delay not, O my God, for thine own sake: for thy name is called upon thy city and upon thy people. 21 + week my sacrifice and drink-offering shall be taken away and on the temple shall be the abomination of desolations; and at the end of the time an end shall be put to the desolation. 10. In the third year of Cyrus king of the Persians a thing was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Baltasar; and the thing was true, and great power and understanding in the vision was given to him. 2 In those days I Daniel was mourning three *full weeks. 3 I ate no pleasant bread, and no flesh or wine of days. entered into my mouth, neither did I anoint myself with oil, until three whole weeks were accom- + Gr. weeks plished. 4 On the twenty- of days. + + Gr. weeks 20 And while I was yet speaking, and praying, and confessing my sins and the sins of my people Israel, and bringing my pitiful case before the Lord my God concerning the holy mountain; yea, while I was yet speaking in prayer, behold the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, came flying, and he touched me about the hour of the evening sacrifice. 22 And he instructed me, and spoke with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to imGr. instruct part to thee understanding. thee with. 23 At the beginning of thy supplication the word came forth, and I am come to tell thee; for thou art a man much beloved: therefore consider fourth day of the first month, I was the matter, understand the vision. near the great river, which is Tigris 24 Seventy weeks have been determined Eddekel. And I lifted up mine eyes, upon thy people, and upon the holy and looked, and behold a man clothed city, for sin to be ended, and to seal in linen, and his loins + Gr. Baddiv. up transgressions, and to blot out were girt with gold of Ophaz: and + Gr. sins. iniquities, and to make atone- his body was as Tharsis, or, as beryl. ment for iniquities, and to bring in ever- and his face was as the appearance of lasting righteousness, and to seal the lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, vision and the prophet, and to anoint and his arms and his legs as the the Most Holy. 25 And thou shalt pearance of shining brass, and the voice know and understand, that from the of his words as the voice of a multigoing forth of the command for the tude. "And I Daniel only saw the answer and for the building of Jeru- vision: and the men that were with salem until Christ the prince there me saw not the vision; but a great + Or, sevens. shall be seven weeks, and amazement fell upon them, and they sixty-two weeks: and then the time fled in fear. So I was left alone, and shall return, and the street shall be saw this great vision, and there was no built, and the wall, and the times shall strength left in me, and my glory was be exhausted. 26 And after the sixty- turned into corruption, and I re+ Gr. chrism, two weeks, the anointed tained no strength. 9 Yet I heard or, anointing. one shall be destroyed, and the voice of his words and when there is no judgment in him: and he I heard him I was pricked in the shall destroy the city and the sanctuary heart, and I fell with my face to the with the prince that is coming: they earth. shall be cut off with a flood, and to 10 And, behold, a hand touched me, the end of the war which is rapidly and it raised me on my knees. "And completed he shall appoint the city he said to me, O Daniel, man greatly to desolations. 27 And one week shall beloved, understand the words which + Gr. half. establish the covenant with I speak to thee, and stand upright: + midst of the for I am now sent to thee. And when many: + and in the + ap he had spoken to me this word, I stood trembling. 12And he said to me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to afflict thyself before the Lord thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come because of thy words. 13 But the prince of the kingdom of the Persians withstood me twenty-one days: and behold, Michael, one of the princes, came to help me; and I left him there with the chief of the kingdom of the Persians: 14 and I have come to inform thee of all that shall befall thy people in the last days: for the vision is yet for many days. 15 And when he had spoken with me according to these words, I turned my face to the ground, and was pricked in the heart. 16 And, behold, as it were the likeness of a son of man touched my lips; and I opened my mouth, and spoke, and said to him that stood before me, O my lord, at the sight of thee my bowels were turned within me, and I had no strength. And how shall thy servant be able, O my lord, to speak with this my lord? and as for me, from henceforth strength will not remain in me, and there is no breath left in me. 18 And there touched me again as it were the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me, 19and said to me, Fear not, man greatly beloved: peace be to thee, quit thyself like a man, and be strong. And when he had spoken with me, I received strength, and said, Let my lord speak; for thou hast strengthened me. And he said, Knowest thou, wherefore I am come to thee? and now I will return to fight with the prince of the Persians and I was going in, and the prince of the Greeks came. But I will tell thee that which is ordained in the scripture of truth: and there is no one that holds with me in these matters but Michael your prince. : 20 21 2 6 strength and 3 See Ps. 37. (36) stood to strengthen and confirm him. And now I will tell + Gr. for thee the truth. Behold, there power. shall yet rise up three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be very far richer than all: and after that he is master of his wealth, he shall rise up against all the kingdoms of the Greeks. And there shall rise up a mighty king, and he shall be lord of a great empire, and shall do according to his will. And when his kingdom shall stand up, it shall be broken, and shall be divided to the four winds of heaven; but not to his posterity, nor ac- + Gr. more cording to his dominion lit. latter end. which he ruled over: for 37, 38. his kingdom shall be plucked up, and given to others besides these. And the king of the south shall be strong; and one of their princes shall prevail against him, and shall obtain a great dominion. And after his years they shall associate; and the daughter of the king of the south shall come to the king of the north, to make agreements with him: but she shall not retain power of arm; neither shall his * seed stand: and she shall be de- in ‘arm,' livered up, and they that easy for brought her, and the maiden, seed.” and he that strengthened her in these times. But out of the flower of her root there shall arise one on his 'place, and shall come against the Alex. + ènì. host, and shall enter into for, standing, the strongholds of the king tion. of the north, and shall fight against them, and prevail. Yea, he shall carry with a body of captives into Egypt their gods with their molten images, and all their precious vessels of silver and gold; and he shall last longer than the king of the north. And he shall enter into the kingdom of the king of the south, and shall return to his own land. 10 And his sons shall gather a multitude among many: and one shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through, and he shall rest, taken y lit. prepara 11. And I in the first year of Cyrus and collect his strength. "And the king of the south shall be greatly en-days shall he be broken, yet not raged, and shall come forth, and shall openly, nor in war. 21One Gr. lit. in war with the king of the north: and shall stand on his place, faces. + Lit. pests. Alex. not stand. + + he shall raise a great multitude; but who has been set at nought, and they the multitude shall be delivered into have not put upon him the honour of his hand. 12 And he shall take the the kingdom: but he shall come in multitude, and his heart shall be ex-prosperously, and obtain the kingdom alted; and he shall cast down many by deceitful ways. 22And the arms of + Gr. myriads. thousands: but he shall not him that overflows shall be washed prevail. 13 For the king of the north away as with a flood from before him, shall return, and bring a multitude and shall be broken, and so shall be greater than the former, and at the the head of the covenant. 23 And beend of the times of years an invading cause of the leagues made with him he army shall come on with a great force, shall work deceit: and he shall come and with much substance. 14 And in up, and overpower them with a small those times many shall rise up against nation. 24 And he shall enter with the king of the south; and the children prosperity, and that into fertile disof the *spoilers of thy people tricts; and he shall do what his fathers shall exalt themselves to establish the and his fathers' fathers have not done; vision; and they shall fail. 15 And the he shall scatter among them plunder, king of the north shall come in, and and spoils, and wealth; and he shall cast up a mound, and take strong cities: devise plans against Egypt, even for a and the arms of the king of the south time. 25 And his strength and his + Gr. stand. shall withstand, and his heart shall be stirred up against the chosen ones shall rise up, king of the south with a great force; but there shall be no strength to stand. and the king of the south shall engage 16 And he that comes in against him in war with a great and very strong shall do according to his will, and force; but his forces shall not stand, there is no one to stand before him: for they shall devise plans against him: and he shall stand in the land of 26 and they shall cat his provisions, and *Heb. word beauty, and it shall be shall crush him, and he shall carry in Gr. letters. consumed by his hand. away armies as with a flood, and many 17 And he shall set his face to come in shall fall down slain. 27 And as for with the force of his whole kingdom, both the kings, their hearts are set + Or, do all and shall cause everything upon mischief, and they shall speak seemed right to prosper with him: and lies at one table; but it shall not he shall give him the prosper; for yet the end is for a fixed daughter of women to corrupt her time. 28 And he shall return to his but she shall not continue, neither be land with much substance; and his on his side. 18 And he shall turn his heart shall be against the holy coveface to the islands, and shall take nant; and he shall perform great deeds, many, and cause princes to cease from and return to his own land. 29 At the their reproach: nevertheless his own set time he shall return, and shall come reproach shall return to him. 19 Then into the south, but the last expedition he shall turn back his face to the shall not be as the first. 30 For the strength of his own land: but he shall Citians issuing forth shall come become weak, and fall, and not be against him, and he shall be brought found. 20 And there shall arise out of low, and shall return, and shall be his root one that shall cause a plant of incensed against the holy covenant : the kingdom to pass over his place, and he shall do thus, and shall reearning kingly glory: and yet in those turn, and have intelligence with things that with him. + + venant. + slightly altered. them that have forsaken the holy co-ships; and they shall enter into the land: and he shall break in pieces, and pass on: 41 and he shall enter into the land of beauty, and many + Gr. Sabaim, shall fail: but these shall Heb. word, escape out of his hand, Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon. 42 And he shall stretch forth his hand over the land; and the land of Egypt shall not escape. Lit. be for 43 And he shall have the deliverance. mastery over the secret treasures of gold and silver, and over all the desirable possessions of Egypt, and of the Libyans, and Ethiopians,in their strongholds. But rumours and anxieties out of the east and from the north shall trouble him; and he shall come with great wrath to destroy many. 45 And he shall pitch the tabernacle of his palace between the Heb. word. seas in the holy mountain of beauty: but he shall come to his portion, and there is none to deliver him. 31 And *seeds shall spring up out of +See v. 6, note. him, and they shall profane the sanctuary of strength, and they shall remove the perpetual sacrifice, and make the abomination desolate. 32 And the transgressors shall bring about a covenant by deceitful ways: but a people knowing their God shall prevail, and do valiantly. 33 And the intelligent of the people shall understand much: yet they shall fall by the + Gr. be weak. Sword, and by flame, and by captivity, and by spoil of many days. 34 And when they are weak they shall be helped with a little help: but many shall attach themselves to them with treachery. 35 And some of them that understand shall fall, to try them as with fire, and to test them, and that they may be manifested at the time of the end, for the matter is yet for a set time. nified. + 44 36 And he shall do according to his will, and the king shall exalt and 12. And at that time Michael the + Gr. be ex- magnify himself against great prince shall stand up, that stands alted and mag- every god, and shall speak over the children of thy or, for. great swelling words, and shall prosper people: and there shall be a time until the indignation shall be accom- of tribulation, such tribulation as has + Or, it is to plished: for it is coming not been from the time that there was be ended. to an end. 37 And he shall a nation on the earth until that time: not regard any gods of his fathers, nor at that time thy people shall be deAlex. enu- the desire of women, nei-livered, even every one that is written μίαν. ther shall he regard any in the book. And many of them deity: for he shall magnify himself that sleep in the dust of the earth shall above all. 38 And he shall honour the awake, some to everlasting or, arise. + Gr, Maozim. god of forces on his place: life, and some to reproach and everand a god whom his fathers knew not lasting shame. 3 And the wise shall he shall honour with gold, and silver, shine as the brightness of the firmaand precious stones, and desirable ment, and some of the many righteous 39 And he shall do thus in the as the stars for ever and Lit. for the things. strong places of refuge with a strange ever. And thou, Daniel, ages and yet god, and shall increase his glory: and close the words, and seal the book to he shall subject many to them, and the time of the end; until many are shall distribute the land in gifts. 40And taught, and knowledge is increased. at the end of the time he shall conflict And I Daniel saw, and, behold, two with the king of the south: and the others stood, one on one side of the Gr. be ga king of the north shall bank of the river, and the other on hered against come against him with cha- the other side of the bank of the river. riots, and with horsemen, and with many And one said to the man clothed in him. 5 6 4 + more. + linen, who was over the water of the end. 10 Many must be tested, and tho+ Gr. until river, When will be the roughly whitened, and tried + Rather when? end of the wonders which with fire, and sanctified; 'chosen out." thou hast mentioned? And I heard but the transgressors shall transgress: the man clothed in linen, who was and none of the transgressors shall unover the water of the river, and he derstand; but the wise shall understand. lifted up his right hand and his left "And from the time of the *removal hand to heaven, and swore by him of the perpetual sacrifice, Gr. change. that lives for ever, that it should be for when the abomination of desolation a time of times and half a time: when shall be set up, there shall be a thousand the dispersion is ended they shall two hundred and ninety days. 12 Blessread know all these things. And ed is he that waits, and comes to the as if one word. I heard, but I understood thousand three hundred and thirty-five not: and I said, O Lord, what will be days. 13 But go thou, and rest: for the end of these things? And he there are yet days and seasons to the said, Go, Daniel: for the words are fulfilment of the end; and thou shalt closed and sealed up to the time of the stand in thy lot at the end of the days. 9 O SEE. CHAPTER I. VERSES 1-11. Call her name, Unpitied: for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, but will surely set myself in array against them. But I will have mercy on the house of Juda, and will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them with bow, nor with sword, nor by war, nor by horses, nor by horsemen. 8 And she weaned Un 1. THE word of the Lord which | bore a daughter. And he said to him, came to Osee the son of Beeri, in the days of Ozias, and Joatham, and Achaz, and Ezekias, kings of Juda, and in the days of Jeroboam son of Joas, king of Israel. 2 The beginning of the word of the Lord by Osee. And the Lord said to Osee, Go, take to thyself a wife of fornication, and children of fornication: for the land will surely go awhoring in departing from the Lord. pitied; and she conceived again, and 3 So he went and took Gomer, daugh- bore a son. And he said, Call his ter of Debelaim; and she conceived, name, Not my people: for ye are not and bore him a son. And the Lord my people, and I am not your God. said to him, Call his name Jezrael; 10 Yet the number of the children of for yet a little while, and I will avenge Israel was as the sand of the sea, which the blood of Jezrael on the house of shall not be measured nor numbered; Juda, and will make to cease the king- and it shall come to pass, + Rom. 9. 26. dom of the house of Israel. "And it that in the place where it was said to shall be, in that day, that I will break them, Ye are not my people, even they the bow of Israel in the valley of Jez- shall be called the sons of the living rael. And she conceived again, and God. 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