28TO HERE END THE OF MATTER THE I DANIEL EXCEEDINGLY THOUGHTS MY THEY ALARMED ME AND BRIGHTNESS<ES> MY THEY WERE CHANGED ON ME AND MATTER THE IN HEART MY I HAVE KEPT 28Thus ends the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts troubled me greatly, and my face turned pale. But I kept the matter to myself.”
1IN YEAR THREE OF [THE] REIGN OF BELSHAZZAR THE KING A VISION IT APPEARED TO ME I DANIEL AFTER THE [ONE] WHICH IT APPEARED TO ME AT THE BEGINNING Daniel’s Vision of the Ram and the Goat 1In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar, a vision appeared to me, Daniel, subsequent to the one that had appeared to me earlier.
2AND I SAW IN THE VISION AND IT WAS WHEN SAW I AND I [WAS] IN SUSA THE CITADEL WHICH [IS] IN ELAM THE PROVINCE AND I SAW IN THE VISION AND I I WAS AT [THE] CANAL OF ULAI 2And in the vision I saw myself in the citadel of Susa, in the province of Elam. I saw in the vision that I was beside the Ulai Canal.
3AND I LIFTED UP EYES MY AND I SAW AND THERE! A RAM ONE [WAS] STANDING <TO> BEFORE THE CANAL AND [BELONGED] TO IT TWO HORNS AND THE TWO HORNS [WERE] HIGH AND THE ONE [WAS] HIGH MORE THAN THE SECOND AND THE HIGH [ONE] [WAS] GROWING UP AT THE LAST 3Then I lifted up my eyes and saw a ram with two horns standing beside the canal. The horns were long, but one was longer than the other, and the longer one grew up later.
4I SAW <OBJ.> THE RAM THRUSTING WEST -WARD AND NORTH -WARD AND SOUTH -WARD AND ANY LIVING CREATURES NOT THEY STOOD <TO> BEFORE IT AND THERE NOT [WAS ONE] DELIVERING FROM HAND ITS AND IT DID ACCORDING TO PLEASURE ITS AND IT MAGNIFIED ITSELF 4I saw the ram charging toward the west and the north and the south. No animal could stand against him, and there was no deliverance from his power. He did as he pleased and became great.
5AND I I WAS OBSERVING AND THERE! [THE] HE-GOAT OF THE GOATS [WAS] COMING FROM THE WEST OVER [THE] SURFACE OF ALL THE EARTH AND NOT [IT WAS] TOUCHING <IN> THE EARTH AND THE HE-GOAT A HORN OF CONSPICUOUSNESS [WAS] BETWEEN EYES ITS 5As I was contemplating all this, suddenly a goat with a prominent horn between his eyes came out of the west, crossing the surface of the entire earth without touching the ground.
6AND IT CAME TO THE RAM [THE] POSSESSOR OF THE TWO HORNS WHICH I HAD SEEN STANDING <TO> BEFORE THE CANAL AND IT RAN AGAINST IT IN [THE] RAGE OF STRENGTH ITS 6He came toward the two-horned ram I had seen standing beside the canal and rushed at him with furious power.
7AND I SAW IT APPROACHING BESIDE THE RAM AND IT WAS ENRAGED AGAINST IT AND IT STRUCK <OBJ.> THE RAM AND IT BROKE <OBJ.> [THE] TWO HORNS ITS AND NOT IT WAS STRENGTH IN THE RAM TO STAND <TO> BEFORE IT AND IT THREW IT [THE] GROUND TOWARDS AND IT TRAMPLED IT AND NOT ANYONE WAS DELIVERING <TO> THE RAM FROM HAND ITS 7I saw him approach the ram in a rage against him, and he struck the ram and shattered his two horns. The ram was powerless to stand against him, and the goat threw him to the ground and trampled him, and no one could deliver the ram from his power.
8AND [THE] HE-GOAT OF THE GOATS IT MAGNIFIED ITSELF UP TO MUCHNESS AND JUST AS BECAME MIGHTY IT IT WAS BROKEN THE HORN <THE> GREAT AND THEY GREW UP CONSPICUOUSNESS FOUR IN PLACE ITS TO [THE] FOUR [THE] WINDS OF THE HEAVENS 8Thus the goat became very great, but at the height of his power, his large horn was broken off, and four prominent horns came up in its place, pointing toward the four winds of heaven.
9AND FROM THE ONE OF THEM IT CAME OUT A HORN ONE FROM A SMALL [THING] AND IT BECAME GREAT EXCESS TO THE SOUTH AND TO THE EAST AND TO THE BEAUTY 9From one of these horns a little horn emerged and grew extensively toward the south and the east and toward the Beautiful Land.
10AND IT BECAME GREAT TO [THE] HOST OF THE HEAVENS AND IT MADE FALL [THE] GROUND TOWARDS SOME OF THE HOST AND SOME OF THE STARS AND IT TRAMPLED THEM 10It grew as high as the host of heaven, and it cast down some of the host and some of the stars to the earth and trampled them.
11AND TO [THE] COMMANDER OF THE HOST IT MAGNIFIED ITSELF AND FROM HIM IT WAS REMOVED THE PERPETUAL [OFFERING] AND IT WAS THROWN DOWN [THE] PLACE OF SANCTUARY HIS 11It magnified itself, even to the Prince of the host; it removed His daily sacrifice and overthrew the place of His sanctuary.
12AND AN ARMY IT WILL BE SET OVER THE PERPETUAL [OFFERING] IN TRANSGRESSION AND IT WILL THROW DOWN TRUTH [THE] GROUND TOWARDS AND IT WILL ACT AND IT WILL SUCCEED 12And in the rebellion,*NoteCloseOr on account of transgression the host and the daily sacrifice were given over to the horn, and it flung truth to the ground and prospered in whatever it did.
13AND I HEARD! ONE HOLY [ONE] SPEAKING AND HE SAID ONE HOLY [ONE] TO THE CERTAIN [ONE] WHO WAS SPEAKING UNTIL WHEN? [WILL BE] THE VISION THE PERPETUAL [OFFERING] AND THE TRANSGRESSION DESOLATE TO GIVE OVER AND [THE] SANCTUARY AND AN ARMY TRAMPLING 13Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to him, “How long until the fulfillment of the vision of the daily sacrifice, the rebellion that causes desolation, and the surrender of the sanctuary and of the host to be trampled?”
14AND HE SAID TO ME UNTIL EVENING MORNING TWO THOUSAND AND THREE HUNDREDS AND IT WILL BE PUT RIGHT [THE] SANCTUARY 14He said to me, “It will take 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be properly restored.”
15AND IT WAS WHEN SAW I I DANIEL <OBJ.> THE VISION AND I SOUGHT! UNDERSTANDING AND THERE! [WAS] STANDING TO BEFORE ME LIKE [THE] APPEARANCE OF A MAN Gabriel Interprets Daniel’s Vision 15While I, Daniel, was watching the vision and trying to understand it, there stood before me one having the appearance of a man.
16AND I HEARD [THE] VOICE OF A PERSON BETWEEN ULAI AND HE CALLED AND HE SAID O GABRIEL EXPLAIN TO THIS [ONE] <OBJ.> THE VISION 16And I heard the voice of a man calling from between the banks of the Ulai: “Gabriel, explain the vision to this man.”
17AND HE CAME BESIDE STANDING PLACE MY AND WHEN CAME HE I WAS TERRIFIED AND I FELL! ON FACE MY AND HE SAID TO ME UNDERSTAND O SON OF HUMANKIND THAT [IS] FOR [THE] TIME OF [THE] END THE VISION 17As he came near to where I stood I was terrified and fell facedown. “Son of man,” he said to me, “understand that the vision concerns the time of the end.”
18AND WHEN SPOKE HE WITH ME I WAS DAZED ON FACE MY [THE] GROUND TOWARDS AND HE TOUCHED <IN> ME AND HE MADE STAND ME ON STANDING PLACE MY 18While he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep, with my face to the ground. Then he touched me, helped me to my feet,
19AND HE SAID HERE I [AM] MAKING KNOWN TO YOU <OBJ.> [THAT] WHICH IT WILL BE AT [THE] END OF THE INDIGNATION FOR [IT IS] FOR [THE] APPOINTED TIME OF [THE] END 19and said, “Behold, I will make known to you what will happen in the latter time of wrath, because it concerns the appointed time of the end.
20THE RAM WHICH YOU SAW [THE] POSSESSOR OF THE TWO HORNS [IS] [THE] KINGS OF MEDIA AND PERSIA 20The two-horned ram that you saw represents the kings of Media and Persia.
21AND THE HE-GOAT <THE> HAIRY [IS] [THE] KING OF GREECE AND THE HORN <THE> GREAT WHICH [IS] BETWEEN EYES ITS IT [IS] THE KING <THE> FIRST 21The shaggy goat represents the king of Greece,*NoteCloseHebrew of Javan and the large horn between his eyes is the first king.
22AND THE BROKEN [HORN] AND THEY AROSE FOUR [HORNS] IN PLACE ITS FOUR KINGDOMS FROM A NATION THEY WILL ARISE AND NOT WITH POWER ITS 22The four horns that replaced the broken one represent four kingdoms that will rise from that nation but will not have the same power.
23AND AT [THE] END OF REIGN THEIR WHEN ARE COMPLETED THE REBELS HE WILL ARISE A KING STRONG OF FACE AND UNDERSTANDING OF INTRIGUE<S> 23In the latter part of their reign, when the rebellion has reached its full measure, an insolent king, skilled in intrigue, will come to the throne.
24AND IT WILL BE MIGHTY POWER HIS AND NOT BY OWN POWER HIS AND WONDERS HE WILL DESTROY AND HE WILL SUCCEED AND HE WILL ACT AND HE WILL DESTROY MIGHTY [ONES] AND A PEOPLE OF HOLY [ONES] 24His power will be great, but it will not be his own. He will cause terrible destruction and succeed in whatever he does. He will destroy the mighty men along with the holy people.
25AND ON INSIGHT HIS AND HE WILL MAKE SUCCESSFUL DECEIT BY HAND HIS AND IN HEART HIS HE WILL MAGNIFY HIMSELF AND IN PROSPERITY HE WILL DESTROY MANY [PEOPLE] AND ON A PRINCE OF PRINCES HE WILL STAND AND BY NOT A HAND HE WILL BE BROKEN 25Through his craft and by his hand, he will cause deceit to prosper, and in his own mind he will make himself great. In a time of peace he will destroy many, and he will even stand against the Prince of princes. Yet he will be broken off, but not by human hands.
26AND [THE] VISION OF THE EVENING AND THE MORNING WHICH IT HAS BEEN TOLD [IS] TRUTH IT AND YOU KEEP SECRET THE VISION FOR [IT IS] FOR DAYS MANY 26The vision of the evenings and the mornings that has been spoken is true. Now you must seal up the vision, for it concerns the distant future.”
27AND I DANIEL I WAS DONE [IN] AND I WAS SICK DAYS AND I AROSE AND I DID <OBJ.> [THE] WORK OF THE KING AND I WAS APPALLED ON THE VISION AND THERE NOT [WAS ONE] GIVING UNDERSTANDING 27I, Daniel, was exhausted and lay ill for days. Then I got up and went about the king’s business. I was confounded by the vision; it was beyond understanding.