have been humiliated – our kings, our leaders, and our ancestors – because we have sinned against you.

The businessmen love to cheat; they use dishonest scales.

When Ephraim spoke, there was terror; he was exalted in Israel, but he became guilty by worshiping Baal and died.

They charge like warriors; they scale walls like soldiers. Each one proceeds on his course; they do not alter their path.

In all the vineyards there will be wailing, for I will pass through your midst,” says the Lord.

Don’t spread the news in Gath! Don’t shed even a single tear! In Beth Leaphrah sit in the dust!

I will remove the sorcery that you practice, and you will no longer have omen readers living among you.

You too will act like drunkards; you will go into hiding; you too will seek refuge from the enemy.

You are bound for judgment because you are robbing me – this whole nation is guilty.

The herdsmen ran off, went into the town, and told everything that had happened to the demon-possessed men.