| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1In the third year of King Belshazzar's reign, a vision appeared to me, Daniel, after the one that had appeared to me earlier. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2I saw the vision, and as I watched, I was in the fortress city of Susa, in the province of Elam. I saw in the vision that I was beside the Ulai Canal. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3I looked up, and there was a ram standing beside the canal. He had two horns. The two horns were long, but one was longer than the other, and the longer one came up last. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4I saw the ram charging to the west, the north, and the south. No animal could stand against him, and there was no rescue from his power. He did whatever he wanted and became great. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5As I was observing, a male goat appeared, coming from the west across the surface of the entire earth without touching the ground. The goat had a conspicuous horn between his eyes. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6He came toward the two-horned ram I had seen standing beside the canal and rushed at him with savage fury. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7I saw him approaching the ram, and infuriated with him, he struck the ram, shattering his two horns, and the ram was not strong enough to stand against him. The goat threw him to the ground and trampled him, and there was no one to rescue the ram from his power. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Then the male goat became very great, but when he became powerful, the large horn was shattered. Four conspicuous horns came up in its place, pointing toward the four winds of heaven. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9From one of them a little horn emerged and grew extensively toward the south and the east and toward the beautiful land. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10It grew as high as the heavenly host, made some of the stars and some of the host fall to the earth, and trampled them. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11It made itself great, even up to the Prince of the host; it removed His daily sacrifice and overthrew the place of His sanctuary. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Because of rebellion, a host, together with the daily sacrifice, will be given over. The horn will throw truth to the ground and will be successful in whatever it does. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to the speaker, "How long will the events of this vision last--the daily sacrifice, the rebellion that makes desolate, and the giving over of the sanctuary and of the host to be trampled?" |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14He said to me, "For 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be restored." |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15While I, Daniel, was watching the vision and trying to understand it, there stood before me someone who appeared to be a man. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16I heard a human voice calling from the middle of the Ulai: "Gabriel, explain the vision to this man." |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17So he approached where I was standing; when he came near, I was terrified and fell facedown. "Son of man," he said to me, "understand that the vision refers to the time of the end." |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18While he was speaking to me, I fell into a deep sleep, with my face to the ground. Then he touched me, made me stand up, |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19and 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. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20The two-horned ram that you saw represents the kings of Media and Persia. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21The shaggy goat represents the king of Greece, and the large horn between his eyes represents the first king. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22The four horns that took the place of the shattered horn represent four kingdoms. They will rise from that nation, but without its power. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Near the end of their kingdoms, when the rebels have reached the full measure of their sin, an insolent king, skilled in intrigue, will come to the throne. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24His power will be great, but it will not be his own. He will cause terrible destruction and succeed in whatever he does. He will destroy the powerful along with the holy people. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25He will cause deceit to prosper through his cunning and by his influence, and in his own mind he will make himself great. He will destroy many in a time of peace; he will even stand against the Prince of princes. Yet he will be shattered--not by human hands. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26The vision of the evenings and the mornings that has been told is true. Now you must seal up the vision because it refers to many days in the future." |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27I, Daniel, was overcome and lay sick for days. Then I got up and went about the king's business. I was greatly disturbed by the vision and could not understand it. |
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