If a man dies, shall he revive? All the days of my service I will wait, until my change comes.

Is there not warfare for man on earth? Are not his days also like the days of a hired man?

in whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all the flesh of mankind?

O Jehovah, make me to know my end, and what is the measure of my days, that I may know how frail I am.

This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE: God has numbered your kingdom and finished it.

That very night Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldeans, was killed.

Seventy weeks are decreed regarding your people, and regarding your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make atonement for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Holy of Holies.

And the king shall do according to his own will. And he shall exalt and magnify himself above every god; he shall even speak extraordinary things against the Mighty God of gods and shall prosper until the indignation is complete. For that which is decreed shall be done.

But God said to him, Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have prepared?

And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell everywhere on the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings,

And as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this the judgment,

For what is his delight in his house after him, when the number of his months has been cut off?

But He is One, and who can turn Him back? And whatever His soul desires, that He does.

For He completes what is prescribed for me, and many such things are with Him.

You have set a boundary that they may not pass over, that they may not return to cover the earth.

You hide Your face, they are dismayed; You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

And all those living in the earth are counted as nothing. And He does according to His will in the army of Heaven, and among those living in the earth. And no one is able to restrain His hand or say to Him, What are You doing?

I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.

And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, These things says He who is holy, He who is true, He who has the key of David, He who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens: