Study Desk

I made it beautiful with its mass of branches: so that all the trees in the garden of God were full of envy of it.

And I the Lord will be their God and my servant David their ruler; I the Lord have said it.

And they will be certain that I the Lord their God am with them, and that they, the children of Israel, are my people, says the Lord.

And you are my sheep, the sheep of my grass-lands, and I am your God, says the Lord.

So that you may go on living in the land which I gave to your fathers; and you will be to me a people, and I will be to you a God.

And they will no longer make themselves unclean with their images or with their hated things or with any of their sins: but I will give them salvation from all their turning away in which they have done evil, and will make them clean; and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.

And my House will be over them; and I will be to them a God, and they will be to me a people.

So the children of Israel will be certain that I am the Lord their God, from that day and for the future.

And they will be certain that I am the Lord their God, because I sent them away as prisoners among the nations, and have taken them together back to their land; and I have not let one of them be there any longer.

In the visions of God he took me into the land of Israel, and put me down on a very high mountain, on which there was, as it seemed, a building like a town opposite me.

And there was the glory of the God of Israel coming from the way of the east: and his voice was like the sound of great waters, and the earth was shining with his glory.

And he said to me, Son of man, the Lord God has said, These are the rules for the altar, when they make it, for the offering of burned offerings on it and the draining out of the blood.

You are to give to the priests, the Levites of the seed of Zadok, who come near to me, says the Lord God, to do my work, a young ox for a sin-offering.

And the Lord said to me, This doorway is to be shut, it is not to be open, and no man is to go in by it, because the Lord, the God of Israel, has gone in by it; and it is to be shut.

And the Lord gave into his hands Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with some of the vessels of the house of God; and he took them away into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he put the vessels into the store-house of his god.

And God put into the heart of the captain of the unsexed servants kind feelings and pity for Daniel.

Now as for these four young men, God gave them knowledge and made them expert in all book-learning and wisdom: and Daniel was wise in all visions and dreams.

So that they might make a request for the mercy of the God of heaven in the question of this secret; so that Daniel and his friends might not come to destruction with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

Then the secret was made clear to Daniel in a vision of the night. And Daniel gave blessing to the God of heaven.

And Daniel said in answer, May the name of God be praised for ever and ever: for wisdom and strength are his: