14 "It is almost time for me to die, like everyone does [EUP]. You know in your hearts [DOU] that Yahweh has done for you [LIT] everything that he promised to do.

45 Yahweh did all the things that he had promised to the Israeli people/us. Everything that he said would happen did happen.

56 "Praise Yahweh, who has given us his people peace, like he promised that he would do. He has done every one of the good things that he promised to Moses, the man who served him very well.

19 God is not a human being.

Humans lie, but God never lies.

He never changes his mind/thoughts, as humans do.

Whatever he has said that he will do, he does.

11 But what Yahweh decides to do will last forever.

What he plans to do will never be changed.

6 Look up at the sky,

and look at the earth,

and see what they are like now,

because some day the sky will disappear like [SIM] smoke,

and the earth will wear out like [SIM] old clothes wear out,

and people on the earth will die like gnats/flies.

But I will rescue/save you, and you will remain free forever,

and I will rule you righteously/fairly forever.

140 ◄Your promises are/All the things that you have said that you will do are► dependable

and I love them.

13 You will never stop being king;

you will rule ◄throughout all generations/forever►.

Yahweh, you faithfully do all that you have promised to do,

and all that you do, you do mercifully.

14 Yahweh, you help all those who are discouraged

and you lift up all those who ◄stumble and fall down/are distressed►.

5 But Yahweh is also in the city;

and he never does what is wrong.

He treats people justly/fairly;

he does that every day,

but wicked people are never ashamed about their doing what is wrong.

3 In this vision I will be talking about things that will happen in the future.

Now is not the time when those things will happen,

but they certainly will happen,

and when they occur, they will occur quickly,

and they will not be delayed.

Now you want those things to happen immediately, but they are not happening.

But wait patiently for them to happen!

20 We(inc) know that is true, because everything that God promised to do for his people, he has done completely by sending Christ to save us. That is why we say, "Yes, it is true! God has done everything that he promised to do!" And we praise him for that! 21 Now it is only God himself who causes us (exc), as well as you, to keep on believing strongly in Christ. God is the one who chose us (inc) to belong to him and to have a close relationship with Christ. 22 He also sent his Holy Spirit into our (inc) lives to mark us as belonging to himself [MET]. Also, since he has sent his Spirit to live in us (inc), he wants us to know by this that he guarantees [MET] to give us every other ◄blessing/good thing► that he has promised.

23 We must unwaveringly keep holding tight to what we believe. Since God faithfully does all he promised to do, we must confidently expect him to keep doing that.

13 You Ephesians also heard the true message, the good message about how God saves you. People put their seal on something to show that it belongs to them. Similarly, when you believed in Christ, God showed that you also belong to him by sending you the Holy Spirit as he promised to do [MET]. 14 The Holy Spirit is like [MET] a ◄deposit/down payment►. That is, he ◄guarantees/assures us► that we will receive all that God has promised to give us, at the time when God will give to those who belong to him [MET] everything that Christ freed us to receive. God also assures you that you belong to him, in order that you would praise him for his greatness.

12 God is pleased with people who bravely/patiently endure difficulties. And when, by bravely enduring difficulties, they have proved that they truly trust him, he will give them eternal life. That is the reward [MET] that he has promised to give to those who love him.