<p class="poetry"><sc>Lordsc>, be merciful to us! We wait for you.p> <p class="poetry">Give us strength each morning!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Deliver us when distress comes.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">He is your constant source of stability;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he abundantly provides safety and great wisdom;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">he gives all this to those who fear him.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">The least of you will multiply into<n id="1" /> a thousand;p> <p class="poetry">the smallest of you will become a large nation.p> <p class="poetry">When the right time comes, I the <sc>Lordsc> will quickly do this!&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">You have brought all this on yourself, Israel,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">by deserting the <sc>Lordsc> your God when he was leading you along the right path.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">You have been the object of Israel&#8217;s hopes.p> <p class="poetry">You have saved them when they were in trouble.p> <p class="poetry">Why have you become like a resident foreigner<n id="1" /> in the land?p> <p class="poetry">Why have you become like a traveler who only stops in to spend the night?p>

In those days and at that time I will raise up for them a righteous descendant<n id="1" /> of David.p> <p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;He will do what is just and right in the land.

<p class="poetry">Kill all her soldiers!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Let them be slaughtered!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">They are doomed,<n id="3" /> for their day of reckoning<n id="4" /> has come,p> <p class="poetry">the time for them to be punished.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Listen! I am opposed to you, you proud city,&#8221;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">says the Lord <sc>Godsc> who rules over all.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Indeed,<n id="3" /> your day of reckoning<n id="4" /> has come,p> <p class="poetry">the time when I will punish you.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">Now you are wrecked by the seas, in the depths of the waters;p> <p class="poetry">your merchandise and all your company have sunk<n id="1" /> along with you.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">For the day is near,p> <p class="poetry">the day of the <sc>Lordsc> is near;p> <p class="poetry">it will be a day of storm clouds,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">it will be a time of judgment<n id="2" /> for the nations.p>

I will turn them and the regions around my hill into a blessing. I will make showers come down in their season; they will be showers that bring blessing.<n id="1" />

He said, &#8220;Go, Daniel. For these matters are closed and sealed until the time of the end.

From the time that the daily sacrifice is removed and the abomination that causes desolation is set in place,<n id="1" /> there are 1,290 days.

<t /><p class="poetry"><v id="(4:1)" /><n id="1" /> For look! In those<n id="2" /> days and at that timep> <p class="poetry">I will return the exiles<n id="3" /> to Judah and Jerusalem.<n id="4" />p>

&#8220;Is it right for you to live in richly paneled houses<n id="1" /> while my temple is in ruins?<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">In the spring, at the time when kings normally conduct wars,<n id="1" /> Joab led the army into battle and devastated the land of the Ammonites. He went and besieged Rabbah, while David stayed in Jerusalem. Joab defeated Rabbah and tore it down.

&#8220;Don&#8217;t imagine that because you are part of the king&#8217;s household you will be the one Jew<n id="1" /> who will escape. If you keep quiet at this time, liberation and protection for the Jews will appear<n id="2" /> from another source,<n id="3" /> while you and your father&#8217;s household perish. It may very well be<n id="4" /> that you have achieved royal status<n id="5" /> for such a time as this!&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">Surely, no one<n id="1" /> knows his appointed time!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Like fish that are caught in a deadly<n id="3" /> net, and like birds that are caught in a snare &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">just like them, all people<n id="4" /> are ensnared<n id="5" /> at an unfortunate<n id="6" /> time that falls upon them suddenly.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Then I passed by you and watched you, noticing<n id="1" /> that you had reached the age for love.<n id="2" /> I spread my cloak<n id="3" /> over you and covered your nakedness. I swore a solemn oath to you and entered into a marriage covenant with you, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>, and you became mine.p>

<p class="poetry">At that time I will lead you &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">at the time I gather you together.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Be sure of this!<n id="2" /> I will make all the nations of the earth respect and admire you<n id="3" />p> <p class="bodytext">when you see me restore you,&#8221;<n id="4" /> says the <sc>Lordsc>.p>