Daniel
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In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel
had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and
told the sum of the matters. 2 Daniel spake and said, I saw in my
vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great
sea. 3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from
another. 4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings:
I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the
earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to
it. 5 And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it
raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it
between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. 6 After
this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it
four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to
it. 7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth
beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron
teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of
it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it;
and it had ten horns. 8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there
came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the
first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes
like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
9 I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient
of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his
head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and
his wheels as burning fire. 10
A fiery stream issued and came
forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand
times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were
opened. 11 I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which
the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body
destroyed, and given to the burning flame. 12 As concerning the rest
of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were
prolonged for a season and time. 13 I saw in the night visions, and,
behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came
to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. 14 And
there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people,
nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting
dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not
be destroyed.
15 I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my
body, and the visions of my head troubled me. 16 I came near unto one
of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and
made me know the interpretation of the things. 17 These great beasts,
which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the
earth. 18 But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and
possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever. 19 Then I would
know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others,
exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of
brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his
feet; 20 And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of
the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn
that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was
more stout than his fellows. 21 I beheld, and the same horn made war
with the saints, and prevailed against them; 22 Until the Ancient of
days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time
came that the saints possessed the kingdom. 23 Thus he said, The
fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from
all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and
break it in pieces. 24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are
ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he
shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. 25 And
he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the
saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be
given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. 26 But
the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to
destroy it unto the end. 27 And the kingdom and dominion, and
the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the
people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting
kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him. 28 Hitherto is
the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my
countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.
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