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- New English Translation - all the kings of the north, whether near or far from one another; and all the other kingdoms which are on the face of the earth. After all of them have drunk the wine of the Lord’s wrath, the king of Babylon must drink it.
- 新标点和合本 - 北方远近的诸王,以及天下地上的万国喝了,以后示沙克(就是“巴比伦”)王也要喝。
- 和合本2010(上帝版-简体) - 北方远近的诸王,以及天下、地面上的万国也一个一个都喝了,以后示沙克 王也要喝。
- 和合本2010(神版-简体) - 北方远近的诸王,以及天下、地面上的万国也一个一个都喝了,以后示沙克 王也要喝。
- 当代译本 - 无论远近的一个个北方的王,以及天下万国,最后是巴比伦王。
- 圣经新译本 - 北方远近的列王,一个一个,以及地上的万国,就是在这地面上的列国,都喝了;他们喝了以后,示沙克王也要喝。
- 现代标点和合本 - 北方远近的诸王以及天下地上的万国喝了,以后示沙克 王也要喝。
- 和合本(拼音版) - 北方远近的诸王,以及天下、地上的万国喝了,以后示沙克 王也要喝。
- New International Version - and all the kings of the north, near and far, one after the other—all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. And after all of them, the king of Sheshak will drink it too.
- New International Reader's Version - all the kings in the north, near and far So he sent me to all the kingdoms on the face of the earth, one after the other. They will all drink from the cup of the Lord’s anger. After they drink, the king of Babylon will drink from it too.
- English Standard Version - all the kings of the north, far and near, one after another, and all the kingdoms of the world that are on the face of the earth. And after them the king of Babylon shall drink.
- New Living Translation - And I gave it to the kings of the northern countries, far and near, one after the other—all the kingdoms of the world. And finally, the king of Babylon himself drank from the cup of the Lord’s anger.
- Christian Standard Bible - all the kings of the north, both near and far from one another; that is, all the kingdoms of the world throughout the earth. Finally, the king of Sheshak will drink after them.
- New American Standard Bible - and to all the kings of the north, near and far, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the earth which are on the face of the ground; and the king of Sheshach shall drink it after them.
- New King James Version - all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world which are on the face of the earth. Also the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
- Amplified Bible - all the kings of the north, far and near, one after another—and all the kingdoms of the world which are on the face of the earth. And the king of Sheshach (Babylon) shall drink after them.
- American Standard Version - and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
- King James Version - And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
- World English Bible - and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world, which are on the surface of the earth. The king of Sheshach will drink after them.
- 新標點和合本 - 北方遠近的諸王,以及天下地上的萬國喝了,以後示沙克(就是巴比倫)王也要喝。
- 和合本2010(上帝版-繁體) - 北方遠近的諸王,以及天下、地面上的萬國也一個一個都喝了,以後示沙克 王也要喝。
- 和合本2010(神版-繁體) - 北方遠近的諸王,以及天下、地面上的萬國也一個一個都喝了,以後示沙克 王也要喝。
- 當代譯本 - 無論遠近的一個個北方的王,以及天下萬國,最後是巴比倫王。
- 聖經新譯本 - 北方遠近的列王,一個一個,以及地上的萬國,就是在這地面上的列國,都喝了;他們喝了以後,示沙克王也要喝。
- 呂振中譯本 - 北方遠近的列王、一個一個、以及地上萬國、 住 在這地面上的—— 都喝了 ;以後 巴比倫 王也必喝。
- 現代標點和合本 - 北方遠近的諸王以及天下地上的萬國喝了,以後示沙克 王也要喝。
- 文理和合譯本 - 北方遠近諸王、爰及天下萬國、厥後、示沙克王亦飲焉、
- 文理委辦譯本 - 北方諸王、無間遐邇、爰及天下列邦、厥後示殺王、亦飲斯爵。
- 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 北方諸王、相離或遠或近、及天下萬邦、厥後 示沙克 示沙克即巴比倫 王亦必飲之、
- Nueva Versión Internacional - a todos los reyes del norte, cercanos o lejanos entre sí, y a todos los reinos que están sobre la faz de la tierra. Y después de ellos beberá el rey de Sesac.
- 현대인의 성경 - 그리고 북쪽 원근 지역의 모든 왕들이다. 지상의 모든 왕들이 그 잔을 마시게 될 것이며 제일 마지막으로 바빌로니아 왕이 그 잔을 마실 것이다.
- Новый Русский Перевод - и всех царей севера, и близких, и далеких, одного за другим – все царства, которые находятся на земле. А после всех будет пить и царь Шешаха .
- Восточный перевод - и всех царей севера, и близких, и далёких, одного за другим – все царства, которые находятся на земле. А после всех будет пить и царь Вавилона .
- Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - и всех царей севера, и близких, и далёких, одного за другим – все царства, которые находятся на земле. А после всех будет пить и царь Вавилона .
- Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - и всех царей севера, и близких, и далёких, одного за другим – все царства, которые находятся на земле. А после всех будет пить и царь Вавилона .
- La Bible du Semeur 2015 - à tous les rois du nord, rapprochés ou lointains, l’un après l’autre ; à tous les royaumes du monde répartis sur la terre. Et le roi de Shéshak boira après eux tous.
- リビングバイブル - 北方のすべての王を、一人一人訪ね、地上のすべての王国を巡りました。最後に、バビロンの王自身が、神の憤りを盛ったこの杯から飲みました。
- Nova Versão Internacional - e todos os reis do norte, próximos ou distantes, um após outro; e todos os reinos da face da terra. Depois de todos eles, o rei de Sesaque também beberá do cálice.
- Hoffnung für alle - dann die Herrscher der nahen und fernen Länder im Norden, einer nach dem anderen, ja, alle Königreiche der ganzen Welt. Zuletzt wird auch der König von Scheschach aus dem Kelch trinken.
- Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Và tôi cũng đưa chén cho các vua của các nước phương bắc, xa và gần, hết nước này đến nước khác—tất cả các vương quốc trên đất. Cuối cùng, Sê-sác, vua Ba-by-lôn cũng sẽ uống chén thịnh nộ của Chúa Hằng Hữu.
- พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - เหล่ากษัตริย์ของดินแดนทางเหนือทั้งใกล้และไกล จากแดนหนึ่งไปสู่อีกแดนหนึ่งและทั่วอาณาจักรทั้งปวงของโลก และในที่สุดกษัตริย์เชชัก เองก็จะดื่มจากถ้วยนี้ด้วย
- พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - กษัตริย์ทั้งปวงของทิศเหนือ ทั้งใกล้และไกลทีละคน และอาณาจักรทั้งปวงของโลก ที่อยู่บนพื้นแผ่นดิน และคนล่าสุดคือ กษัตริย์แห่งบาบิโลนจะเป็นผู้ดื่ม
交叉引用
- Jeremiah 50:1 - The Lord spoke concerning Babylon and the land of Babylonia through the prophet Jeremiah.
- Jeremiah 50:2 - “Announce the news among the nations! Proclaim it! Signal for people to pay attention! Declare the news! Do not hide it! Say: ‘Babylon will be captured. Bel will be put to shame. Marduk will be dismayed. Babylon’s idols will be put to shame. Her disgusting images will be dismayed.
- Jeremiah 50:3 - For a nation from the north will attack Babylon. It will lay her land waste. People and animals will flee out of it. No one will inhabit it.’
- Jeremiah 50:4 - “When that time comes,” says the Lord, “the people of Israel and Judah will return to the land together. They will come back with tears of repentance as they seek the Lord their God.
- Jeremiah 50:5 - They will ask the way to Zion; they will turn their faces toward it. They will come and bind themselves to the Lord in a lasting covenant that will never be forgotten.
- Jeremiah 50:6 - “My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have allow them to go astray. They have wandered around in the mountains. They have roamed from one mountain and hill to another. They have forgotten their resting place.
- Jeremiah 50:7 - All who encountered them devoured them. Their enemies who did this said, ‘We are not liable for punishment! For those people have sinned against the Lord, their true pasture. They have sinned against the Lord in whom their ancestors trusted.’
- Jeremiah 50:8 - “People of Judah, get out of Babylon quickly! Leave the land of Babylonia! Be the first to depart! Be like the male goats that lead the herd.
- Jeremiah 50:9 - For I will rouse into action and bring against Babylon a host of mighty nations from the land of the north. They will set up their battle lines against her. They will come from the north and capture her. Their arrows will be like a skilled soldier who does not return from the battle empty-handed.
- Jeremiah 50:10 - Babylonia will be plundered. Those who plunder it will take all they want,” says the Lord.
- Jeremiah 50:11 - “People of Babylonia, you plundered my people. That made you happy and glad. You frolic about like calves in a pasture. Your joyous sounds are like the neighs of a stallion.
- Jeremiah 50:12 - But Babylonia will be put to great shame. The land where you were born will be disgraced. Indeed, Babylonia will become the least important of all nations. It will become a dry and barren desert.
- Jeremiah 50:13 - After I vent my wrath on it Babylon will be uninhabited. It will be totally desolate. All who pass by will be filled with horror and will hiss out their scorn because of all the disasters that have happened to it.
- Jeremiah 50:14 - “Take up your battle positions all around Babylon, all you soldiers who are armed with bows. Shoot all your arrows at her! Do not hold any back! For she has sinned against the Lord.
- Jeremiah 50:15 - Shout the battle cry from all around the city. She will throw up her hands in surrender. Her towers will fall. Her walls will be torn down. Because I, the Lord, am wreaking revenge, take out your vengeance on her! Do to her as she has done!
- Jeremiah 50:16 - Kill all the farmers who sow the seed in the land of Babylon. Kill all those who wield the sickle at harvest time. Let all the foreigners return to their own people. Let them hurry back to their own lands to escape destruction by that enemy army.
- Jeremiah 50:17 - “The people of Israel are like scattered sheep which lions have chased away. First the king of Assyria devoured them. Now last of all King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has gnawed their bones.
- Jeremiah 50:18 - So I, the Lord God of Israel who rules over all, say: ‘I will punish the king of Babylon and his land just as I punished the king of Assyria.
- Jeremiah 50:19 - But I will restore the flock of Israel to their own pasture. They will graze on Mount Carmel and the land of Bashan. They will eat until they are full on the hills of Ephraim and the land of Gilead.
- Jeremiah 50:20 - When that time comes, no guilt will be found in Israel. No sin will be found in Judah. For I will forgive those of them I have allowed to survive. I, the Lord, affirm it!’”
- Jeremiah 50:21 - The Lord says, “Attack the land of Merathaim and the people who live in Pekod! Pursue, kill, and completely destroy them! Do just as I have commanded you!
- Jeremiah 50:22 - The noise of battle can be heard in the land of Babylonia. There is the sound of great destruction.
- Jeremiah 50:23 - Babylon hammered the whole world to pieces. But see how that ‘hammer’ has been broken and shattered! See what an object of horror Babylon has become among the nations!
- Jeremiah 50:24 - I set a trap for you, Babylon; you were caught before you knew it. You fought against me. So you were found and captured.
- Jeremiah 50:25 - I have opened up the place where my weapons are stored. I have brought out the weapons for carrying out my wrath. For I, the Lord God who rules over all, have work to carry out in the land of Babylonia.
- Jeremiah 50:26 - Come from far away and attack Babylonia! Open up the places where she stores her grain! Pile her up in ruins! Destroy her completely! Do not leave anyone alive!
- Jeremiah 50:27 - Kill all her soldiers! Let them be slaughtered! They are doomed, for their day of reckoning has come, the time for them to be punished.”
- Jeremiah 50:28 - Listen! Fugitives and refugees are coming from the land of Babylon. They are coming to Zion to declare there how the Lord our God is getting revenge, getting revenge for what they have done to his temple.
- Jeremiah 50:29 - “Call for archers to come against Babylon! Summon against her all who draw the bow! Set up camp all around the city! Do not allow anyone to escape! Pay her back for what she has done. Do to her what she has done to others. For she has proudly defied me, the Holy One of Israel.
- Jeremiah 50:30 - So her young men will fall in her city squares. All her soldiers will be destroyed at that time,” says the Lord.
- Jeremiah 50:31 - “Listen! I am opposed to you, you proud city,” says the Lord God who rules over all. “Indeed, your day of reckoning has come, the time when I will punish you.
- Jeremiah 50:32 - You will stumble and fall, you proud city; no one will help you get up. I will set fire to your towns; it will burn up everything that surrounds you.”
- Jeremiah 50:33 - The Lord who rules over all says, “The people of Israel are oppressed. So too are the people of Judah. All those who took them captive are holding them prisoners. They refuse to set them free.
- Jeremiah 50:34 - But the one who will rescue them is strong. He is known as the Lord who rules over all. He will strongly champion their cause. As a result he will bring peace and rest to the earth, but trouble and turmoil to the people who inhabit Babylonia.
- Jeremiah 50:35 - “Destructive forces will come against the Babylonians,” says the Lord. “They will come against the people who inhabit Babylonia, against her leaders and her men of wisdom.
- Jeremiah 50:36 - Destructive forces will come against her false prophets; they will be shown to be fools! Destructive forces will come against her soldiers; they will be filled with terror!
- Jeremiah 50:37 - Destructive forces will come against her horses and her chariots. Destructive forces will come against all the foreign troops within her; they will be as frightened as women! Destructive forces will come against her treasures; they will be taken away as plunder!
- Jeremiah 50:38 - A drought will come upon her land; her rivers and canals will be dried up. All of this will happen because her land is filled with idols. Her people act like madmen because of those idols they fear.
- Jeremiah 50:39 - Therefore desert creatures and jackals will live there. Ostriches will dwell in it too. But no people will ever live there again. No one will dwell there for all time to come.
- Jeremiah 50:40 - I will destroy Babylonia just like I did Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns. No one will live there. No human being will settle in it,” says the Lord.
- Jeremiah 50:41 - “Look! An army is about to come from the north. A mighty nation and many kings are stirring into action in faraway parts of the earth.
- Jeremiah 50:42 - Its soldiers are armed with bows and spears. They are cruel and show no mercy. They sound like the roaring sea as they ride forth on their horses. Lined up in formation like men going into battle, they are coming against you, fair Babylon!
- Jeremiah 50:43 - The king of Babylon will become paralyzed with fear when he hears news of their coming. Anguish will grip him, agony like that of a woman giving birth to a baby.
- Jeremiah 50:44 - “A lion coming up from the thick undergrowth along the Jordan scatters the sheep in the pastureland around it. So too I will chase the Babylonians off of their land. Then I will appoint over it whomever I choose. For there is no one like me. There is no one who can call me to account. There is no ruler that can stand up against me.
- Jeremiah 50:45 - So listen to what I, the Lord, have planned against Babylon, what I intend to do to the people who inhabit the land of Babylonia. Their little ones will be dragged off. I will completely destroy their land because of what they have done.
- Jeremiah 50:46 - The people of the earth will quake when they hear Babylon has been captured. Her cries of anguish will be heard by the other nations.”
- Ezekiel 32:30 - “All the leaders of the north are there, along with all the Sidonians; despite their might they have gone down in shameful terror with the dead. They lie uncircumcised with those killed by the sword, and bear their shame with those who descend to the pit.
- Jeremiah 25:12 - “‘But when the seventy years are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation for their sins. I will make the land of Babylon an everlasting ruin. I, the Lord, affirm it!
- Isaiah 13:1 - This is a message about Babylon that God revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz:
- Isaiah 13:2 - On a bare hill raise a signal flag, shout to them, wave your hand, so they might enter the gates of the princes!
- Isaiah 13:3 - I have given orders to my chosen soldiers; I have summoned the warriors through whom I will vent my anger, my boasting, arrogant ones.
- Isaiah 13:4 - There is a loud noise on the mountains – it sounds like a large army! There is great commotion among the kingdoms – nations are being assembled! The Lord who commands armies is mustering forces for battle.
- Isaiah 13:5 - They come from a distant land, from the horizon. It is the Lord with his instruments of judgment, coming to destroy the whole earth.
- Isaiah 13:6 - Wail, for the Lord’s day of judgment is near; it comes with all the destructive power of the sovereign judge.
- Isaiah 13:7 - For this reason all hands hang limp, every human heart loses its courage.
- Isaiah 13:8 - They panic – cramps and pain seize hold of them like those of a woman who is straining to give birth. They look at one another in astonishment; their faces are flushed red.
- Isaiah 13:9 - Look, the Lord’s day of judgment is coming; it is a day of cruelty and savage, raging anger, destroying the earth and annihilating its sinners.
- Isaiah 13:10 - Indeed the stars in the sky and their constellations no longer give out their light; the sun is darkened as soon as it rises, and the moon does not shine.
- Isaiah 13:11 - I will punish the world for its evil, and wicked people for their sin. I will put an end to the pride of the insolent, I will bring down the arrogance of tyrants.
- Isaiah 13:12 - I will make human beings more scarce than pure gold, and people more scarce than gold from Ophir.
- Isaiah 13:13 - So I will shake the heavens, and the earth will shake loose from its foundation, because of the fury of the Lord who commands armies, in the day he vents his raging anger.
- Isaiah 13:14 - Like a frightened gazelle or a sheep with no shepherd, each will turn toward home, each will run to his homeland.
- Revelation 18:1 - After these things I saw another angel, who possessed great authority, coming down out of heaven, and the earth was lit up by his radiance.
- Revelation 18:2 - He shouted with a powerful voice: “Fallen, fallen, is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detested beast.
- Revelation 18:3 - For all the nations have fallen from the wine of her immoral passion, and the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have gotten rich from the power of her sensual behavior.”
- Revelation 18:4 - Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, so you will not take part in her sins and so you will not receive her plagues,
- Revelation 18:5 - because her sins have piled up all the way to heaven and God has remembered her crimes.
- Revelation 18:6 - Repay her the same way she repaid others; pay her back double corresponding to her deeds. In the cup she mixed, mix double the amount for her.
- Revelation 18:7 - As much as she exalted herself and lived in sensual luxury, to this extent give her torment and grief because she said to herself, ‘I rule as queen and am no widow; I will never experience grief!’
- Revelation 18:8 - For this reason, she will experience her plagues in a single day: disease, mourning, and famine, and she will be burned down with fire, because the Lord God who judges her is powerful!”
- Revelation 18:9 - Then the kings of the earth who committed immoral acts with her and lived in sensual luxury with her will weep and wail for her when they see the smoke from the fire that burns her up.
- Revelation 18:10 - They will stand a long way off because they are afraid of her torment, and will say, “Woe, woe, O great city, Babylon the powerful city! For in a single hour your doom has come!”
- Revelation 18:11 - Then the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn for her because no one buys their cargo any longer –
- Revelation 18:12 - cargo such as gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple cloth, silk, scarlet cloth, all sorts of things made of citron wood, all sorts of objects made of ivory, all sorts of things made of expensive wood, bronze, iron and marble,
- Revelation 18:13 - cinnamon, spice, incense, perfumed ointment, frankincense, wine, olive oil and costly flour, wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and four-wheeled carriages, slaves and human lives.
- Revelation 18:14 - (The ripe fruit you greatly desired has gone from you, and all your luxury and splendor have gone from you – they will never ever be found again!)
- Revelation 18:15 - The merchants who sold these things, who got rich from her, will stand a long way off because they are afraid of her torment. They will weep and mourn,
- Revelation 18:16 - saying, “Woe, woe, O great city – dressed in fine linen, purple and scarlet clothing, and adorned with gold, precious stones, and pearls –
- Revelation 18:17 - because in a single hour such great wealth has been destroyed!” And every ship’s captain, and all who sail along the coast – seamen, and all who make their living from the sea, stood a long way off
- Revelation 18:18 - and began to shout when they saw the smoke from the fire that burned her up, “Who is like the great city?”
- Revelation 18:19 - And they threw dust on their heads and were shouting with weeping and mourning, “Woe, Woe, O great city – in which all those who had ships on the sea got rich from her wealth – because in a single hour she has been destroyed!”
- Revelation 18:20 - (Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, for God has pronounced judgment against her on your behalf!)
- Revelation 18:21 - Then one powerful angel picked up a stone like a huge millstone, threw it into the sea, and said, “With this kind of sudden violent force Babylon the great city will be thrown down and it will never be found again!
- Revelation 18:22 - And the sound of the harpists, musicians, flute players, and trumpeters will never be heard in you again. No craftsman who practices any trade will ever be found in you again; the noise of a mill will never be heard in you again.
- Revelation 18:23 - Even the light from a lamp will never shine in you again! The voices of the bridegroom and his bride will never be heard in you again. For your merchants were the tycoons of the world, because all the nations were deceived by your magic spells!
- Revelation 18:24 - The blood of the saints and prophets was found in her, along with the blood of all those who had been killed on the earth.”
- Habakkuk 2:16 - But you will become drunk with shame, not majesty. Now it is your turn to drink and expose your uncircumcised foreskin! The cup of wine in the Lord’s right hand is coming to you, and disgrace will replace your majestic glory!
- Daniel 5:1 - King Belshazzar prepared a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in front of them all.
- Daniel 5:2 - While under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar issued an order to bring in the gold and silver vessels – the ones that Nebuchadnezzar his father had confiscated from the temple in Jerusalem – so that the king and his nobles, together with his wives and his concubines, could drink from them.
- Daniel 5:3 - So they brought the gold and silver vessels that had been confiscated from the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, together with his wives and concubines, drank from them.
- Daniel 5:4 - As they drank wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
- Daniel 5:5 - At that very moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the royal palace wall, opposite the lampstand. The king was watching the back of the hand that was writing.
- Daniel 5:6 - Then all the color drained from the king’s face and he became alarmed. The joints of his hips gave way, and his knees began knocking together.
- Daniel 5:7 - The king called out loudly to summon the astrologers, wise men, and diviners. The king proclaimed to the wise men of Babylon that anyone who could read this inscription and disclose its interpretation would be clothed in purple and have a golden collar placed on his neck and be third ruler in the kingdom.
- Daniel 5:8 - So all the king’s wise men came in, but they were unable to read the writing or to make known its interpretation to the king.
- Daniel 5:9 - Then King Belshazzar was very terrified, and he was visibly shaken. His nobles were completely dumbfounded.
- Daniel 5:10 - Due to the noise caused by the king and his nobles, the queen mother then entered the banquet room. She said, “O king, live forever! Don’t be alarmed! Don’t be shaken!
- Daniel 5:11 - There is a man in your kingdom who has within him a spirit of the holy gods. In the days of your father, he proved to have insight, discernment, and wisdom like that of the gods. King Nebuchadnezzar your father appointed him chief of the magicians, astrologers, wise men, and diviners.
- Daniel 5:12 - Thus there was found in this man Daniel, whom the king renamed Belteshazzar, an extraordinary spirit, knowledge, and skill to interpret dreams, solve riddles, and decipher knotty problems. Now summon Daniel, and he will disclose the interpretation.”
- Daniel 5:13 - So Daniel was brought in before the king. The king said to Daniel, “Are you that Daniel who is one of the captives of Judah, whom my father the king brought from Judah?
- Daniel 5:14 - I have heard about you, how there is a spirit of the gods in you, and how you have insight, discernment, and extraordinary wisdom.
- Daniel 5:15 - Now the wise men and astrologers were brought before me to read this writing and make known to me its interpretation. But they were unable to disclose the interpretation of the message.
- Daniel 5:16 - However, I have heard that you are able to provide interpretations and to decipher knotty problems. Now if you are able to read this writing and make known to me its interpretation, you will wear purple and have a golden collar around your neck and be third ruler in the kingdom.”
- Daniel 5:17 - But Daniel replied to the king, “Keep your gifts, and give your rewards to someone else! However, I will read the writing for the king and make known its interpretation.
- Daniel 5:18 - As for you, O king, the most high God bestowed on your father Nebuchadnezzar a kingdom, greatness, honor, and majesty.
- Daniel 5:19 - Due to the greatness that he bestowed on him, all peoples, nations, and language groups were trembling with fear before him. He killed whom he wished, he spared whom he wished, he exalted whom he wished, and he brought low whom he wished.
- Daniel 5:20 - And when his mind became arrogant and his spirit filled with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and his honor was removed from him.
- Daniel 5:21 - He was driven from human society, his mind was changed to that of an animal, he lived with the wild donkeys, he was fed grass like oxen, and his body became damp with the dew of the sky, until he came to understand that the most high God rules over human kingdoms, and he appoints over them whomever he wishes.
- Daniel 5:22 - “But you, his son Belshazzar, have not humbled yourself, although you knew all this.
- Daniel 5:23 - Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. You brought before you the vessels from his temple, and you and your nobles, together with your wives and concubines, drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone – gods that cannot see or hear or comprehend! But you have not glorified the God who has in his control your very breath and all your ways!
- Daniel 5:24 - Therefore the palm of a hand was sent from him, and this writing was inscribed.
- Daniel 5:25 - “This is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEQEL, and PHARSIN.
- Daniel 5:26 - This is the interpretation of the words: As for mene – God has numbered your kingdom’s days and brought it to an end.
- Daniel 5:27 - As for teqel – you are weighed on the balances and found to be lacking.
- Daniel 5:28 - As for peres – your kingdom is divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”
- Daniel 5:29 - Then, on Belshazzar’s orders, Daniel was clothed in purple, a golden collar was placed around his neck, and he was proclaimed third ruler in the kingdom.
- Daniel 5:30 - And in that very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, was killed.
- Daniel 5:31 - (6:1) So Darius the Mede took control of the kingdom when he was about sixty-two years old.
- Isaiah 47:1 - “Fall down! Sit in the dirt, O virgin daughter Babylon! Sit on the ground, not on a throne, O daughter of the Babylonians! Indeed, you will no longer be called delicate and pampered.
- Isaiah 47:2 - Pick up millstones and grind flour! Remove your veil, strip off your skirt, expose your legs, cross the streams!
- Isaiah 47:3 - Let your private parts be exposed! Your genitals will be on display! I will get revenge; I will not have pity on anyone,”
- Isaiah 47:4 - says our protector – the Lord who commands armies is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
- Isaiah 47:5 - “Sit silently! Go to a hiding place, O daughter of the Babylonians! Indeed, you will no longer be called ‘Queen of kingdoms.’
- Isaiah 47:6 - I was angry at my people; I defiled my special possession and handed them over to you. You showed them no mercy; you even placed a very heavy burden on old people.
- Isaiah 47:7 - You said, ‘I will rule forever as permanent queen!’ You did not think about these things; you did not consider how it would turn out.
- Isaiah 47:8 - So now, listen to this, O one who lives so lavishly, who lives securely, who says to herself, ‘I am unique! No one can compare to me! I will never have to live as a widow; I will never lose my children.’
- Isaiah 47:9 - Both of these will come upon you suddenly, in one day! You will lose your children and be widowed. You will be overwhelmed by these tragedies, despite your many incantations and your numerous amulets.
- Isaiah 47:10 - You were complacent in your evil deeds; you thought, ‘No one sees me.’ Your self-professed wisdom and knowledge lead you astray, when you say, ‘I am unique! No one can compare to me!’
- Isaiah 47:11 - Disaster will overtake you; you will not know how to charm it away. Destruction will fall on you; you will not be able to appease it. Calamity will strike you suddenly, before you recognize it.
- Isaiah 47:12 - Persist in trusting your amulets and your many incantations, which you have faithfully recited since your youth! Maybe you will be successful – maybe you will scare away disaster.
- Isaiah 47:13 - You are tired out from listening to so much advice. Let them take their stand – the ones who see omens in the sky, who gaze at the stars, who make monthly predictions – let them rescue you from the disaster that is about to overtake you!
- Isaiah 47:14 - Look, they are like straw, which the fire burns up; they cannot rescue themselves from the heat of the flames. There are no coals to warm them, no firelight to enjoy.
- Isaiah 47:15 - They will disappoint you, those you have so faithfully dealt with since your youth. Each strays off in his own direction, leaving no one to rescue you.”
- Jeremiah 25:9 - So I, the Lord, affirm that I will send for all the peoples of the north and my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and all the nations that surround it. I will utterly destroy this land, its inhabitants, and all the nations that surround it and make them everlasting ruins. I will make them objects of horror and hissing scorn.
- Jeremiah 51:41 - “See how Babylon has been captured! See how the pride of the whole earth has been taken! See what an object of horror Babylon has become among the nations!