Tell of All His Wondrous Works

¹⁶ Go and ^(A)gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, ^(B)“I have observed you and what has been done to you in Egypt, ¹⁷ and I promise that ^(C)I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, a land ^(D)flowing with milk and honey.”’ ¹⁸ And ^(E)they will listen to your voice, and you and the elders of Israel ^(F)shall go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has ^(G)met with us; and now, please let us go a three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.’ ¹⁹ But I know that the king of Egypt ^(H)will not let you go unless compelled ^(I)by a mighty hand.^{[a] 20} So ^(J)I will stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with ^(K)all the wonders that I will do in it; ^(L)after that he will let you go. ²¹ And ^(M)I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians; and when you go, you shall not go empty, ²² but each woman shall ask of her neighbor, and any woman who lives in her house, for ^(N)silver and gold jewelry, and for clothing. You shall put them on your sons and on your daughters. So ^(O)you shall plunder the Egyptians.”

⁷ For ^(A)the mystery of lawlessness ^(B)is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. ⁸ And then ^(C)the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus ^(D)will kill with ^(E)the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by ^(F)the appearance of his coming. ⁹ The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan ^(G)with all power and false signs and wonders, ¹⁰ and with all wicked deception for ^(H)those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. ¹¹ Therefore ^(I)God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe ^(J)what is false, ¹² in order that all may be condemned ^(K)who did not believe the truth but ^(L)had pleasure in unrighteousness.