12:1 Now the Lord said 1 to Abram, 2
“Go out 3 from your country, your relatives, and your father’s household
to the land that I will show you. 4
12:2 Then I will make you 5 into a great nation, and I will bless you, 6
and I will make your name great, 7
so that you will exemplify divine blessing. 8
12:3 I will bless those who bless you, 9
but the one who treats you lightly 10 I must curse,
and all the families of the earth will bless one another 11 by your name.”
12:4 So Abram left, 12 just as the Lord had told him to do, 13 and Lot went with him. (Now 14 Abram was 75 years old 15 when he departed from Haran.) 12:5 And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew 16 Lot, and all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired 17 in Haran, and they left for 18 the land of Canaan. They entered the land of Canaan.
12:6 Abram traveled through the land as far as the oak tree 19 of Moreh 20 at Shechem. 21 (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.) 22 12:7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants 23 I will give this land.” So Abram 24 built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
12:8 Then he moved from there to the hill country east of Bethel 25 and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and worshiped the Lord. 26 12:9 Abram continually journeyed by stages 27 down to the Negev. 28
12:10 There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt 29 to stay for a while 30 because the famine was severe. 31 12:11 As he approached 32 Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, 33 I know that you are a beautiful woman. 34 12:12 When the Egyptians see you they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will keep you alive. 35 12:13 So tell them 36 you are my sister 37 so that it may go well 38 for me because of you and my life will be spared 39 on account of you.”
12:14 When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. 12:15 When Pharaoh’s officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. So Abram’s wife 40 was taken 41 into the household of Pharaoh, 42 12:16 and he did treat Abram well 43 on account of her. Abram received 44 sheep and cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
12:17 But the Lord struck Pharaoh and his household with severe diseases 45 because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. 12:18 So Pharaoh summoned Abram and said, “What is this 46 you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife? 12:19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her 47 to be my wife? 48 Here is your wife! 49 Take her and go!” 50 12:20 Pharaoh gave his men orders about Abram, 51 and so they expelled him, along with his wife and all his possessions.
50:1 Then Joseph hugged his father’s face. 52 He wept over him and kissed him. 50:2 Joseph instructed the physicians in his service 53 to embalm his father, so the physicians embalmed Israel. 50:3 They took forty days, for that is the full time needed for embalming. 54 The Egyptians mourned 55 for him seventy days. 56
50:4 When the days of mourning 57 had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s royal court, 58 “If I have found favor in your sight, please say to Pharaoh, 59 50:5 ‘My father made me swear an oath. He said, 60 “I am about to die. Bury me 61 in my tomb that I dug for myself there in the land of Canaan.” Now let me go and bury my father; then I will return.’” 50:6 So Pharaoh said, “Go and bury your father, just as he made you swear to do.” 62
50:7 So Joseph went up to bury his father; all Pharaoh’s officials went with him – the senior courtiers 63 of his household, all the senior officials of the land of Egypt, 50:8 all Joseph’s household, his brothers, and his father’s household. But they left their little children and their flocks and herds in the land of Goshen. 50:9 Chariots and horsemen also went up with him, so it was a very large entourage. 64
50:10 When they came to the threshing floor of Atad 65 on the other side of the Jordan, they mourned there with very great and bitter sorrow. 66 There Joseph observed a seven day period of mourning for his father. 50:11 When the Canaanites who lived in the land saw them mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a very sad occasion 67 for the Egyptians.” That is why its name was called 68 Abel Mizraim, 69 which is beyond the Jordan.
50:12 So the sons of Jacob did for him just as he had instructed them. 50:13 His sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, near Mamre. This is the field Abraham purchased as a burial plot from Ephron the Hittite. 50:14 After he buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, along with his brothers and all who had accompanied him to bury his father.
50:15 When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph bears a grudge and wants to repay 70 us in full 71 for all the harm 72 we did to him?” 50:16 So they sent word 73 to Joseph, saying, “Your father gave these instructions before he died: 50:17 ‘Tell Joseph this: Please forgive the sin of your brothers and the wrong they did when they treated you so badly.’ Now please forgive the sin of the servants of the God of your father.” When this message was reported to him, Joseph wept. 74 50:18 Then his brothers also came and threw themselves down before him; they said, “Here we are; we are your slaves.” 50:19 But Joseph answered them, “Don’t be afraid. Am 75 I in the place of God? 50:20 As for you, you meant to harm me, 76 but God intended it for a good purpose, so he could preserve the lives of many people, as you can see this day. 77 50:21 So now, don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your little children.” Then he consoled them and spoke kindly 78 to them.
50:22 Joseph lived in Egypt, along with his father’s family. 79 Joseph lived 110 years. 50:23 Joseph saw the descendants of Ephraim to the third generation. 80 He also saw the children of Makir the son of Manasseh; they were given special inheritance rights by Joseph. 81
50:24 Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die. But God will surely come to you 82 and lead you up from this land to the land he swore on oath to give 83 to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.” 50:25 Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath. He said, “God will surely come to you. Then you must carry my bones up from this place.” 50:26 So Joseph died at the age of 110. 84 After they embalmed him, his body 85 was placed in a coffin in Egypt.
50:1 Then Joseph hugged his father’s face. 86 He wept over him and kissed him.
13:1 87 This is a message about Babylon that God revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz: 88
13:2 89 On a bare hill raise a signal flag,
shout to them,
wave your hand,
so they might enter the gates of the princes!
13:3 I have given orders to my chosen soldiers; 90
I have summoned the warriors through whom I will vent my anger, 91
my boasting, arrogant ones. 92
13:4 93 There is a loud noise on the mountains –
it sounds like a large army! 94
There is great commotion among the kingdoms 95 –
nations are being assembled!
The Lord who commands armies is mustering
forces for battle.
13:5 They come from a distant land,
from the horizon. 96
It is the Lord with his instruments of judgment, 97
coming to destroy the whole earth. 98
13:6 Wail, for the Lord’s day of judgment 99 is near;
it comes with all the destructive power of the sovereign judge. 100
13:7 For this reason all hands hang limp, 101
every human heart loses its courage. 102
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. 103
13:9 Look, the Lord’s day of judgment 104 is coming;
it is a day of cruelty and savage, raging anger, 105
destroying 106 the earth 107
and annihilating its sinners.
13:10 Indeed the stars in the sky and their constellations
no longer give out their light; 108
the sun is darkened as soon as it rises,
and the moon does not shine. 109
13:11 110 I will punish the world for its evil, 111
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. 112
13:12 I will make human beings more scarce than pure gold,
and people more scarce 113 than gold from Ophir.
13:13 So I will shake the heavens, 114
and the earth will shake loose from its foundation, 115
because of the fury of the Lord who commands armies,
in the day he vents his raging anger. 116
13:14 Like a frightened gazelle 117
or a sheep with no shepherd,
each will turn toward home, 118
each will run to his homeland.
13:15 Everyone who is caught will be stabbed;
everyone who is seized 119 will die 120 by the sword.
13:16 Their children will be smashed to pieces before their very eyes;
their houses will be looted
and their wives raped.
13:17 Look, I am stirring up the Medes to attack them; 121
they are not concerned about silver,
nor are they interested in gold. 122
13:18 Their arrows will cut young men to ribbons; 123
they have no compassion on a person’s offspring, 124
they will not 125 look with pity on children.
13:19 Babylon, the most admired 126 of kingdoms,
the Chaldeans’ source of honor and pride, 127
will be destroyed by God
just as Sodom and Gomorrah were. 128
13:20 No one will live there again;
no one will ever reside there again. 129
No bedouin 130 will camp 131 there,
no shepherds will rest their flocks 132 there.
13:21 Wild animals will rest there,
the ruined 133 houses will be full of hyenas. 134
Ostriches will live there,
wild goats will skip among the ruins. 135
13:22 Wild dogs will yip in her ruined fortresses,
jackals will yelp in the once-splendid palaces. 136
Her time is almost up, 137
her days will not be prolonged. 138
14:1 The Lord will certainly have compassion on Jacob; 139 he will again choose Israel as his special people 140 and restore 141 them to their land. Resident foreigners will join them and unite with the family 142 of Jacob. 14:2 Nations will take them and bring them back to their own place. Then the family of Jacob will make foreigners their servants as they settle in the Lord’s land. 143 They will make their captors captives and rule over the ones who oppressed them. 14:3 When the Lord gives you relief from your suffering and anxiety, 144 and from the hard labor which you were made to perform, 14:4 you will taunt the king of Babylon with these words: 145
“Look how the oppressor has met his end!
Hostility 146 has ceased!
14:5 The Lord has broken the club of the wicked,
the scepter of rulers.
14:6 It 147 furiously struck down nations
with unceasing blows. 148
It angrily ruled over nations,
oppressing them without restraint. 149
14:7 The whole earth rests and is quiet;
they break into song.
14:8 The evergreens also rejoice over your demise, 150
as do the cedars of Lebanon, singing, 151
‘Since you fell asleep, 152
no woodsman comes up to chop us down!’ 153
14:9 Sheol 154 below is stirred up about you,
ready to meet you when you arrive.
It rouses 155 the spirits of the dead for you,
all the former leaders of the earth; 156
it makes all the former kings of the nations
rise from their thrones. 157
14:10 All of them respond to you, saying:
‘You too have become weak like us!
You have become just like us!
14:11 Your splendor 158 has been brought down to Sheol,
as well as the sound of your stringed instruments. 159
You lie on a bed of maggots,
with a blanket of worms over you. 160
14:12 Look how you have fallen from the sky,
O shining one, son of the dawn! 161
You have been cut down to the ground,
O conqueror 162 of the nations! 163
14:13 You said to yourself, 164
“I will climb up to the sky.
Above the stars of El 165
I will set up my throne.
I will rule on the mountain of assembly
on the remote slopes of Zaphon. 166
14:14 I will climb up to the tops 167 of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High!” 168
14:15 But you were brought down 169 to Sheol,
to the remote slopes of the pit. 170
14:16 Those who see you stare at you,
they look at you carefully, thinking: 171
“Is this the man who shook the earth,
the one who made kingdoms tremble?
14:17 Is this the one who made the world like a desert,
who ruined its 172 cities,
and refused to free his prisoners so they could return home?”’ 173
14:18 174 As for all the kings of the nations,
all of them 175 lie down in splendor, 176
each in his own tomb. 177
14:19 But you have been thrown out of your grave
like a shoot that is thrown away. 178
You lie among 179 the slain,
among those who have been slashed by the sword,
among those headed for 180 the stones of the pit, 181
as if you were a mangled corpse. 182
14:20 You will not be buried with them, 183
because you destroyed your land
and killed your people.
The offspring of the wicked
will never be mentioned again.
14:21 Prepare to execute 184 his sons
for the sins their ancestors have committed. 185
They must not rise up and take possession of the earth,
or fill the surface of the world with cities.” 186
14:22 “I will rise up against them,”
says the Lord who commands armies.
“I will blot out all remembrance of Babylon and destroy all her people, 187
including the offspring she produces,” 188
says the Lord.
14:23 “I will turn her into a place that is overrun with wild animals 189
and covered with pools of stagnant water.
I will get rid of her, just as one sweeps away dirt with a broom,” 190
says the Lord who commands armies.
14:24 191 The Lord who commands armies makes this solemn vow:
“Be sure of this:
Just as I have intended, so it will be;
just as I have planned, it will happen.
14:25 I will break Assyria 192 in my land,
I will trample them 193 underfoot on my hills.
Their yoke will be removed from my people,
the burden will be lifted from their shoulders. 194
14:26 This is the plan I have devised for the whole earth;
my hand is ready to strike all the nations.” 195
14:27 Indeed, 196 the Lord who commands armies has a plan,
and who can possibly frustrate it?
His hand is ready to strike,
and who can possibly stop it? 197
14:28 In the year King Ahaz died, 198 this message was revealed: 199
14:29 Don’t be so happy, all you Philistines,
just because the club that beat you has been broken! 200
For a viper will grow out of the serpent’s root,
and its fruit will be a darting adder. 201
14:30 The poor will graze in my pastures; 202
the needy will rest securely.
But I will kill your root by famine;
it will put to death all your survivors. 203
14:31 Wail, O city gate!
Cry out, O city!
Melt with fear, 204 all you Philistines!
For out of the north comes a cloud of smoke,
and there are no stragglers in its ranks. 205
14:32 How will they respond to the messengers of this nation? 206
Indeed, the Lord has made Zion secure;
the oppressed among his people will find safety in her.
47:1 “Fall down! Sit in the dirt,
O virgin 207 daughter Babylon!
Sit on the ground, not on a throne,
O daughter of the Babylonians!
Indeed, 208 you will no longer be called delicate and pampered.
47:2 Pick up millstones and grind flour!
Remove your veil,
strip off your skirt,
expose your legs,
cross the streams!
47:3 Let your private parts be exposed!
Your genitals will be on display! 209
I will get revenge;
I will not have pity on anyone,” 210
47:4 says our protector –
the Lord who commands armies is his name,
the Holy One of Israel. 211
47:5 “Sit silently! Go to a hiding place, 212
O daughter of the Babylonians!
Indeed, 213 you will no longer be called ‘Queen of kingdoms.’
47:6 I was angry at my people;
I defiled my special possession
and handed them over to you.
You showed them no mercy; 214
you even placed a very heavy burden on old people. 215
47:7 You said,
‘I will rule forever as permanent queen!’ 216
You did not think about these things; 217
you did not consider how it would turn out. 218
47:8 So now, listen to this,
O one who lives so lavishly, 219
who lives securely,
who says to herself, 220
‘I am unique! No one can compare to me! 221
I will never have to live as a widow;
I will never lose my children.’ 222
47:9 Both of these will come upon you
suddenly, in one day!
You will lose your children and be widowed. 223
You will be overwhelmed by these tragedies, 224
despite 225 your many incantations
and your numerous amulets. 226
47:10 You were complacent in your evil deeds; 227
you thought, 228 ‘No one sees me.’
Your self-professed 229 wisdom and knowledge lead you astray,
when you say, ‘I am unique! No one can compare to me!’ 230
47:11 Disaster will overtake you;
you will not know how to charm it away. 231
Destruction will fall on you;
you will not be able to appease it.
Calamity will strike you suddenly,
before you recognize it. 232
47:12 Persist 233 in trusting 234 your amulets
and your many incantations,
which you have faithfully recited 235 since your youth!
Maybe you will be successful 236 –
maybe you will scare away disaster. 237
47:13 You are tired out from listening to so much advice. 238
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! 239
47:14 Look, they are like straw,
which the fire burns up;
they cannot rescue themselves
from the heat 240 of the flames.
There are no coals to warm them,
no firelight to enjoy. 241
47:15 They will disappoint you, 242
those you have so faithfully dealt with since your youth. 243
Each strays off in his own direction, 244
leaving no one to rescue you.”
5:1 King Belshazzar 245 prepared a great banquet 246 for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in front of 247 them all. 248 5:2 While under the influence 249 of the wine, Belshazzar issued an order to bring in the gold and silver vessels – the ones that Nebuchadnezzar his father 250 had confiscated 251 from the temple in Jerusalem 252 – so that the king and his nobles, together with his wives and his concubines, could drink from them. 253 5:3 So they brought the gold and silver 254 vessels that had been confiscated from the temple, the house of God 255 in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, together with his wives and concubines, drank from them. 5:4 As they drank wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
5:5 At that very moment the fingers of a human hand appeared 256 and wrote on the plaster of the royal palace wall, opposite the lampstand. 257 The king was watching the back 258 of the hand that was writing. 5:6 Then all the color drained from the king’s face 259 and he became alarmed. 260 The joints of his hips gave way, 261 and his knees began knocking together. 5:7 The king called out loudly 262 to summon 263 the astrologers, wise men, and diviners. The king proclaimed 264 to the wise men of Babylon that anyone who could read this inscription and disclose its interpretation would be clothed in purple 265 and have a golden collar 266 placed on his neck and be third ruler in the kingdom.
5:8 So all the king’s wise men came in, but they were unable to read the writing or to make known its 267 interpretation to the king. 5:9 Then King Belshazzar was very terrified, and he was visibly shaken. 268 His nobles were completely dumbfounded.
5:10 Due to the noise 269 caused by the king and his nobles, the queen mother 270 then entered the banquet room. She 271 said, “O king, live forever! Don’t be alarmed! Don’t be shaken! 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 272 insight, discernment, and wisdom like that 273 of the gods. 274 King Nebuchadnezzar your father appointed him chief of the magicians, astrologers, wise men, and diviners. 275 5:12 Thus there was found in this man Daniel, whom the king renamed Belteshazzar, an extraordinary spirit, knowledge, and skill to interpret 276 dreams, solve riddles, and decipher knotty problems. 277 Now summon 278 Daniel, and he will disclose the interpretation.”
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? 5:14 I have heard about you, how there is a spirit of the gods in you, and how you have 279 insight, discernment, and extraordinary wisdom. 5:15 Now the wise men and 280 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. 5:16 However, I have heard 281 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 282 ruler in the kingdom.”
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 283 interpretation. 5:18 As for you, O king, the most high God bestowed on your father Nebuchadnezzar a kingdom, greatness, honor, and majesty. 284 5:19 Due to the greatness that he bestowed on him, all peoples, nations, and language groups were trembling with fear 285 before him. He killed whom he wished, he spared 286 whom he wished, he exalted whom he wished, and he brought low whom he wished. 5:20 And when his mind 287 became arrogant 288 and his spirit filled with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and his honor was removed from him. 5:21 He was driven from human society, his mind 289 was changed to that of an animal, he lived 290 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.
5:22 “But you, his son 291 Belshazzar, have not humbled yourself, 292 although you knew all this. 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 293 that cannot see or hear or comprehend! But you have not glorified the God who has in his control 294 your very breath and all your ways! 5:24 Therefore the palm of a hand was sent from him, and this writing was inscribed.
5:25 “This is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, 295 TEQEL, and PHARSIN. 296 5:26 This is the interpretation of the words: 297 As for mene 298 – God has numbered your kingdom’s days and brought it to an end. 5:27 As for teqel – you are weighed on the balances and found to be lacking. 5:28 As for peres 299 – your kingdom is divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”
5:29 Then, on Belshazzar’s orders, 300 Daniel was clothed in purple, a golden collar was placed around his neck, and he was proclaimed third ruler in the kingdom. 5:30 And in that very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, 301 was killed. 302 5:31 (6:1) 303 So Darius the Mede took control of the kingdom when he was about sixty-two years old.
2:16 But you will become drunk 304 with shame, not majesty. 305
Now it is your turn to drink and expose your uncircumcised foreskin! 306
The cup of wine in the Lord’s right hand 307 is coming to you,
and disgrace will replace your majestic glory!
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. 308 18:2 He 309 shouted with a powerful voice:
“Fallen, fallen, is Babylon the great!
She 310 has become a lair for demons,
a haunt 311 for every unclean spirit,
a haunt for every unclean bird,
a haunt for every unclean and detested beast. 312
18:3 For all the nations 313 have fallen 314 from
the wine of her immoral passion, 315
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.” 316
18:4 Then 317 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, 18:5 because her sins have piled 318 up all the way to heaven 319 and God has remembered 320 her crimes. 321 18:6 Repay her the same way she repaid others; 322 pay her back double 323 corresponding to her deeds. In the cup she mixed, mix double the amount for her. 18:7 As much as 324 she exalted herself and lived in sensual luxury, 325 to this extent give her torment and grief because she said to herself, 326 ‘I rule as queen and am no widow; I will never experience grief!’ 18:8 For this reason, she will experience her plagues 327 in a single day: disease, 328 mourning, 329 and famine, and she will be burned down 330 with fire, because the Lord God who judges her is powerful!”
18:9 Then 331 the kings of the earth who committed immoral acts with her and lived in sensual luxury 332 with her will weep and wail for her when they see the smoke from the fire that burns her up. 333 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 334 has come!”
18:11 Then 335 the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn for her because no one buys their cargo 336 any longer – 18:12 cargo such as gold, silver, 337 precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple cloth, silk, 338 scarlet cloth, 339 all sorts of things made of citron wood, 340 all sorts of objects made of ivory, all sorts of things made of expensive wood, bronze, iron and marble, 18:13 cinnamon, spice, 341 incense, perfumed ointment, 342 frankincense, 343 wine, olive oil and costly flour, 344 wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and four-wheeled carriages, 345 slaves and human lives. 346
18:14 (The ripe fruit 347 you greatly desired 348
has gone from you,
and all your luxury 349 and splendor 350
have gone from you –
they will never ever be found again!) 351
18:15 The merchants who sold 352 these things, who got rich from her, will stand a long way off because they are afraid of her torment. They will weep 353 and mourn, 18:16 saying,
“Woe, woe, O great city –
dressed in fine linen, purple and scarlet clothing, 354
and adorned with gold, 355 precious stones, and pearls –
18:17 because in a single hour such great wealth has been destroyed!” 356
And every ship’s captain, 357 and all who sail along the coast 358 – seamen, and all who 359 make their living from the sea, stood a long way off 18:18 and began to shout 360 when they saw the smoke from the fire that burned her up, 361 “Who is like the great city?” 18:19 And they threw dust on their heads and were shouting with weeping and mourning, 362
“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!” 363
18:20 (Rejoice over her, O heaven,
and you saints and apostles and prophets,
for God has pronounced judgment 364 against her on your behalf!) 365
18:21 Then 366 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 367
Babylon the great city will be thrown down 368
and it will never be found again!
18:22 And the sound of the harpists, musicians,
flute players, and trumpeters
will never be heard in you 369 again.
No 370 craftsman 371 who practices any trade
will ever be found in you again;
the noise of a mill 372 will never be heard in you again.
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 373 were deceived by your magic spells! 374
18:24 The 375 blood of the saints and prophets was found in her, 376
along with the blood 377 of all those who had been killed on the earth.”