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and the commander of the court officials said to Daniel, "I am afraid of my lord, the king, who has determined your food and your drink, for why should he see your face having a worse appearance than the young men who are your age? Then you will endanger my head with the king."

And he said, "Look, I am making known to you what will happen in the period of wrath, for it refers to the appointed time of the end.

And he said to me, "Daniel, a man beloved, pay attention to the words that I am speaking to you and stand upright where you are, for I have now been sent to you." And while he was speaking with me this word, I stood up trembling.

So how am I, a servant of my lord to speak with you, my lord, and I just now have no strength in me?"

Then he asked, "Do you know why I have come to you? And now I return to fight against the prince of Persia and I myself am going, and look, the prince of Javan will come.

And he said, "Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not my people and I am not your God.

Plead with your mother, plead— because she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her put away her whoring from before her, and her adultery from between her breasts.

Therefore, Look! I am going to hedge her path with thorns, and I will build a stone wall, a stone wall against her, and she will not find her paths.

Therefore, Look! I am going to allure her and bring her into the desert, and I will speak tenderly to her.

they dug a deep pit in Shittim, but I am a punishment for all of them.

But I am like a maggot to Ephraim and like rottenness to the house of Judah.

I will not execute my fierce anger, I will not again destroy Ephraim; because I am God and not a mortal, the Holy One in your midst; and I will not come in wrath.

And Ephraim said, "Surely, I am rich, I gained wealth for myself; in all my toil they have not found guilt in me that is sin.

But I am Yahweh your God since the land of Egypt; I will make you live in tents again, like the days of the appointed festival.

I am Yahweh your God since the land of Egypt; you know no god except me, and no one saves besides me.

O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols? I myself have answered and looked after you. I am like a luxuriant cypress; your fruit comes from me.

And Yahweh answered and said to his people, "Look at me, I am sending to you grain, new wine, and olive oil, and you will be satisfied by it. I will not give you over any more as a disgrace among the nations.

And you will know that I am in the midst of Israel, and I am Yahweh, your God, and there is no other. My people will never be ashamed again.

Look! I am rousing them from the place where you have sold them, and I will return what you deserve on your head!

Beat your cutting tools of iron into swords and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weakling say, ‘I am a mighty warrior!'