²⁷ As for both these kings, their hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table: but it shall not prosper; for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.

³ For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won't prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won't delay.

³⁵ Some of those who are wise shall fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed.

⁶ They plot injustice, saying, "We have made a perfect plan!" Surely man's mind and heart are cunning.

² Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

¹ > Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God's loving kindness endures continually.

³ They bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't know me, says Yahweh.

⁴ Take you heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't you trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.

⁵ They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.

¹ Now it happened in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal and [one of] the chief officers of the king, and ten men with him, came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they ate bread together in Mizpah.

² Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men who were with him, and struck Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword, and killed him, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.

³ Ishmael also killed all the Jews who were with him, [to wit], with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans who were found there, the men of war.

¹⁹ He said, Behold, I will make you know what shall be in the latter time of the indignation; for it belongs to the appointed time of the end.

⁴⁰ At the time of the end shall the king of the south contend with him; and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass through.

¹ But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you.

³¹ because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead."

⁷ He said to them, "It isn't for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within His own authority.

² No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.

⁹ Surely men of low degree are just a breath, And men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

²⁰ Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, But joy comes to the promoters of peace.

²¹ There are many plans in a man's heart, But Yahweh's counsel will prevail.

⁶ Don't eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, And don't crave his delicacies:

⁷ For as he thinks about the cost, so he is. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, But his heart is not with you.

⁸ The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, And lose your good words.

²³ Like silver dross on an earthen vessel Are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart.

⁹ Say you, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots of it, and cut off the fruit of it, that it may wither; that all its fresh springing leaves may wither? and not by a strong arm or much people can it be raised from the roots of it.

¹ In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, even a great warfare: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.

²⁹ At the time appointed he shall return, and come into the south; but it shall not be in the latter time as it was in the former.

²⁶ Then said Absalom, If not, please let my brother Amnon go with us. The king said to him, Why should he go with you?