Daniel 2:8

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

The king hath answered and said, `Of a truth I know that time ye are gaining, because that ye have seen that the thing is gone from me,

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  • Eph 5:16 : 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil;
  • Col 4:5 : 5 in wisdom walk ye toward those without, the time forestalling;

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    1And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, dreamed hath Nebuchadnezzar dreams, and his spirit doth move itself, and his sleep hath been against him;

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    28but there is a God in the heavens, a revealer of secrets, and He hath made known to king Nebuchadnezzar that which `is' to be in the latter end of the days. `Thy dream and the visions of thy head on thy bed are these:

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