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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1 "During the third year of King Belshazzar's reign, I, Daniel, saw a vision after the earlier vision that had appeared to me. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2As I observed the vision, I looked around the citadel of Susa in Elam Province. While I watched, I found myself beside the Ulai Canal. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"Then I turned my head to look, and to my surprise, a two-horned ram was standing beside the canal. The two horns grew long, the first one growing longer than the second, with the longer one springing up last. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4I watched the ram charging westward, northward, and southward. No animal could stand before him, nor was there anyone who could deliver from his control. He did as he pleased and exalted himself. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"As I watched and wondered, a male goat was coming from the west over the surface of the entire earth without touching the ground. The goat had a distinctive horn between its eyes. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6It approached the ram with the two horns that I had observed while standing beside the canal, and charged at him, out of control with rage. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7I saw it approach the ram, overflowing with fury at him, and run into him with the full force of its strength. The goat shattered the ram's two horns, and the ram could not oppose it. So the goat threw him to the ground and trampled him. No one could rescue the ram from its control. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Then the goat grew extremely great, but when it was strong, its great horn was shattered. In its place, four distinctive horns grew out in all directions." |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"A somewhat insignificant horn emerged from one of them. It moved rapidly against the south, against the east, and against the Glory. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Then it moved against the Heavenly Army. It persuaded some of the Heavenly Army to fall to the earth, along with some of the stars, and it trampled them. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Then it set itself in arrogant opposition to the Prince of the Heavenly Army, from whom the regular burnt offering was taken away, in order to overthrow his sanctuary. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Because of the transgression, the Heavenly Army will be given over, along with the regular burnt offering, and in that rebellion truth will be cast to the ground, while he continues to prosper and to act." |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"Then I heard one holy person speaking, and another holy person addressed the one who was speaking: 'In the vision about the regular burnt offering, how much time elapses while the desecration terrifies and both the Holy Place and the Heavenly Army are trampled?' |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"He told me, 'For 2,300 days. Then the Holy Place will be restored.'" |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"After I, Daniel, had seen the vision, I tried to understand it. All of a sudden, there was standing in front of me one who appeared to be valiant. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16I heard the voice of a man calling out from the Ulai Canal, 'Gabriel, interpret what that fellow has been seeing.' |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"As he approached where I was standing, I became terrified and fell on my face. But he told me, 'Son of man, understand that the vision pertains to the time of the end.' |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"While he had been speaking with me, I had fainted on my face, but he touched me and enabled me to stand upright on my feet. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Then he said, 'Pay attention! I'm going to brief you about what will happen at the end of the period of wrath, because its end is appointed. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20The ram that you saw with a pair of horns are the kings of Media and Persia. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21The demonic goat is the king of Greece, and the great horn between its eyes is its first king. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22The shattered horn and the four that took its place are four kingdoms that will come from his nation, but they will not have his strength. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23"Toward the end of their rule, as the desecrations proceed, an insolent king will arise, proficient at deception. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Mighty will be his skills, but not from his own abilities. He'll be remarkably destructive, will succeed, and will do whatever he wants, destroying mighty men and the holy people. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Through his skill he'll cause deceit to prosper under his leadership. He'll promote himself and will destroy many while they are secure. He'll take a stand against the Prince of Princes, yet he'll be crushed without human help. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26The vision about the twilights and dawnings that has been related is trustworthy, but keep its vision secret, because it pertains to the distant future.' |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Then I, Daniel, was exhausted and ill for days, but afterward I got up and went about the king's business. Nevertheless, I was astonished by the vision, and could not understand it." |
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