The Vision of the Four Beasts

7 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel saw a ^(A)dream and visions in his head as he lay on his bed; then he ^(B)wrote the dream down and said the ^[a]following summary of the matter.

²⁸ “^[a]At this point the matter of this revelation ended. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts were ^(A)greatly alarming me, and the ^[b]splendor of my face changed, but I ^(B)kept the matter in my heart.”

² And I ^(A)looked in the vision. And it happened that while I was looking, I was in the citadel of ^(B)Susa, which is in the province of ^(C)Elam; and I looked in the vision, and I myself was beside the Ulai ^[a]Canal.

² in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, discerned in the books the ^(A)number of the years concerning which the word of ^[a]Yahweh came to ^(B)Jeremiah the prophet for the fulfillment of the laying waste of Jerusalem, namely, ^(C)seventy years.

Daniel’s Terrifying Vision of a Man

10 In the third year of ^(A)Cyrus king of Persia, a word was revealed to ^(B)Daniel, who was named Belteshazzar; and the ^(C)word was true and one of great ^[a]conflict, but he understood the word and had an ^(D)understanding of what had appeared.

² In those days, I, Daniel, had been ^(A)mourning for three entire ^[a]weeks.

⁴ But as for you, Daniel, ^(A)conceal these words and ^(B)seal up the book until the ^(C)time of the end; ^(D)many will go to and fro, and knowledge will increase.”

⁵ Then I, Daniel, looked, and behold, two others were standing, one on this bank of the river and the other on that bank of the river.