Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,
“O Lord, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am!
And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,
And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,
In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.
When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
For what do they care for their houses after them, when the number of their months is cut off?
But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’
This is the interpretation of the matter: Mene, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end;
But he is unchangeable, and who can turn him back? What he desires, that he does. For he will complete what he appoints for me, and many such things are in his mind.
You set a boundary that they may not pass, so that they might not again cover the earth.
all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you done?”
If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal should come.
“Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?
“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.
That very night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was killed.
and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.
“And the king shall do as he wills. He shall exalt himself and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak astonishing things against the God of gods. He shall prosper till the indignation is accomplished; for what is decreed shall be done.
“Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.
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