Parallel Verses
World English Bible
I heard, but I didn't understand: then I said, my lord, what shall be the issue of these things?
New American Standard Bible
As for me, I heard but could not understand; so I said, “My lord, what will be the
King James Version
And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?
Holman Bible
I heard but did not understand. So I asked, “My lord, what will be the outcome of these things?”
International Standard Version
"I heard, but I didn't understand. So I asked, "Sir, what happens next?'
A Conservative Version
And I heard, but I did not understand. Then I said, O my lord, what shall 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?
Amplified
As for me, I heard, but I did not understand; so I said, “My lord, what will be the outcome of these things?”
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?
Darby Translation
And I heard, but I understood not. And I said, My lord, what shall be the end of these things?
Julia Smith Translation
And I heard, and I shall not understand: and saying, O my lord, what the last of these things?
King James 2000
And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Now I myself heard, but I [did] not understand, and I said, "My lord, what [will be the] outcome [of] these [things]?"
Modern King James verseion
And I heard, but I did not understand. Then I said, O my lord, what shall be the end of these things?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I heard it well, but I understood it not. Then said I, "O my Lord, what shall happen after that?"
NET Bible
I heard, but I did not understand. So I said, "Sir, what will happen after these things?"
New Heart English Bible
And I heard, but I did not understand. Then I said, "My lord, what shall be the outcome of these things?"
The Emphasized Bible
And, I, heard, but could not understand, - so I said, O my lord! what shall be the issue of these things?
Webster
And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?
Youngs Literal Translation
And I have heard, and I do not understand, and I say, 'O my lord, what is the latter end of these?'
Interlinear
Shama`
Word Count of 20 Translations in Daniel 12:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Daniel Seeks Additional Insights
7 I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by him who lives forever that it shall be for a time, times, and a half; and when they have made an end of breaking in pieces the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished. 8 I heard, but I didn't understand: then I said, my lord, what shall be the issue of these things? 9 He said, Go your way, Daniel; for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.
Names
Cross References
Daniel 10:14
Now I have come to make you understand what shall happen to your people in the latter days; for the vision is yet for [many] days:
Daniel 12:6
One said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?
Luke 18:34
They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they didn't understand the things that were said.
John 12:16
His disciples didn't understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.
Acts 1:7
He said to them, "It isn't for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.
1 Peter 1:11
searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that would follow them.