13 After that God said to Noah: “The end of all flesh has come before me,+ because the earth is full of violence as a result of them; and here I am bringing them to ruin together with the earth.+

17 And Jehovah* said: “Am I keeping covered from Abraham what I am doing?+

23 And now here Jehovah has put a deceptive spirit into the mouth of all these prophets of yours;+ but Jehovah himself has spoken calamity concerning you.”+

17 for this is what Jehovah has said: “YOU men will not see a wind, and YOU will not see a downpour; yet that torrent valley will be filled with water,+ and YOU men will certainly drink [from it],+ YOU and YOUR livestock and YOUR domestic animals.”’

20 “That is why here I am gathering+ you to your forefathers, and you will certainly be gathered to your own graveyard* in peace,+ and your eyes will not look upon all the calamity that I am bringing upon this place.”’” And they proceeded to bring the king the reply.

9 “The first things—here they have come,+ but new things I am telling out. Before they begin to spring up, I cause YOU people to hear [them].”+

22 And he proceeded to impart understanding and speak with me and say:

“O Daniel, now I have come forth to make you have insight with understanding.+

2 And now what is truth I shall tell to you:+

“Look! There will yet be three kings standing up for Persia,+ and the fourth one+ will amass greater riches than all [others].+ And as soon as he has become strong in his riches, he will rouse up everything against the kingdom of Greece.*+

15 I no longer call YOU slaves, because a slave does not know what his master does. But I have called YOU friends,+ because all the things I have heard from my Father I have made known to YOU.+

1 A revelation*+ by Jesus Christ, which God gave him,+ to show his slaves+ the things that must shortly* take place.+ And he sent forth his angel+ and presented [it] in signs+ through him to his slave John,+