1.1
In the third year of the reign of Joakim king of Juda, came
Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon to Jerusalem, and besieged it.
1.2 And the Lord gave into his hand Joakim king
of Juda, and part of the vessels of the house of God: and he brought
them into the land of Sennaar to the house of his god; and he brought
the vessels into the treasure-house of his god.
1.3 And the king told Asphanez his chief
eunuch, to bring in [some] of the captive children of Israel, and of
the seed of the kingdom, and of the princes;
1.4 young men in whom was no blemish, and
beautiful in appearance, and skilled in all wisdom, and possessing
knowledge, and acquainted with prudence, and who had ability to stand
in the house before the king, and [the king gave commandment] to teach
them the learning and language of the Chaldeans.
1.5 And the king appointed them a daily portion
from the king's table, and from the wine which he drank; and [gave
orders] to nourish them three years, and [that] afterwards they should
stand before the king.
1.6 Now these were among them of the children of Juda, Daniel, and Ananias, and Azarias, and Misael.
1.7 And the chief of the eunuchs gave them
names: to Daniel, Baltasar; and to Ananias, Sedrach; and to Misael,
Misach; and to Azarias, Abdenago.
1.8 And Daniel purposed in his heart, that he
would not defile himself with the king's table, nor with the wine of
his drink: and he intreated the chief of the eunuchs that he might not
defile himself.
1.9 Now God [had] brought Daniel into favour and compassion with the chief of the eunuchs.
1.10 And the chief of the eunuchs said to Daniel, I
fear my lord the king, who has appointed your meat and your drink, lest
he see your countenances gloomy in comparison of the young men your
equals; also shall ye endanger my head to the king.
1.11 And Daniel said to Amelsad, whom the chief of
the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Ananias, Misael, [and] Azarias.
1.12 Prove now thy servants ten days; and let them give us pulse, and let us eat, and let us drink water:
1.13 And let our countenances be seen by thee, and
the countenances of the children that eat [at] the king's table; and
deal with thy servants according as thou shalt see.
1.14 And he hearkened to them, and proved them ten days.
1.15 And at the end of the ten days their
countenances appeared fairer and stouter in flesh, than the children
that fed at the king's table.
1.16 So Amelsad took away their supper and the wine of their drink, and gave them pulse.
1.17 And [as for] these four children, God gave them
understanding and prudence in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had
understanding in all visions and dreams.
1.18 And at the end of the days, [after] which the
king had given orders to bring them in, then the chief of the eunuchs
brought them in before Nabuchodonosor.
1.19 And the king spoke with them; and there were not
found out of them all any like Daniel, and Ananias and Misael, and
Azarias: and they stood before the king.
1.20 And in every matter of wisdom and knowledge
wherein the king questioned them, he found them ten times wiser than
all the enchanters and sorcerers that were in all his kingdom.
1.21 And Daniel continued till the first year of king Cyrus.
2.1
In the second year of [his] reign Nabuchodonosor dreamed a dream, and
his spirit was amazed, and his sleep departed from him.
2.2 And the king gave orders to call the
enchanters, and the magicians, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, to
declare to the king his dreams. And they came and stood before the king.
2.3 And the king said to them, I have dreamed, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.
2.4 And the Chaldeans spoke to the king in the
Syrian language, [saying], O king, live for ever: do thou tell the
dream to thy servants, and we will declare the interpretation.
2.5 The king answered the Chaldeans, The thing
has departed from me: if ye do not make known to me the dream and the
interpretation, ye shall be destroyed, and your houses shall be spoiled.
2.6 But if ye make known to me the dream, and
the interpretation thereof, ye shall receive of me gifts and presents
and much honour: only tell me the dream, and the interpretation thereof.
2.7 They answered the second time, and said,
Let the king tell the dream to his servants, and we will declare the
interpretation.
2.8 And the king answered and said, I verily
know that ye are trying to gain time, because ye see that the thing has
gone from me.
2.9 If then ye do not tell me the dream, I know
that ye have concerted to utter before me a false and corrupt tale,
until the time shall have past: tell me my dream, and I shall know that
ye will also declare to me the interpretation thereof.
2.10 The Chaldeans answered before the king, and
said, There is no man upon the earth, who shall be able to make known
the king's matter: forasmuch as no great king or ruler asks such a
question of an enchanter, magician, or Chaldean.
2.11 For the question which the king asks is
difficult, and there is no one else who shall answer it before the
king, but the gods, whose dwelling is not with any flesh.
2.12 Then the king in rage and anger commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
2.13 So the decree went forth, and they began to slay
the wise men; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to slay [them].
2.14 Then Daniel answered [with] counsel and prudence
to Arioch the captain of the royal guard, who was gone forth to kill
the wise men of Babylon; [saying],
2.15 Chief magistrate of the king, wherefore has the
peremptory command proceeded from the king? So Arioch made known the
matter to Daniel.
2.16 And Daniel intreated the king to give him time,
and that he might [thus] declare to the king the interpretation of it.
2.17 So Daniel went into his house, and made known
the matter to Ananias, and Misael, and Azarias, his friends.
2.18 And they sought mercies from the God of heaven
concerning this mystery; that Daniel and his friends might not perish
with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
2.19 Then the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a
vision of the night; and Daniel blessed the God of heaven, and said,
2.20 May the name of God be blessed from everlasting and to everlasting: for wisdom and understanding are his.
2.21 And he changes times and seasons: he appoints
kings, and removes [them], giving wisdom to the wise, and prudence to
them that have understanding:
2.22 he reveals deep and secret [matters]; knowing what is in darkness, and the light is with him.
2.23 I give thanks to thee, and praise [thee], O God
of my fathers, for thou has given me wisdom and power, and has made
known to me the things which we asked of thee; and thou has made known
to me the king's vision.
2.24 And Daniel came to Arioch, whom the king had
appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon, and said to him; Destroy
not the wise men of Babylon, but bring me in before the king, and I
will declare the interpretation to the king.
2.25 Then Arioch in haste brought in Daniel before
the king, and said to him, I have found a man of the children of the
captivity of Judea, who will declare the interpretation to the king.
2.26 And the king answered and said to Daniel, whose
name was Baltasar, Canst thou declare to me the dream which I saw, and
the interpretation thereof?
2.27 And Daniel answered before the king, and said,
The mystery which the king asks [the explanation of] is not [in the
power] of the wise men, magicians, enchanters, [or] soothsayers to
declare to the king.
2.28 But there is a God in heaven revealing
mysteries, and he has made known to king Nabuchodonosor what things
must come to pass in the last days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy
head upon thy bed, are as follows,
2.29 O king: thy thoughts upon thy bed arose [as to]
what must come to pas hereafter: and he that reveals mysteries has made
known to thee what must come to pass.
2.30 Moreover, this mystery has not been revealed to
me by reason of wisdom which is in me beyond all [others] living, but
for the sake of making known the interpretation to the king, that thou
mightest know the thoughts of thine heart.
2.31 Thou, O king, sawest, and behold an image: that
image was great, and the appearance of it excellent, standing before
thy face; and the form of it was terrible.
2.32 [It was] an image, the head of which was of fine
gold, its hands and breast and arms of silver, [its] belly and thighs
of brass,
2.33 its legs of iron, its feet, part of iron and part of earthenware.
2.34 Thou sawest until a stone was cut out of a
mountain without hands, and it smote the image upon its feet of iron
and earthenware, and utterly reduced them to powder.
2.35 Then once for all the earthenware, the iron, the
brass, the silver, the gold, were ground to powder, and became as chaff
from the summer threshingfloor; and the violence of the wind carried
them away, and no place was found for them: and the stone which had
smitten the image became a great mountain, and filled all the earth.
2.36 This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.
2.37 Thou, O king, art a king of kings, to whom the
God of heaven has given a powerful and strong and honourable kingdom,
2.38 in every place where the children of men dwell:
and he has given into thine hand the wild beasts of the field, and the
birds of the sky and the fish of the sea, and he has made thee lord of
all.
2.39 Thou art the head of gold. And after thee shall
arise another kingdom inferior to thee, an a third kingdom which is the
brass, which shall have dominion over all the earth;
2.40 and a fourth kingdom, which shall be strong as
iron: as iron beats to powder and subdues all things, so shall it beat
to powder and subdue.
2.41 And whereas thou sawest the feet and the toes,
part of earthenware and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divide; yet
there shall be in it of the strength of iron, as thou sawest the iron
mixed with earthenware.
2.42 And [whereas] the toes of the feet were part of
iron and part of earthenware, part of the kingdom shall be strong, and
[part] of it shall be broken.
2.43 Whereas thou sawest the iron mixed with
earthenware, they shall be mingled with the seed of men: but they shall
not cleave together, as the iron does not mix itself with earthenware.
2.44 And in the days of those kings the God of heaven
shall set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed: and his kingdom
shall not be left to another people, [but] it shall beat to pieces and
grind to powder all [other] kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
2.45 Whereas thou sawest that a stone was cut out of
a mountain without hands, and it beat to pieces the earthenware, the
iron, the brass, the silver, the gold; the great God has made known to
the king what must happen hereafter: and the dream is true, and the
interpretation thereof sure.
2.46 Then king Nabuchodonosor fell upon his face, and
worshipped Daniel, and gave orders to offer to him gifts and incense.
2.47 And the king answered and said to Daniel, Of a
truth your God is a God of gods, and Lord of kings, who reveals
mysteries; for thou has been able to reveal this mystery.
2.48 And the king promoted Daniel, and gave him great
and abundant gifts, and set him over the whole province of Babylon, and
[made him] chief satrap over all the wise men of Babylon.
2.49 And Daniel asked of the king, and he appointed
Sedrach, Misach, and Abdenago, over the affairs of the province of
Babylon: but Daniel was in the king's palace.
3.1
In [his] eighteenth year Nabuchodonosor the king made a golden image,
its height was sixty cubits, its breadth six cubits: and he set it up
in the plain of Deira, in the province of Babylon.
3.2 And he sent forth to gather the governors,
and the captains, and the heads of provinces, chiefs, and princes, and
those who were in authority, and all the rulers of districts, to come
to the dedication of he image.
3.3 So the heads of provinces, the governors,
the captains, the chiefs, the great princes, those who were in
authority, and all the rulers of districts, were gathered to the
dedication of the image which king Nabuchodonosor had set up; and they
stood before the image.
3.4 Then a herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, ye peoples, tribes, [and] languages,
3.5 at what hour ye shall hear the sound of the
trumpet, and pipe, and harp, and sackbut, and psaltery, and every kind
of music, ye shall fall down and worship the golden image which king
Nabuchodonosor has set up.
3.6 And whosoever shall not fall down and
worship, in the same hour he shall be cast into the burning fiery
furnace.
3.7 And it came to pass when the nations heard
the sound of the trumpet, and pipe, and harp, and sackbut, and
psaltery, and all kinds of music, all the nations, tribes, [and]
languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image which king
Nabuchodonosor had set up.
3.8 Then came near [certain] Chaldeans, and accused the Jews to the king, [saying],
3.9 O king, live for ever.
3.10 Thou, O king, has made a decree that every man
who shall hear the sound of the trumpet, and pipe, and harp, sackbut,
and psaltery, and all kinds of music,
3.11 and shall not fall down and worship the golden image, shall be cast into the burning fiery furnace.
3.12 There are [certain] Jews whom thou has appointed
over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Sedrach, Misach, [and]
Abdenago, who have not obeyed thy decree, O king: they serve not thy
gods, and worship not the golden image which thou hast set up.
3.13 Then Nabuchodonosor in wrath and anger commanded
to bring Sedrach, Misach, and Abdenago: and they were brought before
the king.
3.14 And Nabuchodonosor answered and said to them, Is
it true, Sedrach, Misach, [and] Abdenago, that ye serve not my gods,
and worship not the golden image which I have set up?
3.15 Now then if ye be ready, whensoever ye shall
hear the sound of the trumpet, and pipe, and harp, and sackbut, and
psaltery, and harmony, and every kind of music, to fall down and
worship the golden image which I have made; [well]: but if ye worship
not, in the same hour ye shall be cast into the burning fiery furnace;
and who is the God that shall deliver you out of my hand?
3.16 Then answered Sedrach, Misach [and] Abdenago and
said to king Nabuchodonosor, We have no need to answer thee concerning
this matter.
3.17 For our God whom we serve is in the heavens,
able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will rescue
us from thy hands, O king.
3.18 But if not, be it known to thee, O king, that we
[will] not serve thy gods, nor worship the image which thou hast set up.
3.19 Then Nabuchodonosor was filled with wrath, and
the form of his countenance was changed toward Sedrach, Misach, and
Abdenago: and he gave orders to heat the furnace seven times [more than
usual], until it should burn to the uttermost.
3.20 And he commanded mighty men to bind Sedrach,
Misach, and Abdenago, and to cast [them] into the burning fiery furnace.
3.21 Then those men were bound with their coats, and
caps, and hose, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery
furnace,
3.22 forasmuch as the king's word prevailed; and the furnace was made exceeding hot.
3.23 Then these three men, Sedrach, Misach, and
Abdenago, fell bound into the midst of the burning furnace, and walked
in the midst of the flame, singing praise to God, and blessing the Lord.
3.24 And Nabuchodonosor heard them singing praises;
and he wondered, and rose up in haste, and said to his nobles, Did we
not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? and they said to
the king, Yes, O king.
3.25 And the king said, But I see four men loose, and
walking in the midst of the fire, and there has no harm happened to
them; and the appearance of the fourth is like the Son of God.
3.26 Then Nabuchodonosor drew near to the door of the
burning fiery furnace, and said, Sedrach, Misach, [and] Abdenago, ye
servants of the most high God, proceed forth, and come hither. So
Sedrach, Misach, [and] Abdenago, come forth out of the midst of the
fire.
3.27 Then were assembled the satraps, and captains,
and heads of provinces, and the royal princes; and they saw the men,
[and perceived] that the fire had not had power against their bodies,
and the hair of their head was not burnt, and their coats were not
scorched, nor was the smell of fire upon them.
3.28 And king Nabuchodonosor answered and said,
Blessed be the God of Sedrach, Misach, [and] Abdenago, who has sent his
angel, and delivered his servants, because they trusted in him; and
they have changed the king's word, and delivered their bodies to be
burnt, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own
God.
3.29 Wherefore I publish a decree: Every people,
tribe, [or] language, that shall speak reproachfully against the God of
Sedrach, Misach, [and] Abdenago shall be destroyed, and their houses
shall be plundered: because there is no other God who shall be able to
deliver thus.
3.30 Then the king promoted Sedrach, Misach, [and]
Abdenago, in the province of Babylon, and advanced them, and gave them
authority to rule over all the Jews who were in his kingdom.
4.1
King Nabuchodonosor to all nations, tribes, and tongues, who dwell in
all the earth; Peace be multiplied to you.
4.2 It seemed good to me to declare to you the
signs and wonders which the most high God has wrought with me,
4.3 how great and mighty [they are]: his
kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his power to all generations.
4.4 I Nabuchodonosor was thriving in my house, and prospering.
4.5 I saw a vision, and it terrified me, and I
was troubled on my bed, and the visions of my head troubled me.
4.6 And I made a decree to bring in before me
all the wise men of Babylon, that they might make known to me the
interpretation of the dream.
4.7 So the enchanters, magicians, soothsayers,
[and] Chaldeans came in: and I told the dream before them; but they did
not make known to me the interpretation thereof;
4.8 until Daniel came, whose name is Baltasar,
according to the name of my God, who has within him the Holy Spirit of
God; to whom I said,
4.9 O Baltasar, chief of the enchanters, of
whom I know that the Holy Spirit of God is in thee, and no mystery is
too hard for thee, hear the vision of my dream which I had, and tell me
the interpretation of it.
4.10 I had a vision upon my bed; and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height was great.
4.11 The tree grew large and strong, and its height
reached to the sky, and its extent to the extremity of the whole earth:
4.12 its leaves were fair, and its fruit abundant,
and in it was meat for all; and under it the wild beasts of the field
took shelter, and the birds of the sky lodged in the branches of it,
and all flesh was fed of it.
4.13 I beheld in the night vision upon my bed, and,
behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven and cried
aloud, and thus he said,
4.14 Cut down the tree, and pluck off its branches,
and shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit: let the wild beasts be
removed from under it, and the birds from its branches.
4.15 Only leave the stump of its roots in the earth,
and [bind it] with an iron and brass band; and it shall lie in the
grass that is without and in the dew of heaven, and its portion [shall
be] with the wild beasts in the grass of the field.
4.16 His heart shall be changed from that of man, and
the heart of a wild beast shall be given to him; and seven times shall
pass over him.
4.17 The matter is by the decree of the watcher, and
the demand is a word of the holy ones; that the living may known that
the Lord is most high [over] the kingdom of men, and he will give it to
whomsoever he shall please, and will set up over it that which is set
at nought of men.
4.18 This is the vision which I king Nabuchodonosor
saw: and do thou, Baltasar, declare the interpretation, for none of the
wise men of my kingdom are able to shew me the interpretation of it:
but thou, Daniel, art able; for the Holy Spirit of God is in thee.
4.19 Then Daniel, whose name is Baltasar, was amazed
about one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. And Baltasar answered
and said, [My] lord, let the dream be to them that hate thee, and the
interpretation of it to thine enemies.
4.20 The tree which thou sawest, that grew large and
strong, whose height reached to the sky and its extent to all the earth;
4.21 and whose leaves were flourishing, and its fruit
abundant, (and it was meat for all; under it the wild beasts lodged,
and the birds of the sky took shelter in its branches:)
4.22 is thyself, O king; for thou art grown great and
powerful, and thy greatness has increased and reached to heaven, and
thy dominion to the ends of the earth.
4.23 And whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy
one coming down from heaven, and he said, Strip the tree, and destroy
it; only leave the stump of its roots in the ground, and [bind it] with
a band of iron and brass; and it shall lie in the grass that is
without, and in the dew of heaven, and its portion shall be with wild
beasts, until seven times have passed over it;
4.24 this is the interpretation of it, O king, and it
is a decree of the Most High, which has come upon my lord the king.
4.25 And they shall drive thee forth from men, and
thy dwelling shall be with wild beasts, and they shall feed thee with
grass as an ox, and thou shall have thy lodging under the dew of
heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou known that the
Most High is Lord of the kingdom of men, and will give it to whom he
shall please.
4.26 And whereas they said, Leave the stumps of the
roots of the tree; thy kingdom abides [sure] to thee from the time that
thou shalt know the power of the heavens.
4.27 Therefore, O king, let my counsel please thee,
and atone for thy sins by alms, and [thine] iniquities by compassion on
the poor: it may be God will be long-suffering to thy trespasses.
4.28 All these things came upon king Nabuchodonosor.
4.29 After a twelvemonth, as he walked in his palace in Babylon,
4.30 the king answered and said, Is not this great
Babylon, which I have built for a royal residence, by the might of my
power, for the honour of my glory?
4.31 While the word was yet in the king's mouth,
there came a voice from heaven, [saying], To thee, king Nabuchodonosor,
they say, The kingdom has departed from thee.
4.32 And they [shall] drive thee from men, and thy
dwelling shall be with the wild beasts of the field, and they shall
feed thee with grass as an ox: and seven times shall pass over thee,
until thou know that the Most High is Lord of the kingdom of men, and
he will give it to whomsoever he shall please.
4.33 In the same hour the word was fulfilled upon
Nabuchodonosor: and he was driven forth from men, and he ate grass as
an ox, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven, until his hairs
were grown like lions' [hairs], and his nails as birds' [claws].
4.34 And at the end of the time I Nabuchodonosor
lifted up mine eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I
blessed the Most High, and praised him that lives for ever, and gave
[him] glory; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his
kingdom [lasts] to all generations:
4.35 and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed
as nothing: and he does according to his will in the army of heaven,
and among the inhabitants of the earth: and there is none who shall
withstand his power, and say to him, What has thou done?
4.36 At the same time my reason returned to me, and I
came to the honour of my kingdom; and my [natural] form returned to me,
and my princes, and my nobles, sought me, and I was established in my
kingdom, and more abundant majesty was added to me.
4.37 Now therefore I Nabuchodonosor praise and
greatly exalt and glorify the King of heaven; for all his works are
true, and his paths are judgment: and all that walk in pride he is able
to abase.
5.1
Baltasar the king made a great supper for his thousand nobles, and
[there was] wine before the thousand.
5.2 And Baltasar drinking gave orders as he
tasted the wine that they should bring the gold and silver vessels,
which Nabuchodonosor his father had brought forth fro the temple in
Jerusalem; that the king, and his nobles, and his mistresses, and his
concubines, should drink out of them.
5.3 So the gold and silver vessels were brought
which [Nabuchodonosor] had taken out of the temple of God in Jerusalem;
and the king, and his nobles, and his mistresses, and his concubines,
drank out of them.
5.4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of
gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of iron, and of wood, and of
stone.
5.5 In the same hour came forth fingers of a
man's hand, and wrote in front of the lamp on the plaster of the wall
of the king's house: and the king saw the knuckles of the hand that
wrote.
5.6 Then the king's countenance changed, and
his thoughts troubled him, and the joints of his loins were loosed, and
his knees smote one another.
5.7 And the king cried aloud to bring in the
magicians, Chaldeans, [and] soothsayers; and he said to the wise men of
Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and make known to me the
interpretation, shall be clothed with scarlet, and [there shall be] a
golden chain upon his neck, and he shall be the third ruler in my
kingdom.
5.8 Then came in all the king's wise men: but
they could not read the writing, nor make known the interpretation to
the king.
5.9 And king Baltasar was troubled, and his
countenance changed upon him, and his nobles were troubled with him.
5.10 Then the queen came into the banquet house, and
said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, and let
not thy countenance be changed.
5.11 There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the
Spirit of God; and in the days of thy father watchfulness and
understanding were found in him; and king Nabuchodonosor thy father
made him chief of the enchanters, magicians, Chaldeans, [and]
soothsayers.
5.12 For [there is] an excellent spirit in him, and
sense and understanding in him, interpreting dreams [as he does], and
answering hard [questions], and solving difficulties: [it is] Daniel,
and the king gave him the name of Baltasar: now then let him be called,
and he shall tell thee the interpretation of the writing.
5.13 Then Daniel was brought in before the king: and
the king said to Daniel, Art thou Daniel, of the children of the
captivity of Judea, which the king my father brought?
5.14 I have heard concerning thee, that the Spirit of
God is in thee, and [that] watchfulness and understanding and excellent
wisdom have been found in thee.
5.15 And now, the wise men, magicians, [and]
soothsayers, have come in before me, to read the writing, and make
known to me the interpretation: but they could not tell it me.
5.16 And I have heard concerning thee, that thou art
able to make interpretations: now then if thou shalt be able to read
the writing, and to make known to me the interpretation of it, thou
shalt be clothed with purple, and there shall be a golden chain upon
thy neck, and thou shalt be third ruler in my kingdom.
5.17 And Daniel said, before the king, Let thy gifts
be to thyself, and give the present of thine house to another; but I
will read the writing, and will make known to thee the interpretation
of it.
5.18 O king, the most high God gave to thy father
Nabuchodonosor a kingdom, and majesty, and honour, and glory:
5.19 and by reason of the majesty which he gave to
him, all nations, tribes, [and] languages trembled and feared before
him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he smote; and whom he
would he exalted; and whom he would he abased.
5.20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit
was emboldened to act proudly, he was deposed from his royal throne,
and [his] honour was taken from him.
5.21 And he was driven forth from men; and his heart
was given him after the nature of wild beasts, and his dwelling was
with the wild asses; and they fed him with grass as an ox, and his body
was bathed with the dew of heaven; until he knew that the most high God
is Lord of the kingdom of men, and will give it to whomsoever he shall
please.
5.22 And thou accordingly, his son, O Baltasar, has
not humbled thine heart before God: knowest thou not all this?
5.23 And thou ha been exalted against the Lord God of
heaven; and they have brought before thee the vessels of his house, and
thou, and thy nobles, and thy mistresses, and thy concubines, have
drunk wine out of them; and thou has praised the gods of gold, and
silver, and brass, and iron, and wood, and stone, which see not, and
which hear not, and know not: and the God in whose hand are thy breath,
and all thy ways has thou not glorified.
5.24 Therefore from his presence has been sent forth the knuckle of a hand; and he has ordered the writing.
5.25 And this is the ordered writing, Mane, Thekel, Phares.
5.26 This is the interpretation of the sentence: Mane; God has measured thy kingdom, and finished it.
5.27 Thekel; it has been weighed in the balance, and found wanting.
5.28 Phares; thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
5.29 Then Baltasar commanded, and they clothed Daniel
with scarlet, and put the golden chain about his neck, and proclaimed
concerning him that he was the third ruler in the kingdom.
5.30 In the same night was Baltasar the Chaldean king slain.
5.31 And Darius the Mede succeeded to the kingdom, being sixty-two years [old].
6.1
And it pleased Darius, and he set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty
satraps, to be in all his kingdom;
6.2 and over them three governors, of whom one
was, Daniel; for the satraps to give account to them, that the king
should not be troubled.
6.3 And Daniel was over them, for [there was]
an excellent spirit in him; and the king set him over all his kingdom.
6.4 Then the governors and satraps sought to
find occasion against Daniel; but they found against him no occasion,
nor trespass, nor error, because he was faithful.
6.5 And the governors said, We shall not find
occasion against Daniel, except in the ordinances of his God.
6.6 Then the governors and satraps stood by the king, and said to him, King Darius, live for ever.
6.7 All who preside over thy kingdom, captains
and satraps, chiefs and local governors, have taken counsel together,
to establish by a royal statute and to confirm a decree, that whosoever
shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, save of thee, O
king, shall be cast into the den of lions.
6.8 Now then, O king, establish the decree, and
publish a writ, that the decree of the Persians and Medes be not
changed.
6.9 Then king Darius commanded the decree to be written.
6.10 And when Daniel knew that the decree was
ordered, he went into his house; and his windows were opened in his
chambers toward Jerusalem, and three times in the day he knelt upon his
knees, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he used to do
before.
6.11 Then these men watched, and found Daniel praying and supplicating to his God.
6.12 And they came and said to the king, O king, has
thou not made a decree, that whatsoever man shall ask a petition of any
god or man for thirty days, but of thee, O king, shall be cast into the
den of lions? And the king said, The word is true, and the decree of
the Medes and Persians shall not pass.
6.13 Then they answered and said before the king,
Daniel of the children of the captivity of Judea, has not submitted to
thy decree; and three times in the day he makes his requests of his God.
6.14 Then the king, when he heard the saying, was
much grieved for Daniel and he greatly exerted himself for Daniel to
deliver him: and he exerted himself till evening to deliver him.
6.15 Then those men said to the king, Know, O king,
that the law of the Medes and Persians is that we must not change any
decree of statue which the king shall make.
6.16 Then the king commanded, and they brought
Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. But the king said to
Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee.
6.17 And they brought a stone, and put it on the
mouth of the den; and the king sealed [it] with his ring, and with the
ring of his nobles; that the case might not be altered with regard to
Daniel.
6.18 And the king departed to his house, and lay down
fasting, and they brought him no food; and his sleep departed from him.
But God shut the mouths of the lions, and they not molest Daniel.
6.19 Then the king arose very early in the morning, and came in hast to the den of lions.
6.20 And when he drew near to the den, he cried with
a loud voice, Daniel, servant of the living God, has thy God, whom thou
servest continually, been able to deliver thee from the lion's mouth?
6.21 And Daniel said to the king, O king, live for ever.
6.22 My God has sent his angel, and stopped the
lions' mouths, and they have not hurt me: for uprightness was found in
me before him; and moreover before thee, O king, I have committed no
trespass.
6.23 Then the king was very glad for him, and he
commanded to bring Daniel out of the den. So Daniel was brought out of
the den, and there was found no hurt upon him, because he believed in
his God.
6.24 And the king commanded, and they brought the men
that had accused Daniel, and they were cast into the den of lions,
they, and their children, and their wives: and they reached not the
bottom of the den before the lions had the mastery of them, and utterly
broke to pieces all their bones.
6.25 Then king Darius wrote to all nations, tribes,
[and] languages, who dwell in all the earth, [saying], Peace be
multiplied to you.
6.26 This decree has been set forth by me in every
dominion of my kingdom, that [men] tremble and fear before the God of
Daniel: for he is the living and eternal God, and his kingdom shall not
be destroyed, and his dominion is for ever.
6.27 He helps and delivers, and works signs and
wonders in the heaven and on the earth, who has rescued Daniel from the
power of the lions.
6.28 And Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
7.1
In the first year of Baltasar, king of the Chaldeans Daniel had a
dream, and visions of his head upon his bed: and he wrote his dream.
7.2 I Daniel beheld, and, lo, the four winds of heaven blew violently upon the great sea.
7.3 And there came up four great beasts out of the sea, differing from one another.
7.4 The first [was] as a lioness, and her wings
as an eagle's; I beheld until her wings were plucked, ands she was
lifted off from the earth, and she stood on human feet, and a man's
heart was given to her.
7.5 And, behold, a second beast like a bear,
and it supported itself on one side, and there were three ribs in its
mouth, between its teeth: and thus they said to it, Arise, devour much
flesh.
7.6 After this one I looked, and behold another
wild beast as a leopard, and it had four wings of a bird upon it: and
the wild beast had four heads, and power was given to it.
7.7 After this one I looked, and behold a
fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and exceedingly strong, and its
teeth were of iron; devouring and crushing to atoms, and it trampled
the remainder with its feet: and it was altogether different from the
beasts that were before it; and it [had] ten hours.
7.8 I noticed his horns, and behold, another
little horn came up in the midst of them, and before it three of the
former horns were rooted out: and, behold, [there were] eyes as the
eyes of a man in this horn, and a mouth speaking great things.
7.9 I beheld until the thrones were set, and
the Ancient of days sat; and his raiment was white as snow, and the
hair of his head, as pure wool: his throne was a flame of fire, [and]
his wheels burning fire.
7.10 A stream of fire rushed forth before him:
thousand thousands ministered to him, and ten thousands of myriads,
attended upon him: the judgment sat, and the books were opened.
7.11 I beheld then because of the voice of the great
words which that horn spoke, until the wild beast was slain and
destroyed, and his body given to be burnt with fire.
7.12 And the dominion of the rest of the wild beasts
was taken away; but a prolonging of life was given them for certain
times.
7.13 I beheld in the night vision, and, lo, [one]
coming with the clouds of heaven as the Son of man, and he came on to
the Ancient of days, and was brought near to him.
7.14 And to him was given the dominion, and the
honour, and the kingdom; and all nations, tribes, and languages, shall
serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not
pass away, and his kingdom shall not be destroyed.
7.15 [As for] me Daniel, my spirit in my body trembled, and the visions of my head troubled me.
7.16 And I drew near to one of them that stood by,
and I sought to learn of him the truth of all these things: and he told
me the truth, and made known to me the interpretation of the things.
7.17 These four beasts are four kingdoms [that] shall rise up on the earth:
7.18 which shall be taken away; and the saints of the
Most High shall take the kingdom, and possess it for ever and ever.
7.19 Then I enquired carefully concerning the fourth
beast; for it differed from every [other] beast, exceeding dreadful:
its teeth were of iron, and its claws of brass, devouring, and utterly
breaking to pieces, and it trampled the remainder with its feet:
7.20 and concerning it ten horns that were in its
head, and the other that came up, and rooted up [some] of the former,
which had eyes, and a mouth speaking great things, and his look was
bolder than the rest.
7.21 I beheld, and that horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;
7.22 until the Ancient of days came, and he gave
judgment to the saints of the Most High; and the time came on, and the
saints possessed the kingdom.
7.23 And he said, The fourth beast shall be the
fourth kingdom on the earth, which shall excel all [other] kingdoms,
and shall devour the whole earth, and trample and destroy it.
7.24 And his ten horns are ten kings [that] shall
arise: and after them shall arise another, who shall exceed all the
former ones in wickedness and he shall subdue three kings.
7.25 And he shall speak words against the Most High,
and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and shall think to
change times and law: and [power] shall be given into his hand for a
time and times and half a time.
7.26 And the judgment has sat, and they shall remove [his] dominion to abolish it, and to destroy it utterly.
7.27 And the kingdom and the power and te greatness
of the kings that are under the whole heaven were given to the saints
of the Most High; and his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all
powers shall serve and obey him.
7.28 Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me
Daniel, my thoughts greatly troubled me, and my countenance was
changed: but I kept the matter in my heart.
8.1
In the third year of the reign of king Baltasar a vision appeared to
me, [even] to me Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first.
8.2 And I was in Susa the palace, which is in the land of Aelam, and I was on the [bank of] Ubal.
8.3 And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and,
behold, a ram standing in front of the Ubal; and he had high horns; and
one was higher than the other, and the high one came up last.
8.4 And I saw the ram butting westward, and
northward, and southward; and no beast could stand before him, and
there was none that could deliver out of his hand; and he did according
to his will, and became great.
8.5 And I was considering, and, behold, a
he-goat came from the south-west on the face of the whole earth, and
touched not the earth: and the goat [had] a horn between his eyes.
8.6 And he came to the ram that had the horns,
which I had seen standing in front of the Ubal, and he ran at him with
the violence of his strength.
8.7 And I saw him coming up close to the ram,
and he was furiously enraged against him, and he smote the ram, and
broke both his horns: and there was no strength in the ram to stand
before him, but he cast him on the ground, and trampled on him; and
there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.
8.8 And the he-goat grew exceedingly great: and
when he was strong, his great horn was broken; and four other [horns]
rose up in its place toward the four winds of heaven.
8.9 And out of one of them came forth one
strong horn, and it grew very great toward the south, and toward the
host:
8.10 and it magnified itself to the host of heaven;
and there fell to the earth [some] of the host of heaven and of the
stars, and they trampled on them.
8.11 And [this shall be] until the chief captain
shall have delivered the captivity: and by reason of him the sacrifice
was disturbed, and he prospered; and the holy place shall be made
desolate.
8.12 And a sin-offering was given for the sacrifice,
and righteousness was cast down to the ground; and it practised, and
prospered.
8.13 And I heard one saint speaking, and a saint said
to a certain one speaking, How long shall the vision continue, [even]
the removal of the sacrifice, and the bringing in of the sin of
desolation; and [how long] shall the sanctuary and host be trampled?
8.14 And he said to him, Evening and morning [there
shall be] two thousand and four hundred days; and [then] the sanctuary
shall be cleansed.
8.15 And it came to pass, as I, [even] I Daniel, saw
the vision, and sought to understand it, that, behold, there stood
before me as the appearance of a man.
8.16 And I heard the voice of a man between [the
banks of] the Ubal; and he called, and said, Gabriel, cause that man to
understand the vision.
8.17 And he came and stood near where I stood: and
when he came, I was struck with awe, and fell upon my face: but he said
to me, Understand, son of man: for yet the vision is for an appointed
time.
8.18 And while he spoke with me, I fell upon my face to the earth: and he touched me, and set me on my feet.
8.19 And he said, Behold, I make thee know the things
that shall come to pass at the end of the wrath: for the vision [is]
yet for an appointed time.
8.20 The ram which thou sawest that had the horns is the king of the Medes and Persians.
8.21 The he-goat is the King of the Greeks: and the
great horn which was between his eyes, he is the first king.
8.22 And [as for] the one that was broken, in whose
place there stood up four horns, four kings shall arise out of his
nation, but not in their [own] strength.
8.23 And at the latter time of their kingdom, when
their sins are coming to the full, there shall arise a king bold in
countenance, and understanding riddles.
8.24 And his power [shall be] great, and he shall
destroy wonderfully, and prosper, and practise, and shall destroy
mighty men, and the holy people.
8.25 And the yoke of his chain shall prosper: [there
is] craft in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and
by craft shall destroy many, and he shall stand up for the destruction
of many, and shall crush them as eggs in his hand.
8.26 And the vision of the evening and morning that
was mentioned is true: and do thou seal the vision; for [it is] for
many days.
8.27 And I Daniel fell asleep, and was sick: then I
arose, and did the king's business; and I wondered at the vision, and
there was none that understood [it].
9.1
In the first year of Darius the son of Assuerus, of the seed of the
Medes, who reigned over the kingdom of the Chaldeans,
9.2 I Daniel understood by books the number of
the years which was the word of the Lord to the prophet Jeremias,
[even] seventy years for the accomplishment of the desolation of
Jerusalem.
9.3 And I set my face toward the Lord God, to
seek [him] diligently by prayer and supplications, with fastings and
sackcloth.
9.4 And I prayed to the Lord my God, and
confessed, and said, O Lord, the great and wonderful God, keeping thy
covenant and thy mercy to them that love thee, and to them that keep
thy commandments; we have sinned,
9.5 we have done iniquity, we have
transgressed, and we have departed and turned aside from thy
commandments and from thy judgments:
9.6 and we have not hearkened to thy servants
the prophets, who spoke in thy name to our kings, and our princes, and
our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
9.7 To thee, O Lord, [belongs] righteousness,
an to us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Juda, and to
the dwellers in Jerusalem, and to all Israel, to them that are near,
and to them that are far off in all the earth, wherever thou has
scattered them, for the sin which they committed.
9.8 In thee, O Lord, is our righteousness, and
to us [belongs] confusion of faced, and to our kings, and to our
princes, and to our fathers, forasmuch as we have sinned.
9.9 To thee, the Lord our God, [belong]
compassions and forgivenesses, whereas we have departed [from thee];
9.10 neither have we hearkened to the voice of the
Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by the hands
of his servants the prophets.
9.11 Moreover all Israel have transgressed thy law,
and have refused to hearken to thy voice; so the curse has come upon
us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of
God, because we have sinned against him.
9.12 And he has confirmed his words, which he spoke
against us, and against our judges who judged us, [by] bringing upon us
great evils, such as have not happened under the whole heaven,
according to what has happened in Jerusalem.
9.13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all these
evils have come upon us: yet we have not besought the Lord our God,
that we might turn away from our iniquities, and have understanding in
all thy truth.
9.14 The Lord also has watched, and brought the evils
upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous in all his work which he has
executed, but we have not hearkened to his voice.
9.15 And now, O Lord our God, who broughtest thy
people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and madest to
thyself a name, as [at] this day; we have sinned, we have transgressed.
9.16 O Lord, thy mercy is over all: let, I pray thee,
thy wrath turn away, and thine anger from thy city Jerusalem, [even]
thy holy mountain: for we have sinned, and because of our iniquities,
and those of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a
reproach among all that are round about us.
9.17 And now, O lord our God, hearken to the prayer
of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine on
thy desolate sanctuary, for thine [own] sake, O Lord.
9.18 Incline thine ear, O my God, and hear; open
thine eyes and behold our desolation, and that of thy city on which thy
name is called: for we do not bring our pitiful case before thee on
[the ground of] our righteousness, but on [he ground of] thy manifold
compassions, O Lord.
9.19 Hearken, O Lord; be propitious, O Lord; attend,
O Lord; delay not, O my God, for thine own sake: for thy name is called
upon thy city and upon thy people.
9.20 And while I was yet speaking, and praying, and
confessing my sins and the sins of my people Israel, and bringing my
pitiful case before the Lord my God concerning the holy mountain;
9.21 yea, while I was yet speaking in prayer, behold
the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, [came]
flying, and he touched me about the hour of the evening sacrifice.
9.22 And he instructed me, and spoke with me, and
said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to impart to thee understanding.
9.23 At the beginning of thy supplication the word
came forth, and I am come to tell thee; for thou art a man much
beloved: therefore consider the matter, understand the vision.
9.24 Seventy weeks have been determined upon thy
people, and upon the holy city, for sin to be ended, and to seal up
transgressions, and to blot out the iniquities, and to make atonement
for iniquities, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal
the vision and the prophet, and to anoint the Most Holy.
9.25 And thou shalt know and understand, that from
the going forth of the command for the answer and for the building of
Jerusalem until Christ the prince [there shall be] seven weeks, and
sixty-two weeks; and then [the time] shall return, and the street shall
be built, and the wall, and the times shall be exhausted.
9.26 And after the sixty-two weeks, the anointed one
shall be destroyed, and there is no judgment in him: and he shall
destroy the city and the sanctuary with the prince that is coming: they
shall be cut off with a flood, and to the end of the war which is
rapidly completed he shall appoint [the city] to desolations.
9.27 And one week shall establish the covenant with
many: and in the midst of the week my sacrifice and drink-offering
shall be taken away: and on the temple [shall be] the abomination of
desolations; and a the end of time an end shall be put to the
desolation.
10.1
In the third year of Cyrus king of the Persians a thing was revealed to
Daniel, whose name was called Baltasar; and the thing was true, and
great power and understanding in the vision was given to him.
10.2 In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.
10.3 I ate no pleasant bread, and no flesh or wine
entered into my mouth, neither did I anoint myself with oil, until
three whole weeks were accomplished.
10.4 On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, I was near the great river, which is Tigris Eddekel.
10.5 And I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and
behold a man clothed in linen, and his loins were girt with gold of
Ophaz:
10.6 and his body was as Tharsis, and his face was a
the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his
arms and his legs as the appearance of shining brass, and the voice of
his words as the voice of a multitude.
10.7 And I Daniel only saw the vision: and the men
that were with me saw not the vision; but a great amazement fell upon
them, and they fled in fear.
10.8 So I was left alone, and saw this great vision,
and there was no strength left in me, and my glory was turned into
corruption, and I retained no strength.
10.9 Yet I heard the voice of his words: and when I
heard him I was pricked [in the heart], and [I fell with] my face to
the earth.
10.10 And, behold, a hand touched me, and it raised me on my knees.
10.11 And he said to me, O Daniel, man greatly beloved,
understand the words which I speak to thee, and stand upright: for I am
now sent to thee. And when he had spoken to me this word, I stood
trembling.
10.12 And he said to me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the
first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to afflict
thyself before the Lord thy God, they words were heard, and I am come
because of thy words.
10.13 But the prince of the kingdom of the Persians
withstood me twenty-one days: and behold, Michael, one of the princes,
came to help me; and I left him there with the chief of the kingdom of
the Persians:
10.14 and I have come to inform thee of all that shall
befall thy people in the last days: for the vision is yet for [many]
days.
10.15 And when he had spoken with me according to these
words, I turned my face to the ground, and was pricked [in the heart].
10.16 And, behold, as it were the likeness of a son of man
touched my lips; and I opened my mouth, and spoke, and said to him that
stood before me, O [my] lord, at the sight of thee my bowels were
turned within me, and I had no strength.
10.17 And how shall thy servant be able, O [my] lord, to
speak with this my lord? and as for me, from henceforth strength will
not remain in me, and there is no breath left in me.
10.18 And there touched me again as it were the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me,
10.19 and said to me, Fear not, man greatly beloved: peace
be to thee, quit thyself like a man, and be strong. And when he had
spoken with me, I received strength, and said, Let my lord speak; for
thou hast strengthened me.
10.20 And he said, Knowest thou, wherefore I am come to
thee? and now I will return to fight with the prince of the Persians:
and I was going in, and the prince of the Greeks came.
10.21 But I will tell thee that which is ordained in the
scripture of truth: and there is no one that holds with me in these
matters but Michael your prince.
11.1 And I in the first year of Cyrus stood to strengthen and confirm [him].
11.2 And now I will tell thee the truth. Behold,
there shall yet rise up three kings in Persia: and the fourth shall be
very far richer than all: and after that he is master of his wealth, he
shall rise up against all the kingdoms of the Greeks.
11.3 An there shall rise up a mighty king, and he
shall be lord of a great empire, and shall do according to his will.
11.4 And when his kingdom shall stand up, it shall be
broken, and shall be divided to the four winds of heaven; but not to
his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled over: for
his kingdom shall be plucked up, and [given] to others beside these.
11.5 And the king of the south shall be strong; and
one of their princes shall prevail against him, and shall obtain a
great dominion.
11.6 And after his years they shall associate; and
the daughter of the king of the south shall come to the king of the
north, to make agreements with him: but she shall not retain power of
arm; neither shall his seed stand: and she shall be delivered up, and
they that brought her, and the maiden, and he that strengthened her in
these times.
11.7 [But] out of the flower of her root there shall
arise [one] [on] his place, and shall come against the host, and shall
enter into the strongholds of the king of the north, and shall fight
against them, and prevail.
11.8 Yea, he shall carry with a body of captives into
Egypt their gods with their molten [images, and] all their precious
vessels of silver and gold; and he shall last longer than the king of
the north.
11.9 And he shall enter into the kingdom of the king of the south, and shall return to his own land.
11.10 And his sons shall gather a multitude among many: and
one shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through, and he shall
rest, and collect his strength.
11.11 And the king of the south shall be greatly enraged,
and shall come forth, and shall war with the king of the north: and he
shall raise a great multitude; but the multitude shall be delivered
into his hand.
11.12 And he shall take the multitude, and his heart shall
be exalted; and he shall cast down many thousands; but he shall not
prevail.
11.13 For the king of the north shall return, and bring a
multitude greater than the former, and at the end of the times of years
an invading army shall come with a great force, and with much substance.
11.14 And in those times many shall rise up against the
king of the south; and the children of the spoilers of thy people shall
exalt themselves to establish the vision; and they shall fail.
11.15 And the king of the north shall come in, and cast up
a mound, and take strong cities: and the arms of the king of the south
shall withstand, and his chosen ones shall rise up, but there shall be
no strength to stand.
11.16 And he that comes in against him shall do according
to his will, and there is no one to stand before him: and he shall
stand in the land of beauty, and it shall be consumed by his hand.
11.17 And he shall set his face to come in with the force
of his whole kingdom, and shall cause everything to prosper with him:
and he shall give him the daughter of women to corrupt her: but she
shall not continue, neither be on his side.
11.18 And he shall turn his face to the islands, and shall
take many, and cause princes to cease from their reproach: nevertheless
his own reproach shall return to him.
11.19 Then he shall turn back his face to the strength of
his own land: but he shall become weak, and fall, and not be found.
11.20 And there shall arise out of his root one that shall
cause a plant of the kingdom to pass over his place, earning kingly
glory: and yet in those days shall he be broken, yet not openly, nor in
war.
11.21 [One] shall stand on his place, [who] has been set a
nought, and they have not put upon him the honour of the kingdom: but
he shall come in prosperously, and obtain the kingdom by deceitful ways.
11.22 And the arms of him that overflows shall be washed
away as with a flood from before him, and shall be broken, and [so
shall be] the head of the covenant.
11.23 And because of the leagues made with him he shall
work deceit: and he shall come up, and overpower them with a small
nation.
11.24 And he shall enter with prosperity, and [that] into
fertile districts; and he shall do what his fathers and his fathers'
fathers have not done; he shall scatter among them plunder, and spoils,
and wealth; and he shall devise plans against Egypt, even for a time.
11.25 And his strength and his heart shall be stirred up
against the king of the south with a great force; and the king of the
south shall engage in war with a great and very strong force; but [his
forces] shall not stand, for they shall devise plans against him:
11.26 and they shall eat his provisions, and shall crush
him, and he shall carry away armies as with a flood, and many shall
fall down slain.
11.27 And [as for] both the kings, their hearts [are set]
upon mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not
prosper; for yet the end is for a [fixed] time.
11.28 And he shall return to his land with much substance;
and his heart [shall be] against the holy covenant; and he shall
perform [great deeds], and return to his own land.
11.29 At the [set] time he shall return, and shall come
into the south, but the last [expedition] shall [not] be as the first.
11.30 For the Citians issuing forth shall come against him,
and he shall be brought low, and shall return, and shall be incensed
against the holy covenant: and he shall do [thus], and shall return,
and have intelligence with them that have forsaken the holy covenant.
11.31 And seeds shall spring up out of him, and they shall
profane the sanctuary of strength, and they shall remove the perpetual
[sacrifice], and make the abomination desolate.
11.32 And the transgressors shall bring about a covenant by
deceitful ways: but a people knowing their God shall prevail, and do
[valiantly].
11.33 And the intelligent of the people shall understand
much: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, and by captivity,
and by spoil of [many] days.
11.34 And when they are weak they shall be helped with a
little help: but many shall attach themselves to them with treachery.
11.35 And [some] of them that understand shall fall, to try
them as with fire, and to test [them], and that they may be manifested
at the time of the end, for the matter [is] yet for a [set] time.
11.36 And he shall do according to his will, and the king
shall exalt and magnify himself against every god, and shall speak
great swelling words, and shall prosper until the indignation shall be
accomplished: for it is coming to an end.
11.37 And he shall not regard any gods of his fathers, nor
the desire of women, neither shall h regard any deity: for he shall
magnify himself above all.
11.38 And he shall honour the god of forces on his place:
and a god whom his fathers knew not he shall honour with gold, and
silver, and precious stones, and desirable things.
11.39 And he shall do [thus] in the strong places of refuge
with a strange god, and shall increase his glory: and he shall subject
many to them, and shall distribute the land in gifts.
11.40 And at the end of the time he shall conflict with the
king of the south: and the king of the north shall come against him
with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and they shall
enter into the land: and he shall break in pieces, and pass on:
11.41 and he shall enter into the land of beauty, and many
shall fail: but these shall escape out of his hand, Edom, and Moab, and
the chief of the children of Ammon.
11.42 And he shall stretch forth [his] hand over the land; and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
11.43 And he shall have the mastery over the secret
[treasures] of gold and silver, and over all the desirable
[possessions] of Egypt, and of the Libyans and Ethiopians in their
strongholds.
11.44 But rumors and anxieties out of the east and from the
north shall trouble him; and he shall come with great wrath to destroy
many.
11.45 And he shall pitch the tabernacle of his palace
between the seas in the holy mountain of beauty: [but] he shall come to
his portion, and there is none to deliver him.
12.1
And at that time Michael the great prince shall stand up, that stands
over the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of
tribulation, such tribulation as has not been from the time that there
was a nation on the earth until that time: at that time thy people
shall be delivered, [even] every one that is written in the book.
12.2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the
earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to reproach and
everlasting shame.
12.3 And the wise shall shine as the brightness of
the firmament, and [some] of the many righteous as the stars for ever
and ever.
12.4 And thou, Daniel, close the words, and seal the
book to the time of the end; until many are taught, and knowledge is
increased.
12.5 And I Daniel saw, and, behold, two others stood,
on one side of the bank of the river, and the other on the other side
of the bank of the river.
12.6 And [one] said to the man clothed in linen, who
was over the water of the river, When [will be] the end of the wonders
which thou has mentioned?
12.7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was
over the water of the river, and he lifted up his right hand and his
left hand to heaven, and sware by him that lives for ever, that [it
should be] for a time of times and half a time: when the dispersion is
ended they shall know all these things.
12.8 And I heard, but I understood not: and I said, O Lord, what [will be] the end of these things?
12.9 And he said, Go, Daniel: for the words are closed and sealed up to the time of the end.
12.10 Many must be tested, and thoroughly whitened, and
tried with fire, and sanctified; but the transgressors shall
transgress: and none of the transgressors shall understand; but the
wise shall understand.
12.11 And from the time of the removal of the perpetual
sacrifice, when the abomination of desolation shall be set up, [there
shall be] a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
12.12 Blessed is he that waits, and comes to the thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.
12.13 But go thou, and rest; for [there are] yet days and
seasons to the fulfillment of the end; and thou shalt stand in thy lot
at the end of the days.