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chapter 8
1
In the
third year of the reign of king Baltasar, a vision appeared to me. I Daniel,
after what I had seen in the beginning,
2 Saw in my vision when I was in the castle of Susa, which
is in the province of Elam: and I saw in the vision that I was over the gate of
Ulai.
3 And I lifted up my eyes, and saw: and behold a ram
stood before the water, having two high horns, and one higher than the other,
and growing up. Afterward
4 I saw the ram pushing with his horns against the
west, and against the north, and against the south: and no beasts could
withstand him, nor be delivered out of his hand: and he did according to his
own will, and became great.
5 And I understood: and behold a he goat came from the
west on the face of the whole earth, and he touched not the ground, and the he
goat had a notable horn between his eyes.
6 And he went up to the ram that had the horns, which I
had seen standing before the gate, and he ran towards him in the force of his
strength.
7 And when he was come near the ram, he was enraged
against him, and struck the ram: and broke his two horns, and the ram could not
withstand him: and when he had cast him down on the ground, he stamped upon
him, and none could deliver the ram out of his hand.
8 And the he goat became exceeding great: and when he
was grown, the great horn was broken, and there came up four horns under it
towards the four winds of heaven.
9 And out of one of them came forth a little horn: and
it became great against the south, and against the east, and against the
strength.
10 And it was magnified even unto the strength of
heaven: and it threw down of the strength, and of the stars, and trod upon
them.
11 And it was magnified even to the prince of the
strength: and it took away from him the continual sacrifice, and cast down the
place of his sanctuary.
12 And strength was given him against the continual
sacrifice, because of sins: and truth shall be cast down on the ground, and he
shall do and shall prosper.
13 And I heard one of the saints speaking, and one
saint said to another, I know not to whom that was speaking: How long shall be
the vision, concerning the continual sacrifice, and the sin of the desolation
that is made: and the sanctuary, and the strength be trodden under foot?
14 And he said to him: Unto evening and morning two
thousand three hundred days: and the sanctuary shall be cleansed.
15 And it came to pass when I Daniel saw the vision,
and sought the meaning, that behold there stood before me as it were the appearance
of a man.
16 And I heard the voice of a man between Ulai: and he
called, and said: Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.
17 And he came and stood near where I stood: and when
he was come, I fell on my face trembling, and he said to me: Understand, O son
of man, for in the time of the end the vision shall be fulfilled.
18 And when he spoke to me I fell flat on the ground:
and he touched me, and set me upright,
19 And he said to me: I will shew thee what things are
to come to pass in the end of the malediction: for the time hath its end.
20 The ram, which thou sawest with horns, is the king
of the Medes and Persians.
21 And the he goat, is the king of the Greeks, and the
great horn that was between his eyes, the same is the first king.
22 But whereas when that was broken, there arose up
four for it: four kings shall rise up of his nation, but not with his strength.
23 And after their reign, when iniquities shall be
grown up, there shall arise a king of a shameless face, and understanding dark
sentences.
24 And his power shall be strengthened, but not by his
own force: and he shall lay all things waste, and shall prosper, and do more
than can be believed. And he shall destroy the mighty, and the people of the
saints,
25 According to his will, and craft shall be successful
in his hand: and his heart shall be puffed up, and in the abundance of all
things he shall kill many: and he shall rise up against the prince of princes,
and shall be broken without hand.
26 And the vision of the evening and the morning, which
was told, is true: thou therefore seal up the vision, because it shall come to
pass after many days.
27 And I Daniel languished, and was sick for some days:
and when I was risen up, I did the king's business, and I was astonished at the
vision, and there was none that could interpret it.
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