Babylon fell to the Persian Empire under Cyrus the Great in 539 BC. The city gradually declined and was eventually abandoned. Its ruins lie in modern-day Iraq.
A virgin will conceive and bear a son, and will call him Immanuel, meaning 'God with us.' This child would be a sign from God himself to...
The land of Zebulun and Naphtali, the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations — the people walking in darkness will see a...
A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots will bear fruit. The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him — the...
In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the surviving remnant of his people from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros,...
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows acquainted with grief. He was pierced for our transgressions, crushed for our...
He was assigned a grave with the wicked, yet he was with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence nor was any deceit in his...
God declares about Cyrus: 'He is my shepherd and will accomplish all that I please; he will say of Jerusalem, Let it be rebuilt, and of the...
Who has ever heard of such things? Who has ever seen things like this? Can a country be born in a day or a nation be brought forth in a...
“The sun will be darkened in its going forth, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.”
“For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the Lord will arise upon you, and his glory will be seen...