“‘As for you, profane and wicked prince of Israel, ¹  whose day has come, the time of final punishment,

while seeing false visions for you and reading lying omens for you ¹  – to place that sword ²  on the necks of the profane wicked, ³  whose day has come, the time of final punishment.

“‘You have shown unrelenting hostility and poured the people of Israel onto the blades of a sword ¹  at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment.

I, Paul, send this greeting with my own hand.

According to David’s final instructions, the Levites twenty years old and up were counted. ¹ 

Then ¹  I saw another great and astounding sign in heaven: seven angels who have seven final plagues ²  (they are final because in them God’s anger is completed).

Then ¹  one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came and spoke to me, ²  saying, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb!”

Having heard everything, I have reached this conclusion: ¹  Fear God and keep his commandments, because this is the whole duty ²  of man.

For people ¹  swear by something greater than themselves, ²  and the oath serves as a confirmation to end all dispute. ³ 

(the ransom price for a human life ¹  is too high, and people go to their final destiny), ² 

Surely ¹  you put them in slippery places; you bring them down ²  to ruin.

And at the end of your life ¹  you will groan ²  when your flesh and your body are wasted away. ³ 

An end comes ¹  – the end comes! ²  It has awakened against you ³  – the end is upon you! Look, it is coming! ⁴ 

Finally, be strengthened in the Lord and in the strength of his power.

Another third of you will be stationed at the royal palace and still another third at the Foundation Gate. All the others ¹  will stand in the courtyards of the Lord’s temple.

On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, ¹  Jesus stood up and shouted out, ²  “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and

So they began to leave, ¹  unable to agree among themselves, after Paul made one last statement: “The Holy Spirit spoke rightly to your ancestors ²  through the prophet Isaiah

Then he uttered this oracle: “O, who will survive when God does this! ¹ 

This is exactly what happened to him. The people trampled him to death in the city gate.

He did evil because he was not determined to follow the Lord. ¹