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In the first year of Belshazzar the king of Babylon ,
Daniel saw a dream and the visions of his head while on his couch :
afterward he wrote down the dream ,
relating the principal things .
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Daniel commenced and said ,
I saw in my vision by night ,
and ,
behold ,
the four winds of heaven blew fiercely on the great sea .
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And four great beasts came up from the sea ,
differing one from another .
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the first was like a lion ,
and had eagle
s wings :
I looked till its wings were plucked out ,
and it was lifted up from the earth ,
and was placed upon its feet as a man ,
and a human heart was given to it .
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And behold there was another ,
a second beast ,
like a bear ,
and on one side was it placed ,
with three ribs in its mouth between its teeth :
and thus they said unto it ,
Arise ,
eat much flesh .
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After this I looked ,
and lo there was another ,
like a leopard ;
and it had four wings of a bird on its back :
the beast had also four heads ;
and dominion was given unto it .
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After this I looked in the night visions ,
and behold there was a fourth beast ,
dreadful and terrible ,
and strong exceedingly ;
and it had great iron teeth :
it devoured and ground up ,
and what was left it stamped with its feet ;
and it was different from all the beasts that were before it ;
and it had ten horns .
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I looked carefully at the horns ,
and ,
behold ,
another little horn came up between them ,
and three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots before the same ;
and ,
behold ,
there were eyes like the eyes of man in this horn ,
with a mouth speaking presumptuous things .
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I was looking until chairs were set down ,
and an Ancient of days seated himself ,
whose garment was white as snow ,
and the hair of whose head was like clean wool ;
his chair was like flames of fire ,
and his wheels like fire that burnt ;
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A stream of fire issued and came forth from before him ;
thousand times thousands ministered unto him ,
and myriad times myriads stood before him :
they sat down to hold judgment ,
and the books were opened .
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I looked then ,
because of the sound of the presumptuous words which the horn had spoken ,
I looked till the beast was slain ,
and its body destroyed ,
and given over to the burning fire .
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But concerning the rest of the beasts ,
they had their dominion taken away :
yet a longer duration of life was given unto them until the time and period .
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I looked in the nightly visions ,
and ,
behold ,
with the clouds of heaven came one like a son of man ,
and he attained as far as the Ancient of days ,
and they brought him near before him .
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And there were given him dominion ,
and dignity ,
and government ,
and all people ,
nations ,
and languages had to serve him :
his dominion is an everlasting dominion ,
which shall not pass away ,
and his kingdom is one which shall never be destroyed .
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My spirit was deeply shaken within me ,
Daniel ,
in the midst of its tenement ,
and the visions of my head troubled me .
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I came near unto one of those that stood by ,
and asked him something certain concerning all this :
and he spoke to me ,
and made known unto me the interpretation of the things .
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These great beasts ,
of which there are four ,
are four kings ,
who are to arise on the earth .
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But the saints of the Most High will obtain the kingdom ,
and possess the kingdom to eternity ,
even to all eternity for ever .
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Then I desired what is certain concerning the fourth beast ,
which was different from all these others ,
exceedingly dreadful ,
whose teeth were of iron ,
and whose nails of copper ;
which devoured ,
ground up ,
and stamped with its feet what was left ;
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And concerning the ten horns that were in its head ,
and concerning the other which came up ,
and before which three fell down ,
even concerning that horn which had eyes ,
and a mouth which spoke presumptuous things ,
and whose appearance was greater than that of its companions .
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I had seen how the same horn had made war with the saints ,
and had prevailed against them :
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Until the Ancient of days came ,
and procured justice unto the saints of the Most High ;
and the time came and the saints took possession of the kingdom .
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Thus said he ,
The fourth beast a fourth kingdom will be upon earth ,
which is to be different from all kingdoms ,
and will devour all the earth ,
and will tread it down ,
and grind it up .
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And the ten horns out of this kingdom that ten kings will arise ;
and another will rise after them ,
and he will be different from the first ,
and three kings will he bring low .
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And he will speak words against the Most High ,
and the saints of the Most High will he oppress ,
and think to change the festivals and the law :
and they will be given up into his hand until a time and times and half a time .
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But they will sit down to hold judgment ,
and they will take away his dominion ,
to destroy and to annihilate it unto the end .
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And the kingdom and the dominion ,
and the power over the kingdoms under the whole heaven ,
will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High ,
whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom ,
and all governments are to worship and obey him .
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Thus far is the end of the speech .
As for me Daniel ,
my reflections troubled me greatly ,
and my color was changed on me ;
but I kept the speech in my heart .
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In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me ,
to me Daniel ,
after that which had appeared unto me at the first .
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And I saw in the vision
and it came to pass ,
in my seeing ,
that I was at Shushan the capital ,
which is in the province of
Elam ;
and I saw in the vision ,
as though I was by the river Ulai .
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And I lifted up my eyes ,
and saw ,
and ,
behold ,
there was a ram standing before the river ,
and he had two horns ;
and the horns were high ;
but one was higher than the other ,
and the higher one came up last .
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I saw the ram butting westward ,
and northward ,
and southward ;
so that all the beasts could not stand before him ,
and no one was there to deliver out of his hand :
and he did according to his will ,
and became great .
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And as I was looking attentively ,
behold ,
there came a shaggy ,
he
goat from the west over the face of the whole earth ,
without touching the ground ;
and the goat had a sightly large horn between his eyes .
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And he came as far as the ram that had two horns ,
that I had seen standing before the river ,
and ran at him with his furious power .
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And I saw him coming close unto the ram ,
and he became bitterly enraged against him ,
and he struck the ram ,
and broke his two horns :
and there was no power in the ram to stand forward before him :
and he cast him down to the ground ,
and stamped upon him ;
and there was no one to deliver the ram out of his hand .
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And the shaggy he
goat became very great :
but when he was grown strong ,
the great horn was broken ;
and there came up four slightly large ones in its place toward the four winds of heaven .
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And out of them came forth a little horn ,
which became exceedingly great ,
toward the south ,
and toward the east ,
and toward the glorious land .
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And it became great ,
even up to the host of the heavens ;
and it cast down to the ground some of the host and of the stars ,
and trod them under foot .
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Yea ,
it magnified itself even up to the prince of the host ,
and by it the continual sacrifice was taken away ,
and the place of his sanctuary was cast down .
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And the host is given up together with the continual sacrifice ,
by reason of transgression :
and it casteth down the truth to the ground ,
and it doth ,
and is prosperous .
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Then did I hear a certain holy one speaking ,
and a holy one said unto the unknown one who was speaking ,
For how long is the vision concerning the continual sacrifice ,
and the wasting transgression ,
to give up both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot ?
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And he said unto me ,
Until two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings ,
when the sanctuary shall be justified .
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And it came to pass ,
when I ,
even I Daniel ,
saw the vision ,
and sought for understanding ,
that ,
behold ,
there was standing opposite to me something like the appearance of a man .
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And I heard the voice of a man between the Ulai ,
and it called ,
and said ,
Gabriel ,
cause this one to understand this appearance .
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So he came close to where I stood :
and when he came ,
I was terrified ,
and I fell upon my face ;
but he said unto me ,
Mark it well ,
O son of man ;
because for the time of the end is the vision .
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Now as he was speaking with me ,
I fell down in amazement on my face to the ground :
but he touched me ,
and set me upright where I had been standing .
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And he said ,
Behold ,
I will make known unto thee what is to be at the last end of the indignation ;
for it is for the appointed time of the end .
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The ram that thou hast seen ,
him with the two horns ,
the kings of Media and Persia .
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And the shaggy he
goat is the king of Javan ;
and the great horn which is between his eyes is the first king .
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But that it was broken ,
and that four sprung up in its stead ,
four kingdoms will spring up out of the nation ,
but not with his power .
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And in the latter time of their kingdom ,
when the transgressors have filled their measure of guilt ,
there will arise a king of an impudent face ,
and understanding deep schemes .
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And his power will be mighty ,
but not by his own power ;
and he will destroy wonderfully ,
and will prosper while he doth ;
and he will destroy very many and the people of the saints .
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And through his intelligence ,
and because he prospereth ,
is craftiness in his hand ;
and in his heart will he magnify himself ,
and in peace will he destroy many :
he will also stand up against the Prince of princes ;
but without a human hand will he be broken .
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And the appearance of the evening and the morning which was spoken of is true :
but do thou keep the vision closed up ;
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And I Daniel grieved ,
and was sick several days ;
afterward I rose up ,
and did the king
s business ;
and I was depressed because of the appearance ;
but no one observed it .
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In the first year of Darius the son of Achashverosh ,
of the seed of the Medes ,
who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans ,
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