Bible Reading
December 11
The World English Bible
Dec.
11
Daniel
9-12
Dan
9:1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of
the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans,
Dan
9:2 in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the
books the number of the years about which the word of Yahweh came to
Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of
Jerusalem, even seventy years.
Dan
9:3 I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions,
with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
Dan
9:4 I prayed to Yahweh my God, and made confession, and said, Oh,
Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving
kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments,
Dan
9:5 we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done
wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts
and from your ordinances;
Dan
9:6 neither have we listened to your servants the prophets, who
spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to
all the people of the land.
Dan
9:7 Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face,
as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off,
through all the countries where you have driven them, because of
their trespass that they have trespassed against you.
Dan
9:8 Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our
princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.
Dan
9:9 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have
rebelled against him;
Dan
9:10 neither have we obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God, to walk in
his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
Dan
9:11 Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, even turning aside,
that they should not obey your voice: therefore has the curse been
poured out on us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses
the servant of God; for we have sinned against him.
Dan
9:12 He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and
against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil; for
under the whole sky has not been done as has been done on Jerusalem.
Dan
9:13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come on
us: yet have we not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we
should turn from our iniquities, and have discernment in your truth.
Dan
9:14 Therefore has Yahweh watched over the evil, and brought it on
us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does,
and we have not obeyed his voice.
Dan
9:15 Now, Lord our God, who has brought your people forth out of the
land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have gotten you renown, as at
this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.
Dan
9:16 Lord, according to all your righteousness, let your anger and
please let your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your
holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our
fathers, Jerusalem and your people are become a reproach to all who
are around us.
Dan
9:17 Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant,
and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary
that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.
Dan
9:18 My God, turn your ear, and hear; open your eyes, and see our
desolations, and the city which is called by your name: for we do not
present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your
great mercies' sake.
Dan
9:19 Lord, hear; Lord, forgive; Lord, listen and do; don't defer,
for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are
called by your name.
Dan
9:20 While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and
the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before
Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God;
Dan
9:21 yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I
had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly,
touched me about the time of the evening offering.
Dan
9:22 He instructed me, and talked with me, and said, Daniel, I am
now come forth to give you wisdom and understanding.
Dan
9:23 At the beginning of your petitions the commandment went forth,
and I am come to tell you; for you are greatly beloved: therefore
consider the matter, and understand the vision.
Dan
9:24 Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city,
to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make
reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting
righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the
most holy.
Dan
9:25 Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the
commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One,
the prince, shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: it shall be
built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.
Dan
9:26 After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One shall be cut off,
and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince who shall come
shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and its end shall be with a
flood, and even to the end shall be war; desolations are determined.
Dan
9:27 He shall make a firm covenant with many for one week: and in
the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering
to cease; and on the wing of abominations shall
come one who makes desolate; and even to
the full end, and that determined, shall wrath
be poured out on the desolate.
Dan
10:1 In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed
to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was
true, even a great warfare: and he understood the thing, and had
understanding of the vision.
Dan
10:2 In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole weeks.
Dan
10:3 I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine into my
mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, until three whole weeks
were fulfilled.
Dan
10:4 In the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by
the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel,
Dan
10:5 I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and behold, a man clothed in
linen, whose thighs were girded with pure gold of Uphaz:
Dan
10:6 his body also was like the beryl, and his face as the
appearance of lightning, and his eyes as flaming torches, and his
arms and his feet like burnished brass, and the voice of his words
like the voice of a multitude.
Dan
10:7 I, Daniel, alone saw the vision; for the men who were with me
didn't see the vision; but a great quaking fell on them, and they
fled to hide themselves.
Dan
10:8 So I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there
remained no strength in me; for my comeliness was turned in me into
corruption, and I retained no strength.
Dan
10:9 Yet heard I the voice of his words; and when I heard the voice
of his words, then was I fallen into a deep sleep on my face, with my
face toward the ground.
Dan
10:10 Behold, a hand touched me, which set me on my knees and on the
palms of my hands.
Dan
10:11 He said to me, Daniel, you man greatly beloved, understand the
words that I speak to you, and stand upright; for to you am I now
sent. When he had spoken this word to me, I stood trembling.
Dan
10:12 Then said he to me, Don't be afraid, Daniel; for from the
first day that you did set your heart to understand, and to humble
yourself before your God, your words were heard: and I am come for
your words' sake.
Dan
10:13 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me
twenty-one days; but, behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came
to help me: and I remained there with the kings of Persia.
Dan
10:14 Now I have come to make you understand what shall happen to
your people in the latter days; for the vision is yet for many
days:
Dan
10:15 and when he had spoken to me according to these words, I set
my face toward the ground, and was mute.
Dan
10:16 Behold, one in the likeness of the sons of men touched my
lips: then I opened my mouth, and spoke and said to him who stood
before me, my lord, by reason of the vision my sorrows are turned on
me, and I retain no strength.
Dan
10:17 For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my
lord? for as for me, immediately there remained no strength in me,
neither was there breath left in me.
Dan
10:18 Then there touched me again one like the appearance of a man,
and he strengthened me.
Dan
10:19 He said, "Greatly beloved man, don't be afraid: peace be
to you, be strong, yes, be strong." When he spoke to me, I was
strengthened, and said, "Let my lord speak; for you have
strengthened me."
Dan
10:20 Then he said, "Do you know why I have come to you? Now I
will return to fight with the prince of Persia. When I go forth,
behold, the prince of Greece shall come.
Dan
10:21 But I will tell you that which is inscribed in the writing of
truth: and there is none who holds with me against these, but Michael
your prince."
Dan
11:1 "As for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood
up to confirm and strengthen him.
Dan
11:2 Now will I show you the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet
three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they
all: and when he has grown strong through his riches, he shall stir
up all against the realm of Greece.
Dan
11:3 A mighty king shall stand up, who shall rule with great
dominion, and do according to his will.
Dan
11:4 When he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall
be divided toward the four winds of the sky, but not to his
posterity, nor according to his dominion with which he ruled; for his
kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others besides these.
Dan
11:5 The king of the south shall be strong, and one
of his princes; and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion;
his dominion shall be a great dominion.
Dan
11:6 At the end of years they shall join themselves together; and
the daughter of the king of the south shall come to the king of the
north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the strength of
her arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm; but she shall be given
up, and those who brought her, and he who became the father of her,
and he who strengthened her in those times.
Dan
11:7 But out of a shoot from her roots shall one stand up in his
place, who shall come to the army, and shall enter into the fortress
of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall
prevail.
Dan
11:8 Also their gods, with their molten images, and
with their goodly vessels of silver and of gold, shall he carry
captive into Egypt; and he shall refrain some years from the king of
the north.
Dan
11:9 He shall come into the realm of the king of the south, but he
shall return into his own land.
Dan
11:10 His sons shall war, and shall assemble a multitude of great
forces, which shall come on, and overflow, and pass through; and they
shall return and war, even to his fortress.
Dan
11:11 The king of the south shall be moved with anger, and shall
come forth and fight with him, even with the king of the north; and
he shall set forth a great multitude, and the multitude shall be
given into his hand.
Dan
11:12 The multitude shall be lifted up, and his heart shall be
exalted; and he shall cast down tens of thousands, but he shall not
prevail.
Dan
11:13 The king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a
multitude greater than the former; and he shall come on at the end of
the times, even of
years, with a great army and with much substance.
Dan
11:14 In those times there shall many stand up against the king of
the south: also the children of the violent among your people shall
lift themselves up to establish the vision; but they shall fall.
Dan
11:15 So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mound, and
take a well-fortified city: and the forces of the south shall not
stand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength
to stand.
Dan
11:16 But he who comes against him shall do according to his own
will, and none shall stand before him; and he shall stand in the
glorious land, and in his hand shall be destruction.
Dan
11:17 He shall set his face to come with the strength of his whole
kingdom, and with him equitable conditions; and he shall perform
them: and he shall give him the daughter of women, to corrupt her;
but she shall not stand, neither be for him.
Dan
11:18 After this shall he turn his face to the islands, and shall
take many: but a prince shall cause the reproach offered by him to
cease; yes, moreover, he shall cause his reproach to turn on him.
Dan
11:19 Then he shall turn his face toward the fortresses of his own
land; but he shall stumble and fall, and shall not be found.
Dan
11:20 Then shall stand up in his place one who shall cause a tax
collector to pass through the kingdom to maintain its glory; but
within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in
battle.
Dan
11:21 In his place shall stand up a contemptible person, to whom
they had not given the honor of the kingdom: but he shall come in
time of security, and shall obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
Dan
11:22 The overwhelming forces shall be overwhelmed from before him,
and shall be broken; yes, also the prince of the covenant.
Dan
11:23 After the league made with him he shall work deceitfully; for
he shall come up, and shall become strong, with a small people.
Dan
11:24 In time of security shall he come even on the fattest places
of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not
done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them prey, and
spoil, and substance: yes, he shall devise his devices against the
strongholds, even for a time.
Dan
11:25 He shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of
the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall war in
battle with an exceeding great and mighty army; but he shall not
stand; for they shall devise devices against him.
Dan
11:26 Yes, they who eat of his dainties shall destroy him, and his
army shall overflow; and many shall fall down slain.
Dan
11:27 As for both these kings, their hearts shall be to do mischief,
and they shall speak lies at one table: but it shall not prosper; for
yet the end shall be at the time appointed.
Dan
11:28 Then shall he return into his land with great substance; and
his heart shall be
against the holy covenant; and he shall do his
pleasure, and return to his own land.
Dan
11:29 At the time appointed he shall return, and come into the
south; but it shall not be in the latter time as it was in the
former.
Dan
11:30 For ships of Kittim shall come against him; therefore he shall
be grieved, and shall return, and have indignation against the holy
covenant, and shall do his pleasure:
he shall even return, and have regard to those who forsake the holy
covenant.
Dan
11:31 Forces shall stand on his part, and they shall profane the
sanctuary, even the fortress, and shall take away the continual burnt
offering, and they shall set up the
abomination that makes desolate.
Dan
11:32 Such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he pervert by
flatteries; but the people who know their God shall be strong, and do
exploits.
Dan
11:33 Those who are wise among the people shall instruct many; yet
they shall fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by spoil,
many days.
Dan
11:34 Now when they shall fall, they shall be helped with a little
help; but many shall join themselves to them with flatteries.
Dan
11:35 Some of those who are wise shall fall, to refine them, and to
purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because
it is yet for the time appointed.
Dan
11:36 The king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt
himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak
marvelous things against the God of gods; and he shall prosper until
the indignation be accomplished; for that which is determined shall
be done.
Dan
11:37 Neither shall he regard the gods of his fathers, nor the
desire of women, nor regard any god; for he shall magnify himself
above all.
Dan
11:38 But in his place shall he honor the god of fortresses; and a
god whom his fathers didn't know shall he honor with gold, and
silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
Dan
11:39 He shall deal with the strongest fortresses by the help of a
foreign god: whoever acknowledges him
he will increase with glory; and he shall cause them to rule over
many, and shall divide the land for a price.
Dan
11:40 At the time of the end shall the king of the south contend
with him; and the king of the north shall come against him like a
whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and
he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass
through.
Dan
11:41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries
shall be overthrown; but these shall be delivered out of his hand:
Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.
Dan
11:42 He shall stretch forth his hand also on the countries; and the
land of Egypt shall not escape.
Dan
11:43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of
silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt; and the Libyans
and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
Dan
11:44 But news out of the east and out of the north shall trouble
him; and he shall go forth with great fury to destroy and utterly to
sweep away many.
Dan
11:45 He shall plant the tents of his palace between the sea and the
glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall
help him.
Dan
12:1 "At that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince who
stands for the children of your people; and there shall be a time of
trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same
time: and at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone who
shall be found written in the book.
Dan
12:2 Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake,
some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Dan
12:3 Those who are wise shall shine as the brightness of the
expanse; and those who turn many to righteousness as the stars
forever and ever.
Dan
12:4 But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to
the time of the end: many shall run back and forth, and knowledge
shall be increased."
Dan
12:5 Then I, Daniel, looked, and behold, there stood other two, the
one on the brink of the river on this side, and the other on the
brink of the river on that side.
Dan
12:6 One said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters
of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?
Dan
12:7 I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of
the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to
heaven, and swore by him who lives forever that it shall be for a
time, times, and a half; and when they have made an end of breaking
in pieces the power of the holy people, all these things shall be
finished.
Dan
12:8 I heard, but I didn't understand: then said I, my lord, what
shall be the issue of these things?
Dan
12:9 He said, Go your way, Daniel; for the words are shut up and
sealed until the time of the end.
Dan
12:10 Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and
be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked
shall understand; but those who are wise shall understand.
Dan
12:11 From the time that the continual burnt
offering shall be taken away, and the
abomination that makes desolate set up, there shall be one thousand
two hundred ninety days.
Dan
12:12 Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three
hundred thirty-five days.
Dan
12:13 But go you your way until the end be; for you shall rest, and
shall stand in your lot, at the end of the days.
Dec.
11
1
John 1
1Jn
1:1 That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard,
that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our
hands touched, concerning the Word of life
1Jn
1:2 (and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and
declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father,
and was revealed to us);
1Jn
1:3 that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you
also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the
Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
1Jn
1:4 And we write these things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled.
1Jn
1:5 This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to
you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
1Jn
1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the
darkness, we lie, and don't tell the truth.
1Jn
1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have
fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son,
cleanses us from all sin.
1Jn
1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the
truth is not in us.
1Jn
1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive
us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1Jn
1:10 If we say that we haven't sinned, we make him a liar, and his
word is not in us.
