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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOL.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> that came to Joel son of Pethuel.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">An Invasion of Locusts</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOL.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOL.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Hear this, you elders;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOL.1.2"><span class="content">listen, all who live in the land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOL.1.2"><span class="content">Has anything like this ever happened in your days</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOL.1.2"><span class="content">or in the days of your ancestors?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOL.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOL.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Tell it to your children,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOL.1.3"><span class="content">and let your children tell it to their children,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOL.1.3"><span class="content">and their children to the next generation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOL.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOL.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">What the locust swarm has left</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOL.1.4"><span class="content">the great locusts have eaten;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOL.1.4"><span class="content">what the great locusts have left</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOL.1.4"><span class="content">the young locusts have eaten;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOL.1.4"><span class="content">what the young locusts have left</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOL.1.4"><span class="content">other locusts</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:4 </span><span class="ft">The precise meaning of the four Hebrew words used here for locusts is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> have eaten.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOL.1.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOL.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Wake up, you drunkards, and weep!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOL.1.5"><span class="content">Wail, all you drinkers of wine;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOL.1.5"><span class="content">wail because of the new wine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOL.1.5"><span class="content">for it has been snatched from your lips.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOL.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOL.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">A nation has invaded my land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOL.1.6"><span class="content">a mighty army without number;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOL.1.6"><span class="content">it has the teeth of a lion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOL.1.6"><span class="content">the fangs of a lioness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOL.1.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOL.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">It has laid waste my vines</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOL.1.7"><span class="content">and ruined my fig trees.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOL.1.7"><span class="content">It has stripped off their bark</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOL.1.7"><span class="content">and thrown it away,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOL.1.7"><span class="content">leaving their branches white.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOL.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOL.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Mourn like a virgin in sackcloth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOL.1.8"><span class="content">grieving for the betrothed of her youth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOL.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOL.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Grain offerings and drink offerings</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOL.1.9"><span class="content">are cut off from the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOL.1.9"><span class="content">The priests are in mourning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOL.1.9"><span class="content">those who minister before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOL.1.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOL.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The fields are ruined,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOL.1.10"><span class="content">the ground is dried up;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOL.1.10"><span class="content">the grain is destroyed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOL.1.10"><span class="content">the new wine is dried up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOL.1.10"><span class="content">the olive oil fails.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOL.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOL.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Despair, you farmers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOL.1.11"><span class="content">wail, you vine growers;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOL.1.11"><span class="content">grieve for the wheat and the barley,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOL.1.11"><span class="content">because the harvest of the field is destroyed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOL.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOL.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The vine is dried up</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOL.1.12"><span class="content">and the fig tree is withered;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOL.1.12"><span class="content">the pomegranate, the palm and the apple</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:12 </span><span class="ft">Or possibly </span><span class="fqa">apricot</span></span></span><span class="content"> tree&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOL.1.12"><span class="content">all the trees of the field&#8212;are dried up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOL.1.12"><span class="content">Surely the people&#8217;s joy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOL.1.12"><span class="content">is withered away.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Call to Lamentation</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOL.1.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOL.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Put on sackcloth, you priests, and mourn;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOL.1.13"><span class="content">wail, you who minister before the altar.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOL.1.13"><span class="content">Come, spend the night in sackcloth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOL.1.13"><span class="content">you who minister before my God;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOL.1.13"><span class="content">for the grain offerings and drink offerings</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOL.1.13"><span class="content">are withheld from the house of your God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOL.1.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOL.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Declare a holy fast;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOL.1.14"><span class="content">call a sacred assembly.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOL.1.14"><span class="content">Summon the elders</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOL.1.14"><span class="content">and all who live in the land</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOL.1.14"><span class="content">to the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOL.1.14"><span class="content">and cry out to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOL.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOL.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Alas for that day!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOL.1.15"><span class="content">For the day of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is near;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOL.1.15"><span class="content">it will come like destruction from the Almighty.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:15 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Shaddai</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOL.1.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOL.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Has not the food been cut off</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOL.1.16"><span class="content">before our very eyes&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOL.1.16"><span class="content">joy and gladness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOL.1.16"><span class="content">from the house of our God?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOL.1.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOL.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The seeds are shriveled</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOL.1.17"><span class="content">beneath the clods.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:17 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOL.1.17"><span class="content">The storehouses are in ruins,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOL.1.17"><span class="content">the granaries have been broken down,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOL.1.17"><span class="content">for the grain has dried up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOL.1.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOL.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">How the cattle moan!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOL.1.18"><span class="content">The herds mill about</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOL.1.18"><span class="content">because they have no pasture;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOL.1.18"><span class="content">even the flocks of sheep are suffering.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOL.1.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOL.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">To you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, I call,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOL.1.19"><span class="content">for fire has devoured the pastures in the wilderness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOL.1.19"><span class="content">and flames have burned up all the trees of the field.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOL.1.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOL.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Even the wild animals pant for you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOL.1.20"><span class="content">the streams of water have dried up</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOL.1.20"><span class="content">and fire has devoured the pastures in the wilderness.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch3" data-usfm="JOL.3">
         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Nations Judged</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 3:1-21 is numbered 4:1-21.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOL.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;In those days and at that time,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOL.3.1"><span class="content">when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOL.3.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOL.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I will gather all nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOL.3.2"><span class="content">and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:2 </span><span class="fq">Jehoshaphat </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">the <span class="nd">Lord</span> judges</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 12.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOL.3.2"><span class="content">There I will put them on trial</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOL.3.2"><span class="content">for what they did to my inheritance, my people Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOL.3.2"><span class="content">because they scattered my people among the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOL.3.2"><span class="content">and divided up my land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOL.3.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOL.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">They cast lots for my people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOL.3.3"><span class="content">and traded boys for prostitutes;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOL.3.3"><span class="content">they sold girls for wine to drink.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOL.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOL.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now what have you against me, Tyre and Sidon and all you regions of Philistia? Are you repaying me for something I have done? If you are paying me back, I will swiftly and speedily return on your own heads what you have done. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOL.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">palaces</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOL.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, that you might send them far from their homeland.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOL.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOL.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;See, I am going to rouse them out of the places to which you sold them, and I will return on your own heads what you have done. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOL.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far away.&#8221; The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has spoken.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOL.3.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOL.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Proclaim this among the nations:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOL.3.9"><span class="content">Prepare for war!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOL.3.9"><span class="content">Rouse the warriors!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOL.3.9"><span class="content">Let all the fighting men draw near and attack.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOL.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOL.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Beat your plowshares into swords</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOL.3.10"><span class="content">and your pruning hooks into spears.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOL.3.10"><span class="content">Let the weakling say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOL.3.10"><span class="content">&#8220;I am strong!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOL.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOL.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Come quickly, all you nations from every side,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOL.3.11"><span class="content">and assemble there.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOL.3.11"><span class="content">Bring down your warriors, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOL.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOL.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Let the nations be roused;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOL.3.12"><span class="content">let them advance into the Valley of Jehoshaphat,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOL.3.12"><span class="content">for there I will sit</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOL.3.12"><span class="content">to judge all the nations on every side.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOL.3.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOL.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Swing the sickle,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOL.3.13"><span class="content">for the harvest is ripe.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOL.3.13"><span class="content">Come, trample the grapes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOL.3.13"><span class="content">for the winepress is full</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOL.3.13"><span class="content">and the vats overflow&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOL.3.13"><span class="content">so great is their wickedness!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOL.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOL.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Multitudes, multitudes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOL.3.14"><span class="content">in the valley of decision!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOL.3.14"><span class="content">For the day of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is near</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOL.3.14"><span class="content">in the valley of decision.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOL.3.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOL.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The sun and moon will be darkened,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOL.3.15"><span class="content">and the stars no longer shine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOL.3.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOL.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will roar from Zion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOL.3.16"><span class="content">and thunder from Jerusalem;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOL.3.16"><span class="content">the earth and the heavens will tremble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOL.3.16"><span class="content">But the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will be a refuge for his people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOL.3.16"><span class="content">a stronghold for the people of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Blessings for God&#8217;s People</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOL.3.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOL.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Then you will know that I, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOL.3.17"><span class="content">dwell in Zion, my holy hill.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOL.3.17"><span class="content">Jerusalem will be holy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOL.3.17"><span class="content">never again will foreigners invade her.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOL.3.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOL.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;In that day the mountains will drip new wine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOL.3.18"><span class="content">and the hills will flow with milk;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOL.3.18"><span class="content">all the ravines of Judah will run with water.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOL.3.18"><span class="content">A fountain will flow out of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s house</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOL.3.18"><span class="content">and will water the valley of acacias.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Valley of Shittim</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOL.3.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOL.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But Egypt will be desolate,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOL.3.19"><span class="content">Edom a desert waste,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOL.3.19"><span class="content">because of violence done to the people of Judah,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOL.3.19"><span class="content">in whose land they shed innocent blood.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOL.3.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOL.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Judah will be inhabited forever</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOL.3.20"><span class="content">and Jerusalem through all generations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOL.3.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOL.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Shall I leave their innocent blood unavenged?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOL.3.21"><span class="content">No, I will not.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="qc"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOL.3.21"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> dwells in Zion!</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Daniel&#8217;s Training in Babylon</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DAN.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DAN.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And the Lord delivered Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the articles from the temple of God. These he carried off to the temple of his god in Babylonia</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:2 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Shinar</span></span></span><span class="content"> and put in the treasure house of his god.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DAN.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DAN.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, chief of his court officials, to bring into the king&#8217;s service some of the Israelites from the royal family and the nobility&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DAN.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">young men without any physical defect, handsome, showing aptitude for every kind of learning, well informed, quick to understand, and qualified to serve in the king&#8217;s palace. He was to teach them the language and literature of the Babylonians.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Chaldeans</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DAN.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The king assigned them a daily amount of food and wine from the king&#8217;s table. They were to be trained for three years, and after that they were to enter the king&#8217;s service.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DAN.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DAN.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Among those who were chosen were some from Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DAN.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The chief official gave them new names: to Daniel, the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DAN.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DAN.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DAN.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Now God had caused the official to show favor and compassion to Daniel, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DAN.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">but the official told Daniel, &#8220;I am afraid of my lord the king, who has assigned your</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:10 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">your </span><span class="ft">and </span><span class="fq">you </span><span class="ft">in this verse is plural.</span></span></span><span class="content"> food and drink. Why should he see you looking worse than the other young men your age? The king would then have my head because of you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DAN.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DAN.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Daniel then said to the guard whom the chief official had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DAN.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Please test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DAN.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then compare our appearance with that of the young men who eat the royal food, and treat your servants in accordance with what you see.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DAN.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So he agreed to this and tested them for ten days.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DAN.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DAN.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">At the end of the ten days they looked healthier and better nourished than any of the young men who ate the royal food. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DAN.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So the guard took away their choice food and the wine they were to drink and gave them vegetables instead.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DAN.1.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DAN.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">To these four young men God gave knowledge and understanding of all kinds of literature and learning. And Daniel could understand visions and dreams of all kinds.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DAN.1.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DAN.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">At the end of the time set by the king to bring them into his service, the chief official presented them to Nebuchadnezzar. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DAN.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The king talked with them, and he found none equal to Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah; so they entered the king&#8217;s service. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DAN.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">In every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king questioned them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters in his whole kingdom.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DAN.1.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DAN.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">And Daniel remained there until the first year of King Cyrus.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Nebuchadnezzar&#8217;s Dream</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DAN.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the second year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; his mind was troubled and he could not sleep. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DAN.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">So the king summoned the magicians, enchanters, sorcerers and astrologers</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Chaldeans</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 4, 5 and 10</span></span></span><span class="content"> to tell him what he had dreamed. When they came in and stood before the king, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DAN.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">he said to them, &#8220;I have had a dream that troubles me and I want to know what it means.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">was</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DAN.2.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DAN.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then the astrologers answered the king,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:4 </span><span class="ft">At this point the Hebrew text has </span><span class="fqa">in Aramaic</span><span class="ft">, indicating that the text from here through the end of chapter 7 is in Aramaic.</span></span></span><span class="content"> &#8220;May the king live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will interpret it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DAN.2.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DAN.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The king replied to the astrologers, &#8220;This is what I have firmly decided: If you do not tell me what my dream was and interpret it, I will have you cut into pieces and your houses turned into piles of rubble. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DAN.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But if you tell me the dream and explain it, you will receive from me gifts and rewards and great honor. So tell me the dream and interpret it for me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DAN.2.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DAN.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Once more they replied, &#8220;Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will interpret it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DAN.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DAN.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then the king answered, &#8220;I am certain that you are trying to gain time, because you realize that this is what I have firmly decided: </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DAN.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">If you do not tell me the dream, there is only one penalty for you. You have conspired to tell me misleading and wicked things, hoping the situation will change. So then, tell me the dream, and I will know that you can interpret it for me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DAN.2.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DAN.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The astrologers answered the king, &#8220;There is no one on earth who can do what the king asks! No king, however great and mighty, has ever asked such a thing of any magician or enchanter or astrologer. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DAN.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">What the king asks is too difficult. No one can reveal it to the king except the gods, and they do not live among humans.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DAN.2.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DAN.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">This made the king so angry and furious that he ordered the execution of all the wise men of Babylon. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DAN.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So the decree was issued to put the wise men to death, and men were sent to look for Daniel and his friends to put them to death.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DAN.2.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DAN.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When Arioch, the commander of the king&#8217;s guard, had gone out to put to death the wise men of Babylon, Daniel spoke to him with wisdom and tact. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DAN.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He asked the king&#8217;s officer, &#8220;Why did the king issue such a harsh decree?&#8221; Arioch then explained the matter to Daniel. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DAN.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">At this, Daniel went in to the king and asked for time, so that he might interpret the dream for him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DAN.2.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DAN.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then Daniel returned to his house and explained the matter to his friends Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DAN.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He urged them to plead for mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that he and his friends might not be executed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DAN.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">During the night the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision. Then Daniel praised the God of heaven </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DAN.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">and said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DAN.2.20"><span class="content">&#8220;Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DAN.2.20"><span class="content">wisdom and power are his.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DAN.2.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DAN.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He changes times and seasons;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DAN.2.21"><span class="content">he deposes kings and raises up others.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DAN.2.21"><span class="content">He gives wisdom to the wise</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DAN.2.21"><span class="content">and knowledge to the discerning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DAN.2.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DAN.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">He reveals deep and hidden things;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DAN.2.22"><span class="content">he knows what lies in darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DAN.2.22"><span class="content">and light dwells with him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DAN.2.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DAN.2.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">I thank and praise you, God of my ancestors:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DAN.2.23"><span class="content">You have given me wisdom and power,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DAN.2.23"><span class="content">you have made known to me what we asked of you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DAN.2.23"><span class="content">you have made known to us the dream of the king.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Daniel Interprets the Dream</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DAN.2.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="DAN.2.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Then Daniel went to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to execute the wise men of Babylon, and said to him, &#8220;Do not execute the wise men of Babylon. Take me to the king, and I will interpret his dream for him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="DAN.2.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="DAN.2.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Arioch took Daniel to the king at once and said, &#8220;I have found a man among the exiles from Judah who can tell the king what his dream means.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="DAN.2.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="DAN.2.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The king asked Daniel (also called Belteshazzar), &#8220;Are you able to tell me what I saw in my dream and interpret it?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="DAN.2.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="DAN.2.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Daniel replied, &#8220;No wise man, enchanter, magician or diviner can explain to the king the mystery he has asked about, </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="DAN.2.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries. He has shown King Nebuchadnezzar what will happen in days to come. Your dream and the visions that passed through your mind as you were lying in bed are these:</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="DAN.2.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="DAN.2.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;As Your Majesty was lying there, your mind turned to things to come, and the revealer of mysteries showed you what is going to happen. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="DAN.2.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">As for me, this mystery has been revealed to me, not because I have greater wisdom than anyone else alive, but so that Your Majesty may know the interpretation and that you may understand what went through your mind.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="DAN.2.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="DAN.2.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">&#8220;Your Majesty looked, and there before you stood a large statue&#8212;an enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in appearance. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="DAN.2.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">The head of the statue was made of pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="DAN.2.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="DAN.2.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="DAN.2.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were all broken to pieces and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="DAN.2.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="DAN.2.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">&#8220;This was the dream, and now we will interpret it to the king. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="DAN.2.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Your Majesty, you are the king of kings. The God of heaven has given you dominion and power and might and glory; </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="DAN.2.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">in your hands he has placed all mankind and the beasts of the field and the birds in the sky. Wherever they live, he has made you ruler over them all. You are that head of gold.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="DAN.2.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="DAN.2.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">&#8220;After you, another kingdom will arise, inferior to yours. Next, a third kingdom, one of bronze, will rule over the whole earth. </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="DAN.2.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron&#8212;for iron breaks and smashes everything&#8212;and as iron breaks things to pieces, so it will crush and break all the others. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="DAN.2.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Just as you saw that the feet and toes were partly of baked clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom; yet it will have some of the strength of iron in it, even as you saw iron mixed with clay. </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="DAN.2.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">As the toes were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="DAN.2.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people will be a mixture and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="DAN.2.43"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="DAN.2.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">&#8220;In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever. </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="DAN.2.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">This is the meaning of the vision of the rock cut out of a mountain, but not by human hands&#8212;a rock that broke the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold to pieces.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="DAN.2.45"><span class="content">&#8220;The great God has shown the king what will take place in the future. The dream is true and its interpretation is trustworthy.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="DAN.2.45"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="DAN.2.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell prostrate before Daniel and paid him honor and ordered that an offering and incense be presented to him. </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="DAN.2.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">The king said to Daniel, &#8220;Surely your God is the God of gods and the Lord of kings and a revealer of mysteries, for you were able to reveal this mystery.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="DAN.2.47"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="DAN.2.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">Then the king placed Daniel in a high position and lavished many gifts on him. He made him ruler over the entire province of Babylon and placed him in charge of all its wise men. </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="DAN.2.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">Moreover, at Daniel&#8217;s request the king appointed Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego administrators over the province of Babylon, while Daniel himself remained at the royal court.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Image of Gold and the Blazing Furnace</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DAN.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold, sixty cubits high and six cubits wide,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:1 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 90 feet high and 9 feet wide or about 27 meters high and 2.7 meters wide</span></span></span><span class="content"> and set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DAN.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He then summoned the satraps, prefects, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates and all the other provincial officials to come to the dedication of the image he had set up. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DAN.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So the satraps, prefects, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates and all the other provincial officials assembled for the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up, and they stood before it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DAN.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DAN.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then the herald loudly proclaimed, &#8220;Nations and peoples of every language, this is what you are commanded to do: </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DAN.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">As soon as you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe and all kinds of music, you must fall down and worship the image of gold that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DAN.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Whoever does not fall down and worship will immediately be thrown into a blazing furnace.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DAN.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DAN.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Therefore, as soon as they heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp and all kinds of music, all the nations and peoples of every language fell down and worshiped the image of gold that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DAN.3.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DAN.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">At this time some astrologers</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Chaldeans</span></span></span><span class="content"> came forward and denounced the Jews. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DAN.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">They said to King Nebuchadnezzar, &#8220;May the king live forever! </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DAN.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Your Majesty has issued a decree that everyone who hears the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe and all kinds of music must fall down and worship the image of gold, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DAN.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">and that whoever does not fall down and worship will be thrown into a blazing furnace. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DAN.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But there are some Jews whom you have set over the affairs of the province of Babylon&#8212;Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego&#8212;who pay no attention to you, Your Majesty. They neither serve your gods nor worship the image of gold you have set up.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DAN.3.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DAN.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Furious with rage, Nebuchadnezzar summoned Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. So these men were brought before the king, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DAN.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">and Nebuchadnezzar said to them, &#8220;Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the image of gold I have set up? </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DAN.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Now when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe and all kinds of music, if you are ready to fall down and worship the image I made, very good. But if you do not worship it, you will be thrown immediately into a blazing furnace. Then what god will be able to rescue you from my hand?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DAN.3.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DAN.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego replied to him, &#8220;King Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DAN.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">If the God we serve is able to deliver us, then he will deliver us from the blazing furnace and</span></span></span><span class="content"> from Your Majesty&#8217;s hand. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DAN.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DAN.3.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DAN.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then Nebuchadnezzar was furious with Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, and his attitude toward them changed. He ordered the furnace heated seven times hotter than usual </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DAN.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">and commanded some of the strongest soldiers in his army to tie up Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego and throw them into the blazing furnace. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DAN.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">So these men, wearing their robes, trousers, turbans and other clothes, were bound and thrown into the blazing furnace. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DAN.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The king&#8217;s command was so urgent and the furnace so hot that the flames of the fire killed the soldiers who took up Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DAN.3.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">and these three men, firmly tied, fell into the blazing furnace.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DAN.3.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="DAN.3.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Then King Nebuchadnezzar leaped to his feet in amazement and asked his advisers, &#8220;Weren&#8217;t there three men that we tied up and threw into the fire?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="DAN.3.24"><span class="content">They replied, &#8220;Certainly, Your Majesty.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="DAN.3.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="DAN.3.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">He said, &#8220;Look! I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the gods.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="DAN.3.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="DAN.3.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Nebuchadnezzar then approached the opening of the blazing furnace and shouted, &#8220;Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out! Come here!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="DAN.3.26"><span class="content">So Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego came out of the fire, </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="DAN.3.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">and the satraps, prefects, governors and royal advisers crowded around them. They saw that the fire had not harmed their bodies, nor was a hair of their heads singed; their robes were not scorched, and there was no smell of fire on them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="DAN.3.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="DAN.3.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then Nebuchadnezzar said, &#8220;Praise be to the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who has sent his angel and rescued his servants! They trusted in him and defied the king&#8217;s command and were willing to give up their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="DAN.3.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Therefore I decree that the people of any nation or language who say anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego be cut into pieces and their houses be turned into piles of rubble, for no other god can save in this way.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="DAN.3.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="DAN.3.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the province of Babylon.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Nebuchadnezzar&#8217;s Dream of a Tree</span></div><div class="pmo"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">4:0 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">In Aramaic texts 4:1-3 is numbered 3:31-33, and 4:4-37 is numbered 4:1-34.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DAN.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">King Nebuchadnezzar,</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pmo"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DAN.4.1"><span class="content">To the nations and peoples of every language, who live in all the earth:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pmo"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DAN.4.1"><span class="content">May you prosper greatly!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DAN.4.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DAN.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">It is my pleasure to tell you about the miraculous signs and wonders that the Most High God has performed for me.</span></span></div><div class="qm1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DAN.4.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DAN.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">How great are his signs,</span></span></div><div class="qm2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DAN.4.3"><span class="content">how mighty his wonders!</span></span></div><div class="qm1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DAN.4.3"><span class="content">His kingdom is an eternal kingdom;</span></span></div><div class="qm2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DAN.4.3"><span class="content">his dominion endures from generation to generation.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DAN.4.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DAN.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at home in my palace, contented and prosperous. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DAN.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I had a dream that made me afraid. As I was lying in bed, the images and visions that passed through my mind terrified me. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DAN.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So I commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be brought before me to interpret the dream for me. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DAN.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When the magicians, enchanters, astrologers</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Chaldeans</span></span></span><span class="content"> and diviners came, I told them the dream, but they could not interpret it for me. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DAN.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Finally, Daniel came into my presence and I told him the dream. (He is called Belteshazzar, after the name of my god, and the spirit of the holy gods is in him.)</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DAN.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DAN.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I said, &#8220;Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and no mystery is too difficult for you. Here is my dream; interpret it for me. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DAN.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">These are the visions I saw while lying in bed: I looked, and there before me stood a tree in the middle of the land. Its height was enormous. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DAN.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The tree grew large and strong and its top touched the sky; it was visible to the ends of the earth. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DAN.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Its leaves were beautiful, its fruit abundant, and on it was food for all. Under it the wild animals found shelter, and the birds lived in its branches; from it every creature was fed.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DAN.4.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DAN.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;In the visions I saw while lying in bed, I looked, and there before me was a holy one, a messenger,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:13 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">watchman</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 17 and 23</span></span></span><span class="content"> coming down from heaven. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DAN.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He called in a loud voice: &#8216;Cut down the tree and trim off its branches; strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the animals flee from under it and the birds from its branches. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DAN.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But let the stump and its roots, bound with iron and bronze, remain in the ground, in the grass of the field.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DAN.4.15"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, and let him live with the animals among the plants of the earth. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DAN.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Let his mind be changed from that of a man and let him be given the mind of an animal, till seven times</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:16 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">years</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 23, 25 and 32</span></span></span><span class="content"> pass by for him.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DAN.4.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DAN.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The decision is announced by messengers, the holy ones declare the verdict, so that the living may know that the Most High is sovereign over all kingdoms on earth and gives them to anyone he wishes and sets over them the lowliest of people.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DAN.4.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DAN.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is the dream that I, King Nebuchadnezzar, had. Now, Belteshazzar, tell me what it means, for none of the wise men in my kingdom can interpret it for me. But you can, because the spirit of the holy gods is in you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Daniel Interprets the Dream</span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DAN.4.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DAN.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then Daniel (also called Belteshazzar) was greatly perplexed for a time, and his thoughts terrified him. So the king said, &#8220;Belteshazzar, do not let the dream or its meaning alarm you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DAN.4.19"><span class="content">Belteshazzar answered, &#8220;My lord, if only the dream applied to your enemies and its meaning to your adversaries! </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DAN.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The tree you saw, which grew large and strong, with its top touching the sky, visible to the whole earth, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DAN.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">with beautiful leaves and abundant fruit, providing food for all, giving shelter to the wild animals, and having nesting places in its branches for the birds&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DAN.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Your Majesty, you are that tree! You have become great and strong; your greatness has grown until it reaches the sky, and your dominion extends to distant parts of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DAN.4.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DAN.4.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;Your Majesty saw a holy one, a messenger, coming down from heaven and saying, &#8216;Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump, bound with iron and bronze, in the grass of the field, while its roots remain in the ground. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven; let him live with the wild animals, until seven times pass by for him.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DAN.4.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="DAN.4.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is the interpretation, Your Majesty, and this is the decree the Most High has issued against my lord the king: </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="DAN.4.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">You will be driven away from people and will live with the wild animals; you will eat grass like the ox and be drenched with the dew of heaven. Seven times will pass by for you until you acknowledge that the Most High is sovereign over all kingdoms on earth and gives them to anyone he wishes. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="DAN.4.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The command to leave the stump of the tree with its roots means that your kingdom will be restored to you when you acknowledge that Heaven rules. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="DAN.4.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Therefore, Your Majesty, be pleased to accept my advice: Renounce your sins by doing what is right, and your wickedness by being kind to the oppressed. It may be that then your prosperity will continue.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Dream Is Fulfilled</span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="DAN.4.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="DAN.4.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">All this happened to King Nebuchadnezzar. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="DAN.4.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Twelve months later, as the king was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon, </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="DAN.4.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">he said, &#8220;Is not this the great Babylon I have built as the royal residence, by my mighty power and for the glory of my majesty?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="DAN.4.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="DAN.4.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Even as the words were on his lips, a voice came from heaven, &#8220;This is what is decreed for you, King Nebuchadnezzar: Your royal authority has been taken from you. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="DAN.4.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">You will be driven away from people and will live with the wild animals; you will eat grass like the ox. Seven times will pass by for you until you acknowledge that the Most High is sovereign over all kingdoms on earth and gives them to anyone he wishes.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="DAN.4.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="DAN.4.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Immediately what had been said about Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from people and ate grass like the ox. His body was drenched with the dew of heaven until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="DAN.4.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="DAN.4.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">At the end of that time, I, Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes toward heaven, and my sanity was restored. Then I praised the Most High; I honored and glorified him who lives forever.</span></span></div><div class="qm1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="DAN.4.34"><span class="content">His dominion is an eternal dominion;</span></span></div><div class="qm2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="DAN.4.34"><span class="content">his kingdom endures from generation to generation.</span></span></div><div class="qm1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="DAN.4.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="DAN.4.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">All the peoples of the earth</span></span></div><div class="qm2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="DAN.4.35"><span class="content">are regarded as nothing.</span></span></div><div class="qm1"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="DAN.4.35"><span class="content">He does as he pleases</span></span></div><div class="qm2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="DAN.4.35"><span class="content">with the powers of heaven</span></span></div><div class="qm2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="DAN.4.35"><span class="content">and the peoples of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="qm1"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="DAN.4.35"><span class="content">No one can hold back his hand</span></span></div><div class="qm2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="DAN.4.35"><span class="content">or say to him: &#8220;What have you done?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="DAN.4.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="DAN.4.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">At the same time that my sanity was restored, my honor and splendor were returned to me for the glory of my kingdom. My advisers and nobles sought me out, and I was restored to my throne and became even greater than before. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="DAN.4.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, because everything he does is right and all his ways are just. And those who walk in pride he is able to humble.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">5</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Writing on the Wall</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DAN.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles and drank wine with them. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DAN.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">While Belshazzar was drinking his wine, he gave orders to bring in the gold and silver goblets that Nebuchadnezzar his father</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">ancestor</span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">predecessor</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 11, 13 and 18</span></span></span><span class="content"> had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines might drink from them. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DAN.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So they brought in the gold goblets that had been taken from the temple of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines drank from them. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DAN.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">As they drank the wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DAN.5.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DAN.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DAN.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">His face turned pale and he was so frightened that his legs became weak and his knees were knocking.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DAN.5.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DAN.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The king summoned the enchanters, astrologers</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Chaldeans</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 11</span></span></span><span class="content"> and diviners. Then he said to these wise men of Babylon, &#8220;Whoever reads this writing and tells me what it means will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around his neck, and he will be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DAN.5.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DAN.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then all the king&#8217;s wise men came in, but they could not read the writing or tell the king what it meant. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DAN.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So King Belshazzar became even more terrified and his face grew more pale. His nobles were baffled.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DAN.5.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DAN.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The queen,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">queen mother</span></span></span><span class="content"> hearing the voices of the king and his nobles, came into the banquet hall. &#8220;May the king live forever!&#8221; she said. &#8220;Don&#8217;t be alarmed! Don&#8217;t look so pale! </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DAN.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">There is a man in your kingdom who has the spirit of the holy gods in him. In the time of your father he was found to have insight and intelligence and wisdom like that of the gods. Your father, King Nebuchadnezzar, appointed him chief of the magicians, enchanters, astrologers and diviners. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DAN.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He did this because Daniel, whom the king called Belteshazzar, was found to have a keen mind and knowledge and understanding, and also the ability to interpret dreams, explain riddles and solve difficult problems. Call for Daniel, and he will tell you what the writing means.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DAN.5.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DAN.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So Daniel was brought before the king, and the king said to him, &#8220;Are you Daniel, one of the exiles my father the king brought from Judah? </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DAN.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I have heard that the spirit of the gods is in you and that you have insight, intelligence and outstanding wisdom. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DAN.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The wise men and enchanters were brought before me to read this writing and tell me what it means, but they could not explain it. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DAN.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Now I have heard that you are able to give interpretations and to solve difficult problems. If you can read this writing and tell me what it means, you will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around your neck, and you will be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DAN.5.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DAN.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then Daniel answered the king, &#8220;You may keep your gifts for yourself and give your rewards to someone else. Nevertheless, I will read the writing for the king and tell him what it means.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DAN.5.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DAN.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Your Majesty, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty and greatness and glory and splendor. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DAN.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Because of the high position he gave him, all the nations and peoples of every language dreaded and feared him. Those the king wanted to put to death, he put to death; those he wanted to spare, he spared; those he wanted to promote, he promoted; and those he wanted to humble, he humbled. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DAN.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But when his heart became arrogant and hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and stripped of his glory. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DAN.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He was driven away from people and given the mind of an animal; he lived with the wild donkeys and ate grass like the ox; and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until he acknowledged that the Most High God is sovereign over all kingdoms on earth and sets over them anyone he wishes.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DAN.5.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DAN.5.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;But you, Belshazzar, his son,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:22 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">descendant</span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">successor</span></span></span><span class="content"> have not humbled yourself, though you knew all this. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DAN.5.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Instead, you have set yourself up against the Lord of heaven. You had the goblets from his temple brought to you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you did not honor the God who holds in his hand your life and all your ways. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="DAN.5.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Therefore he sent the hand that wrote the inscription.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="DAN.5.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="DAN.5.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is the inscription that was written:</span></span></div><div class="pc"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="DAN.5.25"><span class="content">mene, mene, tekel, parsin</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="DAN.5.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="DAN.5.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">&#8220;Here is what these words mean:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li3"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="DAN.5.26"><span class="content">  </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">Mene</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">5:26 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fq">  <span class="tl">Mene</span>  </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">can mean </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fq">numbered </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fqa">mina </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">(a unit of money).</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">: God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.</span></span></div><div class="li3"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="DAN.5.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="DAN.5.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">Tekel</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">5:27 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fq">  <span class="tl">Tekel</span>  </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">can mean </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fq">weighed </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fqa">shekel.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">: You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.</span></span></div><div class="li3"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="DAN.5.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="DAN.5.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">Peres</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">5:28 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fq">  <span class="tl">Peres</span>  </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">(the singular of <span class="tl">Parsin</span>) can mean </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fq">divided </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fqa">Persia </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fqa">a half mina </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fqa">a half shekel.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">: Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="DAN.5.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="DAN.5.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Then at Belshazzar&#8217;s command, Daniel was clothed in purple, a gold chain was placed around his neck, and he was proclaimed the third highest ruler in the kingdom.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="DAN.5.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="DAN.5.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">That very night Belshazzar, king of the Babylonians,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:30 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Chaldeans</span></span></span><span class="content"> was slain, </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="DAN.5.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">and Darius the Mede took over the kingdom, at the age of sixty-two.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:31 </span><span class="ft">In Aramaic texts this verse (5:31) is numbered 6:1.</span></span></span></span></div>
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