Bible, King James Version
Daniel
Dan.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.
[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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