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vw@Isaiah:5:19 @ who say, Let Him hurry and hasten His work, so that we may see it; and let the purpose of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, so that we may know it!

vw@Isaiah:10:2 @ to thrust aside the needy from judgment, and to rob the right from the poor of My people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may plunder the orphans!

vw@Isaiah:13:2 @ Lift up a banner on the bare mountain, raise the voice to them; wave the hand, so that they may enter the gates of the nobles.

vw@Isaiah:14:21 @ Prepare slaughter for his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, so that they may not rise nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

vw@Isaiah:19:15 @ And Egypt shall have no work that the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.

vw@Isaiah:21:3 @ Therefore my loins are filled with pain; pangs have taken hold on me like the pangs of a woman in labor. I am bent over from hearing it; I am dismayed from seeing it.

vw@Isaiah:23:16 @ Take a harp, go about the city, O harlot who has been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs so that you may be remembered.

vw@Isaiah:24:10 @ The city of emptiness is broken down; every house is shut up so that no one may come in.

vw@Isaiah:26:2 @ Open the gates, that the righteous nation, keeping faithfulness, may enter in.

vw@Isaiah:27:5 @ Or let them take hold of My strength, that he may make peace with Me; and he shall make peace with Me.

vw@Isaiah:28:21 @ For Jehovah shall rise up as at Mount Perazim; He will be angry as in the valley of Gibeon, so that He may do His deeds, His strange deeds; and bring to pass His works, His unusual works.

vw@Isaiah:30:8 @ Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and note it in a book, so that it may be for time to come forever and ever,

vw@Isaiah:30:18 @ And so Jehovah waits to be gracious to you. And therefore He is exalted, that He may have mercy on you; for Jehovah is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for Him.

vw@Isaiah:36:12 @ But Rabshakeh said, Has my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?

vw@Isaiah:37:4 @ It may be that Jehovah your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which Jehovah your God has heard. Therefore, lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.

vw@Isaiah:37:20 @ Now therefore, O Jehovah our God, save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You are Jehovah, You alone.

vw@Isaiah:37:27 @ And their inhabitants had little power; being dismayed and ashamed. They were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and the standing grain before the field.

vw@Isaiah:41:10 @ Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will make you strong; yes, I will help you; yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of My righteousness.

vw@Isaiah:41:20 @ that they may see and know, and determine and understand together, that the hand of Jehovah has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.

vw@Isaiah:41:22 @ Let them approach, and confess to us what shall happen; let them disclose the former things, what they are, that we may determine a finding and know the final outcome; or proclaim to us things to come.

vw@Isaiah:41:23 @ Make known the things to come after this, so that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do good, or do evil, so that we may anxiously watch it together.

vw@Isaiah:41:26 @ Who has declared from the beginning, that we may know? And formerly, that we may say, He is righteous? Yea, no one declares; yea, no one proclaims; yea, no one hears your words.

vw@Isaiah:42:18 @ Hear, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see.

vw@Isaiah:43:9 @ Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled. Who among them can declare this and cause us to hear former things? Let them bring out their witnesses, that they may be justified; or let them hear, and say, It is true.

vw@Isaiah:43:10 @ You are My witnesses, says Jehovah, and My servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe Me, and understand that I am He. Before Me no god was formed, nor shall there be after Me.

vw@Isaiah:43:26 @ Bring to My remembrance; let us enter into judgment together; declare yourself, that you may be justified.

vw@Isaiah:44:9 @ Those who make a graven image, all of them are vanity; and the things which they desire shall not help. And they are their own witnesses; they do not see nor know; that they may be ashamed.

vw@Isaiah:44:13 @ The craftsman in wood stretches a measuring line; he makes an outline with a marker; he works it with carving tools, and he marks it out with the compass, and makes it like the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, that it may remain in the house.

vw@Isaiah:45:3 @ And I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that I, Jehovah, who calls you by your name, am the God of Israel.

vw@Isaiah:45:6 @ that they may know from the rising of the sun, to its setting, that there is none besides Me. I am Jehovah, and there is no other;

vw@Isaiah:46:5 @ To whom will you compare Me, and make Me equal; and compare Me, that we may be alike?

vw@Isaiah:47:12 @ Stand now with your charms, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored since your youth. Perhaps you will be able to profit; perhaps you may prevail.

vw@Isaiah:49:9 @ that You may say to the prisoners, Go out! To those who are in darkness, Show yourselves! They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be on all the barren heights.

vw@Isaiah:49:15 @ Can a woman forget her nursing infant, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Indeed, they may forget; yet I will not forget you.

vw@Isaiah:49:20 @ The sons of your bereavement shall yet say in your ears, The place is too narrow for me; let a place come to me so that I may have room to dwell.

vw@Isaiah:51:16 @ And I have put My Words in your mouth, and I have covered you in the shadow of My hand, that I may plant the heavens and lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Zion, You are My people.

vw@Isaiah:51:23 @ But I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, Bow down so that we may pass over; and lay your back on the ground, even as the street, for those who cross over.

vw@Isaiah:55:6 @ Seek Jehovah while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near.

vw@Isaiah:60:11 @ Therefore your gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day or night, to bring to you the wealth of the nations, and that their kings may be led.

vw@Isaiah:60:21 @ Your people also shall all be righteous; they shall inherit the land forever, the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, so that I may be glorified.

vw@Isaiah:64:2 @ as the brushwood fire burns, as the fire causes water to boil; to make Your name known to Your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at Your presence!

vw@Isaiah:65:8 @ Thus says Jehovah, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, Do not destroy it, for a blessing is in it; so I will do to My servants, that I may not destroy them all.

vw@Isaiah:66:11 @ that you may suckle and be satisfied with her comforting breasts; that you may suck milk and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.

vw@Jeremiah:1:17 @ You therefore gird up your loins, and arise, and speak to them all that I command you. Do not be dismayed at their faces, lest I shame you before them.

vw@Jeremiah:4:14 @ O Jerusalem, wash your heart from evil so that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?

vw@Jeremiah:5:28 @ They have grown fat, they gleam. Yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked; they do not plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may get rich; and they do not judge the right of the needy.

vw@Jeremiah:6:10 @ To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are uncircumcised, and they cannot give heed. Behold, the Word of Jehovah is a reproach to them; they have no delight in it.

vw@Jeremiah:6:27 @ I have set you up as an inspector, and a fortress among My people, that you may know and examine their way.

vw@Jeremiah:7:18 @ The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes to the Queen of Heaven and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke Me to anger.

vw@Jeremiah:7:23 @ But this is what I commanded them, saying, Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people; and walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, so that it may be well with you.

vw@Jeremiah:8:9 @ The wise are ashamed, they are dismayed, and are captured. Lo, they have rejected the Word of Jehovah; so what wisdom is in them?

vw@Jeremiah:9:12 @ Who is the wise man who may understand this? And who is he to whom the mouth of Jehovah has spoken, that he may declare it? Why does the land perish and burn up like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?

vw@Jeremiah:9:17 @ Thus says Jehovah of Hosts, Consider carefully, and call for those who lament, that they may come. And send for the wise women, that they may come;

vw@Jeremiah:9:18 @ and let them make haste and take up a lamentation for us, so that our eyes may run down with tears, and waters flow from our eyelids.

vw@Jeremiah:10:2 @ Thus says Jehovah, Do not learn the way of the nations, and do not be dismayed at the signs of the heavens; for the nations are dismayed at them.

vw@Jeremiah:10:18 @ For thus says Jehovah, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land this once, and will distress them, so that they may find Me.

vw@Jeremiah:11:5 @ so that I may fulfill the oath which I have sworn to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then I answered and said, Amen, O Jehovah.

vw@Jeremiah:11:19 @ But I was like a docile lamb being led to the slaughter. And I did not know that they had devised schemes against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name may be remembered no more.

vw@Jeremiah:13:23 @ Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard its spots? Then you also may do good, who are accustomed to doing evil.

vw@Jeremiah:13:26 @ Therefore I also have drawn up your skirts over your face, that your shame may be seen.

vw@Jeremiah:17:18 @ Let those who persecute me be ashamed, but do not let me be put to shame; let them be dismayed, but do not let me be dismayed. Bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

vw@Jeremiah:21:2 @ Please inquire of Jehovah for us, for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is warring against us. Perhaps Jehovah will deal with us according to all His wonderful works, that he may depart from us.

vw@Jeremiah:23:4 @ And I will set up shepherds over them who will feed them. And they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed; nor shall they be lacking, says Jehovah.

vw@Jeremiah:26:3 @ It may be that they will listen, and each man turn from his evil way, that I may be moved to compassion from the evil which I purpose to do to them because of the evil of their doings.

vw@Jeremiah:27:18 @ But if they are prophets, and if the Word of Jehovah is with them, let them now make entreaties to Jehovah of Hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of Jehovah, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, may not go to Babylon.

vw@Jeremiah:28:6 @ even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen. May Jehovah do so. May Jehovah establish your words which you have prophesied, to bring back the vessels of Jehovahs house, and all that is carried away captive, from Babylon into this place.

vw@Jeremiah:28:14 @ For thus says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. And they shall serve him. And I have given him the beasts of the field also.

vw@Jeremiah:29:6 @ Take wives and beget sons and daughters. And take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters, that you may be multiplied there and not diminished.

vw@Jeremiah:29:22 @ And a curse shall be taken up about them by all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, May Jehovah make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire,

vw@Jeremiah:30:10 @ Therefore, do not fear, O My servant Jacob, says Jehovah. Do not be dismayed, O Israel. For lo, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity. And Jacob shall return, and shall be at rest, and be quiet, and no one shall make him afraid.

vw@Jeremiah:32:14 @ Thus says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: Take these documents, the purchase document, the one sealed and the open document, and put them in an earthen vessel so that they may survive many days.

vw@Jeremiah:32:39 @ And I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for their good and for the good of their children after them.

vw@Jeremiah:33:21 @ then also may My covenant with David My servant be broken, that he should not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levites the priests, My ministers.

vw@Jeremiah:35:7 @ Nor shall you build houses, nor sow seed, nor plant a vineyard, nor have any of these; but all your days you shall live in tents, so that you may live many days in the land where you sojourn.

vw@Jeremiah:36:3 @ It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I plan to do to them, that they may turn, each man, from his evil way, so that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.

vw@Jeremiah:36:7 @ It may be that they will present their supplication before Jehovah, and will turn back, each one from his evil way. For great is the anger and the fury that Jehovah has pronounced against this people.

vw@Jeremiah:42:3 @ that Jehovah your God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the thing that we should do.

vw@Jeremiah:42:6 @ Whether it is good, or whether it is evil, we will obey the voice of Jehovah our God, to whom we send you; so that it may be well with us when we obey the voice of Jehovah our God.

vw@Jeremiah:42:12 @ And I will show mercy upon you, so that he may have mercy on you and cause you to return to your own land.

vw@Jeremiah:44:29 @ And this shall be a sign to you, says Jehovah, that I will punish you in this place, so that you may know that My Words shall be established and confirmed against you for evil.

vw@Jeremiah:46:5 @ Why have I seen them dismayed and turned back? And their mighty ones are beaten down and have fled for refuge, and they do not look back. Terror is all around, says Jehovah.

vw@Jeremiah:46:10 @ For this is the day of the Lord Jehovah of Hosts, a day of vengeance, that He may avenge Himself of His adversaries. And the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiated and made drunk with their blood, for the Lord Jehovah of Hosts has a sacrifice in the land of the north by the River Euphrates.

vw@Jeremiah:46:27 @ But do not fear, O My servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel. For behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity. And Jacob shall return and have rest and be at ease, and no one shall make him afraid.

vw@Jeremiah:48:1 @ Thus says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, against Moab: Woe to Nebo, for it is plundered! Kirjathaim is dried up and captured. The Fortress is dried up and dismayed.

vw@Jeremiah:48:9 @ Give wings to Moab so that it may flee and get away; for its cities shall be desolate, without an inhabitant in them.

vw@Jeremiah:49:19 @ Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the dwelling of the strong. But I will suddenly make him run away from her. And who is a chosen one that I may appoint over her? For who is like Me? And who will summon Me? And who is that shepherd who will stand before Me?

vw@Jeremiah:49:37 @ For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies and before those who seek their life. And I will bring evil upon them, even My fierce anger, says Jehovah. And I will send the sword after them until I have finished them;

vw@Jeremiah:50:34 @ Their Redeemer is strong; Jehovah of Hosts, is His name. He shall thoroughly plead their case, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

vw@Jeremiah:50:36 @ A sword is upon the liars, and they shall become fools. A sword is upon her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.

vw@Jeremiah:50:44 @ Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of the Jordan against the dwelling of the strong. But I will make them suddenly run away from her. And who is a chosen one whom I may appoint over her? For who is like Me? And who will set My appointments? And who is that shepherd who will face Me?

vw@Jeremiah:51:8 @ Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed. Wail for her; take balm for her pain, if perhaps she may be healed.

vw@Jeremiah:51:39 @ In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunk so that they may rejoice and sleep a never-ending sleep, and not wake up, says Jehovah.

vw@Lamentations:2:13 @ What can I testify for you? To what thing shall I compare you, O daughter of Jerusalem? To what shall I equal you, so that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your break is great like the sea! Who can heal you?

vw@Lamentations:3:29 @ He puts his mouth in the dust, if perhaps there may be hope.

vw@Ezekiel:2:6 @ And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them nor be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you and you dwell among scorpions; do not be afraid of their words or dismayed by their looks, though they are a rebellious house.

vw@Ezekiel:3:9 @ Like adamant stone, harder than flint, I have made your forehead; do not be afraid of them, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.

vw@Ezekiel:4:17 @ that they may lack bread and water, and be appalled with one another, and waste away because of their iniquity.

vw@Ezekiel:6:6 @ In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate, so that your altars may be laid waste and found guilty, your idols broken and brought to an end, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.

vw@Ezekiel:6:8 @ Yet I will leave a remnant, so that you may have some who escape the sword among the nations, when you are scattered throughout the earth.

vw@Ezekiel:7:13 @ For the seller shall not return to what has been sold, though he may still be alive (for the vision concerns the whole multitude, and shall not change); no one will strengthen himself who lives in iniquity.

vw@Ezekiel:11:20 @ that they may walk in My statutes and keep My judgments and do them; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God.

vw@Ezekiel:12:3 @ Therefore, son of man, prepare your belongings for exile, and go into exile by day in their sight. You shall go from your place into exile to another place in their sight. It may be that they will consider, though they are a rebellious house.

vw@Ezekiel:12:16 @ But I will leave of them a number of men from the sword, from famine, and from pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations among the nations wherever they go. And they shall know that I am Jehovah.

vw@Ezekiel:12:19 @ And say to the people of the land, Thus says the Lord Jehovah to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with anxiety, and drink their water with horror, so that her land may be emptied of all who are in it, because of the violence of all those who dwell in it.

vw@Ezekiel:13:6 @ They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, Jehovah declares! But Jehovah has not sent them; yet they hope that their word may be confirmed.

vw@Ezekiel:14:5 @ that I may catch the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from Me through their idols.

vw@Ezekiel:14:11 @ that the house of Israel may no longer stray from Me, nor be defiled anymore with all their transgressions, but that they may be My people and I may be their God, says the Lord Jehovah.

vw@Ezekiel:14:15 @ If I cause wild beasts to pass through the land, and they bereave it, and make it so desolate that no man may pass through because of the beasts,

vw@Ezekiel:16:37 @ surely, therefore, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved, and all those you hated; I will gather them from all around against you and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.

vw@Ezekiel:16:54 @ so that you may bear your own shame and be disgraced by all that you did, since you comforted them.

vw@Ezekiel:16:63 @ so that you may remember and be ashamed. And you will never open your mouth anymore because of your shame, when I provide atonement for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord Jehovah.

vw@Ezekiel:20:20 @ set apart My Sabbaths, and they shall be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am Jehovah your God.

vw@Ezekiel:21:5 @ that all flesh may know that I, Jehovah, have drawn My sword out of its sheath; it shall not return anymore.

vw@Ezekiel:21:11 @ And He has given it to be polished, that it may be handled; this sword is sharpened, and it is polished to be given into the hand of the slayer.

vw@Ezekiel:21:15 @ I have set the slaughter of the sword against all their gates, That the heart may melt and many may stumble. Ah! It is made bright; it is grasped for the slaughter:

vw@Ezekiel:21:23 @ And it will be to them like a false divination in the eyes of those who have sworn oaths with them; but he will bring their iniquity to remembrance, that they may be taken.

vw@Ezekiel:22:3 @ Then say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah: The city sheds blood in her midst, that her time may come. And she makes idols within herself to defile herself.

vw@Ezekiel:23:48 @ Thus I will bring an end to lewdness from the land, that all women may be taught not to do according to your lewdness.

vw@Ezekiel:24:8 @ That it may raise up fury and take vengeance, I have set her blood on top of a rock, that it may not be covered.

vw@Ezekiel:24:11 @ Then set the pot empty on the coals, that it may become hot and its bronze may burn, that its filthiness may be melted in it, that its scum may be consumed.

vw@Ezekiel:25:10 @ To the men of the East I will give it as a possession, along with the Ammonites, that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations.

vw@Ezekiel:25:14 @ I will lay My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel, that they may do in Edom according to My anger and according to My fury; and they shall know My vengeance, declares the Lord Jehovah.

vw@Ezekiel:26:20 @ then I will bring you down with those who descend into the Pit, with the people of old, and I will make you dwell in the lowest part of the earth, in places desolate from antiquity, with those who go down to the Pit, so that you may never be inhabited; and I shall establish glory in the land of the living.

vw@Ezekiel:31:14 @ so that no trees by the waters may ever again exalt themselves for their height, nor set their tops among the thick boughs, that no tree which drinks water may ever be high enough to reach up to them. For they have all been delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, among the sons of men who go down to the Pit.

vw@Ezekiel:34:10 @ Thus says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will require My flock at their hand; I will cause them to cease feeding the sheep, and the shepherds shall feed themselves no more; for I will deliver My flock from their mouths, that they may no longer be food for them.

vw@Ezekiel:37:9 @ Then He said to me, Prophesy to the spirit; prophesy, son of man, and say to the spirit, Thus says the Lord Jehovah: Come from the four winds, O spirit, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.

vw@Ezekiel:38:16 @ And you will come up against My people Israel like a cloud, to cover the land. It shall be in the last final days that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me, when I am sanctified in you, O Gog, before their eyes.

vw@Ezekiel:39:17 @ And as for you, son of man, thus says the Lord Jehovah, Speak to every sort of bird and to every beast of the field: Assemble yourselves and come; gather together from all sides to My sacrifice which I am sacrificing for you, a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood.

vw@Ezekiel:42:14 @ When the priests enter them, they shall not go out of the holy room into the outer court; but there they shall leave their garments in which they minister, for they are holy. They shall put on other garments; then they may approach that which is for the people.

vw@Ezekiel:43:10 @ Son of man, describe the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern.

vw@Ezekiel:43:11 @ And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the house and its arrangement, its exits and its entrances, its entire design and all its ordinances, all its forms and all its laws. Write it down in their sight, so that they may keep its whole design and all its ordinances, and do them.

vw@Ezekiel:44:3 @ As for the prince, because he is the prince, he may sit in it to eat bread before Jehovah; he shall enter by way of the porch of the gate, and go out the same way.

vw@Ezekiel:44:25 @ They shall not defile themselves by coming near a dead person. Only for father or mother, for son or daughter, for brother or unmarried sister may they defile themselves.

vw@Ezekiel:46:18 @ Moreover the prince shall not take any of the peoples inheritance by evicting them from their possession; he shall provide an inheritance for his sons from his own possession, so that none of My people may be scattered from his possession.

vw@Daniel:4:17 @ This sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the command by the word of the holy ones, in order that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men and gives it to whomever He wills, and sets up over it the lowest of men.

vw@Daniel:4:19 @ Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was stunned for a time, and his thoughts troubled him. So the king spoke and said, O Belteshazzar, do not let the dream or its interpretation trouble you. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, may the dream be to those who hate you, and its interpretation to your enemies!

vw@Daniel:4:27 @ Therefore, O king, let my advice be acceptable to you: Even break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; so that perhaps there may be a lengthening of your prosperity.

vw@Daniel:6:8 @ Now, O king, establish the decree and sign the document, so that it may not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which does not pass away.

vw@Daniel:6:15 @ Then these men met before the king and said to the king, O king, know that the law of the Medes and Persians is that no decree or law which the king establishes may be changed.