<p class="bodytext">These were the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king ruled over the Israelites:<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">He will pour the water out of his buckets,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and their descendants will be like abundant<n id="2" /> water;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">their king will be greater than Agag,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and their kingdom will be exalted.p>

<p class="poetry">He gives his chosen king magnificent victories;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he is faithful to his chosen ruler,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">to David and to his descendants forever!&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">He<n id="1" /> gives his chosen king magnificent victories;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">he is faithful<n id="3" /> to his chosen ruler,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">to David and his descendants<n id="5" /> forever.&#8221;<n id="6" />p>

<p class="poetry">They will return to Egypt!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Assyria will rule over them<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">because they refuse to repent!<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">These were the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king ruled over the Israelites:p> <p class="bodytext">Bela son of Beor; the name of his city was Dinhabah.p>

Now after you another kingdom<n id="1" /> will arise, one inferior to yours. Then a third kingdom, one of bronze, will rule in all the earth.

The king uttered these words: &#8220;Is this not the great Babylon that I have built for a royal residence<n id="1" /> by my own mighty strength<n id="2" /> and for my majestic honor?&#8221;

<p class="poetry">&#8220;This is what he told me:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;The fourth beast means that there will be a fourth kingdom on earthp> <p class="poetry">that will differ from all the other kingdoms.p> <p class="poetry">It will devour all the earthp> <p class="poetry">and will trample and crush it.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh<n id="1" /> day of the twelfth month,<n id="2" /> King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned<n id="3" /> King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him<n id="4" /> from prison.

In that you were seeing feet and toes<n id="1" /> partly of wet clay<n id="2" /> and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom. Some of the strength of iron will be in it, for you saw iron mixed with wet clay.<n id="3" />

In the days of those kings the God of heaven will raise up an everlasting kingdom that will not be destroyed and a kingdom that will not be left to another people. It will break in pieces and bring about the demise of all these kingdoms. But it will stand forever.

Indeed, I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land,&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc>, &#8220;but instead I will turn every last person over to his neighbor and his king. They will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from them.&#8221;p>