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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head as he lay in his bed. Then he wrote down the dream and told the sum of the matter. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Daniel declared, “I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3And four great beasts came up out of the sea, different from one another. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4The first was like a lion and had eagles’ wings. Then as I looked its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man, and the mind of a man was given to it. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5And behold, another beast, a second one, like a bear. It was raised up on one side. It had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth; and it was told, ‘Arise, devour much flesh.’ |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6After this I looked, and behold, another, like a leopard, with four wings of a bird on its back. And the beast had four heads, and dominion was given to it. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, terrifying and dreadful and exceedingly strong. It had great iron teeth; it devoured and broke in pieces and stamped what was left with its feet. It was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots. And behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9“As I looked, thrones were placed, and the Ancient of Days took his seat; his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames; its wheels were burning fire. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10A stream of fire issued and came out from before him; a thousand thousands served him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him; the court sat in judgment, and the books were opened. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11“I looked then because of the sound of the great words that the horn was speaking. And as I looked, the beast was killed, and its body destroyed and given over to be burned with fire. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12As for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was taken away, but their lives were prolonged for a season and a time. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13“I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15“As for me, Daniel, my spirit within me was anxious, and the visions of my head alarmed me. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16I approached one of those who stood there and asked him the truth concerning all this. So he told me and made known to me the interpretation of the things. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17‘These four great beasts are four kings who shall arise out of the earth. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, forever and ever.’ |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19“Then I desired to know the truth about the fourth beast, which was different from all the rest, exceedingly terrifying, with its teeth of iron and claws of bronze, and which devoured and broke in pieces and stamped what was left with its feet, |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20and about the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn that came up and before which three of them fell, the horn that had eyes and a mouth that spoke great things, and that seemed greater than its companions. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21As I looked, this horn made war with the saints and prevailed over them, |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22until the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given for the saints of the Most High, and the time came when the saints possessed the kingdom. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23“Thus he said: ‘As for the fourth beast, there shall be a fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be different from all the kingdoms, and it shall devour the whole earth, and trample it down, and break it to pieces. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings shall arise, and another shall arise after them; he shall be different from the former ones, and shall put down three kings. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26But the court shall sit in judgment, and his dominion shall be taken away, to be consumed and destroyed to the end. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27And the kingdom and the dominion and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High; his kingdom shall be an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.’ |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28“Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts greatly alarmed me, and my color changed, but I kept the matter in my heart.” |
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