Quotes About Guidance

As for you, son of man, describe the temple to the people of Israel, so that they may be ashamed of their iniquities. Let them measure the plan,

The ledge shall also be square, fourteen cubits long and fourteen cubits wide, with a rim of half a cubit and a gutter of a cubit all around it. The steps of the altar shall face east.”

They are to teach My people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to discern between the clean and the unclean.

When the people enter, the prince shall go in with them, and when they leave, he shall leave.

Then he brought me into the outer court and led me around to its four corners, and I saw a separate court in each of its corners.

As the man went eastward with a measuring line in his hand, he measured off a thousand cubits and led me through ankle-deep water.

Then he measured off a thousand cubits and led me through knee-deep water. Again he measured a thousand cubits and led me through waist-deep water.

“Son of man, do you see this?” he asked. Then he led me back to the bank of the river.

It will be for the consecrated priests, the descendants of Zadok, who kept My charge and did not go astray as the Levites did when the Israelites went astray.

In every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king consulted them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters in his entire kingdom.

Arioch hastily brought Daniel before the king and said to him, “I have found a man among the exiles from Judah who will tell the king the interpretation.”

I approached one of those who were standing there, and I asked him the true meaning of all this. So he told me the interpretation of these things:

While he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep, with my face to the ground. Then he touched me, helped me to my feet,

We have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, leaders, and fathers, and to all the people of the land.

and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God to walk in His laws, which He set before us through His servants the prophets.

He instructed me and spoke with me, saying: “O Daniel, I have come now to give you insight and understanding.

At the beginning of your petitions, an answer went out, and I have come to tell you, for you are highly precious. So consider the message and understand the vision:

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

How can I, your servant, speak with you, my lord? Now I have no strength, nor is any breath left in me.”

“And I, in the first year of Darius the Mede, stood up to strengthen and protect him.

Then the wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness will shine like the stars forever and ever.

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

Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.

“Therefore, behold, I will allure her and lead her to the wilderness, and speak to her tenderly.