and time.

the wild beasts was taken away; but a prolonging of life was given them + Lit. time for certain times. 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. 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.

19

24

devour the whole earth, and trample
and 'destroy it. And his Gr. cut it in
ten horns are ten kings that pieces.
shall arise: and after them shall arise
another, who shall exceed all the former
ones in wickedness, and +Gr. evil.
he shall subdue three kings. 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. 26 And the
judgment has sat, and they Alex. shall
shall remove his dominion
to abolish it, and to destroy it utterly.
27 And the kingdom and the power and
the 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. 28 Hitherto is the end of the
matter. As for me Daniel, my thoughts
greatly troubled me, and my counte-
nance was changed: but I Gr. lit. word.
kept the 'matter in my heart.

sit.

15 As for me Daniel, my spirit in my body trembled, and the visions of my head troubled me. 16 And I drew near to one of them that stood by, and I sought + Or, certainty. 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. 17 These four beasts are four kingdoms that shall rise up on the earth: 18 which shall be taken away; and the saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom, and possess it for ever and ever. Then I inquired carefully concerning the 8. In the third year of the reign of fourth beast; for it differed from every king Baltasar a vision appeared to me, other beast, exceeding dreadful, its even to me Daniel, after that which teeth were of iron, and its claws of appeared to me at the first. 2 And brass, devouring, and utterly breaking I was in Susa the palace, which is in to pieces, and it trampled the remainder the land of Elam, and I was on the with its feet: 20 and concerning its ten bank of Ubal. And I lifted up mine horns that were in its head, and the eyes, and saw, and, behold, a ram other that came up, and rooted up standing in front of the Gr. one ram. + Aler. three some of the former, which Ubal; and he had high horns; and of the former, had eyes, and a mouth one was higher than the other, and the speaking great things, and high one came up last. + More lit. at +Gr. greater. his look was 'bolder than And I saw the ram butting the last place. the rest. 21 I beheld, and that horn westward, and northward, and southmade war with the saints, and pre-ward; and no beast could stand before vailed against them; 22 until the Ancient him, and there was none that could of days came, and he gave judgment deliver out of his hand; Gr. deliverto the saints of the Most High; and and he did according to his ing. the time came on, and the saints pos- will, and became great. 5 And I was sessed the kingdom. 23 And he said, considering, and, behold, a 'he-goat The fourth beast shall be the fourth came from the south-west +Gr. he-goat kingdom on the carth, which shall on the face of the whole of the goats. excel all other kingdoms, and shall earth, and touched not the earth: and

even that

&c.

3

+

ble horn.

ing.

the goat had a thorn between his
+Alex. a nota- eyes. 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
+ Or, impulse, violence of his strength.
or, impetus. 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;
+ Gr. deliver- and there was none that
could deliver the ram out
of his hand. And the he-goat grew
exceedingly great: and when he was
strong, his great horn was broken; and
+ Gr. under four other horns rose up in
(2 Sam.) 2. 23. its place toward the four
winds of heaven. And out of one of
them came forth one strong horn, and
it grew very great toward the south,
and toward the host: 10 and it mag-
nified itself to the host of
great. heaven; and there fell to
the earth some of the host of heaven
and of the stars, and they trampled on
them. 11 And this shall be until the
chief captain shall have delivered the
captivity: and by reason of him the
'sacri-sacrifice was disturbed,
fice, probably and he prospered; and the
sanctuary shall be made
sin-offering was

him, see 2 Ki.

+ Or, grew

9

+

me and the

+ Gr. an end

of time.

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. 16 And I heard the voice of a man between the banks of +Or, between the Ubal; and he called, and Ubal. said, Gabriel, cause that man to understand the vision. 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. 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. 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. 20 The ram which thou sawest that had the horns is the king of the Medes and Persians. 21 The he-goat is the king of the Greeks: and the great horn which was between his eyes, he is the first king. 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. 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, desolate. 12 And a and understanding riddles. 24 And given for the sacrifice, and righteous- his power shall be great, and he shall ness was cast down to the ground; and destroy wonderfully, and prosper, and + Or, 'he,' see *it practised, and prospered. practise, and shall destroy mighty men, 13 And I heard one saint and the holy people. 25 And the yoke speaking, and a saint said to a of his chain shall prosper: + Heb. Palmo- certain one speaking, How there is craft in his hand; yoke." ni, see Ruth long shall the vision con- and he shall magnify himself in his +Lit. the sacri- tinue, even the removal of heart, and by craft shall destroy many, fice that bas the sacrifice, and the bring- and he shall stand up for the deand the sin of ingin of the sin of desolation; struction of many, and shall crush that has been and how long shall the sanc- them as eggs in his hand. 26 And the tuary and host be trampled? vision of the evening and morning 14 And he said to him, Evening and that was mentioned is true: and do morning there shall be two thousand thou seal the vision; for it is for many + Alex. 300. and four hundred days; days. 27 And I Daniel fell asleep, and and then the sanctuary shall be cleansed. was sick: then I arose, and did the

+

זבח

צבע read for

'host.'

verse 11.

4. 1.

been removed,

desolation

given.

king's business; and I wondered at the
and there was none that under-
vision,
stood it.

2

3

5

15

+ Gr. turned

refused to hearken to thy voice; so the curse has come upon us, aside from and the oath that is written hearkening. in the law of Moses the servant of 9. In the first year of Darius the God, because we have sinned against son of Assuerus, of the seed of the Medes, him. 12 And he has confirmed his who reigned over the kingdom of the words, which he spoke against us, and Chaldeans, I Daniel understood by against our judges who judged us, by books the number of the years which bringing upon us great evils, such as was the word of the Lord to the prophet have not happened under the whole Jeremias, even seventy years for the heaven, according to what has happened accomplishment of the desolation of in Jerusalem. 13 As it is written in Jerusalem. And I set my face toward the law of Moses, all these evils have the Lord God, to seek him diligently come upon us: yet we have not beby prayer and supplications, with fast-sought the Lord our God, that we ings and sackcloth. And I prayed to might turn away from our iniquities, the Lord my God, and confessed, and and have understanding in all thy truth. said, O Lord, the great and wonder-14 Therefore the Lord has watched, ful God, keeping thy covenant and thy and brought the evils upon us: for mercy to them that love thee, and to the Lord our God is righteous in all them that keep thy commandments; his work which he has exe- +Gr. over. we have sinned, we have done in- cuted, but we have not hearkened to iquity, we have transgressed, and we his voice. And now, O Lord our have departed and turned aside from God, who broughtest thy people out of thy commandments and from thy the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, judgments: 6 and we have not heark- and madest to thyself a name, as at ened to thy servants the prophets, who this day; we have sinned, we have spoke in thy name to our kings, and transgressed. our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. To thee, O Lord, belongs righteousness, and 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 hast + Or, perfidi- scattered them, for the sin which they committed. In thee, O Lord, is our righteousness, and to us belongs confusion of face, and to our kings, and to our princes, and to our fathers, forasmuch as we have sinned. To thee, the Lord our God, belong compassions, and forgivenesses, whereas we have departed from thee; 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. Moreover all Israel have transgressed thy law, and have

ous action.

+

over all:

Comp. Heb.

and Hos. 6. 5.

16Ŏ Lord, thy mercy is 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. 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. 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 Gr.compasbefore thee on the ground of sion, or, supe. our righteousness, but on braism. the ground of thy manifold compassions, O Lord. 19 Hearken, O Lord; be propitious, O Lord; attend, O Lord;

plication, He

delay not, O my God, for thine own sake: for thy name is called upon thy city and upon thy people.

thee with.

21

+

week my sacrifice and drink-offering shall be taken away and on the temple shall be the abomination of desolations; and at the end of the time an end shall be put to the desolation.

+

+ Gr. weeks

of days.

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 10. In the third year of Cyrus king mountain; yea, while I was yet of the Persians a thing was revealed to speaking in prayer, behold the man Daniel, whose name was called BalGabriel, whom I had seen in the vision tasar; and the thing was true, and at the beginning, came flying, and he great power and understanding in the touched me about the hour of the vision was given to him. 2 In those evening sacrifice. 22 And he instructed days I Daniel was mourning three *full me, and spoke with me, and said, 0 weeks. 3 I ate no pleasant Daniel, I am now come forth to im- bread, and no flesh or wine of days. Gr. instruct part to thee understanding. entered into my mouth, neither did I 23 At the beginning of thy anoint myself with oil, until three supplication the word came forth, and whole weeks were accom- + Gr. weeks I am come to tell thee; for thou art a plished. 4 On the twentyman much beloved: therefore consider fourth day of the first month, I was the matter, understand the vision. near the great river, which is Tigris 24 Seventy weeks have been determined Eddekel. And I lifted up mine eyes, upon thy people, and upon the holy and looked, and behold a man clothed city, for sin to be ended, and to seal in linen, and his loins + Gr. Baddiv. up transgressions, and to blot out were girt with gold of Ophaz: 6 and + Gr. sins. iniquities, and to make atone- his body was as Tharsis, or, as beryl. ment for iniquities, and to bring in ever- and his face was as the appearance of lasting righteousness, and to seal the lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, vision and the prophet, and to anoint and his arms and his legs as the apthe Most Holy. 25 And thou shalt pearance of shining brass, and the voice know and understand, that from the of his words as the voice of a multigoing forth of the command for the tude. And I Daniel only saw the answer and for the building of Jeru- vision: and the men that were with salem until Christ the prince there me saw not the vision; but a great + Or, sevens. shall be + seven weeks, and amazement fell upon them, and they sixty-two weeks: and then the time fled in fear. So I was left alone, and shall return, and the street shall be saw this great vision, and there was no built, and the wall, and the times shall strength left in me, and my glory was be exhausted. 26 And after the sixty- turned into corruption, and I re+Gr. chrism, two weeks, the anointed tained no strength. 9 Yet I heard or, anointing. one shall be destroyed, and the voice of his words and when there is no judgment in him: and he I heard him I was pricked in the shall destroy the city and the sanctuary heart, and I fell with my face to the with the prince that is coming: they earth. shall be cut off with a flood, and to 10 And, behold, a hand touched me, the end of the war which is rapidly and it raised me on my knees. "And completed he shall appoint the city he said to me, O Daniel, man greatly to desolations. 27 And one week shall beloved, understand the words which + Gr. half. establish the covenant with I speak to thee, and stand upright: many and in the midst of the for I am now sent to thee. And when

+

8

11. And I in the first year of Cyrus and collect his strength. "And the