7:1In the first year of Belshazzar, king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream: and the vision of his head was on his bed: and writing the dream, he gathered it in a brief account: and touching on it in summary, he said: I was looking in my vision by night: and behold, the four winds of heaven were fighting on the great sea. 7:3And four great beasts were coming up from the sea, different from one another. 7:4The first was like a lioness, and had the wings of an eagle: I was watching until its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted from the earth, and stood on its feet like a man; 7:4and the heart of a man was given to it.
7:5And behold, another beast, like a bear, stood on one side: and there were three rows in its mouth, and in its teeth, and they were speaking thus to it: "Arise, eat very much flesh." 7:6After these things I was watching, and behold, another, like a leopard, and it had wings like a bird, four upon it: and there were four heads on the beast, and power was given to it. 7:7After these things I was watching in the vision of the night, and behold, a fourth beast, terrible and wondrous, and exceedingly strong: it had great teeth of iron, eating and breaking in pieces, and trampling the rest with its feet: but it was unlike the other beasts which I had seen before it, and it had ten horns.
7:8I was considering the horns, and behold, another little horn arose from the middle of them: and three of the first horns were plucked out before its face: and behold, eyes like the eyes of a man were in this horn, and a mouth speaking huge things. 7:9I was watching until thrones were set, and the Ancient of days sat. 7:9His garment was white as snow, and the hairs of his head like clean wool: his throne flames of fire: its wheels burning fire. 7:10A river of fire, swift, was going out from his face. 7:10Thousands of thousands were ministering to him, and ten thousand times hundreds of thousands were standing by him: the judgement sat, and the books were opened.
7:11I was watching on account of the voice of the great words which that horn was speaking: and I saw that the beast had been killed, and its body had perished, and had been handed over to the fire for burning: of the other beasts too the power had been taken away, and times of life had been appointed for them up to a time and a time. 7:13So I was watching in the vision of the night, and behold, with the clouds of heaven one like a son of man was coming, and he reached right up to the Ancient of days: and in his sight they presented him.
7:14And he gave him power, and honour, and a kingdom: and all peoples, tribes, and tongues will serve him: his power is an eternal power, which will not be taken away: and his kingdom one which will not be corrupted. 7:15My spirit shuddered: I, Daniel, was terrified at these things, and the visions of my head troubled me. 7:16I approached one of those standing by, and I was seeking the truth from him about all these things. 7:16He told me the interpretation of the words, and taught me: "These four great beasts are four kingdoms, which will rise up from the earth. 7:18But the saints of the most high God will receive the kingdom, and they will hold the kingdom right up to the age, and the age of ages."
7:19After this I wished to learn carefully about the fourth beast, which was very unlike all the others, and exceedingly terrible: its teeth and claws were of iron: it was eating, and breaking in pieces, and trampling the rest with its feet: and about the ten horns which it had on its head, and about the other, which had arisen, before which three horns had fallen: and about that horn which had eyes, and a mouth speaking great things, and was greater than the others. 7:21I was watching, and behold, that horn was making war against the saints, and was prevailing over them, until the Ancient of days came, and gave judgement to the saints of the Most High, and the time came, and the saints obtained the kingdom.
7:23And thus he said: "The fourth beast will be a fourth kingdom on the earth, which will be greater than all the kingdoms, and will devour the whole earth, and will trample, and break it in pieces. 7:24Further, the ten horns of that same kingdom will be ten kings: and another will rise up after them, and he will be more powerful than the earlier ones, and he will humble three kings. 7:25And he will speak words against the Most High, and will crush the saints of the Most High: and he will think that he can change times, and laws: and they will be handed over into his hand up to a time, and times, and half a time.
7:26And the judgement will sit, so that his might may be taken away, and crushed, and may perish right up to the end. 7:27But the kingdom, and the power, and the greatness of the kingdom which is under the whole heaven, let it be given to the people of the saints of the Most High: whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all kings will serve him, and obey." 7:28Here is the end of the word. 7:28I, Daniel, was much troubled by my thoughts, and my face was changed in me: but the word I kept in my heart.