² Daniel said: “In my vision at night I looked, and there before me were the four winds of heaven^(A) churning up the great sea. ³ Four great beasts,^(B) each different from the others, came up out of the sea.

⁴ “The first was like a lion,^(C) and it had the wings of an eagle.^(D) I watched until its wings were torn off and it was lifted from the ground so that it stood on two feet like a human being, and the mind of a human was given to it.