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Daniel 8 📜 📕 ↷
Daniel's Vision of the Ram and the Goat
1 IN the third year of the reign of Baltassar the king, a vision appeared to me.📜💬📚
2 I, Daniel saw in my vision, after that which I had seen in the beginning, when I was in Susis the castle, which is in the province of Aelam: and I saw in the vision, that I was over the gate Ulai.📜💬📚
3 & I lifted up mine eyes, and saw: and behold one ram stood before the marish, having high horns, & one higher than another & growing under.📜💬📚
4 Afterward I saw the ram pushing with the horns against the West, & against the North, and against the South: and all beasts could not resist him, nor be delivered out of his hand: and he did according to his will, & was magnified.📜💬📚
5 And I understood: and behold a buckgoat came from the West upon the face of the whole earth, & he touched not the ground. Moreover the buckgoat had a notable horn between his eyes:📜💬📚
6 And he came even to that ram with the horns, which I had seen standing before the gate, & he ran towards him in the violence of his strength.📜💬📚
7 And when he had approached near the ram, he was wood against him, and struck the ram: and he brake his two horns, and the ram could not resist him: and when he had cast him on the ground, he trod him, and no man could deliver the ram out of his hand.📜💬📚
8 And the buckgoat became exceeding great: and when he was grown, the great horn was broken, and there rose up four horns under it by the four winds of heaven.📜💬📚
9 And out of one of them came forth one little horn: and it was made great against the South, and against the East, and against the strength.📜💬📚
10 And it was magnified even unto the strength of heaven: and it threw down of the strength, and of the stars, and trod them.📜💬📚
11 And it was magnified even unto the prince of the strength: and from him it took the continual sacrifice, and threw down the place of his sanctification.📜💬📚
12 And strength was given against the continual sacrifice because of sins: and truth shall be thrown prostrate on the ground, and he shall do, and shall prosper.📜💬📚
13 And I heard one of the saints speaking, & one saint said to an other, I know not to whom that spake: How long the vision, and the continual sacrifice, and the sin of the desolation that is made: and the sanctuary, and the strength shall be conculcate?📜💬📚
14 And he said to him: Unto the evening & morning, two thousand three hundred: & the sanctuary shall be cleansed.📜💬📚
Gabriel Interprets Daniel's Vision
15 And it came to pass when I, Daniel saw the vision, and sought the understanding: behold there stood in my sight as it were the form of a man.📜💬📚
16 And I heard the voice of a man between the banks of Ulai: and he cried, and said: Gabriel make this man understand the vision.📜💬📚
17 And he came and stood near where I stood: and when he was come, trembling I fell on my face, & he said to me: Understand son of man, that in the time of the end the vision shall be accomplished.📜💬📚
18 And when he spake to me I fell flat on the ground: and he touched me, and set me up in my standing,📜💬📚
19 and said to me: I will shew thee what things are to come in the last of the malediction: because the time hath his end.📜💬📚
20 The ram, which thou sawest have horns, is the king of the Medes and Persians.📜💬📚
21 Moreover the buckgoat, is the king of the Graecians, and the great horn, that was between his eyes, the same is the first king.📜💬📚
22 But whereas that being broken, there rose up four for it: four kings shall rise up of his nation, but not in his strength.📜💬📚
23 And after their reign, when iniquities shall be increased, there shall arise a king impudent of face, and understanding propositions.📜💬📚
24 And his strength shall be made strong, but not in his own strength: and more than can be believed, shall he waste all things, and shall prosper, and do. And he shall kill the strong, and the people of the saints📜💬📚
25 according to his will, and craft shall be directed in his hand: and he shall magnify his heart, and in the abundance of all things he shall murder very many: & against the prince of princes shall he arise, & without hand he shall be destroyed.📜💬📚
26 & the vision of the evening and the morning, which hath been said, is true: thou therefore seal the vision, because it shall be after many days.📜💬📚
27 And I, Daniel languished, and was sick for certain days: and when I was risen up, I did the king's works, and was astonished at the vision, and there was none that could interpret it.📜💬📚
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