Daniel 7:1-8

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Daniel’s Vision of Four Beasts and the Son of Man

7 In the first year of Belshazzar the king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions^[a] of his head as he lay on his bed; then he wrote down the dream and the summary^[b] of the words as follows:^{[c] 2} Daniel explained^[d] and said, “I was looking in my vision in the night, and look, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea. ³ And four great beasts were coming up from the sea, differing from one another.^{[e] 4} The first was like a lion and had^[f] the wings of an eagle. I was watching until its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the earth and it was raised on its feet like a human, and a human heart was given to it. ⁵ And look, another beast, a second one, looking like a bear. And it was raised up on one side and three tusks^[g] were in its mouth between its teeth, and so it was told,^[h] “Arise, eat much flesh!” ⁶ After this I was watching and look, another beast like a leopard; it had four wings^[i] of a bird on its back, and the beast had^[j] four heads, and dominion was given to it. ⁷ After this in the visions of the night I was looking and there was a fourth beast, terrifying and frightful and exceedingly strong, and it had^[k] great iron teeth,^[l] and it was devouring and crushing, and it stamped the remainder^[m] with its feet; and it was different from all the other beasts that preceded it^[n] and it had ten horns.^{[o] 8} I was considering the horns, and look, another little horn came up among^[p] them, and three of the earlier horns were rooted out^[q] from before it, and there were eyes like the eyes of a human^[r] in this horn and also a mouth that was speaking boastfully.