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Daniel 5:3

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

So they brought in the gold  vessels that had been taken from the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem,  and the king and his nobles, wives, and concubines drank from them.

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Under the influence of  the wine, Belshazzar gave orders to bring in the gold and silver vessels  that his predecessor  Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, wives, and concubines could drink from them.


They drank the wine and praised their gods made of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.


Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of the heavens. The vessels from his house were brought to you, and as you and your nobles, wives, and concubines drank wine from them,  you praised the gods made of silver and gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or understand.  But you have not glorified the God who holds your life-breath in his hand and who controls the whole course of your life.  ,


In those days, when there was no king in Israel,  a Levite staying in a remote part of the hill country of Ephraim acquired a woman from Bethlehem in Judah as his concubine.


He took everything to Babylon #– #all the articles of God’s temple, large and small, the treasures of the Lord’s temple, and the treasures of the king and his officials.


Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat and opens wide its enormous jaws, and down go Zion’s dignitaries, her masses, her crowds, and those who celebrate in her!


There is a voice of fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon. The voice announces in Zion the vengeance of the  Lord our God, the vengeance for his temple.


She does not recognise that it is I who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the fresh oil. I lavished silver and gold on her, which they used for Baal.


Then they sweep  by like the wind and pass through. They are guilty;  their strength is their god.


‘But you are profaning it  when you say, “The Lord’s table is defiled, and its product, its food, is contemptible.”


When they say, ‘Peace and security’, then sudden destruction  will come upon them, like labour pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.





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