[HNV] The Good News According to Mark 13, World English Bible: Messianic Edition
The Good News According to Mark, Chapter 13
{13:1} As he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to
him, Rabbi, see what kind of stones and what kind of buildings!
{13:2} Yeshua said to him, Do you see these great buildings? There
will not be left here one stone on another, which will not be thrown
down.
{13:3} As he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter,
Jacob, Yochanan, and Andrew asked him privately, {13:4} Tell us, when
will these things be? What is the sign that these things are all about
to be fulfilled?
{13:5} Yeshua, answering, began to tell them, Be careful that no
one leads you astray. {13:6} For many will come in my name, saying,
'[1]I am he![1]' and will lead many astray.
{13:7} When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, don't be troubled.
For those must happen, but the end is not yet. {13:8} For nation will
rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be
earthquakes in various places. There will be famines and troubles.
These things are the beginning of birth pains. {13:9} But watch
yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be
beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my
sake, for a testimony to them. {13:10} The Good News must first be
preached to all the nations. {13:11} When they lead you away and
deliver you up, don't be anxious beforehand, or premeditate what you
will say, but say whatever will be given you in that hour. For it is
not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.
{13:12} Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father
his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be
put to death. {13:13} You will be hated by all men for my name's sake,
but he who endures to the end, the same will be saved. {13:14} But
when you see the abomination of desolation,[2] spoken of by Daniel the
prophet, standing where it ought not (let the reader understand), then
let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, {13:15} and let him
who is on the housetop not go down, nor enter in, to take anything out
of his house. {13:16} Let him who is in the field not return back to
take his cloak. {13:17} But woe to those who are with child and to
those who nurse babies in those days! {13:18} Pray that your flight
won't be in the winter. {13:19} For in those days there will be
oppression, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of
the creation which God created until now, and never will be. {13:20}
Unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been
saved; but for the sake of the chosen ones, whom he picked out, he
shortened the days. {13:21} Then if anyone tells you, 'Look, here is
the Messiah!' or, 'Look, there!' don't believe it. {13:22} For there
will arise false messiahs and false prophets, and will show signs and
wonders, that they may lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.
{13:23} But you watch.
Behold, I have told you all things beforehand. {13:24} But in those
days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will
not give its light, {13:25} the stars will be falling from the sky,
and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken.[3] {13:26} Then
they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and
glory. {13:27} Then he will send out his angels, and will gather
together his chosen ones from the four winds, from the ends of the
earth to the ends of the sky.
{13:28} Now from the fig tree, learn this parable. When the branch
has now become tender, and puts forth its leaves, you know that the
summer is near; {13:29} even so you also, when you see these things
coming to pass, know that it is near, at the doors. {13:30} Most
certainly I say to you, this [4]generation[4] will not pass away
until all these things happen. {13:31} Heaven and earth will pass
away, but my words will not pass away. {13:32} But of that day or that
hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but
only the Father. {13:33} Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don't
know when the time is.
{13:34} It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left
his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his
work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch. {13:35} Watch
therefore, for you don't know when the lord of the house is coming,
whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in
the morning; {13:36} lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping.
{13:37} What I tell you, I tell all: Watch.
Footnotes:
[1] {13:6} or, I AM!
[2] {13:14} Daniel 9:17; 11:31; 12:11
[3] {13:25} Isaiah 13:10; 34:4
[4] {13:30} The word translated generation (genea) could also be
translated race, family, or people.
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[HNV] Num 22, World English Bible: Messianic Edition
Numbers, starting at chapter 22
{22:1} The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in the plains
of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho. {22:2} Balak the son of Zippor
saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. {22:3} Moab was sore
afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed
because of the children of Israel. {22:4} Moab said to the elders of
Midian, Now this multitude will lick up all that is around us, as the
ox licks up the grass of the field.
Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time. {22:5} He
sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the
River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying,
Behold, there is a people who came out from Egypt. Behold, they cover
the surface of the earth, and they are staying opposite me. {22:6}
Please come now therefore curse me this people; for they are too
mighty for me: perhaps I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and
that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you
bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.
{22:7} The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the
rewards of divination in their hand; and they came to Balaam, and
spoke to him the words of Balak. {22:8} He said to them, Lodge here
this night, and I will bring you word again, as the LORD shall speak
to me. The princes of Moab stayed with Balaam. {22:9} God came to
Balaam, and said, Who are these men with you? {22:10} Balaam said to
God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent to me, [saying],
{22:11} 'Behold, the people that is come out of Egypt, it covers the
surface of the earth: now, come curse me them; perhaps I shall be able
to fight against them, and shall drive them out.'
{22:12} God said to Balaam, You shall not go with them. You shall
not curse the people; for they are blessed.
{22:13} Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of
Balak, Go to your land; for the LORD refuses to permit me to go with
you.
{22:14} The princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and
said, Balaam refuses to come with us.
{22:15} Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than
they. {22:16} They came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus says Balak
the son of Zippor, 'Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me:
{22:17} for I will promote you to very great honor, and whatever you
say to me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse this people for
me.'
{22:18} Balaam answered the servants of Balak, If Balak would give
me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of
the LORD my God, to do less or more. {22:19} Now therefore, please
wait also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will speak to
me more.
{22:20} God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, If the men
have come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which
I speak to you, that you shall do.
{22:21} Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and
went with the princes of Moab. {22:22} God's anger was kindled because
he went; and the angel of the LORD placed himself in the way for an
adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two
servants were with him. {22:23} The donkey saw the angel of the LORD
standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the donkey
turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam
struck the donkey, to turn her into the way. {22:24} Then the angel of
the LORD stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall being on
this side, and a wall on that side. {22:25} The donkey saw the angel
of the LORD, and she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam's
foot against the wall: and he struck her again.
{22:26} The angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow
place, where there was no way to turn either to the right hand or to
the left. {22:27} The donkey saw the angel of the LORD, and she lay
down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he struck the
donkey with his staff.
{22:28} The LORD opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to
Balaam, What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three
times?
{22:29} Balaam said to the donkey, Because you have mocked me, I
wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would have killed you.
{22:30} The donkey said to Balaam, Am I not your donkey, on which
you have ridden all your life long to this day? Was I ever in the
habit of doing so to you?
He said, No.
{22:31} Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the
angel of the LORD standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his
hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face. {22:32} The angel
of the LORD said to him, Why have you struck your donkey these three
times? Behold, I have come forth as an adversary, because your way is
perverse before me: {22:33} and the donkey saw me, and turned aside
before me these
