Quotes about Meaning

Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, they are saying of me, ‘Is he not just telling parables?’”

Then the people asked me, “Won’t you tell us what these things you are doing mean to us?”

When your people ask you, ‘Won’t you explain to us what you mean by these?’

The king’s command was so urgent and the furnace so hot that the fiery flames killed the men who carried up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.

For a time, Daniel, who was also known as Belteshazzar, was perplexed, and his thoughts alarmed him. So the king said, “Belteshazzar, do not let the dream or its interpretation alarm you.” “My lord,” replied Belteshazzar, “may the dream apply to those who hate you, and its interpretation to your enemies!

Now this is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN.

TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.

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:

Then I wanted to know the true meaning of the fourth beast, which was different from all the others—extremely terrifying—devouring and crushing with iron teeth and bronze claws, then trampling underfoot whatever was left.

Then the angel who was speaking with me said, “Proclaim this word: This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘I am very jealous for Jerusalem and Zion,

So I asked the angel who was speaking with me, “What are these?” And he told me, “These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”

Then I asked the angel, “What are the two olive trees on the right and left of the lampstand?”