And it came to pass, as I, Daniel, saw the vision, and sought to understand it, that behold, there stood before me [one] having the appearance of a man.

And I heard the voice of a man between [the banks of] the Ulai; and he called, and said, Gabriel, cause this man to understand the vision.

For Your testimonies are my meditation, and Your statutes are my counselors.

I have more understanding than all my teachers; for Your testimonies are my meditation.

I understand more that the aged; because I have sought out Your commandments.

"Therefore when you see the 'abomination of desolation,' spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place" (whoever reads, let him understand),

"So whenever you see the 'abomination of desolation,' spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where he must not"--he who reads, let him understand--"then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

So the eunuch answered Philip and said, "I ask you, of whom does the prophet say this; about himself, or about some other [person]?"

Until I come, give attention to [public] reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.

and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

that the man of God may be proficient, having been thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Concerning this salvation the prophets have sought out and inquired carefully, having prophesied of the grace [that would come] to you,

To them it was revealed that, not to themselves, but to you they were ministering these things, which things were now announced to you by those who proclaimed the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven--things which angels desire to look into.

And we have the prophetic word made more sure, which you do well to heed, as a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts;

for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke, being brought along by [the] Holy Spirit.

Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and who keep the things having been written in it; for the time is near.

that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, until the land should enjoy its Sabbaths in resting, [and] Sabbath keeping all the days of its desolation, till the accomplishment of seventy years.

And all the land shall be a desolation; and they shall serve among the Gentiles seventy years.

And when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will take vengeance on that nation, and will make them a perpetual desolation.

[This translation omits this verse.]

For thus said the Lord: When seventy years shall be on the verge of being accomplished at Babylon, I will visit you, and will confirm My words to you, to bring back your people to this place.

Speak to the whole people of the land, and to the priests, saying, Though you fasted or lamented in the fifth or seventh [months] (yea, behold, these seventy years) have you at all fasted to Me?

Lift up Your hands against their pride continually; [because of] all that the enemy has done wickedly in Your holy places.

ignorantly as it were in the entrance above;

They have burned Your sanctuary with fire to the ground; they have profaned the habitation of Your name.

A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen have come into Your inheritance; they have polluted Your holy temple; they have made Jerusalem a storehouse of fruits.

They have given the dead bodies of Your servants [to be] food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of Your holy ones for the wild beasts of the earth.

And I said, How long, O Lord? And He said, Until cities are deserted by reason of them not being inhabited, and the houses by reason of there being no men, and the land shall be left desolate.

And after this God shall remove the men far off, and they that are left upon the land shall be multiplied.

All the city has become desolate; one shall shut his house so that none shall enter.

And cities shall be left desolate, and houses being left shall fall to ruin.

The city of Your holiness has become desolate, Zion has become as a wilderness, Jerusalem a curse.

And I will destroy out of the cities of Judah, and the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of them that make merry, and the voice of them that rejoice, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride; for the whole land shall become a desolation.

Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings of Judah, and his princes, to make them a desert place, a desolation, and a hissing.

then will I make this house as Shiloh, and I will make [this] city a curse to all the nations of all the earth.

Micah the Moreshite lived in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and said to all the people of Judah, Thus says the Lord; Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become a desolation, and the mountain of the house shall be a thicket of trees.

And it came to pass, after Israel was taken captive, and Jerusalem made desolate, [that] Jeremiah sat weeping, and lamented with this lamentation over Jerusalem, and said: ALEPH. How does the city that was filled with people sit solitary! She has become as a widow: she that was magnified among the nations, and princess among the provinces, has become tributary.

Therefore on your account Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a storehouse of fruits, and the mountain of the house as a grove of the forest.