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11 But evil shall come upon you,
    which you cannot charm away;
disaster shall fall upon you,
    which you will not be able to ward off,
and ruin shall come on you suddenly,
    of which you know nothing.(A)

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When they say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and there will be no escape!(A)

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And the kings of the earth, who engaged in sexual immorality[a] and lived in luxury with her, will weep and wail over her when they see the smoke of her burning;(A) 10 they will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say,

“Alas, alas, the great city,
    Babylon, the mighty city!
For in one hour your judgment has come.”(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 18.9 Or prostitution

Remember, then, what you received and heard; obey it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you.(A)

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59 I tell you, you will never get out until you have paid the very last penny.”(A)

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34 And in anger his lord handed him over to be tortured until he would pay his entire debt.

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25 And this is the writing that was inscribed: mene,[a] tekel, and parsin. 26 This is the interpretation of the matter: mene: God has numbered the days of[b] your kingdom and brought it to an end;(A) 27 tekel: you have been weighed on the scales and found wanting;(B) 28 peres:[c] your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”

29 Then Belshazzar gave the command, and Daniel was clothed in purple, a chain of gold was put around his neck, and a proclamation was made concerning him that he should rank third in the kingdom.

30 That very night Belshazzar, the Chaldean king, was killed.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 5.25 Gk Vg: Aram reads mene, mene,
  2. 5.26 Aram lacks the days of
  3. 5.28 The singular of Parsin

39 When they are inflamed, I will set out their drink
    and make them drunk, until they become merry
and then sleep a perpetual sleep
    and never wake, says the Lord.(A)
40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
    like rams and goats.(B)

41 How Sheshach[a] is taken;
    the pride of the whole earth seized!
How Babylon has become
    an object of horror among the nations!(C)
42 The sea has risen over Babylon;
    she has been covered by its tumultuous waves.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 51.41 That is, Babylon

Sennacherib’s Defeat and Death

36 Then the angel of the Lord set out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; when morning dawned, they were all dead bodies.(A)

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22 Mark this, then, you who forget God,
    or I will tear you apart, and there will be no one to deliver.(A)

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11 And our enemies said, “They will not know or see anything before we come upon them and kill them and stop the work.”

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The Tenth Plague: Death of the Firstborn

29 At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner who was in the dungeon and all the firstborn of the livestock.(A) 30 Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his officials and all the Egyptians, and there was a loud cry in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.(B)

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