Daniel 12:8 “I heard, but I did not understand. So I asked, “My lord, what will be…”

Daniel 12:8

I heard, but I did not understand. So I asked, “My lord, what will be the outcome of these things?”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?

World English Bible

I heard, but I didn’t understand. Then I said, “My lord, what will be the outcome of these things?”

American Standard Version

And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my lord, what shall be the issue of these things?

Geneva Bible 1599

The I heard it, but I vnderstood it not: the said I, O my Lord, what shalbe ye end of these things?

Darby Translation

And I heard, but I understood not. And I said, My lord, what shall be the end of these things?

Young's Literal Translation

And I have heard, and I do not understand, and I say, 'O my lord, what [is] the latter end of these?'

Bible in Basic English

And the words came to my ears, but the sense of them was not clear to me: then I said, O my lord, what is the sense of these things?

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Cross references

“but”

Acts 1:7 Luke 18:34 John 12:16 1 Peter 1:11

Acts 1:7 · BSB

Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.

Luke 18:34 · BSB

But the disciples did not understand any of these things. The meaning was hidden from them, and they did not comprehend what He was saying.

John 12:16 · BSB

At first His disciples did not understand these things, but after Jesus was glorified they remembered what had been done to Him, and they realized that these very things had also been written about Him.

1 Peter 1:11 · BSB

trying to determine the time and setting to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.

“what”

Daniel 12:6 Daniel 10:14

Daniel 12:6 · BSB

One of them said to the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, “How long until the fulfillment of these wonders?”

Daniel 10:14 · BSB

Now I have come to explain to you what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision concerns those days.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7And the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and I heard him swear by Him who lives forever, saying, “It will be for a time, and times, and half a time. When the power of the holy people has finally been shattered, all these things will be completed.”

9“Go on your way, Daniel,” he replied, “for the words are closed up and sealed until the time of the end.

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