¹³ But the prince^(A) of the Persian kingdom resisted me twenty-one days. Then Michael,^(B) one of the chief princes, came to help me, because I was detained there with the king of Persia. ¹⁴ Now I have come to explain^(C) to you what will happen to your people in the future,^(D) for the vision concerns a time yet to come.^(E)”

¹⁵ While he was saying this to me, I bowed with my face toward the ground and was speechless.^(F)