Daniel:10-12
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In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel ,
whose name was called Belteshazzar ;
and the thing was true ,
but the time appointed was long :
and he understood the thing ,
and had understanding of the vision .
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In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks .
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I ate no pleasant bread ,
neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth ,
neither did I anoint myself at all ,
till three whole weeks were fulfilled .
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And in the four and twentieth day of the first month ,
as I was by the side of the great river ,
which is Hiddekel ;
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Then I lifted up mine eyes ,
and looked ,
and behold a certain man clothed in linen ,
whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz :
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His body also was like the beryl ,
and his face as the appearance of lightning ,
and his eyes as lamps of fire ,
and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass ,
and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude .
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And I Daniel alone saw the vision :
for the men that were with me saw not the vision ;
but a great quaking fell upon them ,
so that they fled to hide themselves .
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Therefore I was left alone ,
and saw this great vision ,
and there remained no strength in me :
for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption ,
and I retained no strength .
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Yet heard I the voice of his words :
and when I heard the voice of his words ,
then was I in a deep sleep on my face ,
and my face toward the ground .
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And ,
behold ,
an hand touched me ,
which set me upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands .
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And he said unto me ,
O Daniel ,
a man greatly beloved ,
understand the words that I speak unto thee ,
and stand upright :
for unto thee am I now sent .
And when he had spoken this word unto me ,
I stood trembling .
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Then said he unto me ,
Fear not ,
Daniel :
for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand ,
and to chasten thyself before thy God ,
thy words were heard ,
and I am come for thy words .
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But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days :
but ,
lo ,
Michael ,
one of the chief princes ,
came to help me ;
and I remained there with the kings of Persia .
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Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days :
for yet the vision is for many days .
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And when he had spoken such words unto me ,
I set my face toward the ground ,
and I became dumb .
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And ,
behold ,
one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips :
then I opened my mouth ,
and spake ,
and said unto him that stood before me ,
O my lord ,
by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me ,
and I have retained no strength .
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For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord ?
for as for me ,
straightway there remained no strength in me ,
neither is there breath left in me .
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Then there came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man ,
and he strengthened me ,
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And said ,
O man greatly beloved ,
fear not :
peace be unto thee ,
be strong ,
yea ,
be strong .
And when he had spoken unto me ,
I was strengthened ,
and said ,
Let my lord speak ;
for thou hast strengthened me .
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Then said he ,
Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee ?
and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia :
and when I am gone forth ,
lo ,
the prince of Grecia shall come .
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But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth :
and there is none that holdeth with me in these things ,
but Michael your prince .
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Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede ,
even I ,
stood to confirm and to strengthen him .
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And now will I shew thee the truth .
Behold ,
there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia ;
and the fourth shall be far richer than they all :
and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia .
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And a mighty king shall stand up ,
that shall rule with great dominion ,
and do according to his will .
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And when he shall stand up ,
his kingdom shall be broken ,
and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven ;
and not to his posterity ,
nor according to his dominion which he ruled :
for his kingdom shall be plucked up ,
even for others beside those .
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And the king of the south shall be strong ,
and one of his princes ;
and he shall be strong above him ,
and have dominion ;
his dominion shall be a great dominion .
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And in the end of years they shall join themselves together ;
for the king '
s daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement :
but she shall not retain the power of the arm ;
neither shall he stand ,
nor his arm :
but she shall be given up ,
and they that brought her ,
and he that begat her ,
and he that strengthened her in these times .
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But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his estate ,
which shall come with an army ,
and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north ,
and shall deal against them ,
and shall prevail :
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And shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods ,
with their princes ,
and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold ;
and he shall continue more years than the king of the north .
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So the king of the south shall come into his kingdom ,
and shall return into his own land .
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But his sons shall be stirred up ,
and shall assemble a multitude of great forces :
and one shall certainly come ,
and overflow ,
and pass through :
then shall he return ,
and be stirred up ,
even to his fortress .
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And the king of the south shall be moved with choler ,
and shall come forth and fight with him ,
even with the king of the north :
and he shall set forth a great multitude ;
but the multitude shall be given into his hand .
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And when he hath taken away the multitude ,
his heart shall be lifted up ;
and he shall cast down many ten thousands :
but he shall not be strengthened by it .
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For the king of the north shall return ,
and shall set forth a multitude greater than the former ,
and shall certainly come after certain years with a great army and with much riches .
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And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south :
also the robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision ;
but they shall fall .
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So the king of the north shall come ,
and cast up a mount ,
and take the most fenced cities :
and the arms of the south shall not withstand ,
neither his chosen people ,
neither shall there be any strength to withstand .
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But he that cometh against him shall do according to his own will ,
and none shall stand before him :
and he shall stand in the glorious land ,
which by his hand shall be consumed .
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He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom ,
and upright ones with him ;
thus shall he do :
and he shall give him the daughter of women ,
corrupting her :
but she shall not stand on his side ,
neither be for him .
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After this shall he turn his face unto the isles ,
and shall take many :
but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease ;
without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him .
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Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land :
but he shall stumble and fall ,
and not be found .
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Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom :
but within few days he shall be destroyed ,
neither in anger ,
nor in battle .
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And in his estate shall stand up a vile person ,
to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom :
but he shall come in peaceably ,
and obtain the kingdom by flatteries .
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And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him ,
and shall be broken ;
yea ,
also the prince of the covenant .
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And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully :
for he shall come up ,
and shall become strong with a small people .
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He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province ;
and he shall do that which his fathers have not done ,
nor his fathers '
fathers ;
he shall scatter among them the prey ,
and spoil ,
and riches :
yea ,
and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds ,
even for a time .
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And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army ;
and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army ;
but he shall not stand :
for they shall forecast devices against him .
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Yea ,
they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy him ,
and his army shall overflow :
and many shall fall down slain .
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And both these kings '
hearts shall be to do mischief ,
and they shall speak lies at one table ;
but it shall not prosper :
for yet the end shall be at the time appointed .
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Then shall he return into his land with great riches ;
and his heart shall be against the holy covenant ;
and he shall do exploits ,
and return to his own land .
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At the time appointed he shall return ,
and come toward the south ;
but it shall not be as the former ,
or as the latter .
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For the ships of Chittim shall come against him :
therefore he shall be grieved ,
and return ,
and have indignation against the holy covenant :
so shall he do ;
he shall even return ,
and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant .
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And arms shall stand on his part ,
and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength ,
and shall take away the daily sacrifice ,
and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate .
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And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries :
but the people that do know their God shall be strong ,
and do exploits .
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And they that understand among the people shall instruct many :
yet they shall fall by the sword ,
and by flame ,
by captivity ,
and by spoil ,
many days .
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Now when they shall fall ,
they shall be holpen with a little help :
but many shall cleave to them with flatteries .
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And some of them of understanding shall fall ,
to try them ,
and to purge ,
and to make them white ,
even to the time of the end :
because it is yet for a time appointed .
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And the king shall do according to his will ;
and he shall exalt himself ,
and magnify himself above every god ,
and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods ,
and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished :
for that that is determined shall be done .
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Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers ,
nor the desire of women ,
nor regard any god :
for he shall magnify himself above all .
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But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces :
and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold ,
and silver ,
and with precious stones ,
and pleasant things .
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Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god ,
whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory :
and he shall cause them to rule over many ,
and shall divide the land for gain .
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And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him :
and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind ,
with chariots ,
and with horsemen ,
and with many ships ;
and he shall enter into the countries ,
and shall overflow and pass over .
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He shall enter also into the glorious land ,
and many countries shall be overthrown :
but these shall escape out of his hand ,
even Edom ,
and Moab ,
and the chief of the children of Ammon .
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He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries :
and the land of Egypt shall not escape .
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But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver ,
and over all the precious things of Egypt :
and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps .
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But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him :
therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy ,
and utterly to make away many .
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And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain ;
yet he shall come to his end ,
and none shall help him .
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And at that time shall Michael stand up ,
the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people :
and there shall be a time of trouble ,
such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time :
and at that time thy people shall be delivered ,
every one that shall be found written in the book .
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And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake ,
some to everlasting life ,
and some to shame and everlasting contempt .
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And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament ;
and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever .
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But thou ,
O Daniel ,
shut up the words ,
and seal the book ,
even to the time of the end :
many shall run to and fro ,
and knowledge shall be increased .
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Then I Daniel looked ,
and ,
behold ,
there stood other two ,
the one on this side of the bank of the river ,
and the other on that side of the bank of the river .
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And one said to the man clothed in linen ,
which was upon the waters of the river ,
How long shall it be to the end of these wonders ?
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And I heard the man clothed in linen ,
which was upon the waters of the river ,
when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven ,
and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time ,
times ,
and an half ;
and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people ,
all these things shall be finished .
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And I heard ,
but I understood not :
then said I ,
O my Lord ,
what shall be the end of these things ?
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And he said ,
Go thy way ,
Daniel :
for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end .
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Many shall be purified ,
and made white ,
and tried ;
but the wicked shall do wickedly :
and none of the wicked shall understand ;
but the wise shall understand .
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And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away ,
and the abomination that maketh desolate set up ,
there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days .
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Blessed is he that waiteth ,
and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days .
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But go thou thy way till the end be :
for thou shalt rest ,
and stand in thy lot at the end of the days .
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When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation ,
spoken of by Daniel the prophet ,
stand in the holy place , (
whoso readeth ,
let him understand :)
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But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation ,
spoken of by Daniel the prophet ,
standing where it ought not , (
let him that readeth understand ,)
then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains :