Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision {is} for {many} days.

Son of man, what {is} that proverb {that} ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?

And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as {they were} from the beginning of the creation.

Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which {is} in Jerusalem.

Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near; {seat: or, habitation}

And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told {is} true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it {shall be} for many days.

Son of man, what {is} that proverb {that} ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?

Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end {is} it for you? the day of the LORD {is} darkness, and not light.

Behold, they say unto me, Where {is} the word of the LORD? let it come now.

Which say, {It is} not near; let us build houses: this {city is} the caldron, and we {be} the flesh. {It is...: or, It is not for us to build houses near}

That say, Let him make speed, {and} hasten his work, that we may see {it}: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know {it}!

They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;

But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;