Daniel 12:8

Literal Standard Version

And I have heard, and I do not understand, and I say, O my lord, what [is] the latter end of these?

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I heard but did not understand. So I asked, “My lord, what will be the outcome of these things?”

Hebrew Names Version
I heard, but I didn't understand: then said I, my lord, what shall be the issue of these things?

King James Version
And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?

English Standard Version
I heard, but I did not understand. Then I said, "O my lord, what shall be the outcome of these things?"

New American Standard Bible
But as for me, I heard but did not understand; so I said, "My lord, what will be the outcome of these events?"

New Century Version
I heard the answer, but I did not really understand, so I asked, "Master, what will happen after all these things come true?"

Amplified Bible
As for me, I heard, but I did not understand; so I said, "My lord, what will be the outcome of these things?"

Geneva Bible (1587)
The I heard it, but I vnderstood it not: the said I, O my Lord, what shalbe ye end of these things?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
As for me, I heard but could not understand; so I said, "My lord, what will be the outcome of these events?"

Berean Standard Bible
I heard, but I did not understand. So I asked, "My lord, what will be the outcome of these things?"

Contemporary English Version
I heard what the angel said, but I didn't understand. So I asked, "Sir, how will it all end?" The angel in my vision then replied:

Complete Jewish Bible
I heard this, but I couldn't understand what it meant; so I asked, "Lord, what will be the outcome of all this?"

Darby Translation
And I heard, but I understood not. And I said, My lord, what shall be the end of these things?

Easy-to-Read Version
I heard the answer, but I really didn't understand. So I asked, "Sir, what will happen after all this comes true?"

George Lamsa Translation
And I, Daniel, heard something, but I did not understand; then I said, O my lord, what shall come after these things?

Good News Translation
I heard what he said, but I did not understand it. So I asked, "But, sir, how will it all end?"

Lexham English Bible
Now I myself heard, but I did not understand, and I said, "My lord, what will be the outcome of these things?"

Literal Translation
And I heard, but I did not understand. And I said, O my lord, what shall be the end of these things ?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I herde it well, but I vnderstode it not. Then sayde I: O my lorde, what shal happen after that?

American Standard Version
And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my lord, what shall be the issue of these things?

Bible in Basic English
And the words came to my ears, but the sense of them was not clear to me: then I said, O my lord, what is the sense of these things?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And I heard, but I understood not; then said I: 'O my Lord, what shall be the latter end of these things?'

King James Version (1611)
And I heard, but I vnderstood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shalbe the end of these things?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then I hearde it, but I vnderstoode it not: then sayde I, O my Lord, what shall be the ende of these thinges?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I heard, but I understood not: and I said, O Lord, what will be the end of these things?

English Revised Version
And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my lord, what shall be the issue of these things?

World English Bible
I heard, but I didn't understand: then said I, my lord, what shall be the issue of these things?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y herde, and vndurstood not; and Y seide, My lord, what schal be aftir these thingis?

Update Bible Version
And I heard, but I didn't understand: then I said, O my lord, what shall be the issue of these things?

Webster's Bible Translation
And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what [shall be] the end of these [things]?

New English Translation
I heard, but I did not understand. So I said, "Sir, what will happen after these things?"

New King James Version
Although I heard, I did not understand. Then I said, "My lord, what shall be the end of these things?"

New Living Translation
I heard what he said, but I did not understand what he meant. So I asked, "How will all this finally end, my lord?"

New Life Bible
I heard, but I did not understand. So I said, "My lord, how will it all end?"

New Revised Standard
I heard but could not understand; so I said, "My lord, what shall be the outcome of these things?"

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, I, heard, but could not understand, - so I said, O my lord! what shall be the issue of these things?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I heard, and understood not. And I said: O my lord, what shall be after these things?

Revised Standard Version
I heard, but I did not understand. Then I said, "O my lord, what shall be the issue of these things?"

Young's Literal Translation
And I have heard, and I do not understand, and I say, `O my lord, what [is] the latter end of these?'

THE MESSAGE
"I heard all this plainly enough, but I didn't understand it. So I asked, ‘Master, can you explain this to me?'

Contextual Overview

⁵"And I have looked—I, Daniel—and behold, two others are standing, one here at the edge of the flood and one there at the edge of the flood, ⁶and he says to the one clothed in linen, who [is] on the waters of the flood, Until when [is] the end of these wonders? ⁷And I hear the one clothed in linen, who [is] on the waters of the flood, and he lifts up his right hand and his left to the heavens, and swears by Him who is living for all time, that, After a time, times, and a half, and at the completion of the scattering of the power of the holy people, all these are finished. ⁸And I have heard, and I do not understand, and I say, O my lord, what [is] the latter end of these?⁹And he says, Go, Daniel; for hidden and sealed [are] the things until the time of the end. ¹⁰Purify themselves, indeed, make themselves white, indeed, many are refined: and the wicked have done wickedly, and none of the wicked understand, and those acting wisely understand; ¹¹and from the time of the turning aside of the continuous [sacrifice], and to the giving out of the desolating abomination, [are] one thousand, two hundred, and ninety days. ¹²O the blessedness of him who is waiting earnestly, and comes to the one thousand, three hundred, thirty-five days. ¹³And you, go on to the end, then you rest, and stand in your lot at the end of the days."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

but: Luke 18:34, John 12:16, Acts 1:7, 1 Peter 1:11

what: Daniel 12:6, Daniel 10:14

Reciprocal: Isaiah 48:6 - showed Daniel 8:15 - sought Daniel 8:19 - the last Daniel 10:16 - my Lord Zechariah 4:4 - What Mark 13:4 - General Luke 21:7 - when John 13:7 - What Revelation 5:4 - because Revelation 17:9 - here

Cross-References

Genesis 4:26
And to Seth, to him also a son has been born, and he calls his name Enos; then a beginning was made of preaching in the Name of YHWH.

Genesis 12:12
and it has come to pass that the Egyptians see you, and they have said, This [is] his wife; and they have slain me, and you they keep alive:

Genesis 12:14
And it comes to pass, at the entering of Abram into Egypt, that the Egyptians see the woman that she [is] exceedingly beautiful;

Genesis 12:15
and princes of Pharaoh see her, and praise her to Pharaoh, and the woman is taken [to] Pharaoh's house;

Genesis 12:16
and to Abram he has done good because of her, and he has sheep and oxen, and male donkeys, and menservants, and handmaids, and female donkeys, and camels.

Genesis 13:4
to the place of the altar which he made there at the first, and there Abram preaches in the Name of YHWH.

Genesis 21:33
and [Abraham] plants a tamarisk in Beer-Sheba, and preaches there in the Name of YHWH, the perpetual God;

Genesis 28:19
and he calls the name of that place Bethel, [house of God,] and yet, Luz [is] the name of the city at the first.

Genesis 35:3
and we rise, and go up to Bethel, and I make there an altar to God, who is answering me in the day of my tribulation, and is with me in the way that I have gone."

Joshua 7:2
And Joshua sends men from Jericho to Ai, which [is] near Beth-Aven, on the east of Bethel, and speaks to them, saying, "Go up and spy out the land"; and the men go up and spy Ai,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I heard, but understood not,.... Daniel heard what Christ said, in answer to the angel, but he did not understand the meaning of it, which he ingenuously confesses; he did not understand what was meant by "time", and "times", and "half a time"; what kind of time this was, and when and how it would end, and which he was very desirous of knowing:

then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? he applied not to the angel that put the above question, but to the man clothed with linen; to Christ, whom he perceived to be a divine Person, a Person of dominion, power, and authority, superior to angels, and his Lord and God; and who only could resolve the question he puts, which is somewhat different from that of the angel's, Daniel 12:6, that respects the length of time, to the accomplishment of these things; this the quality at the end of them, what kind of end they should have; or what the signs, symptoms, and evidences of the end of them, by which the true end of them might be known. Mr. Mede renders it, "what are these latter times?" perhaps it might be rendered better, "what is the last of these things?" o what is the last thing that will be done, that so it may be known when all is over?

o מה אחרית אלה "quid erit novissimum horum?" Munster; "postremum horum?" Calvin.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And I heard, but I understood not - He understood not the full significance of the language employed - “a time, and times, and an half.” This would make it probable that there was something more intended than merely three years and a half as the period of the continuation of these troubles. Daniel saw, apparently from the manner of the angel, as well as from the terms which he used, that there was something mystical and unusual in those terms, and he says, therefore, that he could not understand their full import.

Then said I, O my Lord - A term of civil address. The language is such as would be used by an inferior when respectfully addressing one of superior rank. It is not a term that is peculiarly appropriate to God, or that implies a Divine nature, but is here given to the angel as an appellation of respect, or as denoting one of superior rank.

What shall be the end of these things? - Indicating great anxiety to know what was to be the termination of these wonders. The “end” had been often referred to in the communication of the angel, and now he had used an enigmatical expression as referring to it, and Daniel asks, with great emphasis, when the end was to be.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Daniel 12:8. I heard, but I understand not — Could not comprehend what the time, times, and half time should refer to. These make three years and a half of prophetic time, answering to one thousand two hundred and sixty years.