11:1"But I, from the first year of Darius the Mede, was standing by him, so that he might be strengthened and made firm. 11:2And now I will announce the truth to you. 11:2Behold, three kings will yet stand in Persia, and the fourth will be enriched with exceeding wealth above all: and when he has grown strong through his riches, he will stir up all against the kingdom of Greece. 11:3But a strong king will arise, and will rule with great power, and will do what pleases him. 11:4And when he has stood, his kingdom will be crushed, and will be divided towards the four winds of heaven: but not to his descendants, nor according to his might with which he ruled: for his kingdom will be torn apart even for outsiders, besides these.
11:5And the king of the south will be strengthened: and one of his princes will prevail over him, and will rule with dominion: for great will be his rule. 11:6And after the end of years they will make a treaty: and the daughter of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make friendship, and she will not keep the strength of the arm, nor will her seed stand: and she herself will be handed over, and her young men who brought her, and those who were strengthening her in the times. 11:7And from the stock of her roots a planting will stand: and he will come with an army, and will enter the province of the king of the north: and he will misuse them, and will prevail.
11:8Moreover their gods too, and their carved images, and also their precious vessels of silver and gold, he will lead captive into Egypt: he will prevail against the king of the north. 11:9And the king of the south will enter into the kingdom, and will return to his own land. 11:10But his sons will be provoked, and will gather a multitude of very many armies: and one will come hastening, and overflowing: and he will return, and be stirred up, and will engage with his strength. 11:11And the king of the south, provoked, will go out, and will fight against the king of the north, and will prepare an exceedingly great multitude, and the multitude will be given into his hand.
11:12And he will take the multitude, and his heart will be exalted, and he will cast down many thousands, but he will not prevail. 11:13For the king of the north will turn back, and will prepare a multitude much greater than before: and at the end of times and years he will come hastening with a great army, and exceeding wealth. 11:14And in those times many will rise up against the king of the south: the sons too of the transgressors of your people will lift themselves up to fulfil the vision, and they will fall. 11:15And the king of the north will come, and will heap up a mound, and will take the most fortified cities: and the arms of the south will not withstand, and his chosen men will rise up to resist, and there will be no strength.
11:16And coming against him he will do according to his pleasure, and there will be no one to stand against his face: and he will stand in the renowned land, and it will be consumed in his hand. 11:17And he will set his face to come to hold his whole kingdom, and he will make upright terms with him: and he will give him a daughter of women, to overthrow it: and she will not stand, nor will she be his. 11:18And he will turn his face to the islands, and will take many: and he will make the prince of his reproach cease, and his reproach will be turned back upon him.
11:19And he will turn his face to the empire of his own land, and he will stumble, and fall, and will not be found. 11:20And in his place will stand one most vile, and unworthy of royal splendour: and in a few days he will be crushed, not in fury, nor in battle. 11:21And in his place will stand a despised man, and royal honour will not be given to him: and he will come secretly, and will obtain the kingdom by deceit. 11:22And the arms of the one fighting will be overcome before his face, and will be crushed: moreover the leader of the treaty also. 11:23And after friendships, he will practise guile with him: and he will go up, and will prevail with a small people.
11:24And he will enter rich and fertile cities: and he will do what his fathers did not do, nor the fathers of his fathers: plunder, and spoil, and their riches he will scatter, and against the strongest designs he will enter: and this up to a time. 11:25And his strength will be stirred up, and his heart, against the king of the south with a great army: and the king of the south will be provoked to war with many and exceedingly strong auxiliaries: and they will not stand, because they will form plans against him. 11:26And those eating bread with him will crush him, and his army will be overwhelmed: and very many will fall slain.
11:27The heart of the two kings too will be set on doing evil, and at one table they will speak a lie: and they will not succeed, because the end is still for another time. 11:28And he will return to his land with much wealth: and his heart will be against the holy covenant, and he will act, and will return to his land. 11:29At the appointed time he will return, and will come to the south: and the last will not be like the former. 11:30And triremes and the Romans will come upon him: and he will be struck, and will return, and will be indignant against the covenant of the sanctuary, and will act: and he will return, and will give thought against those who have forsaken the covenant of the sanctuary.
11:31And arms from him will stand, and will pollute the sanctuary of strength, and will take away the continual sacrifice: and they will set up the abomination for desolation. 11:32And the impious will deceitfully feign towards the covenant: but the people knowing its God will prevail, and will act. 11:33And the learned among the people will teach very many: and they will fall by the sword, and by flame, and by captivity, and by plundering of days. 11:34And when they have fallen, they will be lifted up with a little help: and very many will join themselves to them deceitfully. 11:35And some of the learned will fall, so that they may be refined, and chosen, and made white, up to the time fixed beforehand: because there will yet be another time.
11:36And the king will do according to his will, and will be lifted up, and will be made great against every god: and against the God of gods he will speak great things, and he will be guided, until the wrath is completed: for the determination has been carried out. 11:37And the God of his fathers he will not regard: and he will be in the desires of women, nor will he care for any of the gods, because he will rise up against all things. 11:38But the god Maozim he will venerate in his place: and a god whom his fathers did not know he will worship with gold, and silver, and precious stone, and precious things.
11:39And he will act so as to fortify Maozim with a foreign god whom he has acknowledged, and he will multiply glory, and will give them power over many, and will divide the land freely. 11:40And at the time fixed beforehand the king of the south will fight against him, and like a tempest the king of the north will come against him with chariots, and with horsemen, and with a great fleet, and he will enter lands, and will crush them, and pass through. 11:41And he will go into the glorious land, and many will fall: but these alone will be saved from his hand, Edom, and Moab, and the chief part of the sons of Ammon.
11:42And he will lay his hand upon lands: and the land of Egypt will not escape. 11:43And he will be master of the treasures of gold, and of silver, and of all the precious things of Egypt: through Libya also, and Ethiopia he will pass. 11:44And rumour from the east and from the north will trouble him: and he will come with a great multitude to crush and to kill very many. 11:45And he will fix his tent, Apadno, between the seas, upon the renowned and holy mountain: and he will come right up to its summit, and no one will help him.