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Prophesies are, of course, endemic to these sorts of stories, but they are a poor basis for governance and rarely do anyone any good.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2024

January 21, 2013, 8:13 pm Prophesies Made in Davos Don’t Always Come True You're going to be hearing a lot of predictions over the next several days.

From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2013

Songs, Odai, such as contain not only Praises, but Exhortations, Prophesies, Thanksgivings; and these only sung with the Voice.

From A Short Essay Toward the Improvement of Psalmody Or, An Enquiry How the Psalms of David Ought to Be Translated into Christian Songs, and How Lawful and Necessary It Is to Compose Other Hymns According to the Clearer Revelations of the Gospel, for the Use of the Christian Church. by Watts, Isaac

Oh Voice of Morning, Not a Sage of all the Sages Prophesies of Dawn, or startles At the wing of Time, like Thee.

From Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Salámán and Absál Together With A Life Of Edward Fitzgerald And An Essay On Persian Poetry By Ralph Waldo Emerson by FitzGerald, Edward

I have not studied the Prophesies, and cannot even conjecture.

From The Writings of Samuel Adams - Volume 4 by Cushing, Harry Alonzo