¹⁴ Is anything impossible for the Lord?^(A) At the appointed time I will come back to you, and in about a year she will have a son.”

² Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time God had told him.^(A)

¹⁶ Elisha said, “At this time next year you will have a son in your arms.”^(A)

Then she said, “No, my lord. Man of God, do not lie to your servant.”^(B)

¹⁷ The woman conceived and gave birth to a son at the same time the following year, as Elisha had promised her.

¹⁹ and said, “I am here to tell you what will happen at the conclusion of the time of wrath, because it refers to the appointed time of the end.^(A)

²⁷ The two kings, whose hearts are bent on evil, will speak lies^(A) at the same table but to no avail, for still the end will come at the appointed time.^(B)

²⁹ “At the appointed time he will come again to the South, but this time^[a] will not be like the first.

³⁵ Some of those who have insight will fall so that they may be refined,^(A) purified, and cleansed^(B) until the time of the end, for it will still come at the appointed time.