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. ² Daniel answered and said, “I was ^(C)looking in my vision by night, and behold, the ^(D)four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea. ³ And four great ^(E)beasts were coming up from the sea, different from one another. ⁴ The first was ^(F)like a lion and had the wings of an eagle. I kept looking until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man; and a heart of a man was given to it. ⁵ And behold, another beast, a second one in the likeness of a bear. And it was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth; and thus they said to it, ‘Arise, devour much meat!’ ⁶ After this I kept looking, and behold, another one, ^(G)like a leopard, which had on its ^[b]back four wings of a bird; the beast also had ^(H)four heads, and ^[c]dominion was given to it. ⁷ After this I kept looking in the night visions, and behold, a ^(I)fourth beast, fearsome and terrifying and extraordinarily strong; and it had large iron teeth. It devoured and crushed and trampled down the remainder with its feet; and it was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ^(J)ten horns. ⁸ While I was contemplating the horns, behold, ^(K)another horn, a little one, came up among them, and three of the first horns were pulled out by the roots before it; and behold, ^[d]this horn possessed eyes like the eyes of a man and ^(L)a mouth speaking great boasts.