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1:1 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah,
 come hath Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Jerusalem, and
 layeth siege against it;
1:2 and the Lord giveth into his hand Jehoiakim king of Judah,
 and some of the vessels of the house of God, and he bringeth
 them in [to] the land of Shinar, [to] the house of his god, and
 the vessels he hath brought in [to] the treasure-house of his
 god.
1:3 And the king saith, to Ashpenaz master of his eunuchs, to
 bring in out of the sons of Israel, (even of the royal seed,
 and of the chiefs,)
1:4 lads in whom there is no blemish, and of good appearance,
 and skilful in all wisdom, and possessing knowledge, and
 teaching thought, and who have ability to stand in the palace
 of the king, and to teach them the literature and language of
 the Chaldeans.
1:5 And the king doth appoint for them a rate, day by day, of
 the king's portion of food, and of the wine of his drinking, so
 as to nourish them three years, that at the end thereof they
 may stand before the king.
1:6 And there are among them out of the sons of Judah, Daniel,
 Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
1:7 and the chief of the eunuchs setteth names on them, and he
 setteth on Daniel, Belteshazzar; and on Hananiah, Shadrach; and
 on Mishael, Meshach; and on Azariah, Abed-Nego.
1:8 And Daniel purposeth in his heart that he will not pollute
 himself with the king's portion of food, and with the wine of
 his drinking, and he seeketh of the chief of the eunuchs that
 he may not pollute himself.
1:9 And God giveth Daniel for kindness and for mercies before
 the chief of the eunuchs;
1:10 and the chief of the eunuchs saith to Daniel, `I am fearing
 my lord the king, who hath appointed your food and your drink,
 for why doth he see your faces sadder than [those of] the lads
 which [are] of your circle? then ye have made my head indebted
 to the king,'
1:11 And Daniel saith unto the Meltzar, whom the chief of the
 eunuchs hath appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and
 Azariah,
1:12 `Try, I pray thee, thy servants, ten days; and they give to
 us of the vegetables, and we eat, and water, and we drink;
1:13 and our appearance is seen before thee, and the appearance
 of the lads who are eating the king's portion of food, and as
 thou seest -- deal with thy servants.'
1:14 And he hearkeneth to them, to this word, and trieth them
 ten days:
1:15 and at the end of ten days their appearance hath appeared
 better and fatter in flesh then any of the lads who are eating
 the king's portion of food.
1:16 And the Meltzar is taking away their portion of food, and
 the wine of their drink, and is giving to them vegetables.
1:17 As to these four lads, God hath given to them knowledge and
 understanding in every [kind of] literature, and wisdom; and
 Daniel hath given instruction about every [kind of] vision and
 dreams.
1:18 And at the end of the days that the king had said to bring
 them in, bring them in doth the chief of the eunuchs before
 Nebuchadnezzar.
1:19 And the king speaketh with them, and there hath none been
 found among them all like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and
 Azariah, and they stand before the king;
1:20 and [in] any matter of wisdom [and] understanding that the
 king hath sought of them, he findeth them ten hands above all
 the scribes, the enchanters, who [are] in all his kingdom.
1:21 And Daniel is unto the first year of Cyrus the king.
2:1 And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar,
 dreamed hath Nebuchadnezzar dreams, and his spirit doth move
 itself, and his sleep hath been against him;
2:2 and the king saith to call for scribes, and for enchanters,
 and for sorcerers, and for Chaldeans, to declare to the king
 his dreams. And they come in and stand before the king;
2:3 and the king saith to them, `A dream I have dreamed, and
 moved is my spirit to know the dream.'
2:4 And the Chaldeans speak to the king [in] Aramaean, `O king,
 to the ages live, tell the dream to thy servants, and the
 interpretation we do shew.'
2:5 The king hath answered and said to the Chaldeans, `The thing
 from me is gone; if ye do not cause me to know the dream and
 its interpretation, pieces ye are made, and your houses are
 made dunghills;
2:6 and if the dream and its interpretation ye do shew, gifts,
 and fee, and great glory ye receive from before me, therefore
 the dream and its interpretation shew ye me.'
2:7 They have answered a second time, and are saying, `Let the
 king tell the dream to his servants, and the interpretation we
 do shew.
2:8 The king hath answered and said, `Of a truth I know that
 time ye are gaining, because that ye have seen that the thing
 is gone from me,
2:9 [so] that, if the dream ye do not cause me to know -- one is
 your sentence, seeing a word lying and corrupt ye have prepared
 to speak before me, till that the time is changed, therefore
 the dream tell ye to me, then do I know that its interpretation
 ye do shew me.'
2:10 The Chaldeans have answered before the king, and are
 saying, `There is not a man on the earth who is able to shew
 the king's matter; therefore, no king, chief, and ruler, hath
 asked such a thing as this of any scribe, and enchanter, and
 Chaldean;
2:11 and the thing that the king is asking [is] precious, and
 others are there not that do shew it before the king, save the
 gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.'
2:12 Therefore the king hath been angry and very wroth, and hath
 said to destroy all the wise men of Babylon;
2:13 And the sentence hath gone forth, and the wise men are
 being slain, and they have sought Daniel and his companions to
 be slain.
2:14 Then Daniel hath replied [with] counsel and discretion to
 Arioch chief of the executioners of the king, who hath gone
 forth to slay the wise men of Babylon.
2:15 He hath answered and said to Arioch the king's captain,
 `Wherefore [is] the sentence so urgent from before the king?'
 Then Arioch hath made the thing known to Daniel,
2:16 and Daniel hath gone up, and sought of the king that he
 would give him time to shew the interpretation to the king.
2:17 Then Daniel to his house hath gone, and to Hananiah,
 Mishael, and Azariah, his companions, he hath made the thing
 known,
2:18 and to seek mercies from before the God of the heavens
 concerning this secret, that they destroy not Daniel and his
 companions with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
2:19 Then to Daniel, in a vision of the night, the secret hath
 been revealed. Then hath Daniel blessed the God of the heavens.
2:20 Daniel hath answered and said, `Let the name of God be
 blessed from age even unto age, for wisdom and might -- for
 they are His.
2:21 And He is changing times and seasons, He is causing kings
 to pass away, and He is raising up kings; He is giving wisdom
 to the wise, and knowledge to those possessing understanding.
2:22 He is revealing deep and hidden things; He hath known what
 [is] in darkness, and light with Him hath dwelt.
2:23 Thee, O God of my fathers, I am thanking and praising, for
 wisdom and might Thou hast given to me; and now, Thou hast
 caused me to know that which we have sought from Thee, for the
 king's matter Thou hast caused us to know.'
2:24 Therefore Daniel hath gone up unto Arioch, whom the king
 hath appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon; he hath
 gone, and thus hath said to him, `The wise men of Babylon thou
 dost not destroy, bring me up before the king, and the
 interpretation to the king I do shew.'
2:25 Then Arioch in haste hath brought up Daniel before the
 king, and thus hath said to him -- `I have found a man of the
 sons of the Removed of Judah, who the interpretation to the
 king doth make known.'
2:26 The king hath answered and said to Daniel, whose name [is]
 Belteshazzar, `Art thou able to cause me to know the dream that
 I have seen, and its interpretation?'
2:27 Daniel hath answered before the king and said, `The secret
 that the king is asking, the wise men, the enchanters, the
 scribes, the soothsayers, are not able to shew to the king;
2:28 but there is a God in the heavens, a revealer of secrets,
 and He hath made known to king Nebuchadnezzar that which [is]
 to be in the latter end of the days. `Thy dream and the visions
 of thy head on thy bed are these:
2:29 Thou, O king, thy thoughts on thy bed have come up
 [concerning] that which [is] to be after this, and the Revealer
 of secrets hath caused thee to know that which [is] to be.
2:30 As to me -- not for [any] wisdom that is in me above any
 living hath this secret been revealed to me; but for the intent
 that the interpretation to the king they make known, and the
 thoughts of thy heart thou dost know.
2:31 `Thou, O king, wast looking, and lo, a certain great image.
 This image [is] mighty, and its brightness excellent; it is
 standing over-against thee, and its appearance [is] terrible.
2:32 This image! its head [is] of good gold, its breasts and its
 arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass;
2:33 its legs of iron, its feet, part of them of iron, and part
 of them of clay.
2:34 Thou wast looking till that a stone hath been cut out
 without hands, and it hath smitten the image on its feet, that
 [are] of iron and of clay, and it hath broken them small;
2:35 then broken small together have been the iron, the clay,
 the brass, the silver, and the gold, and they have been as
 chaff from the summer threshing-floor, and carried them away
 hath the wind, and no place hath been found for them: and the
 stone that smote the image hath become a great mountain, and
 hath filled all the land.
2:36 This [is] the dream, and its interpretation we do tell
 before the king.
2:37 `Thou, O king, art a king of kings, for the God of the
 heavens a kingdom, strength, and might, and glory, hath given
 to thee;
2:38 and whithersoever sons of men are dwelling, the beast of
 the field, and the fowl of the heavens, He hath given into thy
 hand, and hath caused thee to rule over them all; thou [art]
 this head of gold.
2:39 And after thee doth rise up another kingdom lower than
 those, and another third kingdom of brass, that doth rule
 overall the earth.
2:40 And the fourth kingdom is strong as iron, because that iron
 is breaking small, and making feeble, all [things], even as
 iron that is breaking all these, it beateth small and breaketh.
2:41 As to that which thou hast seen: the feet and toes, part of
 them potter's clay, and part of them iron, the kingdom is
 divided: and some of the standing of the iron [is] to be in it,
 because that thou hast seen the iron mixed with miry clay.
2:42 As to the toes of the feet, part of them iron, and part of
 them clay: some part of the kingdom is strong, and some part of
 it is brittle.
2:43 Because thou hast seen iron mixed with miry clay, they are
 mixing themselves with the seed of men: and they are not
 adhering one with another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
2:44 `And in the days of these kings raise up doth the God of
 the heavens a kingdom that is not destroyed -- to the age, and
 its kingdom to another people is not left: it beateth small and
 endeth all these kingdoms, and it standeth to the age.
2:45 Because that thou hast seen that out of the mountain cut
 hath been a stone without hands, and it hath beaten small the
 iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great
 God hath made known to the king that which [is] to be after
 this; and the dream [is] true, and its interpretation stedfast.
2:46 Then hath king Nebuchadnezzar fallen on his face, and to
 Daniel he hath done obeisance, and present, and sweet things,
 he hath said to pour out to him.
2:47 The king hath answered Daniel and said, `Of a truth [it is]
 that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a
 revealer of secrets, since thou hast been able to reveal this
 secret.'
2:48 Then the king hath made Daniel great, and many great gifts
 he hath given to him, and hath caused him to rule over all the
 province of Babylon, and chief of the perfects over all the
 wise men of Babylon.
2:49 And Daniel hath sought from the king, and he hath appointed
 over the work of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach,
 and Abed-Nego, and Daniel [is] in the gate of the king.
3:1 Nebuchadnezzar the king hath made an image of gold, its
 height sixty cubits, its breadth six cubits; he hath raised it
 up in the valley of Dura, in the province of Babylon;
3:2 and Nebuchadnezzar the king hath sent to gather the satraps,
 the prefects, and the governors, the honourable judges, the
 treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers
 of the province, to come to the dedication of the image that
 Nebuchadnezzar the king hath raised up.
3:3 Then are gathered the satraps, the prefects, and the
 governors, the honourable judges, the treasurers, the
 counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the province,
 to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king
 hath raised up: and they are standing before the image that
 Nebuchadnezzar hath raised up.
3:4 And a crier is calling mightily: `To you they are saying: O
 peoples, nations, and languages!
3:5 at the time that ye hear the voice of the cornet, the flute,
 the harp, the sackbut, the psaltery, the symphony, and all
 kinds of music, ye fall down and do obeisance to the golden
 image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath raised up:
3:6 and whoso doth not fall down and do obeisance, in that hour
 he is cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.'
3:7 Therefore at that time, when all the peoples are hearing the
 voice of the cornet, the flute, the harp, the sackbut, the
 psaltery, and all kinds of music, falling down are all the
 peoples, nations and languages, doing obeisance to the golden
 image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath raised up.
3:8 Therefore at that time drawn near have certain Chaldeans,
 and accused the Jews;
3:9 they have answered, yea, they are saying to Nebuchadnezzar
 the king, `O king, to the ages live!
3:10 Thou, O king, hast made a decree that every man who doth
 hear the voice of the cornet, the flute, the harp, the sackbut,
 the psaltery, and the symphony, and all kinds of music, doth
 fall down and do obeisance to the golden image;
3:11 and whoso doth not fall down and do obeisance, is cast into
 the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
3:12 There are certain Jews whom thou hast appointed over the
 work of the province of Babylon -- Shadrach, Meshach, and
 Abed-Nego, these men have not made of thee, O king, [any]
 regard; thy gods they are not serving, and to the golden image
 thou hast raised up -- are not making obeisance.'
3:13 Then Nebuchadnezzar, in anger and fury, hath said to bring
 in Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego. Then these men have been
 brought in before the king.
3:14 Nebuchadnezzar hath answered and said to them, `Is [it] a
 laid plan, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego -- my gods ye are
 not serving, and to the golden image that I have raised up ye
 are not doing obeisance?
3:15 Now, lo, ye are ready, so that at the time that ye hear the
 voice of the cornet, the flute, the harp, the sackbut, the
 psaltery, and the symphony, and all kinds of music, ye fall
 down and do obeisance to the image that I have made! -- and lo,
 ye do no obeisance -- in that hour ye are cast into the midst
 of a burning fiery furnace; who is that God who doth deliver
 you out of my hands?'
3:16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego have answered, yea, they
 are saying to the king Nebuchadnezzar, `We have no need
 concerning this matter to answer thee.
3:17 Lo, it is; our God whom we are serving, is able to deliver
 us from a burning fiery furnace; and from thy hand, O king, He
 doth deliver.
3:18 And lo -- not! be it known to thee, O king, that thy gods
 we are not serving, and to the golden image thou hast raised up
 we do no obeisance.'
3:19 Then Nebuchadnezzar hath been full of fury, and the
 expression of his face hath been changed concerning Shadrach,
 Meshach, and Abed-Nego; he answered and said to heat the
 furnace seven times above that which it is seen to be heated;
3:20 and to certain mighty men who [are] in his force he hath
 said to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, to cast into the
 burning fiery furnace.
3:21 Then these men have been bound in their coats, their
 tunics, and their turbans, and their clothing, and have been
 cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
3:22 Therefore, because that the word of the king is urgent, and
 the furnace heated exceedingly, those men who have taken up
 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego -- killed them hath the spark
 of the fire.
3:23 And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, have
 fallen down in the midst of the burning fiery furnace -- bound.
3:24 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king hath been astonished, and hath
 risen in haste; he hath answered and said to his counsellors,
 `Have we not cast three men into the midst of the fire --
 bound?' They have answered and are saying to the king,
 `Certainly, O king.'
3:25 He answered and hath said, `Lo, I am seeing four men loose,
 walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and
 the appearance of the fourth [is] like to a son of the gods.'
3:26 Then Nebuchadnezzar hath drawn near to the gate of the
 burning fiery furnace; he hath answered and said, `Shadrach,
 Meshach, and Abed-Nego, servants of God Most High come forth,
 yea, come;' then come forth do Shadrach, Meshach, and
 Abed-Nego, from the midst of the fire;
3:27 and gathered together, the satraps, the prefects, and the
 governors, and the counsellors of the king, are seeing these
 men, that the fire hath no power over their bodies, and the
 hair of their head hath not been singed, and their coats have
 not changed, and the smell of fire hath not passed on them.
3:28 Nebuchadnezzar hath answered and hath said, `Blessed [is]
 the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, who hath sent His
 messenger, and hath delivered His servants who trusted on Him,
 and the word of the king changed, and gave up their bodies that
 they might not serve nor do obeisance to any god except to
 their own God.
3:29 And by me a decree is made, that any people, nation, and
 language, that doth speak erroneously concerning the God of
 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, pieces he is made, and its
 house is made a dunghill, because that there is no other god
 who is able thus to deliver.'
3:30 Then the king hath caused Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego,
 to prosper in the province of Babylon.
4:1 `Nebuchadnezzar the king to all peoples, nations, and
 languages, who are dwelling in all the earth: Your peace be
 great!
4:2 The signs and wonders that God Most High hath done with me,
 it is good before me to shew.
4:3 His signs how great! and His wonders how mighty! His kingdom
 [is] a kingdom age-during, and His rule [is] with generation
 and generation.
4:4 `I, Nebuchadnezzar, have been at rest in my house, and
 flourishing in my palace:
4:5 a dream I have seen, and it maketh me afraid, and the
 conceptions on my bed, and the visions of my head, do trouble
 me.
4:6 And by me a decree is made, to cause all the wise men of
 Babylon to come up before me, that the interpretation of the
 dream they may cause me to know.
4:7 Then coming up are the scribes, the enchanters, the
 Chaldeans, and the soothsayers, and the dream I have told
 before them, and its interpretation they are not making known
 to me.
4:8 And at last come up before me hath Daniel, whose name [is]
 Belteshazzar -- according to the name of my god -- and in whom
 [is] the spirit of the holy gods, and the dream before him I
 have told:
4:9 `O Belteshazzar, master of the scribes, as I have known that
 the spirit of the holy gods [is] in thee, and no secret doth
 press thee, the visions of my dream that I have seen, and its
 interpretation, tell.
4:10 As to the visions of my head on my bed, I was looking, and
 lo, a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height [is]
 great:
4:11 become great hath the tree, yea, strong, and its height
 doth reach to the heavens, and its vision to the end of the
 whole land;
4:12 its leaves [are] fair, and its budding great, and food for
 all [is] in it: under it take shade doth the beast of the
 field, and in its boughs dwell do the birds of the heavens, and
 of it fed are all flesh.
4:13 `I was looking, in the visions of my head on my bed, and
 lo, a sifter, even a holy one, from the heavens is coming down.
4:14 He is calling mightily, and thus hath said, Cut down the
 tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and
 scatter its budding, move away let the beast from under it, and
 the birds from off its branches;
4:15 but the stump of its roots leave in the earth, even with a
 band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field, and
 with the dew of the heavens is it wet, and with the beasts [is]
 his portion in the herb of the earth;
4:16 his heart from man's is changed, and the heart of a beast
 is given to him, and seven times pass over him;
4:17 by the decree of the sifters [is] the sentence, and by the
 saying of the holy ones the requirement, to the intent that the
 living may know that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of
 men, and to whom He willeth He giveth it, and the lowest of men
 He doth raise up over it.
4:18 `This dream I have seen, I king Nebuchadnezzar; and thou, O
 Belteshazzar, the interpretation tell, because that all the
 wise men of my kingdom are not able to cause me to know the
 interpretation, and thou [art] able, for the spirit of the holy
 gods [is] in thee.
4:19 `Then Daniel, whose name [is] Belteshazzar, hath been
 astonished about one hour, and his thoughts do trouble him; the
 king hath answered and said, O Belteshazzar, let not the dream
 and its interpretation trouble thee. Belteshazzar hath answered
 and said, My lord, the dream -- to those hating thee, and its
 interpretation -- to thine enemies!
4:20 The tree that thou hast seen, that hath become great and
 strong, and its height doth reach to the heavens, and its
 vision to all the land,
4:21 and its leaves [are] fair, and its budding great, and food
 for all [is] in it, under it dwell doth the beast of the field,
 and on its boughs sit do the birds of the heavens.
4:22 `Thou it [is], O king, for thou hast become great and
 mighty, and thy greatness hath become great, and hath reached
 to the heavens, and thy dominion to the end of the earth;
4:23 and that which the king hath seen -- a sifter, even a holy
 one, coming down from the heavens, and he hath said, Cut down
 the tree, and destroy it; but the stump of its roots leave in
 the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender
 grass of the field, and with the dew of the heavens it is wet,
 and with the beast of the field [is] his portion, till that
 seven times pass over him.
4:24 `This [is] the interpretation, O king, and the decree of
 the Most High it [is] that hath come against my lord the king:
4:25 and they are driving thee away from men, and with the beast
 of the field is thy dwelling, and the herb as oxen they do
 cause thee to eat, and by the dew of the heavens they are
 wetting thee, and seven times do pass over thee, till that thou
 knowest that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and
 to whom He willeth He giveth it.
4:26 And that which they said -- to leave the stump of the roots
 of the tree; thy kingdom for thee abideth, after that thou
 knowest that the heavens are ruling.
4:27 `Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee,
 and thy sins by righteousness break off, and thy perversity by
 pitying the poor, lo, it is a lengthening of thine ease.
4:28 `All -- hath come on Nebuchadnezzar the king.
4:29 `At the end of twelve months, on the palace of the kingdom
 of Babylon he hath been walking;
4:30 the king hath answered and said, Is not this that great
 Babylon that I have built, for the house of the kingdom, in the
 might of my strength, and for the glory of mine honour?
4:31 `While the word is [in] the king's mouth a voice from the
 heavens hath fallen: To thee they are saying: O Nebuchadnezzar
 the king, the kingdom hath passed from thee,
4:32 and from men they are driving thee away, and with the beast
 of the field [is] thy dwelling, the herb as oxen they do cause
 thee to eat, and seven times do pass over thee, till that thou
 knowest that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and
 to whom He willeth He giveth it.
4:33 `In that hour the thing hath been fulfilled on
 Nebuchadnezzar, and from men he is driven, and the herb as oxen
 he eateth, and by the dew of the heavens his body is wet, till
 that his hair as eagles' hath become great, and his nails as
 birds.'
4:34 `And at the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, mine eyes to
 the heavens have lifted up, and mine understanding unto me
 returneth, and the Most High I have blessed, and the Age-during
 Living One I have praised and honoured, whose dominion [is] a
 dominion age-during, and His kingdom with generation and
 generation;
4:35 and all who are dwelling on the earth as nothing are
 reckoned, and according to his will He is doing among the
 forces of the heavens and those dwelling on the earth, and
 there is none that doth clap with his hand, and saith to Him,
 What hast Thou done?
4:36 `At that time my understanding doth return unto me, and for
 the glory of my kingdom, my honour and my brightness doth
 return unto me, and to me my counsellors and my great men do
 seek, and over my kingdom I have been made right, and abundant
 greatness hath been added to me.
4:37 `Now, I, Nebuchadnezzar, am praising and exalting and
 honouring the King of the heavens, for all His works [are]
 truth, and His paths judgment, and those walking in pride He is
 able to humble.'
5:1 Belshazzar the king hath made a great feast to a thousand of
 his great men, and before the thousand he is drinking wine;
5:2 Belshazzar hath said -- while tasting the wine -- to bring
 in the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his
 father had taken from the temple that [is] in Jerusalem, that
 drink with them may the king, and his great men, his wives, and
 his concubines.
5:3 Then they have brought in the vessels of gold that had been
 taken out of the temple of the house of God that [is] in
 Jerusalem, and drunk with them have the king and his great men,
 his wives and his concubines;
5:4 they have drunk wine, and have praised the gods of gold, and
 of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
5:5 In that hour come forth have fingers of a man's hand, and
 they are writing over-against the candlestick, on the plaster
 of the wall of the king's palace: and the king is seeing the
 extremity of the hand that is writing;
5:6 then the king's countenance hath changed, and his thoughts
 do trouble him, and the joints of his loins are loosed, and his
 knees are smiting one against another.
5:7 Call doth the king mightily, to bring up the enchanters, the
 Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. Answered hath the king, and
 said to the wise men of Babylon, that, `Any man who doth read
 this writing, and its interpretation doth shew me, purple he
 putteth on, and a bracelet of gold [is] on his neck, and third
 in the kingdom he doth rule.'
5:8 Then coming up are all the wise men of the king, and they
 are not able to read the writing, and the interpretation to
 make known to the king;
5:9 then the king Belshazzar is greatly troubled, and his
 countenance is changing in him, and his great men are
 perplexed.
5:10 The queen, on account of the words of the king and his
 great men, to the banquet-house hath come up. Answered hath the
 queen, and said, `O king, to the ages live; let not thy
 thoughts trouble thee, nor thy countenance be changed:
5:11 there is a man in thy kingdom in whom [is] the spirit of
 the holy gods: and, in the days of thy father, light, and
 understanding, and wisdom -- as the wisdom of the gods -- was
 found in him; and king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, chief of the
 scribes, enchanters, Chaldeans, soothsayers, established him --
 thy father, O king --
5:12 because that an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and
 understanding, interpreting of dreams, and showing of enigmas,
 and loosing of knots was found in him, in Daniel, whose name
 the king made Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and the
 interpretation he doth show.'
5:13 Then Daniel hath been caused to come up before the king;
 answered hath the king, and said to Daniel, `Thou art that
 Daniel who [art] of the sons of the Removed of Judah, whom the
 king my father brought in out of Judah?
5:14 And I have heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods [is]
 in thee, and light, and understanding, and excellent wisdom
 have been found in thee.
5:15 `And now, caused to come up before me have been the wise
 men, the enchanters, that this writing they may read, and its
 interpretation to cause me to know: and they are not able to
 shew the interpretation of the thing:
5:16 and I -- I have heard of thee, that thou art able to give
 interpretations, and to loose knots: now, lo -- thou art able
 to read the writing, and its interpretation to cause me to know
 -- purple thou dost put on, and a bracelet of gold [is] on thy
 neck, and third in the kingdom thou dost rule.'
5:17 Then hath Daniel answered and said before the king, `Thy
 gifts be to thyself, and thy fee to another give; nevertheless,
 the writing I do read to the king, and the interpretation I
 cause him to know;
5:18 thou, O king, God Most High, a kingdom, and greatness, and
 glory, and honour, gave to Nebuchadnezzar thy father:
5:19 and because of the greatness that He gave to him, all
 peoples, nations, and languages were trembling and fearing
 before him: whom he willed he was slaying, and whom he willed
 he was keeping alive, and whom he willed he was raising up, and
 whom he willed he was making low;
5:20 and when his heart was high, and his spirit was strong to
 act proudly, he hath been caused to come down from the throne
 of his kingdom, and his glory they have caused to pass away
 from him,
5:21 and from the sons of men he is driven, and his heart with
 the beasts hath been like, and with the wild asses [is] his
 dwelling; the herb like oxen they cause him to eat, and by the
 dew of the heavens is his body wet, till that he hath known
 that God Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and whom He
 willeth He raiseth up over it.
5:22 `And thou, his son, Belshazzar, hast not humbled thy heart,
 though all this thou hast known;
5:23 and against the Lord of the heavens thou hast lifted up
 thyself; and the vessels of His house they have brought in
 before thee, and thou, and thy great men, thy wives, and thy
 concubines, are drinking wine with them, and gods of silver,
 and of gold, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone, that are
 not seeing, nor hearing, nor knowing, thou hast praised: and
 the God in whose hand [is] thy breath, and all thy ways, Him
 thou hast not honoured.
5:24 `Then from before Him sent is the extremity of the hand,
 and the writing is noted down;
5:25 and this [is] the writing that is noted down: Numbered,
 Numbered, Weighed, and Divided.
5:26 This [is] the interpretation of the thing: Numbered -- God
 hath numbered thy kingdom, and hath finished it.
5:27 Weighed -- Thou art weighed in the balances, and hast been
 found lacking.
5:28 Divided -- Divided is thy kingdom, and it hath been given
 to the Medes and Persians.'
5:29 Then hath Belshazzar said, and they have clothed Daniel
 with purple, and a bracelet of gold [is] on his neck, and they
 have proclaimed concerning him that he is the third ruler in
 the kingdom.
5:30 In that night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans is slain,
5:31 and Darius the Mede hath received the kingdom, when a son
 of sixty and two years.
6:1 It hath been good before Darius, and he hath established
 over the kingdom satraps -- a hundred and twenty -- that they
 may be throughout the whole kingdom,
6:2 and higher than they three presidents, of whom Daniel [is]
 first, that these satraps may give to them an account, and the
 king have no loss.
6:3 Then this Daniel hath been overseer over the presidents and
 satraps, because that an excellent spirit [is] in him, and the
 king hath thought to establish him over the whole kingdom.
6:4 Then the presidents and satraps have been seeking to find a
 cause of complaint against Daniel concerning the kingdom, and
 any cause of complaint and corruption they are not able to
 find, because that he [is] faithful, and any error and
 corruption have not been found in him.
6:5 Then these men are saying, `We do not find against this
 Daniel any cause of complaint, except we have found [it]
 against him in the law of his God.'
6:6 Then these presidents and satraps have assembled near the
 king, and thus they are saying to him: `O king Darius, to the
 ages live!
6:7 Taken counsel have all the presidents of the kingdom, the
 prefects, and the satraps, the counsellors, and the governors,
 to establish a royal statute, and to strengthen an interdict,
 that any who seeketh a petition from any god and man until
 thirty days, save of thee, O king, is cast into a den of lions.
6:8 Now, O king, thou dost establish the interdict, and sign the
 writing, that it is not to be changed, as a law of Media and
 Persia, that doth not pass away.'
6:9 Therefore king Darius hath signed the writing and interdict.
6:10 And Daniel, when he hath known that the writing is signed,
 hath gone up to his house, and the window being opened for him,
 in his upper chamber, over-against Jerusalem, three times in a
 day he is kneeling on his knees, and praying, and confessing
 before his God, because that he was doing [it] before this.
6:11 Then these men have assembled, and found Daniel praying and
 entreating grace before his God;
6:12 then they have come near, yea, they are saying before the
 king concerning the king's interdict: `Hast thou not signed an
 interdict, that any man who seeketh from any god and man until
 thirty days, save of thee, O king, is cast into a den of
 lions?' Answered hath the king, and said, `The thing [is]
 certain as a law of Media and Persia, that doth not pass away.'
6:13 Then they have answered, yea, they are saying before the
 king, that, `Daniel, who [is] of the sons of the Removed of
 Judah, hath not placed on thee, O king, [any] regard, nor on
 the interdict that thou hast signed, and three times in a day
 he is seeking his petition.'
6:14 Then the king, when he hath heard the matter, is greatly
 displeased at himself, and on Daniel he hath set the heart to
 deliver him, and till the going up of the sun he was arranging
 to deliver him.
6:15 Then these men have assembled near the king, and are saying
 to the king, `know, O king, that the law of Media and Persia
 [is]: That any interdict and statute that the king doth
 establish is not to be changed.'
6:16 Then the king hath said, and they have brought Daniel, and
 have cast [him] into a den of lions. The king hath answered and
 said to Daniel, `Thy God, whom thou art serving continually,
 Himself doth deliver thee.'
6:17 And a stone hath been brought and placed at the mouth of
 the den, and the king hath sealed it with his signet, and with
 the signet of his great men, that the purpose be not changed
 concerning Daniel.
6:18 Then hath the king gone to his palace, and he hath passed
 the night fasting, and dahavan have not been brought up before
 him, and his sleep hath fled [from] off him.
6:19 Then doth the king rise in the early morning, at the light,
 and in haste to the den of lions he hath gone;
6:20 and at his coming near to the den, to Daniel, with a
 grieved voice, he crieth. The king hath answered and said to
 Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, thy God, whom thou
 art serving continually, is He able to deliver thee from the
 lions?'
6:21 Then Daniel hath spoken with the king: `O king, to the ages
 live:
6:22 my God hath sent His messenger, and hath shut the lions'
 mouths, and they have not injured me: because that before Him
 purity hath been found in me; and also before thee, O king,
 injury I have not done.'
6:23 Then was the king very glad for him, and he hath commanded
 Daniel to be taken up out of the den, and Daniel hath been
 taken up out of the den, and no injury hath been found in him,
 because he hath believed in his God.
6:24 And the king hath said, and they have brought those men who
 had accused Daniel, and to the den of lions they have cast
 them, they, their sons, and their wives; and they have not come
 to the lower part of the den till that the lions have power
 over them, and all their bones they have broken small.
6:25 Then Darius the king hath written to all the peoples,
 nations, and languages, who are dwelling in all the land: `Your
 peace be great!
6:26 From before me is made a decree, that in every dominion of
 my kingdom they are trembling and fearing before the God of
 Daniel, for He [is] the living God, and abiding to the ages,
 and His kingdom that which [is] not destroyed, and His dominion
 [is] unto the end.
6:27 A deliverer, and rescuer, and doer of signs and wonders in
 the heavens and in earth [is] He who hath delivered Daniel from
 the paw of the lions.'
6:28 And this Daniel hath prospered in the reign of Darius, and
 in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
7:1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel hath
 seen a dream, and the visions of his head on his bed, then the
 dream he hath written, the chief of the things he hath said.
7:2 Answered hath Daniel and said, `I was seeing in my vision by
 night, and lo, the four winds of the heavens are coming forth
 to the great sea;
7:3 and four great beasts are coming up from the sea, diverse
 one from another.
7:4 The first [is] like a lion, and it hath an eagle's wings. I
 was seeing till that its wings have been plucked, and it hath
 been lifted up from the earth, and on feet as a man it hath
 been caused to stand, and a heart of man is given to it.
7:5 And lo, another beast, a second, like to a bear, and to the
 same authority it hath been raised, and three ribs [are] in its
 mouth, between its teeth, and thus they are saying to it, Rise,
 consume much flesh.
7:6 `After this I was seeing, and lo, another like a leopard,
 and it hath four wings of a fowl on its back, and four heads
 hath the beast, and dominion is given to it.
7:7 `After this I was seeing in the visions of the night, and
 lo, a fourth beast, terrible and fearful, and exceedingly
 strong; and it hath iron teeth very great, it hath consumed,
 yea, it doth break small, and the remnant with its feet it hath
 trampled; and it [is] diverse from all the beasts that [are]
 before it; and it hath ten horns.
7:8 `I was considering about the horns, and lo, another horn, a
 little one, hath come up between them, and three of the first
 horns have been eradicated from before it, and lo, eyes as the
 eyes of man [are] in this horn, and a mouth speaking great
 things.
7:9 `I was seeing till that thrones have been thrown down, and
 the Ancient of Days is seated, His garment as snow [is] white,
 and the hair of his head [is] as pure wool, His throne flames
 of fire, its wheels burning fire.
7:10 A flood of fire is proceeding and coming forth from before
 Him, a thousand thousands do serve Him, and a myriad of myriads
 before Him do rise up, the Judge is seated, and the books have
 been opened.
7:11 `I was seeing, then, because of the voice of the great
 words that the horn is speaking, I was seeing till that the
 beast is slain, and his body hath been destroyed, and given to
 the burning fire;
7:12 and the rest of the beasts have caused their dominion to
 pass away, and a prolongation in life is given to them, till a
 season and a time.
7:13 `I was seeing in the visions of the night, and lo, with the
 clouds of the heavens as a son of man was [one] coming, and
 unto the Ancient of Days he hath come, and before Him they have
 brought him near.
7:14 And to him is given dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, and
 all peoples, nations, and languages do serve him, his dominion
 [is] a dominion age-during, that passeth not away, and his
 kingdom that which is not destroyed.
7:15 `Pierced hath been my spirit -- I, Daniel -- in the midst
 of the sheath, and the visions of my head trouble me;
7:16 I have drawn near unto one of those standing, and the
 certainty I seek from him of all this; and he hath said to me,
 yea, the interpretation of the things he hath caused me to
 know:
7:17 `These great beasts, that [are] four, [are] four kings,
 they rise up from the earth;
7:18 and receive the kingdom do the saints of the Most High, and
 they strengthen the kingdom unto the age, even unto the age of
 the ages.
7:19 `Then I wished for certainty concerning the fourth beast,
 that was diverse from them all, fearful exceedingly; its teeth
 of iron, and its nails of brass, it hath devoured, it doth
 break small, and the remnant with its feet it hath trampled;
7:20 and concerning the ten horns that [are] in its heads, and
 of the other that came up, and before which three have fallen,
 even of that horn that hath eyes, and a mouth speaking great
 things, and whose appearance [is] great above its companions.
7:21 `I was seeing, and this horn is making war with the saints,
 and hath prevailed over them,
7:22 till that the Ancient of Days hath come, and judgment is
 given to the saints of the Most High, and the time hath come,
 and the saints have strengthened the kingdom.
7:23 `Thus he said: The fourth beast is the fourth kingdom in
 the earth, that is diverse from all kingdoms, and it consumeth
 all the earth, and treadeth it down, and breaketh it small.
7:24 And the ten horns out of the kingdom [are] ten kings, they
 rise, and another doth rise after them, and it is diverse from
 the former, and three kings it humbleth;
7:25 and words as an adversary of the Most High it doth speak,
 and the saints of the Most High it doth wear out, and it hopeth
 to change seasons and law; and they are given into its hand,
 till a time, and times, and a division of a time.
7:26 `And the Judge is seated, and its dominion they cause to
 pass away, to cut off, and to destroy -- unto the end;
7:27 and the kingdom, and the dominion, even the greatness of
 the kingdom under the whole heavens, is given to the people --
 the saints of the Most High, His kingdom [is] a kingdom
 age-during, and all dominions do serve and obey Him.
7:28 `Hitherto [is] the end of the matter. I, Daniel, greatly do
 my thoughts trouble me, and my countenance is changed on me,
 and the matter in my heart I have kept.
8:1 `In the third year of the reign of Belshazzar the king, a
 vision hath appeared unto me -- I Daniel -- after that which
 had appeared unto me at the beginning.
8:2 And I see in a vision, and it cometh to pass, in my seeing,
 and I [am] in Shushan the palace that [is] in Elam the
 province, and I see in a vision, and I have been by the stream
 Ulai.
8:3 And I lift up mine eyes, and look, and lo, a certain ram is
 standing before the stream, and it hath two horns, and the two
 horns [are] high; and the one [is] higher than the other, and
 the high one is coming up last.
8:4 I have seen the ram pushing westward, and northward, and
 southward, and no living creatures do stand before it, and
 there is none delivering out of its hand, and it hath done
 according to its pleasure, and hath exerted itself.
8:5 `And I have been considering, and lo, a young he-goat hath
 come from the west, over the face of the whole earth, whom none
 is touching in the earth; as to the young he-goat, a
 conspicuous horn [is] between its eyes.
8:6 And it cometh unto the ram possessing the two horns, that I
 had seen standing before the stream, and runneth unto it in the
 fury of its power.
8:7 And I have seen it coming near the ram, and it becometh
 embittered at it, and smiteth the ram, and breaketh its two
 horns, and there hath been no power in the ram to stand before
 it, and it casteth it to the earth, and trampleth it down, and
 there hath been no deliverer to the ram out of its power.
8:8 `And the young he-goat hath exerted itself very much, and
 when it is strong, broken hath been the great horn; and come up
 doth a vision of four in its place, at the four winds of the
 heavens.
8:9 And from the one of them come forth hath a little horn, and
 it exerteth itself greatly toward the south, and toward the
 east, and toward the beauteous [land];
8:10 yea, it exerteth unto the host of the heavens, and causeth
 to fall to the earth of the host, and of the stars, and
 trampleth them down.
8:11 And unto the prince of the host it exerteth itself, and by
 it taken away hath been the continual [sacrifice], and thrown
 down the base of his sanctuary.
8:12 And the host is given up, with the continual [sacrifice],
 through transgression, and it throweth down truth to the earth,
 and it hath worked, and prospered.
8:13 `And I hear a certain holy one speaking, and a certain holy
 one saith to the wonderful numberer who is speaking: Till when
 [is] the vision of the continual [sacrifice], and of the
 transgression, an astonishment, to make both sanctuary and host
 a treading down?
8:14 And he saith unto me, Till evening -- morning two thousand
 and three hundred, then is the holy place declared right.
8:15 `And it cometh to pass in my seeing -- I, Daniel -- the
 vision, that I require understanding, and lo, standing
 over-against me [is] as the appearance of a mighty one.
8:16 And I hear a voice of man between [the banks of] Ulai, and
 he calleth and saith: Gabriel, cause this [one] to understand
 the appearance.
8:17 And he cometh in near my station, and at his coming in I
 have been afraid, and I fall on my face, and he saith unto me:
 Understand, son of man, for at the time of the end [is] the
 vision.
8:18 And in his speaking with me, I have been in a trance on my
 face, on the earth; and he cometh against me, and causeth me to
 stand on my station,
8:19 and saith: Lo, I -- I am causing thee to know that which is
 in the latter end of the indignation; for, at the appointed
 time [is] the end.
8:20 `The ram that thou hast seen possessing two horns, [are]
 the kings of Media and Persia.
8:21 And the young he-goat, the hairy one, [is] the king of
 Javan; and the great horn that [is] between its eyes is the
 first king;
8:22 and that being broken, stand up do four in its place, four
 kingdoms from the nation do stand up, and not in its power.
8:23 `And in the latter end of their kingdom, about the
 perfecting of the transgressors, stand up doth a king, fierce
 of face, and understanding hidden things;
8:24 and his power hath been mighty, and not by his own power;
 and wonderful things he destroyeth, and he hath prospered, and
 wrought, and destroyed mighty ones, and the people of the Holy
 Ones.
8:25 `And by his understanding he hath also caused deceit to
 prosper in his hand, and in his heart he exerteth himself, and
 by ease he destroyeth many; and against the prince of princes
 he standeth -- and without hand he is broken.
8:26 And the appearance of the evening and of the morning, that
 is told, is true; and thou, hide thou the vision, for [it is]
 after many days.'
8:27 And I, Daniel, have been, yea, I became sick [for] days, and
 I rise, and do the king's work, and am astonished at the
 appearance, and there is none understanding.
9:1 In the first year of Darius, son of Ahasuerus, of the seed
 of the Medes, who hath been made king over the kingdom of the
 Chaldeans,
9:2 in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, have understood
 by books the number of the years, (in that a word of Jehovah
 hath been unto Jeremiah the prophet,) concerning the fulfilling
 of the wastes of Jerusalem -- seventy years;
9:3 and I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek [by] prayer and
 supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.
9:4 And I pray to Jehovah my God, and confess, and say: `I
 beseech Thee, O Lord God, the great and the fearful, keeping
 the covenant and the kindness to those loving Him, and to those
 keeping His commands;
9:5 we have sinned, and done perversely, and done wickedly, and
 rebelled, to turn aside from Thy commands, and from Thy
 judgments:
9:6 and we have not hearkened unto Thy servants, the prophets,
 who have spoken in Thy name unto our kings, our heads, and our
 fathers, and to all the people of the land.
9:7 `To Thee, O Lord, [is] the righteousness, and to us the
 shame of face, as [at] this day, to the men of Judah, and to
 the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near,
 and who are far off, in all the lands whither Thou hast driven
 them, in their trespass that they have trespassed against Thee.
9:8 `O Lord, to us [is] the shame of face, to our kings, to our
 heads, and to our fathers, in that we have sinned against Thee.
9:9 `To the Lord our God [are] the mercies and the
 forgivenesses, for we have rebelled against Him,
9:10 and have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah our God, to
 walk in His laws, that He hath set before us by the hand of His
 servants the prophets;
9:11 and all Israel have transgressed Thy law, to turn aside so
 as not to hearken to Thy voice; and poured on us is the
 execration, and the oath, that is written in the law of Moses,
 servant of God, because we have sinned against Him.
9:12 `And He confirmeth His words that He hath spoken against
 us, and against our judges who have judged us, to bring in upon
 us great evil, in that it hath not been done under the whole
 heavens as it hath been done in Jerusalem,
9:13 as it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil hath
 come upon us, and we have not appeased the face of Jehovah our
 God to turn back from our iniquities, and to act wisely in Thy
 truth.
9:14 And Jehovah doth watch for the evil, and bringeth it upon
 us, for righteous [is] Jehovah our God concerning all His works
 that He hath done, and we have not hearkened to His voice.
9:15 And now, O Lord our God, who hast brought forth Thy people
 from the land of Egypt by a strong hand, and dost make for Thee
 a name as at this day, we have sinned, we have done wickedly.
9:16 `O Lord, according to all Thy righteous acts, let turn
 back, I pray Thee, Thine anger and Thy fury from Thy city
 Jerusalem, Thy holy mount, for by our sins, and by the
 iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Thy people [are] for a
 reproach to all our neighbours;
9:17 and now, hearken, O our God, unto the prayer of Thy
 servant, and unto his supplication, and cause Thy face to shine
 on Thy sanctuary that [is] desolate, for the Lord's sake.
9:18 `Incline, O my God, Thine ear, and hear, open Thine eyes
 and see our desolations, and the city on which Thy name is
 called; for not for our righteous acts are we causing our
 supplications to fall before Thee, but for Thy mercies that
 [are] many.
9:19 O lord, hear, O Lord, forgive; O Lord, attend and do; do
 not delay, for Thine own sake, O my God, for Thy name is called
 on Thy city, and on Thy people.'
9:20 And while I am speaking, and praying, and confessing my
 sin, and the sin of my people Israel, and causing my
 supplication to fall before Jehovah my God, for the holy mount
 of my God,
9:21 yea, while I am speaking in prayer, then that one Gabriel,
 whom I had seen in vision at the commencement, being caused to
 fly swiftly, is coming unto me at the time of the evening
 present.
9:22 And he giveth understanding, and speaketh with me, and
 saith, `O Daniel, now I have come forth to cause thee to
 consider understanding wisely;
9:23 at the commencement of thy supplications hath the word come
 forth, and I have come to declare [it], for thou [art] greatly
 desired, and understand thou concerning the matter, and
 consider concerning the appearance.
9:24 `Seventy weeks are determined for thy people, and for thy
 holy city, to shut up the transgression, and to seal up sins,
 and to cover iniquity, and to bring in righteousness
 age-during, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint
 the holy of holies.
9:25 And thou dost know, and dost consider wisely, from the
 going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem till
 Messiah the Leader [is] seven weeks, and sixty and two weeks:
 the broad place hath been built again, and the rampart, even in
 the distress of the times.
9:26 And after the sixty and two weeks, cut off is Messiah, and
 the city and the holy place are not his, the Leader who hath
 come doth destroy the people; and its end [is] with a flood,
 and till the end [is] war, determined [are] desolations.
9:27 And he hath strengthened a covenant with many -- one week,
 and [in] the midst of the week he causeth sacrifice and present
 to cease, and by the wing of abominations he is making
 desolate, even till the consummation, and that which is
 determined is poured on the desolate one.'
10:1 In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia, a thing is
 revealed to Daniel, whose name is called Belteshazzar, and the
 thing [is] true, and the warfare [is] great: and he hath
 understood the thing, and hath understanding about the
 appearance.
10:2 `In those days, I, Daniel, have been mourning three weeks
 of days;
10:3 desirable bread I have not eaten, and flesh and wine hath
 not come in unto my mouth, and I have not anointed myself at
 all, till the completion of three weeks of days.
10:4 `And in the twenty and fourth day of the first month, I
 have been by the side of the great river, that [is] Hiddekel:
10:5 and I lift up mine eyes, and look, and lo, a certain one
 clothed in linen, and his loins girt with pure gold of Uphaz,
10:6 and his body as a beryl, and his face as the appearance of
 lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his
 feet as the aspect of bright brass, and the voice of his words
 as the voice of a multitude.
10:7 `And I have seen -- I, Daniel, by myself -- the appearance:
 and the men who have been with me have not seen the appearance,
 but a great trembling hath fallen on them, and they flee to be
 hidden;
10:8 and I have been left by myself, and I see this great
 appearance, and there hath been no power left in me, and my
 honour hath been turned in me to corruption, yea, I have not
 retained power.
10:9 `And I hear the voice of his words, and when I hear the
 voice of his words, then I have been in a trance on my face,
 and my face [is] to the earth;
10:10 and lo, a hand hath come against me, and shaketh me on my
 knees and the palms of my hands.
10:11 `And he saith unto me: Daniel, man greatly desired, attend
 to the words that I am speaking unto thee, and stand on thy
 station, for now I have been sent unto thee. `And when he
 speaketh with me this word, I have stood trembling.
10:12 And he saith unto me: Do not fear, Daniel, for from the
 first day that thou didst give thy heart to understand, and to
 humble thyself before thy God, thy words have been heard, and I
 have come because of thy words.
10:13 `And the head of the kingdom of Persia is standing
 over-against me twenty and one days, and lo, Michael, first of
 the chief heads, hath come in to help me, and I have remained
 there near the kings of Persia;
10:14 and I have come to cause thee to understand that which
 doth happen to thy people in the latter end of the days, for
 yet the vision [is] after days.
10:15 `And when he speaketh with me about these things, I have
 set my face toward the earth, and have been silent;
10:16 and lo, as the manner of the sons of men, he is striking
 against my lips, and I open my mouth, and I speak, and say unto
 him who is standing over-against me: My lord, by the appearance
 turned have been my pangs against me, and I have retained no
 power.
10:17 And how is the servant of this my lord able to speak with
 this my lord? as for me, henceforth there remaineth in me no
 power, yea, breath hath not been left in me.
10:18 `And he addeth, and striketh against me, as the appearance
 of a man, and strengtheneth me,
10:19 and he saith: Do not fear, O man greatly desired, peace to
 thee, be strong, yea, be strong; and when he speaketh with me,
 I have strengthened myself, and I say, Let my lord speak, for
 thou hast strengthened me.
10:20 And he saith, Hast thou known why I have come unto thee?
 and now I turn back to fight with the head of Persia; yea, I am
 going forth, and lo, the head of Javan hath come;
10:21 but I declare to thee that which is noted down in the
 Writing of Truth, and there is not one strengthening himself
 with me, concerning these, except Michael your head.
11:1 `And I, in the first year of Darius the Mede, my standing
 [is] for a strengthener, and for a stronghold to him;
11:2 and, now, truth I declare to thee, Lo, yet three kings are
 standing for Persia, and the fourth doth become far richer than
 all, and according to his strength by his riches he stirreth up
 the whole, with the kingdom of Javan.
11:3 And a mighty king hath stood, and he hath ruled a great
 dominion, and hath done according to his will;
11:4 and according to his standing is his kingdom broken, and
 divided to the four winds of the heavens, and not to his
 posterity, nor according to his dominion that he ruled, for his
 kingdom is plucked up -- and for others apart from these.
11:5 `And a king of the south -- even of his princes -- doth
 become strong, and doth prevail against him, and hath ruled; a
 great dominion [is] his dominion.
11:6 `And at the end of years they do join themselves together,
 and a daughter of the king of the south doth come in unto the
 king of the north to do upright things; and she doth not retain
 the power of the arm; and he doth not stand, nor his arm; and
 she is given up, she, and those bringing her in, and her child,
 and he who is strengthening her in [these] times.
11:7 `And [one] hath stood up from a branch of her roots, [in]
 his station, and he cometh in unto the bulwark, yea, he cometh
 into a stronghold of the king of the south, and hath wrought
 against them, and hath done mightily;
11:8 and also their gods, with their princes, with their
 desirable vessels of silver and gold, into captivity he
 bringeth [into] Egypt; and he doth stand more years than the
 king of the north.
11:9 `And the king of the south hath come into the kingdom, and
 turned back unto his own land;
11:10 and his sons stir themselves up, and have gathered a
 multitude of great forces, and he hath certainly come in, and
 overflowed, and passed through, and he turneth back, and they
 stir themselves up unto his stronghold.
11:11 And the king of the south doth become embittered, and hath
 gone forth and fought with him, with the king of the north, and
 hath caused a great multitude to stand, and the multitude hath
 been given into his hand,
11:12 and he hath carried away the multitude, his heart is high,
 and he hath caused myriads to fall, and he doth not become
 strong.
11:13 `And the king of the north hath turned back, and hath
 caused a multitude to stand, greater than the first, and at the
 end of the times a second time he doth certainly come in with a
 great force, and with much substance;
11:14 and in those times many do stand up against the king of
 the south, and sons of the destroyers of thy people do lift
 themselves up to establish the vision -- and they have
 stumbled.
11:15 `And the king of the north cometh in, and poureth out a
 mount, and hath captured fenced cities; and the arms of the
 south do not stand, nor the people of his choice, yea, there is
 no power to stand.
11:16 And he who is coming unto him doth according to his will,
 and there is none standing before him; and he standeth in the
 desirable land, and [it is] wholly in his hand.
11:17 And he setteth his face to go in with the strength of his
 whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; and he hath wrought,
 and the daughter of women he giveth to him, to corrupt her; and
 she doth not stand, nor is for him.
11:18 `And he turneth back his face to the isles, and hath
 captured many; and a prince hath caused his reproach of himself
 to cease; without his reproach he turneth [it] back to him.
11:19 And he turneth back his face to the strongholds of his
 land, and hath stumbled and fallen, and is not found.
11:20 `And stood up on his station hath [one] causing an exactor
 to pass over the honour of the kingdom, and in a few days he is
 destroyed, and not in anger, nor in battle.
11:21 `And stood up on his station hath a despicable one, and
 they have not given unto him the honour of the kingdom, and he
 hath come in quietly, and hath strengthened the kingdom by
 flatteries.
11:22 And the arms of the flood are overflowed from before him,
 and are broken; and also the leader of the covenant.
11:23 And after they join themselves unto him, he worketh
 deceit, and hath increased, and hath been strong by a few of
 the nation.
11:24 Peaceably even into the fertile places of the province He
 cometh, and he hath done that which his fathers did not, nor
 his fathers' fathers; prey, and spoil, and substance, to them
 he scattereth, and against fenced places he deviseth his
 devices, even for a time.
11:25 `And he stirreth up his power and his heart against the
 king of the south with a great force, and the king of the south
 stirreth himself up to battle with a very great and mighty
 force, and standeth not, for they devise devices against him,
11:26 and those eating his portion of food destroy him, and his
 force overfloweth, and fallen have many wounded.
11:27 `And both of the kings' hearts [are] to do evil, and at
 one table they speak lies, and it doth not prosper, for yet the
 end [is] at a time appointed.
11:28 And he turneth back [to] his land with great substance,
 and his heart [is] against the holy covenant, and he hath
 wrought, and turned back to his land.
11:29 At the appointed time he turneth back, and hath come
 against the south, and it is not as the former, and as the
 latter.
11:30 And ships of Chittim have come in against him, and he hath
 been pained, and hath turned back, and hath been insolent
 toward the holy covenant, and hath wrought, and turned back,
 and he understandeth concerning those forsaking the holy
 covenant.
11:31 And strong ones out of him stand up, and have polluted the
 sanctuary, the stronghold, and have turned aside the continual
 [sacrifice], and appointed the desolating abomination.
11:32 And those acting wickedly [against] the covenant, he
 defileth by flatteries; and the people knowing their God are
 strong, and have wrought.
11:33 And the teachers of the people give understanding to many;
 and they have stumbled by sword, and by flame, by captivity,
 and by spoil -- days.
11:34 And in their stumbling, they are helped -- a little help,
 and joined to them have been many with flatteries.
11:35 And some of the teachers do stumble for refining by them,
 and for purifying, and for making white -- till the end of the
 time, for [it is] yet for a time appointed.
11:36 `And the king hath done according to his will, and
 exalteth himself, and magnifieth himself against every god, and
 against the God of gods he speaketh wonderful things, and hath
 prospered till the indignation hath been completed, for that
 which is determined hath been done.
11:37 And unto the God of his fathers he doth not attend, nor to
 the desire of women, yea, to any god he doth not attend, for
 against all he magnifieth himself.
11:38 And to the god of strongholds, on his station, he giveth
 honour; yea, to a god whom his fathers knew not he giveth
 honour, with gold, and with silver, and with precious stone,
 and with desirable things.
11:39 And he hath dealt in the fortresses of the strongholds
 with a strange god whom he hath acknowledged; he multiplieth
 honour, and hath caused them to rule over many, and the ground
 he apportioneth at a price.
11:40 `And at the time of the end, push himself forward with him
 doth a king of the south, and storm against him doth a king of
 the north, with chariot, and with horsemen, and with many
 ships; and he hath come in to the lands, and hath overflowed,
 and passed over,
11:41 and hath come into the desirable land, and many do
 stumble, and these escape from his hand: Edom, and Moab, and
 the chief of the sons of Ammon.
11:42 `And he sendeth forth his hand upon the lands, and the
 land of Egypt is not for an escape;
11:43 and he hath ruled over treasures of gold and of silver,
 and over all the desirable things of Egypt, and Lubim and
 Cushim [are] at his steps.
11:44 `And reports trouble him out of the east and out of the
 north, and he hath gone forth in great fury to destroy, and to
 devote many to destruction;
11:45 and he planteth the tents of his palace between the seas
 and the holy desirable mountain, and hath come unto his end,
 and there is no helper to him.
12:1 `And at that time stand up doth Michael, the great head,
 who is standing up for the sons of thy people, and there hath
 been a time of distress, such as hath not been since there hath
 been a nation till that time, and at that time do thy people
 escape, every one who is found written in the book.
12:2 `And the multitude of those sleeping in the dust of the
 ground do awake, some to life age-during, and some to
 reproaches -- to abhorrence age-during.
12:3 And those teaching do shine as the brightness of the
 expanse, and those justifying the multitude as stars to the age
 and for ever.
12:4 And thou, O Daniel, hide the things, and seal the book till
 the time of the end, many do go to and fro, and knowledge is
 multiplied.'
12:5 And I have looked -- I, Daniel -- and lo, two others are
 standing, one here at the edge of the flood, and one there at
 the edge of the flood,
12:6 and he saith to the one clothed in linen, who [is] upon the
 waters of the flood, `Till when [is] the end of these wonders?'
12:7 And I hear the one clothed in linen, who [is] upon the
 waters of the flood, and he doth lift up his right hand and his
 left unto the heavens, and sweareth by Him who is living to the
 age, that, `After a time, times, and a half, and at the
 completion of the scattering of the power of the holy people,
 finished are all these.'
12:8 And I have heard, and I do not understand, and I say, `O my
 lord, what [is] the latter end of these?'
12:9 And he saith, `Go, Daniel; for hidden and sealed [are] the
 things till the time of the end;
12:10 Purify themselves, yea, make themselves white, yea,
 refined are many: and the wicked have done wickedly, and none
 of the wicked understand, and those acting wisely do
 understand;
12:11 and from the time of the turning aside of the perpetual
 [sacrifice], and to the giving out of the desolating
 abomination, [are] days a thousand, two hundred, and ninety.
12:12 O the blessedness of him who is waiting earnestly, and
 doth come to the days, a thousand, three hundred, thirty and
 five.
12:13 And thou, go on to the end, then thou dost rest, and dost
 stand in thy lot at the end of the days.'