“At that time Michael, the great prince who watches over your people, ¹  will arise. ²  There will be a time of distress unlike any other from the nation’s beginning ³  up to that time. But at that time your own people, all those whose names are ⁴  found written in the book, will escape.

Rebekah stands here before you. Take her and go so that she may become ¹  the wife of your master’s son, just as the Lord has decided.” ² 

Your servant stands ¹  among your chosen people; ²  they are a great nation that is too numerous to count or number.

It stands still, ¹  but I cannot recognize ²  its appearance; an image is before my eyes, and I hear a murmuring voice: ³ 

A song of ascents. ²  Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion; it cannot be upended and will endure forever.

who loves me ¹  and is my stronghold, my refuge ²  and my deliverer, my shield and the one in whom I take shelter, who makes nations submit to me. ³ 

I considered all the living who walk on earth, ¹  as well as the successor ²  who would arise ³  in his place.

His legs are like pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as its cedars.

Daughter Zion ¹  is left isolated, like a hut in a vineyard, or a shelter in a cucumber field; she is a besieged city. ² 

For the fortified city ¹  is left alone; it is a deserted settlement and abandoned like the desert. Calves ²  graze there; they lie down there and eat its branches bare. ³ 

Look, I have decreed: ¹  I will not keep silent, but will pay them back; I will pay them back exactly what they deserve, ² 

and on the mountains and in the fields. ¹  I will give your wealth and all your treasures away as plunder. I will give it away as the price ²  for the sins you have committed throughout your land.

Your altars will be ruined and your incense altars will be broken. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols. ¹ 

All the inhabitants of the coastlands are shocked at you, and their kings are horribly afraid – their faces are troubled.

The male goat ¹  is the king of Greece, ²  and the large horn between its eyes is the first king.

The horn that was broken ¹  and in whose place there arose four others stands for four kingdoms that will arise from his nation, though they will not have his strength.

‘Do not fear, because I made a promise to your ancestors when they left Egypt, and my spirit ¹  even now testifies to you.’ ² 

And you will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

The field is the world and the good seed are the people ¹  of the kingdom. The weeds are the people ²  of the evil one,

You will be hated by everyone because of my name. ¹  But the one who endures to the end will be saved. ²