DA-7:1  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.

DA-7:2  Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and,

behold, the

four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.

DA-7:3  And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one

from another.

DA-7:4  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.

DA-7:5  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.

DA-7:6  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.

DA-7:7  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.

DA-7:8  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.

DA-7:9  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.

DA-7:10  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.

DA-7:11  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.

DA-7:12  As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their

dominion taken

away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time.

DA-7:13  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.

DA-7:14  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.

DA-7:15  I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of [my]

body, and the

visions of my head troubled me.

DA-7:16  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.

DA-7:17  These great beasts, which are four, [are] four kings,

[which] shall

arise out of the earth.

DA-7:18  But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom,

and possess

the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.

DA-7:19  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;

DA-7:20  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.

DA-7:21  I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints,

and prevailed

against them;

DA-7:22  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.

DA-7:23  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.

DA-7:24  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.

DA-7:25  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.

DA-7:26  But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away

his dominion, to

consume and to destroy [it] unto the end.

DA-7:27  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.

DA-7:28  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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