Study Desk

So, Daniel, be faithful until the end! You will rest, and at the end of time, you will rise from death to receive your reward.

So I married Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and we had a son.

So let your brothers be called "My People" and your sisters be called "Shown Mercy."

So I'll hold back the harvest of grain and grapes. I'll take back my wool and my linen that cover her body.

So I paid fifteen pieces of silver and about ten bushels of grain for such a woman.

And so your land is a desert. Every living creature is dying— people and wild animals, birds and fish.

You encourage others to sin, so you can stuff yourselves on their sin offerings.

You are nothing more than a stubborn cow— so stubborn that I, the Lord , cannot feed you like lambs in an open pasture.

And so you will be swept away in a whirlwind for sacrificing to idols.

You have been unfaithful to me, your Lord ; you have had children by prostitutes. So at the New Moon Festival, you and your crops will be destroyed.

So I'll become a fierce lion attacking Israel and Judah. I'll snatch and carry off what I want, and no one can stop me.

Someone from Israel built that idol for you, but only I am God. And so it will be smashed to pieces.

And so, Israel, your glory will fly away like birds— your women will no longer be able to give birth.

You are deceitful and disloyal. So you will pay for your sins, because the Lord will destroy your altars and images.

So war will break out, and your fortresses will be destroyed. Your enemies will do to you what Shalman did to the people of Beth-Arbel— mothers and their children will be beaten to death against rocks.

So return to your God. Patiently trust him, and show love and justice.

I spoke to the prophets— often I spoke in visions. And so, I will send my prophets with messages of doom.

And so, all of you will vanish like the mist or the dew of early morning, or husks of grain in the wind or smoke from a chimney.

Assyria can't save us, and chariots can't help. So we will no longer worship the idols we have made. Our Lord , you show mercy to orphans."

Grapevines have dried up and so has every tree— figs and pomegranates, date palms and apples. All happiness has faded away.