Four Horns and Four Craftsmen

¹⁸ Then I looked up, and there before me were four horns.

The Fall of Jericho

¹³ Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man^(A) standing in front of him with a drawn sword^(B) in his hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, “Are you for us or for our enemies?”

⁹ Then I looked up—and there before me were two women, with the wind in their wings! They had wings like those of a stork,^(A) and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth.

The Woman in a Basket

⁵ Then the angel who was speaking to me came forward and said to me, “Look up and see what is appearing.”

The Flying Scroll

5 I looked again, and there before me was a flying scroll.^(A)

A Man With a Measuring Line

2 ^[a]Then I looked up, and there before me was a man with a measuring line in his hand.

²⁸ The king of the North will return to his own country with great wealth, but his heart will be set against the holy covenant. He will take action against it and then return to his own country.

²⁹ “At the appointed time he will invade the South again, but this time the outcome will be different from what it was before. ³⁰ Ships of the western coastlands^(A) will oppose him, and he will lose heart.^(B) Then he will turn back and vent his fury^(C) against the holy covenant. He will return and show favor to those who forsake the holy covenant.

³¹ “His armed forces will rise up to desecrate the temple fortress and will abolish the daily sacrifice.^(D) Then they will set up the abomination that causes desolation.^{(E) 32} With flattery he will corrupt those who have violated the covenant, but the people who know their God will firmly resist^(F) him.

³³ “Those who are wise will instruct^(G) many, though for a time they will fall by the sword or be burned or captured or plundered.^{(H) 34} When they fall, they will receive a little help, and many who are not sincere^(I) will join them. ³⁵ Some of the wise will stumble, so that they may be refined,^(J) purified and made spotless until the time of the end, for it will still come at the appointed time.

³ I looked up,^(A) and there before me was a ram^(B) with two horns, standing beside the canal, and the horns were long. One of the horns was longer than the other but grew up later. ⁴ I watched the ram as it charged toward the west and the north and the south. No animal could stand against it, and none could rescue from its power.^(C) It did as it pleased^(D) and became great.

⁵ As I was thinking about this, suddenly a goat with a prominent horn between its eyes came from the west, crossing the whole earth without touching the ground. ⁶ It came toward the two-horned ram I had seen standing beside the canal and charged at it in great rage. ⁷ I saw it attack the ram furiously, striking the ram and shattering its two horns. The ram was powerless to stand against it; the goat knocked it to the ground and trampled on it,^(E) and none could rescue the ram from its power.^{(F) 8} The goat became very great, but at the height of its power the large horn was broken off,^(G) and in its place four prominent horns grew up toward the four winds of heaven.^(H)

⁹ Out of one of them came another horn, which started small^(I) but grew in power to the south and to the east and toward the Beautiful Land.^{(J) 10} It grew until it reached^(K) the host of the heavens, and it threw some of the starry host down to the earth^(L) and trampled^(M) on them. ¹¹ It set itself up to be as great as the commander^(N) of the army of the Lord;^(O) it took away the daily sacrifice^(P) from the Lord, and his sanctuary was thrown down.^{(Q) 12} Because of rebellion, the Lord’s people^[a] and the daily sacrifice were given over to it. It prospered in everything it did, and truth was thrown to the ground.^(R)

¹³ Then I heard a holy one^(S) speaking, and another holy one said to him, “How long will it take for the vision to be fulfilled^(T)—the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, the rebellion that causes desolation, the surrender of the sanctuary and the trampling underfoot^(U) of the Lord’s people?”

¹⁴ He said to me, “It will take 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be reconsecrated.”^(V)

³ Four great beasts,^(A) each different from the others, came up out of the sea.

⁴ “The first was like a lion,^(B) and it had the wings of an eagle.^(C) 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.

⁵ “And there before me was a second beast, which looked like a bear. It was raised up on one of its sides, and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. It was told, ‘Get up and eat your fill of flesh!’^(D)

⁶ “After that, I looked, and there before me was another beast, one that looked like a leopard.^(E) And on its back it had four wings like those of a bird. This beast had four heads, and it was given authority to rule.

⁷ “After that, in my vision^(F) at night I looked, and there before me was a fourth beast—terrifying and frightening and very powerful. It had large iron^(G) teeth; it crushed and devoured its victims and trampled^(H) underfoot whatever was left.^(I) It was different from all the former beasts, and it had ten horns.^(J)

⁸ “While I was thinking about the horns, there before me was another horn, a little^(K) 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^(L) and a mouth that spoke boastfully.^(M)