⁵ Then I, Daniel, looked; and there stood two others, one on this riverbank and the other on that ^(A)riverbank.

¹⁶ And suddenly, ^(A)one having the likeness of the ^[a]sons of men ^(B)touched my lips; then I opened my mouth and spoke, saying to him who stood before me, “My lord, because of the vision ^(C)my sorrows have ^[b]overwhelmed me, and I have retained no strength.

Prophecies Concerning Persia and Greece

^10 (A)Suddenly, a hand touched me, which made me tremble on my knees and on the palms of my hands.

⁴ Now on the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, that is, the ^[a]Tigris, ⁵ I lifted my eyes and looked, and behold, a certain man clothed in ^(A)linen, whose waist was ^(B)girded with gold of Uphaz! ⁶ His body was like beryl, his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like torches of fire, his arms and feet like burnished bronze in color, ^(C)and the sound of his words like the voice of a multitude.