1 | 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.
Matt 24:30,
26:64
Mark 13:26
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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. |