Isaiah 1 - Isaiah prophesied in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah; The Lord visualizes a people laden with iniquity; Your cities are overthrown by strangers; left a very small remnant; do well; care for the needy; The faithful city has become a harlot; the city will become the city of righteousness once more.

Isaiah 2 - In the last days, the Lord’s house shall be established on Zion; all nations shall flow unto it; The Lord shall judge the nations; they shall beat their swords into ploughshares; nation shall not lift up sword against nation; The Lord shall level the land, including the mountains, the towers, and the proud.
Isaiah 3 - The Lord will take away all people of status from Jerusalem and Judah, and give babes to rule over them; The Lord will punish pride, including that of the daughters of Zion; The Lord will smite them with scabs and other afflictions; The men and the mighty shall fall in war.

Isaiah 4 - The calamities of war will be so great that seven women shall be left to one man; purged of filth, the Lord will bless the remnant, and the pillar of cloud by day and fire by night will be created in every dwelling place.

Isaiah 5 - Israel is like a vineyard, which will be abandoned because it produced only wild grapes; woes are promised for a variety of sins; wrath against His people; the Lord will allow a foreign nation to devastate the land.

Isaiah 6 - A vision in the year that king Uzziah died; the Lord on His throne, and above it the seraphim’s; each one had six wings; with two they cover their faces; with two they cover their feet; and with two they fly; Isaiah fears he is undone because he is a man of unclean lips; one of the seraphim’s lays a lump of burning coal in his mouth; his sins are burnt away; Isaiah receives his prophetic commission; the people do not understand, and are not healed; The Lord will remove men far away, but a tenth shall return.

Isaiah 7 - In the days of Ahaz Israel and Syria join in a league against Judah; the Lord tells Ahaz not to fear, for the attack will not succeed; Israel will no longer be a nation in 65; The Lord will give a sign; a virgin will conceive; called Immanuel; God with us; both Israel and Syria will be defeated; the Assyrians will inflict heavy calamities upon Judah; Isaiah counsels against an Judah-Assyria alliance to counter the threat from the Israel-Syria one.

Isaiah 8 - Isaiah has a son; name Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz; riches of Damascus and Israel will be taken away by Assyria; the Assyrian army is compared to water which will overflow its banks and flood Judah with violence and destruction; Judah can prepare for the invasion by fearing God rather than Assyria; seek the Lord’s light and Word, not the darkness of the occult.

Isaiah 9 - Judah will not suffer as greatly as Israel; unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.  Because of their unholy pride, Israel will be defeated by her enemies; the people of Israel will also attack each other; exile and slaughter will be a punishment for social injustice.

Isaiah 10 - Woe to Assyria, the instrument in the hand of the Lord; it will be punished for its arrogant superiority; do not be afraid of the Assyrians; the Lord will preserve a remnant of the house of Jacob; the proud of Judah will be humbled.

Isaiah 11 - A shoot shall come forth from the rod of Jesse, possessing the seven spirits of God; God will judge the poor with equity, and slay the wicked; righteousness shall be the belt of His loins, and faithfulness the belt of His waist; the wolf shall dwell with the lamb; the gentiles shall seek Him; the Lord will gather together the scattered of Israel; peace will reign, and neighboring nations will be subdued.

Isaiah 12 - Praise will be offered to the Lord when His anger has passed away; Praise Song; great is the Holy One of Israel in your midst.

Isaiah 13 - An army comes against Babylon; a day of the Lord is promised; great slaughter shall occur, and mortals be more rare than gold; the Medes will be stirred up against Babylon; Babylon will be laid waste, and populated only by wild beasts.

Isaiah 14 - Israel will be settled in its own land, and rule over strangers; the whole earth will rejoice at the fall of the king of Babylon; the pomp of Babylon shall come to nothing, and be received in hell; how are you fallen from Heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning; the nations will be amazed at the complete reversal of fortune; the king of Babylon will be cast out of his grave; Assyria and Philistia will also be crushed.

Isaiah 15 - The cities and soldiers of Moab fall under a night attack; refugees will flee from Moab; refugees and the remnant of Moab will be attacked by lions.

Isaiah 16 - Moab shall send a lamb as tribute to Jerusalem; Judah is to be a place of refuge and protection for the Moabites; Moab is counseled to be a refuge for Israel; Moab shall wail at the judgment of God against it; Judgment will come in three years.

Isaiah 17 - Damascus will become a ruinous heap, and Israel (the northern kingdom, referred to as Ephraim, its dominant tribe) will wane; God’s judgment will bring man’s work to nothing; many nations will rush against Syria and Israel like the rush of many waters; these nations will also be rebuked.

Isaiah 18 - Ethiopian help is not required to deal with Assyria; the Lord will cut off Assyria’s sprigs with pruning hooks; Ethiopians will come to Zion to worship God.

Isaiah 19 - The Lord strikes Egypt by giving them over to civil war and submission to a cruel master; the Nile will be dried, and the Egyptian economy thereby ruined; foolish counsel has caused Egypt to stagger like a drunken man in his vomit; Judah will be a terror to Egypt; the Egyptians will turn to the Lord, and a savior shall deliver them; there will be a peace between the three former enemies of Egypt, Assyria and Israel.

Isaiah 20 - The Philistine king Ashdod falls at the hands of the Assyrians; the Lord Commands Isaiah to go naked; so shall the Egyptians and Ethiopians be led away naked as captives by Assyria; on this day, Judah will be ashamed that it once trusted to these nations.

Isaiah 21 - A army from Elam (Persia) marches against Babylon; a report will come to the watchman:  Babylon is fallen, is fallen; the brief against Dumah (Edom); the watchman will report that the morning comes, and also the night; Arabia, within a year, and all the glory of Kedar will fall.

Isaiah 22 - An army is coming against Jerusalem (the Valley of Vision) which there is no deliverance; instead of turning their hearts in humble repentance to the Lord, the inhabitants of Jerusalem say:  Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die; Shebna (Hezekiah’s chief steward) is denounced; Shebna will be replaced by Eliakim; he will be given the key to the house of David.

Isaiah 23 - Tyre’s sailors will agonize when they hear about the destruction of their homeport; the pride of Tyre will be dishonoured; Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years; God will allow Tyre (symbolized by a prostitute) to continue her gross materialism with all the kingdoms of the world; but her gain and her pay will be set apart for the Lord.

Isaiah 24 - The land will be emptied and laid waste; the earth will mourn and fade away, because people have transgressed laws and broken the everlasting covenant; all rejoicing shall cease; the glory of God is contrasted with the woe of man; the earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard; after judgment and punishment, the Lord will reign on Mount Zion, in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 25 - God is praised for His righteous judgment, and for assisting the needy; a feast will be prepared on Zion; death will be swallowed up forever, and all tears wiped away; people will proclaim a God they have waited for, and Who has saved them; the pride of Moab will be brought down, as the Lord spreads out his hands like a swimmer reaches out to swim.

Isaiah 26 - The strength of the city will be celebrated; the Lord is the source of the city’s strength; the Lord will bring down those who dwell on high; the upright will desire the Lord, and the wicked shall remain unaware as the fire of enemies devours them; all masters other than the Lord are dead; we have been in pain, as if in labor; the dead shall rise; the day of the Lord’s judgment will come.

Isaiah 27 - Leviathan will be defeated; Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit; in the Kingdom of the Lord, the city of man lies desolate; the Lord will be worshipped at the holy mount in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 28 - The drunkards of Ephraim will be trampled underfoot; the beauty of the Lord will replace the faded beauty of Ephraim; Judah also suffers from the corruption of drunkenness; weaned from milk; scornful men have made a covenant with death; God will lay in Zion a Stone for a foundation; the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the covering so narrow that one cannot wrap himself in it; the timing of a farmer is compared to the timing of the Lord.

Isaiah 29 - Woe to Ariel (Jerusalem); its pride shall be humbled; the humbled Jerusalem will be protected from its enemies; Jerusalem suffers from spiritual drunkenness and illiteracy; the spiritually blind will see, and justice for the wicked will be administered.

Isaiah 30 - Woe to the rebellious children who look to Egypt to protect them from Assyria; the people do not want seers to see, and want prophets to prophesy deceits rather than right things; Judah will be broken like a potter’s vessel; blessed are those who wait for the Lord; He shall respond to His people who cry to Him from Jerusalem; the Lord’s people will throw away their graven images of gold and silver; nature will bring forth abundance; there is a place in Tophet (the dump outside of Jerusalem) for the Assyrian king; the breath of the Lord shall kindle it.

Isaiah 31 - Woe to those who look to Egypt rather than the Lord; the Lord is mightier than the Egyptians; the Lord will defend Jerusalem; the children of Israel are invited to repent.

Isaiah 32 - Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule with justice; people will see, hear and understand; the foolish man will be exposed as foolish; women at ease are called upon to repent; the Spirit will be poured out upon a humbled people, who will enjoy peace and security.

Isaiah 33 - The plundering Assyria will itself be plundered; Zion will be filled with wisdom and righteousness; the earth will mourn and lie waste; the breath of the Lord will devour like fire; sinners shall be afraid, but the righteous will see the king in His beauty; Zion, the city of appointed feasts, will be blessed and delivered.

Isaiah 34 - The indignation of the Lord is against all nations; the sword of the Lord will make a great slaughter in Edom; the land will be inhabited only by animals of the wilderness.

Isaiah 35 - Lands will be restored, and the desert blossom; the weak will be strengthened, the sick and diseased healed; abundance shall replace lack; there shall be a Way of Holiness; a road leading to Zion.

Isaiah 36 - Officials from King Hezekiah’s government meet Rabshakeh, general of the armies of Assyria; Rabshakeh speaks against Judah’s trust in an alliance with Egypt, and says the Lord will not save them; Rabshakeh speaks directly to the people of Jerusalem in Hebrew, seeking to demoralize them.

Isaiah 37 - Hezekiah tears his clothes and covers himself with sackcloth; Isaiah speaks words of assurance to Hezekiah, and tells him that Rabshakeh’s blasphemy will be repaid; the Ethiopians move against Assyria; Hezekiah prays, and Isaiah further prophesies against Assyria and gives assurances that the Lord will protect Jerusalem; the angel of the Lord strikes 185,000 Assyrian soldiers dead; Sennacherib is killed by his sons back in Assyria.

Isaiah 38 - The sick Hezekiah is given an assurance by Isaiah that he will not die, but live a further fifteen years; the shadow on a sundial goes backwards, as a sign to confirm the promise; Hezekiah thanks the Lord for his deliverance.

Isaiah 39 - Hezekiah entertains the envoys from the king of Babylon, showing them all his treasures; Isaiah reproves him, saying that all treasures will be taken to Babylon at a future date; Hezekiah is relieved that he himself will not see this happen.

Isaiah 40 - Comfort ye, my people; a voice in the wilderness cries, Prepare the way of the Lord; every valley shall be exalted, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed; the grass withers, the flower fades, but the Word of our God stands forever; Zion and Jerusalem, who bring good tidings, are invited to tell the cities of Judah to behold their God; the Lord will feed His flock like a shepherd; God’s greatness surpasses all nations and all idols; He brings the princes and the judges of the earth to nothing; the weak shall be strengthened.

Isaiah 41 - The people from the coastlands are invited to approach for judgment; along with everybody else; Who raised up one from the East? (Abraham? Cyrus?) The Lord did; the people of the coastlands approach with fear; Israel has been chosen, and gathered from the ends of the earth; fear not, you will be strengthened and your enemies will be ashamed; you will thresh and winnow the mountains; God will supply water and other resources; one will come from the north who shall conquer; the Lord judges idols and deems them worthless.

Isaiah 42 - The Lord’s servant will bring justice to the gentiles and establish justice on earth; a Light to the gentiles; sing to the Lord a new song; the Lord will unleash His devastating power against idolaters; the deaf and the blind come to the servant; the Lord’s people have been robbed, plundered and punished because they have not walked in the ways of the Lord.

Isaiah 43 - The Lord has redeemed His people from slavery; He will protect them from waters and from fire; the Lord has chosen His servant, and commissioned Israel as His witnesses; Before the day was, I am He; the Lord will judge Babylon and supply roads and water for His people in the wilderness; Jacob (Israel) has not offered sacrifices and has been full of iniquity; nonetheless, the Lord will forgive previous sins.

Isaiah 44 - The Lord’s Spirit will be poured onto the descendants of Jacob, and they will spring up like grass; I Am the first and the last; besides Me, there is no God; idols and idol makers achieve nothing; Israel’s transgressions have been blotted out, as with a thick cloud; Jacob has been redeemed; Cyrus is the Lord’s shepherd, who will help to rebuild Judah and Jerusalem.

Isaiah 45 - The Lord calls upon Cyrus to subdue nations; Cyrus and Israel will know the Lord, Who formed the light and created darkness; the skies are commanded to rain down righteousness and the earth to bring forth salvation; resisting the Creator is foolish; God’s role as the Creator of Heaven and earth is emphasized alongside the deliverance of Israel via Cyrus; when the Lord is revealed as the true God, idolaters will submit and God’s people will be saved; the Lord has not concealed Himself, but let Himself be known; Look to Me and be saved, all you ends of the earth.

Isaiah 46 - False gods are carried away on carriages; the Lord will carry His people into old age; golden idols are mute and incapable of offering help; the Lord knew the end from the beginning; a bird of prey shall be called from the East; salvation will be placed in Zion, and glory in Israel.

Isaiah 47 - Babylon is depicted as a degraded woman, naked and uncovered; the pride and arrogance of Babylon is rebuked; the stargazers and sorcerers of Babylon will be unable to help.

Isaiah 48 - The Lord rebukes Israel for mechanical religious observance; the Lord made sure that He was revealed rather than concealed, but Israel did not see or hear; the Lord defers His anger for His name’s sake; He is the First and the Last; the Lord wishes that His people had obeyed Him in the past; Exodus from Babylon conforms with that from Egypt; the rock in the wilderness flowed with water.

Isaiah 49 - The Servant speaks in His Own voice; He has been called from the womb; His mouth has been made like a sharp sword; He will be a light to the gentiles; He will release prisoners, and those in darkness; the Lord cannot forget Israel, as a nurse cannot forget her nursing child; the Lord will protect Israel from her enemies, who will be humbled and defeated.

Isaiah 50 - Israel has brought its misfortunes on itself; the servant is obedient, and has been given a wise tongue; I gave My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard; He has faith that the Lord will justify Him and that His adversaries will grow old like a garment and be eaten up by moths; people will be kindled by fire from His hand.

Isaiah 51 - The Lord will comfort; the wilderness shall become an Eden; the Lord’s salvation and righteousness are forever; fear God, not man; God defeated Rahab (the sea monster) and parted the seas; the cup of the Lord’s fury will be taken from Israel, and given to its enemies.

Isaiah 52 - Put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; you shall be redeemed for no money; Israel’s oppressors will wail; all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God; when departing the Lord will be the rear guard; the Lord’s Servant will be both exalted and humiliated; nations will be cleansed and astonished by Him.

Isaiah 53 - He is despised and rejected by men; a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; surely He has borne our grief’s and carried our sorrows; He was bruised for our iniquities; by His stripes we are healed; we all like sheep have gone astray; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter; the Lord made His soul an offering for sin; the Righteous Servant shall justify many; He bares the sins of many.

Isaiah 54 - Israel will be restored like a barren woman who bears many children; Israel will be restored like a widow who is rescued from her reproach; the Lord has shown temporary wrath and will now show everlasting kindness; covenant with Noah cited as a precedent; the city shall be built with precious stones; Peace and protection are promised.

Isaiah 55 - The Lord invites those who are thirsty to come and be richly fed; the everlasting covenant is talked about in terms of the sure mercies of David; the wicked will be forgiven if they forsake their ways; the Lord’s thoughts are higher than men’s thoughts; the Lord’s Word shall make the earth fertile; image of the mountains and hills breaking forth in singing.

Isaiah 56 - A call is made to be righteous, and not defile the Sabbath; the foreigner and the eunuch will not be separated from the Lord; the Lord will judge the blind watchmen.

Isaiah 57 - The righteous are persecuted; God’s people have committed spiritual adultery; he who puts his trust in the Lord shall possess the land and inherit His holy mountain; contrast to those who trust in idols; the stumbling block shall be removed; the Lord will restore; there is no rest for the wicked.

Isaiah 58 - God’s people ask why their prayers go unanswered; their ritual observance was shallow and did not proceed from the heart; God is more pleased to see people help the oppressed and poor; the light of the true worshipper shall break forth like the morning; he shall be as a watered garden; those who keep the Sabbath will ride on the high hills of the earth.

Isaiah 59 - The problem is not that the Lord’s hand is shortened, so it cannot save; the problem is the sins of the people; darkness comes and the people growl like bears and moan sadly like doves; in the absence of righteousness the Lord Himself became a righteous warrior He lifts up his standard before the enemy; the Redeemer shall come to Zion.

Isaiah 60 - Arise, shine, for your light has come; the gentiles shall come to your light; great treasures will come to Israel from many lands; the sons of those who afflicted Israel shall come bowing; the walls shall be called Salvation and the gates Praise; the Lord will be an everlasting light to replace the sun and the moon; the days of mourning shall be ended.

Isaiah 61 - The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me; the servant will preach good tidings to the poor, proclaim liberty to the captives, comfort those who mourn; ruined cities will be rebuilt; shame will replace honor; the covenant will endure for future generations, and be famous among the gentiles; he is clothed in the garment of salvation, and the robe of righteousness; righteousness and praise will spring forth.

Isaiah 62 - Zion’s righteousness shall go forth as brightness; The gentiles shall witness its glory; The Lord loves Zion as a bridegroom loves a bride, and will protect it against enemies; build the highway for the Lord; Zion shall be peopled with the redeemed of the Lord.
Isaiah 63 - Who is this who comes from Edom with dyed red garments; He has trodden the winepress furiously; nobody was by to help Him; a Savior redeemed His people, though afflicted; His people rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit, so He turned against them; an exile’s plea for restoration; where is the God of Moses, who redeemed His people.

Isaiah 64 - A prayer for God to intervene, shaking the mountains and making His name known to His adversaries; sinfulness is confessed, and acknowledged as an obstacle; a plea is made to forget iniquity; God is asked to act because Zion is a wilderness, and Jerusalem a desolation.

Isaiah 65 - I was sought by those who did not ask for me; these people are contrasted with God’s rebellious people; blessings are promised for the true servants of the Lord, and a chastisement for false or shallow servants; God will create a new Heaven, and a new earth, and there shall be no more weeping; people will live so long that if someone dies being one hundred years old, people will consider that one accursed; they shall provide for themselves; the wolf and the lamb shall feed together.

Isaiah 66 - Heaven is the Lord’s throne, and the earth His footstool; the Lord will look on one who is poor and of a contrite spirit; empty religious rituals are rejected; the Lord repays His enemies; after labor pains, Zion experiences the joy of birth; the Lord will come in judgment, to judge all flesh; gentiles will come to know of the Lord, and some of them will even become priests and Levites; all flesh shall worship before the Lord; for those who transgress, their corpses will be looked upon; their worm shall not die, nor their fire quenched.

Jeremiah 1 - The Lord tells Jeremiah he was sanctified in the belly to serve; Jeremiah is anxious he is a child, and cannot speak; the Lord touches his mouth, so he will be a prophet unto the nations; the Lord’s plans are compared to the branch of an almond tree; it comes to fruit quickly; Jeremiah sees a boiling pot facing the north; an evil shall break forth from the north against the inhabitants of Judah; Jeremiah will be protected as he prophesies.

Jeremiah 2 - Israel has forsaken the Lord and gone after other gods; its own backslidings will be its punishment; from a right seed, Israel has become a degenerate vine; Israel says to wood, you are my father, and to stone, you gave me birth; Israel sinfully presumes itself to be innocent.

Jeremiah 3 - Israel is compared to an adulterous husband; in the days of Josiah, the Lord complains about the high places in Israel, and about how Israel was punished; Judah, far from taking Israel as a cautionary tale, played the harlot also, and turned to the Lord only feignedly; appeal for Israel to acknowledge transgressions, and be restored; all nations shall be gathered to Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 4 - The Lord appeals to the men of Judah and Jerusalem to circumcise their hearts; mourn and repent; an evil is coming from the north; the land will be debased; the Lord creates the universe.

Jeremiah 5 - Judah’s iniquities recounted; it will be destroyed by a strange nation whose tongue is unknown; the Lord will not protect it.

Jeremiah 6 - Jerusalem will be made desolate, and punished for its transgressions by a nation from the north; this nation is cruel and will have no mercy; repent.

Jeremiah 7 - Jeremiah told to stand at the temple gates and order those entering to repent; the Lord complains that the temple has become a den of robbers; the Lord will do to the temple what he did to Shiloh; the people perform offerings in an unacceptable foreign manner; there are high places in Judah; the voice of mirth shall go from Judah and Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 8 - The bones of the kings, princes and priests of Judah shall be exhumed and left for dung upon the face of the earth; the stork in the heaven knows her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but My people know not the judgment of the Lord; the land will become barren; serpents and cockatrices shall bite; since My people are crushed, I Am crushed; I mourn, and horror grips Me.

Jeremiah 9 - Oh that My head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of My people; the people will be scattered among the heathen, and given wormwood and gall for sustenance; let not the wise or the mighty glory in their powers; let he who glories glory in the Lord; the circumcised will be punished alongside the uncircumcised; Israel is uncircumcised in its heart.

Jeremiah 10 - The house of Israel acts idolatrously, consulting the heavens, worshipping trees, making graven images; false gods have not made the heavens and the earth; the Lord suffers woe and hurt; the Lord is full of destructive anger.

Jeremiah 11 - The Lord reminds Judah of the consequences of breaking the Mosaic covenant; Judah is a green olive tree which will be burnt, and its branches broken; the Lord will punish by sword and famine the men of Anathoth who seek Jeremiah’s life.

Jeremiah 12 - The wicked take root and grow; the Lord has left His heritage, which has been spoiled; His people have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns; after they have been plucked from the land, they will be restored to their heritage; conditional upon obedience.

Jeremiah 13 - The Lord tells Jeremiah to place his girdle in the hole of a rock at the Euphrates; after a couple of days, it is marred; after this manner the Lord will mar the pride of Judah; the house of Israel and Judah cleaved unto me as a girdle cleaves unto a man, but is now good for nothing; the elite of Judah will destroy each other in drunkenness; give glory to the Lord, before he changes light to darkness; can an Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots.

Jeremiah 14 - Jeremiah surveys the famine, and admits iniquities on behalf of his people, providing a model of repentance; the Lord tells Jeremiah not to pray for (H)his people; false prophets are rebuked; Jeremiah prays on behalf of the people once more.

Jeremiah 15 - The sword, famine and captivity are promised, as punishment for the sins of Manasseh, son of Hezekiah; widows shall mourn and languish; Jeremiah complains about being made to deliver such unwelcome messages, for which also he is reproved; Jeremiah pleads his sincerity, and asks pardon; God promises to protect him.

Jeremiah 16 - Due to the evils which threaten, Jeremiah is forbidden to marry or have a family, or to share in the joys and sorrow of his neighbors, which will be forgotten in the calamities that their sins will bring on them; a future restoration is intimated; the conversion of the Gentiles is foretold.

Jeremiah 17 - Judah is fatally inclined to idolatry; the happiness of the man that trusts in the Lord is contrasted with the man that trusts in man; God alone knows the deceit and wretchedness of the heart of man; a comparison is made between a bird’s hatching the eggs of another species, which will soon forsake her, and the vanity of is ill-acquired riches; Jeremiah talks of his sincerity, and prays that the evil intended him by his enemies may revert on their own heads; an appeal to observe the Sabbath is made.

Jeremiah 18 - The house of Israel is like clay in the hands of a potter; the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem are invited to repent; their refusal is as unnatural as someone preferring the snowy Lebanon or barren rock to a fruitful plain, or other waters to the cool stream of the fountain; a conspiracy is formed against Jeremiah, who appeals to God, and curses his enemies.

Jeremiah 19 - Judah and Jerusalem will be broken as a potter’s vessel, because they have forsaken the Lord; the land will be made desolate and the people will eat the flesh of their children.

Jeremiah 20 - Pashur, governor of the temple, smites Jeremiah and places him in the stocks; when Jeremiah is taken from the stocks, he curses Pashur, and tells him he will die in captivity; Jeremiah resolves to prophesy no more, but the Word of the Lord is in his heart like a burning flame, and he is not able to forbear; Jeremiah curses the day he was born.

Jeremiah 21 - Vision when Zedekiah was king; advice to submit to Nebuchadnezzar’s forces and live, rather than fight against them and die; those who stay in the city shall die, but those who go out and submit to the Chaldeans shall live.

Jeremiah 22 - The king of Judah must execute judgment and righteousness and protect the needy; if he does not, his house shall become a desolation; thou, Judah, are Gilead to Me; all nations shall marvel at the desolation; Shallum (=Jehoahaz) the son of Josiah will die a captive; Coniah (=Jeconiah) the son of Jehoiakim will be given to them that seek his life, and his seed will be forever excluded from the throne.

Jeremiah 23 - Woe to those that have scattered the sheep of the Lord’s pasture; a King shall arise from the branch of David, and he shall be called the King of Righteousness; mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; I reel like a drunken man; the priests and prophets of Judah are wicked; Divine vengeance is hanging over them; the people should not listen to their false promises; they will face ruin, as will all scoffers of true prophecy.

Jeremiah 24 - A vision after Jeconiah had been taken away captive; good figs and bad figs; the good figs symbolize those the Lord shall preserve in captivity, and the bad figs Zedekiah, his princes, the residue of Jerusalem, and those that dwell in Egypt.

Jeremiah 25 - Word comes to Jeremiah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, and the first year of Nebuchadnezzar; because Judah has not harkened to the prophets, it will be captive in Babylon for seventy years; after these seventy years, the king of Babylon will himself be punished; all nations are made to drink of a cup of wine, become drunken, spew, fall and rise now more; the dead shall not be lamented or buried.

Jeremiah 26 - Word comes to Jeremiah in the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim; Jeremiah makes a call to repentance in the court of the temple; this house shall be like Shiloh; the priests and people take objection to this, but the memory of Micah, who persuades Hezekiah to repent, stays their hands; Jeremiah is protected by Ahikam the son of Shaphan; another prophet, Urijah, prophesies against the city; he flees to Egypt, but Jehoiakim’s men bring him before the king and slay him.

Jeremiah 27 - Word comes to Jeremiah in the reign of Jehoiakim; the Lord tells Jeremiah to put bands and yokes upon his neck and to send them to the neighboring countries who want Judah to join in a war against Babylon; submission to Babylon is advised; do not listen to false prophets and dreamers; those who submit will be allowed to live in their own land; Zedekiah is advised not to war against the Babylonians.

Jeremiah 28 - Word comes to Jeremiah in the reign of Zedekiah; Hananiah breaks Jeremiah’s yoke and says that in the same way the Lord shall break the yoke of the Babylonians; the Lord replies that a yoke of wood may be broken, but not the yoke of iron which will be imposed; Hananiah dies as a punishment for his rebellion against the Lord.

Jeremiah 29 - Message to captives; build houses, have children and settle; the captivity will last for seventy years; Jeremiah speaks against two false prophets, Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and Zedekaih, the son of Maaseiah, who prophesied a speedy end to the captivity; he also rebukes Shemaiah the Nehelamite, who complains about Jeremiah’s message.

Jeremiah 30 - Promise of restoration; David will be restored unto Judah; peace and prosperity; they that devour thee shall be devoured; ye shall be My people, and I shall be your God.

Jeremiah 31 - The northern kingdom will be restored; Rachel is represented rising from her tomb, lamenting, but then being consoled by the thought of future restoration; Ephraim repents, and is reconciled; peace and prosperity returns to the posterity of Jacob; no more sour grapes.

Jeremiah 32 - Word comes to Jeremiah in the tenth year of the reign of Zedekiah, during the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem; Jeremiah is imprisoned, and God tells him to redeem a field in Anathoth through his cousin Hanameel; the contract is delivered to Baruch; the contract is used by God as a sign that the Jews will once more possess their land after the Babylonian captivity; an everlasting covenant will be made.

Jeremiah 33 - Word comes to Jeremiah in prison; Israel and Judah will be restored to the favor of God; all the world shall be astonished; a Lord of righteousness shall gown from the branch of David, ensuring happiness and stability under His government.

Jeremiah 34 - Word comes to Jeremiah when Zedekiah is fighting against Babylon; Judah will be given to the Babylonians, yet Zedekiah shall die in peace; a further prophecy, reproving the Jews for their conduct towards their Hebrew slaves, whom they released in times of danger, but compelled to return to bondage when they thought the danger over; God threatens them with the sword, pestilence, and famine, and with the return of the Chaldeans.

Jeremiah 35 - The Lord commends and blesses the Rechabites, who obey their father in not drinking wine, sowing seed or building their own houses; their obedience is contrasted with Judah and Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 36 - Word comes to Jeremiah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim; using Baruch as his scribe Jeremiah writes down his prophecies; Baruch reads them publicly upon a fast day in the temple; the princes hear him and resolve to tell the king; Jehoiakim has the roll thrown into the fire and orders Jeremiah and Baruch to be seized; the Lord conceals them; Jeremiah rewrites the roll and denounces the burning of the roll.

Jeremiah 37 - Zedekiah succeeds Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim, in Judah, and does evil in the sight of the Lord; the kings sends a message to Jeremiah and Jeremiah replies, foretelling the return of the Chaldean army, who will take and burn the city; Jeremiah, in attempting to leave Jerusalem, and retire to his possession in the country, is seized as a deserter and cast into a dungeon.

Jeremiah 38 - The princes of Judah, taking offense at Jeremiah on account of his predicting the destruction of Jerusalem, cause him to be cast into a deep and miry dungeon; Ebed-melech, an Ethiopian, gets the king’s permission to take him out; Jeremiah advises the king, who consulted him privately, to surrender to the Chaldeans; the king promises that he will not put Jeremiah to death and requires the consultation secret.

Jeremiah 39 - In the ninth year of Zedekiah Jerusalem is broken up by the Babylonian forces; Zedekiah is blinded and his sons killed; Jeremiah is spared and sent home to dwell among his people; Ebed-melech is also spared.

Jeremiah 40 - Jeremiah puts himself under the jurisdiction of Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, who has been made the governor of Judah; Johanan acquaints the governor of a conspiracy against him, but he is not believed.

Jeremiah 41 - Ishmael executes his conspiracy against Gedaliah and his companions and attempts to carry away the Jews who were with him captives to the Ammonites; Johanan recovers them and proposes fleeing with them into Egypt.

Jeremiah 42 - Johanan and the remnant of the people desire Jeremiah to ask counsel of God what they should do; Jeremiah says they will be safe in Judah, but face destruction in Egypt; Jeremiah reproves their hypocrisy in asking advice they have no intention of heeding.

Jeremiah 43 - The leading men, discrediting Jeremiah’s prophecy, carry the people into Egypt; Jeremiah places stones at the entry of the Pharoah’s house and says Nebuchadnezzar shall set his throne on them; Nebuchadnezzar shall array himself with Egypt, as a shepherd puts on his garment.

Jeremiah 44 - Jeremiah reproves the Jews in Egypt for continuing in idolatry; Jeremiah rebukes their refusal to reform and declares that they will be destroyed along with Egypt.

Jeremiah 45 - Baruch is in anguish regarding the destruction of Judah, but is assured that the Lord will build what he has broken down and also that his life shall be preserved.

Jeremiah 46 - The prophet sees the preparation of Pharaoh Necho for the battle of Carchemish; in their confidence of victory the Egyptians are like a river overflowing its banks; they will be defeated, as the Lord decreed by the river Euphrates; the Egyptians will be overthrown by Nebuchadnezzar after his siege of Tyre; The Jews will be eventually returned to Divine favor.

Jeremiah 47 - Destruction from the north (Babylon) predicted for the Philistines; the Babylonians are compared to an overflowing flood.

Jeremiah 48 - Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard; give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away; Moab punished for its complacency and pride; how is the strong staff broken; Moab has magnified itself against the Lord.

Jeremiah 49 - Destruction prophesied for the Ammonites, Edom, Damascus, Hazor and Elam; the Lord will appoint the time; the heart of the mighty men of Edom shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

Jeremiah 50 - Babylon will fall at the hands of a nation from the north, and Israel be restored.

Jeremiah 51 - Babylon will be destroyed by the Medes; all shall be broken in pieces; the daughter of Babylon is like threshing floor, it is time to thresh her; Babylon will be brought as a lamb to the slaughter; it will become a dwelling place for dragons; Jeremiah instructs Seraiah (the chief priest) to read this prophecy in Babylon, then bind a stone to the prophecy and throw it in the Euphrates to demonstrate that Babylon shall sink.

Jeremiah 52 - An account of the defeat of Zedekiah by the Babylonians; his sons killed, Zedekiah blinded, Jerusalem looted; the way Jehoiachin is treated in his captivity improves.

Lamentations 1 - The prophet describes all of the suffering that befell the Jewish people at the time of the destruction of the Temple; Jeremiah paints a vivid portrait of a widow crying in the night, tears on her cheeks, with no one to comfort her, forsaken by all her friends; Judah has been exiled and dwells in servitude among the nations, while Zion sits in mourning and desolation, missing the myriad pilgrims who would swarm her gates; Jerusalem remembers the bitter destruction, the glorious era that preceded it and the fact that no nation came to her aid; the allies they depended on, reneged on them, and rejoiced over Jerusalem’s desolation; the prophet reveals the cause; Jerusalem did not have the foresight to contemplate the result of her degeneration; Jeremiah describes the enemy army entering the Temple and the people of Jerusalem dying of hunger; in the end we accept the Divine verdict; the enemies of Israel will experience the same bitter end.

Lamentations 2 - The prophet pictures the glory of Israel thrown from Heaven to the ground; Jerusalem is on fire; the prophet pictures children dying of hunger, begging their mothers for food, before expiring on their mothers bosom; there is no comparison in history to comfort you with, proclaims the prophet; false prophets lulled them into a false sense of security; All the nations pass by and clap and whistle in disbelief; Israel’s enemies open their mouths, whistle and gnash their teeth in satisfaction; The Jews beseech the Almighty; fellow Jews murdered (the prophet Zechariah) in the Temple courtyard (on Yom Kippur) for rebuking them about their deeds.

Lamentations 3 - Jeremiah cries over the fact that he witnessed punishment that previous prophets had only warned of; Jeremiah was chosen to express the pain of Jewish suffering; he sees his life as dark, as God has closed the windows of Heaven before his prayers; Jeremiah has been ambushed as by a bear or lion, and is now the laughingstock of his people who ridiculed his prophesies; they embittered his life and broke his teeth; he feels no inner peace; he has no future, yet he still hasn’t lost his faith; from the depth of his pain he turns to the Almighty in prayer; remember me and all of my suffering; Jeremiah is consoled; God’s kindness and mercy never ends; miracles surround us constantly in life; God is good to those who trust in Him and seek Him out; one must never give up hope and always wait for God’s salvation that will eventually come; suffering brings us to the realization that we have free will and we should cry over our mistakes and misdeeds, which is the cause of all suffering; when we make a personal introspection of our deeds and fully return to God we shall admit our responsibility; then God will hear our prayers, fight our fights, and repay our enemies all that they have done to us.

Lamentations 4 - A description of Jerusalem’s destruction; the gold was tarnished, the shine of the Temple darkened; the precious stones (the Jewish people) thrown into the streets; precious Jewish children, given over to cruel enemies; their tongues stuck to their throats in thirst and no one gives them bread; the pampered children who were used to delicacies are now picking in the garbage dump; their bodies so ravaged by hunger as to be unrecognizable; their faces darker then soot; their skin shriveled on their bones; the victims of the sword were better off than those who starved to death in agony; merciful women cooked their own children; the nations and their kings could not believe their eyes; the blind trip over corpses in the street and are covered with blood; the Jewish people waited in vain for their allies (Egypt) to come to their aid; our enemies were lighter than the eagles; they chased us from the mountains and ambushed us in the desert; the righteous king Yoshiyahu was killed as a result of our deeds; the prophesy of the Second Temple’s destruction; your sins are atoned and you will suffer no more.

Lamentations 5 - Remember what has happened to us and see our degradation; strangers have taken our inheritance; our houses are occupied by others; we must pay to drink our water and buy our own firewood; death through hunger; young and old mercilessly destroyed; our joy turned to mourning; our crown fell off our heads; a desolate of mount Zion with foxes wandering freely about her holy abode.

Ezekiel 1 - In the fifth year of Jehoiachin’s captivity, by the river Chebar, Ezekiel has a vision of the four living creatures with four winds and four faces (man, lion, ox, eagle) and of the four wheels full of eyes.  Ezekiel sees one with the appearance of a man sitting on a throne.  The vision comes from a whirlwind from the north.

Ezekiel 2 - Ezekiel will prophesy regardless of whether he is heeded or not; he is enjoined not to be afraid; a scroll is produced filled with words of lamentation.

Ezekiel 3 - Ezekiel is commanded to eat the scroll and it tastes as sweet as honey; Ezekiel is a watchman; if he does not warn the wicked and the wicked die because of their iniquity, Ezekiel is answerable for it; if Ezekiel tells them and the wicked do not heed him, he is not answerable; Ezekiel is answerable if a righteousness man commits iniquity and is not warned.

Ezekiel 4 - Ezekiel represents Jerusalem with a tile and uses an iron pan and models of a fort and battering rams to signify the forthcoming siege by the Chaldeans; Ezekiel is commanded to lie on his left side for 390 days and on his right side for 40 days; during this time Ezekiel must eat the worst kinds of grain and have only cow’s dung for fuel to denote the scarcity of provisions during the siege of Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 5 - Ezekiel is commanded to shave; he must burn a third of his hair, smite a third with his knife, and scatter a third to the wind, to indicate the judgment to be executed on the inhabitants of Jerusalem. Further judgments are then enumerated more explicitly, including famine and wild beasts.

Ezekiel 6 - Ezekiel sets his face towards the mountains and prophesies against Israel; its high places will be made desolate; then shall ye know that I am the Lord; a remnant shall be saved.

Ezekiel 7 - Judgment by sword, famine and pestilence; robbers will defile the temple; Ezekiel is directed to make a chain, as a symbol of the impending captivity.

Ezekiel 8 - Ezekiel is carried in vision to Jerusalem and shown the idolatries committed by the rulers of the Jews there; Ezekiel describes idolatrous images and idolatrous behavior, such as worshipping the sun; great punishment is promised as a result.

Ezekiel 9 - Six men come from the north with weapons of slaughter in their hands; a few pious individuals distressed at the abominations committed in the land are marked on their foreheads by a man clothed in linen; so they may be spared; everyone else is to be smitten; the Shechinah moves from the inner sanctuary to the threshold of the temple as a sign that God’s presence will soon depart; Ezekiel tries to intercede for his people, but God will not be entreated.

Ezekiel 10 - The vision from Chapter one is repeated; between the wheels are coals of fire which are scattered on Jerusalem to intimate that it was to be burnt; the glory of the Lord (Shechinah) departs further.

Ezekiel 11 - The judgments of God are delivered against those who remained in Jerusalem and mocked of the predictions of the prophets; God promises favor to those who were gone into captivity and their restoration; the Shechinah leaves the city.

Ezekiel 12 - Ezekiel is told to move his stuff from one place to another as a type of the displacement the people of Jerusalem will soon undergo; disaster will befall imminently, not in the distant future.

Ezekiel 13 - Judgments are delivered against the prophets who flatter the people with false hopes of peace and security; they are compared to a frail building which cannot stand against the battering elements of heaven; judgment also delivered against false prophetesses who practice vain rites and divinations seeking their own gain.

Ezekiel 14 - God threatens those hypocrites who pretend to worship Him while also practicing idolatry; God will stretch out His hand against the guilty nation and not listen to any intercession; not even the presence of Noah, Daniel or Job could save the land; the idolaters of Jerusalem and Judah shall be visited with four judgments; famine, wild beasts, the sword and pestilence; a remnant shall be delivered from the wrath coming upon the land.

Ezekiel 15 - The Jews are compared to a barren vine; fit for nothing but to be cast on the fire.

Ezekiel 16 - God is like a person who takes up an exposed infant, brings her up, adorns her and marries her; she repays this care with ingratitude, polluting herself with idolatry, sacrificing her children, playing the harlot with foreign nations, and departing from her husband; her nakedness will be discovered by those she has committed whoredoms with; Sodom is her sister; after correction she may again be restored to God’s favor.

Ezekiel 17 - A riddle:  an eagle (Babylon) takes the top twigs and branches from a cedar tree, and takes it off; it also takes the seed of the land and plants it in a fruitful field; the seed becomes a vine; the vine bent to another eagle (Egypt), and is promptly destroyed by the first eagle; the Lord says He will take the highest branch of the cedar tree and set it in the mountain of the height of Israel where it shall prosper.

Ezekiel 18 - The soul that sinneth it shall die; the soul of the just shall live; a litany of just and sinful things are cited; the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father; those turning away from righteousness and away from sin shall die and live respectively; the way of the Lord is equal and the way of the house of Israel is unequal; the Lord has no pleasure in the death of him that dieth.

Ezekiel 19 - Jerusalem is a lioness; the first of her young is Jehoahaz; he is deposed by the king of Egypt; the second is Jehoiakim; brought in chains to Babylon; the Jewish nation is a vine; it flourished but was plucked up in fury and planted in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 20 - The elders of Israel come to ask Ezekiel’s counsel; God orders Ezekiel to remind them of their rebellion and idolatry; in Egypt, in the wilderness, and in Canaan; they will be restored after being purged; Jerusalem is represented as a forest doomed to be destroyed by fire.

Ezekiel 21 - The Lord’s sword is against Jerusalem; Ezekiel is ordered to sigh, cry, and howl conspicuously; Ezekiel represents the king of Babylon intent on vengeance against both Jews and Ammonites for allying themselves with Egypt; he is described standing at the parting of the roads leading to the respective capitals of the Jews and Ammonites; he divines to ascertain which to attack first and Jerusalem is picked; destruction is then predicted for the Ammonites.

Ezekiel 22 - A litany of the sins of Jerusalem (cultic, sexual, social); God promises to punish in order to purify the dross; the corruption is general, perverting prophets, priests, princes and the people.

Ezekiel 23 - Samaria and Jerusalem are denoted as two harlots; the daughters of one mother; who committed whoredoms in Egypt; then with the Assyrians and the Babylonians; they are brought low by those they doted on; the nakedness of their whoredoms shall be discovered.

Ezekiel 24 - Jerusalem is like the scum in a pot of boiling water with bones and meat in it; her scum shall be in the fire; the Lord causes Ezekiel’s wife to die; Ezekiel is not allowed to mourn to indicate that Jerusalem will not be permitted to mourn for its forthcoming calamity.

Ezekiel 25 - God’s judgment against the Ammonites, Moabites, Edomites and Philistines; because they showed hatred for His people and insulted them in their distress; I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; they shall know that I am the Lord when I shall lay My vengeance upon them.

Ezekiel 26 - Tyre has gloated at Jerusalem; Tyre’s walls and towers will be destroyed and the city and its inhabitants laid waste to at the hands of Nebuchadnezzar; the princes will be clothed with trembling; desolation is promised.

Ezekiel 27 - Tyre’s beauty and commercial prosperity is described; a day of ruin is prophesied.

Ezekiel 28 - Tyre has said, I am a god; strangers will be brought against it; the corrupting influence of its material wealth and beauty is described; it will be devoured in fire; Sidon will be destroyed; it is no longer a pricking briar to Israel; the Jews will be restored after the Babylonian captivity.

Ezekiel 29 - The Lord will put a hook in the jaws of Pharaoh; like a fish in the river; the river (Nile) is the Lord’s, not Pharaoh’s; the Egyptians will be scattered; Egypt will be restored after captivity, but merely as a base kingdom of no importance; God promises Nebuchadnezzar Egypt after the long siege of Tyre.

Ezekiel 30 - Ezekiel prophesies the ruin of Egypt and her allies, including the Ethiopians at the hands of the Chaldeans; the principal cities are referred to specifically.

Ezekiel 31 - The Assyrian empire was like a tall and strong cedar tree; the very trees of Eden envied it; the tree was brought down; just as Egypt shall be.
Ezekiel 32 - Egypt is imagined as a large threatening animal; caught, slain, and left exposed to the elements; the sky will be darkened and surrounding nations terrified; Egypt will be left so desolate that its rivers shall run as smooth as oil with nobody to disturb them; God orders the slain Pharaoh and his host to be dragged down to the lower regions of the earth; Pharaoh will share these regions with uncircumcised tyrants and oppressors; Pharaoh’s region is for those who have been slain by the sword.

Ezekiel 33 - The duty of the watchman is reiterated; the righteous who turn from righteousness shall die; the wicked who turn from iniquity shall live; Ezekiel receives news of the destruction of Jerusalem at the hands of the Chaldeans; the hypocrisy and abominations of the people are recounted; when the Lord has destroying these hypocrites they will know that a prophet has been among them.

Ezekiel 34 - Woe to the shepherds of Israel that feed themselves and do not feed the flock; the Lord will recall the scattered sheep; David shall be their shepherd.

Ezekiel 35 - Mount Seir of Idumea (Edom) will be filled with the bodies of slain men; because of the blasphemies spoken against Israel.

Ezekiel 36 - The mountains of Judah, occupied by the Idumeans, will be rid of their alien occupants and their idolatries; the idolatries and other sins of the Jews are the cause of their dispersion and captivity; the Israelites will be restored after the Babylonian captivity.

Ezekiel 37 - Ezekiel is set in the midst of a valley full of dry bones; Ezekiel is told to prophesy to the dry bones; as Ezekiel prophesies the bones are joined together and covered with flesh; in the same way Israel shall be brought up from its grave; Ezekiel is commanded to write, Judah on one stick and Ephraim on another stick, which will become joined into one stick in his hand; at the restoration there shall be no more idolatry; David shall reign; God shall be in His sanctuary.

Ezekiel 38 - The Lord will intervene and execute furious judgment against Gog when he seems about to defeat Israel; all creation will shake at the presence of the Lord; the Lord will be known in the eyes of many nations.

Ezekiel 39 - The slaughter and burial of the forces of Gog are described; birds and beasts of pretty feast on the slain; the Lord will have mercy on the whole house of Israel and restore it to blessedness; God will no longer hide His face from them.

Ezekiel 40 - In the fourteenth year after the destruction of Jerusalem Ezekiel has a vision of a man with an appearance of brass; with a line of flax in his hand and a measuring reed; a temple is described; the exact dimensions of the east, north, and south gates are given; there is further description of the eight tables for the preparation of sacrifices, the chambers, and the porch; all measurements are given precisely in cubits.

Ezekiel 41 - The chambers and ornaments of palm trees and cherubim’s are described.

Ezekiel 42 - The priest’s chambers are described; along with the dimensions of the holy mount on which the temple stood.

Ezekiel 43 - The glory of the Lord fills the temple; the measurements of the altar are given in cubits; stipulations given for seven days of sin offerings when the altar is made; precise cultic instructions in the manner of Leviticus.

Ezekiel 44 - The east gate is to be kept permanently shut; for the Lord has entered through it into the temple; the prince shall enter and leave via the porch of that gate; strangers uncircumcised in heart or flesh are not to be admitted to the sanctuary; the Levites will minister in the sanctuary; regulations for Levites; the Levites will teach the people the difference between the clean and the unclean; the Lord will be their portion; the Levites who worked at the high places would be punished by becoming mere temple servants; only the priests at the Temple in Jerusalem could fully carry out priestly duties.

Ezekiel 45 - Portions of land appointed for the sanctuary, the city, and the prince; regulations concerning weights and measures; ordinances regarding provisions for the ordinary and extraordinary sacrifices.

Ezekiel 46 - Gate of the inner court facing eastwards is only opened on Sabbaths and new moons; the prince shall offer six lambs and a ram on the Sabbath; further stipulations for new moon offerings; the prince will leave by the gate he entered, but at the big feasts, the people will leave by the opposite gate to the one they came in by; stipulations for princely peace offerings given; stipulations for daily offerings given; ordinances prescribed for the gifts a prince may bestow on his sons and servants; a servant’s gift must be returned if the servant is set at liberty; measurements of the courts appointed for boiling or baking of the holy oblations.

Ezekiel 47 - The vision of the holy waters issuing out of the temple; starting as a shallow stream then getting deeper and fuller until it is over a man’s head; the river travels east until it reaches a sea which will teem with fish; only the marshy ground will still be salty; fruitful banks will grow on the banks of the river; a description of the division of the land shared between Jews and proselytes.

Ezekiel 48 - A description of the several portions of the land belonging to each tribe together with the portion allotted to the sanctuary, city, suburb, and prince; the measurement of the gates of the new city; three facing north, three south, three east and three west, each named after a tribe; the city will be named The Lord is there.

Daniel 1 - Nebuchadnezzar conquers Jerusalem and king Jehoiakim; the best and the brightest of Jerusalem’s young men are chosen and taken to Babylon; Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah; given Babylonian names; Daniel decides that he will not defile himself with the king’s delicacies and wine; Daniel negotiates with a steward and is allowed to live on vegetables and water; after ten days they appear more healthy than those who have eaten the king’s delicacies so they are allowed to keep to this diet; Daniel and his companions are promoted; Daniel has understanding in dreams and visions.

Daniel 2 - Nebuchadnezzar is troubled with a dream; the Chaldean soothsayers can give no interpretation; Nebuchadnezzar orders the slaughter of all the soothsayers; God reveals to Daniel Nebuchadnezzar’s dream; Daniel gives thanks to God for the knowledge granted him and asks to go before Nebuchadnezzar; Daniel acknowledges that it was God Who revealed the dream to him; Daniel describes Nebuchadnezzar’s dream; an image appeared, having a head of gold, chest and arms of silver, belly and thighs of bronze, legs of iron, feet of iron and clay; a Stone, cut out without hands, struck the feet; the Stone became a great mountain and filled the earth; the interpretation is that Nebuchadnezzar is the golden head, and the other parts of the image’s body are subsequent kingdoms (Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome); when the feet are destroyed, all other kingdoms will be destroyed along with it; the iron and clay of the feet indicates that the kingdom is partly strong, and partly weak; the fourth kingdom will be divided into ten smaller kingdoms, each represented by a toe; God will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed (represented by the stone); Nebuchadnezzar praises Daniel’s God, and promotes Daniel.

Daniel 3 - Nebuchadnezzar makes a golden image; Nebuchadnezzar gives a command to worship the image or be thrown into a fiery furnace; certain Chaldeans tell Nebuchadnezzar that Daniel’s companions do not worship the statue; they calmly refuse to worship the statue and are thrown into the furnace which is heated to seven times it normal heat; those throwing them into the fire were burned up; Nebuchadnezzar sees four men, unbound, walking in the midst of the fiery furnace; the form of the Fourth is like the Son of God; the three men leave the furnace unharmed; Nebuchadnezzar acknowledges the greatness of the Hebrew God; Nebuchadnezzar makes a proclamation that nothing evil should be said against the God of the Hebrews.

Daniel 4 - Nebuchadnezzar’s makes a decree; how great are God’s signs and how mighty His wonders; Nebuchadnezzar recounts a dream of a mighty tree; a watcher from heaven orders to be chopped down; its stump bound with a band of iron and bronze; it is to be made wet with dew and be with grazing beasts; Daniel interprets; Nebuchadnezzar will be humbled and eat grass like oxen; Daniel’s interpretation if fulfilled that very hour; Nebuchadnezzar is driven from men and eats grass; his hair grows like eagle’s feathers and his nails like bird’s claws; Nebuchadnezzar is finally restored to power and praises God.

Daniel 5 - Belshazzar makes a great feast with vessels taken from the temple at Jerusalem; they drink wine and praise false gods; a hand writes a message on a wall; Belshazzar is troubled and wishes to have the writing read and interpreted; the queen recommends Daniel; Daniel says that Belshazzar has not humbled his heart like Nebuchadnezzar; The writing says mene mene tekel upharsin; God has numbered your kingdom, you have been weighed in the balances and been found wanting; your kingdom is to be given to the Medes and the Persians; Belshazzar honors Daniel; that night Belshazzar is slain; the kingdom falls to Darius the Mede.

Daniel 6 - Daniel is made one of three governors over the 120 satraps (regional rulers) in Darius’ administration; there is a plot hatched by the satraps who persuade the king to sign a decree saying that anyone petitioning a god or man other than Darius will be thrown into a den of lions; report reaches Darius that Daniel has prayed to his God; Daniel is thrown into the lion’s den; Darius tells Daniel that his God will protect him; the king fasts that night and is not entertained by musicians; Daniel is found alive the following morning; Darius calls Daniel the servant of the living God; those who accused Daniel are thrown to the lions along with their families; Darius decrees that all must honor the God of Daniel; Daniel prospers.

Daniel 7 - Daniel’s vision in the first year of Belshazzar’s reign; four beasts coming from the sea; the first (= Babylonian empire) was like a lion with eagle’s wings; its wings were plucked off, it was lifted up and made to stand on two feet like a man, and a man’s heart was given to it; the second beast (= Medes empire) is a bear with three ribs between its teeth; it is commanded to devour much flesh; the third beast (= Greek empire) is a leopard with four heads and four bird’s wings on its back; it is given dominion; the fourth beast (= Roman empire) has iron teeth and ten horns; they are replaced by a single horn; there are a man’s eyes in his horn and a mouth speaking blasphemies; this beast is then slain and burnt; One like the Son of Man comes with the clouds of Heaven; He comes to the Ancient of Days and is given an everlasting dominion; the interpretation: the four beasts are four kings; they are conquered by God and their kingdoms are given to the people of God; the ten horns of the fourth beast (which made war on the saints) represent ten kings who shall subdue three kings before being defeated by the Most High.

Daniel 8 - Daniel’s vision in the third year of Belshazzar’s reign; by the river Ulai there is a ram (=Media/Persia) with two horns; one larger than the other; it pushes in all directions and cannot be withstood; a male goat (=Greece) with a large horn between its eyes challenges and conquers the ram; the goat becomes great in power but its horn is broken and replaced by four others (= the four successors to Alexander the Great); one horn grows great towards the south, east, and Glorious Land; the horn takes away the daily sacrifices and casts down the place of God’s Sanctuary; the transgression of desolation will last 2300 days; then the Sanctuary will be cleansed; Gabriel explains to Daniel that the vision refers to the time of the end; further interpretation is given; the two horns of the ram are the kings of Media and Persia; the male goat is the Greek empire; the little horn will destroy many and then be destroyed without human means; the vision refers to many days in the future; Daniel responds to the vision with fainting and sickness.

Daniel 9 - Daniel knows from Jeremiah that the Babylonian exile will last seventy years; Daniel fasts and prays; Daniel asks that God forgive and restore Jerusalem; Daniel is visited by Gabriel; Gabriel says that in seventy weeks (meaning seventy sets of seven years, i.e., 490 years) reconciliation will be made for iniquity, everlasting righteousness will be brought in, and the Most Holy anointed; from the command to restore Jerusalem to the coming of the Messiah there will be seven weeks and sixty weeks ((7+62) x 7 years = 483 years); the Messiah will be cut off; the coming Prince will make a covenant with Israel for the final unit of seven years, completing the seventy weeks; the covenant will be broken in the middle of this final seven year period.

Daniel 10 - Daniel’s vision in the third year of Cyrus’ reign; Daniel has been mourning for three weeks; on the banks of the Tigris Daniel sees a glorious man clothed in linen; Daniel’s companions do not see the vision; but they are terrified nonetheless and flee; the glorious man says he has faced opposition from the prince of the kingdom of Persia and was helped by the prince Michael; Daniel feels overwhelmed by weakness but is reassured and told to be strong; the glorious person says he must fight the prince of Persia and then the prince of Greece; Michael assists him.

Daniel 11 - Three kings shall arise in Persia; the fourth shall be richer than them all and fight against Greece; a mighty king’s empire (Alexander’s) will be divided into four parts at his death; the southern part shall become the strongest (Ptolemy’s); Joined by a marriage the kings of the North and South will be allies for a while; the arrangement will not last (marriage between Antiochus II of the Seleucids and Berenice, daughter of Ptolemy II); from the South, an army will defeat the kingdom of the North (Ptolemy III, avenging the murder of Berenice his sister); the sons of the kings of the North will continue the battle; one of the sons will conquer the Holy Land which stood as a buffer between the kings of the South and the kings of the North; the king of the South will gain an upper hand over the king of the North who will occupy the Holy Land (Glorious Land, Antiochus III was defeated at the battle of Raphia, and forced to give back dominion over the Holy Land to Ptolemy IV); the king of the North will then occupy the Glorious Land; world history continues along with future applications for all.

Daniel 12 - Michael shall stand up at a time of trouble; the Jewish people shall be delivered if their name is found written in the Book; the dead will be resurrected; some to everlasting life; some to everlasting contempt; the righteous and wise shall shine like the stars; Daniel is told to shut up his words and seal the Book until the time of the end; the time of trouble will be for a time, times and half a time (three and a half years = 1260 days = 1260 years); God will purify and preserve His people and has set a limit of days to the time of trouble; there will be 1290 days (years) from the setting up of the abomination of desolation to the final consummation of all things; blessed is he who waits to day 1335 (1335 years); Daniel is told to go his way.