If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?

In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.

This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.

In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.

Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.

But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?

And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.

Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.

Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.

And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;