(A)The shape of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle. (B)On their heads were crowns of something like gold, (C)and their faces were like the faces of men.

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The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle.(A) On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces.(B)

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I was considering the horns, and (A)there was another horn, a little one, coming up among them, before whom three of the first horns were plucked out by the roots. And there, in this horn, were eyes like the eyes (B)of a man, (C)and a mouth speaking [a]pompous words.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 7:8 Lit. great things

“While I was thinking about the horns, there before me was another horn, a little(A) one, which came up among them; and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like the eyes of a human being(B) and a mouth that spoke boastfully.(C)

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17 (A)Your commanders are like swarming locusts,
And your generals like great grasshoppers,
Which camp in the hedges on a cold day;
When the sun rises they flee away,
And the place where they are is not known.

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17 Your guards are like locusts,(A)
    your officials like swarms of locusts
    that settle in the walls on a cold day—
but when the sun appears they fly away,
    and no one knows where.

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(A)Their appearance is like the appearance of horses;
And like [a]swift steeds, so they run.
(B)With a noise like chariots
Over mountaintops they leap,
Like the noise of a flaming fire that devours the stubble,
Like a strong people set in battle array.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 2:4 Or horsemen

They have the appearance of horses;(A)
    they gallop along like cavalry.
With a noise like that of chariots(B)
    they leap over the mountaintops,
like a crackling fire(C) consuming stubble,
    like a mighty army drawn up for battle.

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The first was (A)like a lion, and had eagle’s wings. I watched till its wings were plucked off; and it was lifted up from the earth and made to stand on two feet like a man, and a (B)man’s heart was given to it.

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“The first was like a lion,(A) and it had the wings of an eagle.(B) 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.

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