The Daily Audio Bible

8 In the third year of the reign of king Baltasar, a vision appeared to me. I Daniel, after what I had seen in the beginning,

² Saw in my vision when I was in the castle of Susa, which is in the province of Elam: and I saw in the vision that I was over the gate of Ulai.

³ And I lifted up my eyes, and saw: and behold a ram stood before the water, having two high horns, and one higher than the other, and growing up.

⁴ Afterward I saw the ram pushing with his horns against the west, and against the north, and against the south: and no beasts could withstand him, nor be delivered out of his hand: and he did according to his own will, and became great.

⁵ And I understood: and behold a he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and he touched not the ground, and the he goat had a notable horn between his eyes.

⁶ And he went up to the ram that had the horns, which I had seen standing before the gate, and he ran towards him in the force of his strength.

⁷ And when he was come near the ram, he was enraged against him, and struck the ram: and broke his two horns, and the ram could not withstand him: and when he had cast him down on the ground, he stamped upon him, and none could deliver the ram out of his hand.

⁸ And the he goat became exceeding great: and when he was grown, the great horn was broken, and there came up four horns under it towards the four winds of heaven.

⁹ And out of one of them came forth a little horn: and it became great against the south, and against the east, and against the strength.

¹⁰ And it was magnified even unto the strength of heaven: and it threw down of the strength, and of the stars, and trod upon them.

¹¹ And it was magnified even to the prince of the strength: and it took away from him the continual sacrifice, and cast down the place of his sanctuary.

¹² And strength was given him against the continual sacrifice, because of sins: and truth shall be cast down on the ground, and he shall do and shall prosper.

¹³ And I heard one of the saints speaking, and one saint said to another, I know not to whom that was speaking: How long shall be the vision, concerning the continual sacrifice, and the sin of the desolation that is made: and the sanctuary, and the strength be trodden under foot?

¹⁴ And he said to him: Unto evening and morning two thousand three hundred days: and the sanctuary shall be cleansed.

¹⁵ And it came to pass when I Daniel saw the vision, and sought the meaning, that behold there stood before me as it were the appearance of a man.

¹⁶ And I heard the voice of a man between Ulai: and he called, and said: Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.

¹⁷ And he came and stood near where I stood: and when he was come, I fell on my face trembling, and he said to me: Understand, O son of man, for in the time of the end the vision shall be fulfilled.

¹⁸ And when he spoke to me I fell flat on the ground: and he touched me, and set me upright,

¹⁹ And he said to me: I will shew thee what things are to come to pass in the end of the malediction: for the time hath its end.

²⁰ The ram, which thou sawest with horns, is the king of the Medes and Persians.

²¹ And the he goat, is the king of the Greeks, and the great horn that was between his eyes, the same is the first king.

²² But whereas when that was broken, there arose up four for it: four kings shall rise up of his nation, but not with his strength.

²³ And after their reign, when iniquities shall be grown up, there shall arise a king of a shameless face, and understanding dark sentences.

²⁴ And his power shall be strengthened, but not by his own force: and he shall lay all things waste, and shall prosper, and do more than can be believed. And he shall destroy the mighty, and the people of the saints,

²⁵ According to his will, and craft shall be successful in his hand: and his heart shall be puffed up, and in the abundance of all things he shall kill many: and he shall rise up against the prince of princes, and shall be broken without hand.

²⁶ And the vision of the evening and the morning, which was told, is true: thou therefore seal up the vision, because it shall come to pass after many days.

²⁷ And I Daniel languished, and was sick for some days: and when I was risen up, I did the king's business, and I was astonished at the vision, and there was none that could interpret it.

2 My little children, these things I write to you, that you may not sin. But if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the just:

² And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.

³ And by this we know that we have known him, if we keep his commandments.

⁴ He who saith that he knoweth him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

⁵ But he that keepeth his word, in him in very deed the charity of God is perfected; and by this we know that we are in him.

⁶ He that saith he abideth in him, ought himself also to walk, even as he walked.

⁷ Dearly beloved, I write not a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you have heard.

⁸ Again a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true both in him and in you; because the darkness is passed, and the true light now shineth.

⁹ He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.

¹⁰ He that loveth his brother, abideth in the light, and there is no scandal in him.

¹¹ But he that hateth his brother, is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth; because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.

¹² I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.

¹³ I write unto you, fathers, because you have known him, who is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one.

¹⁴ I write unto you, babes, because you have known the Father. I write unto you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and you have overcome the wicked one.

¹⁵ Love not the world, nor the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him.

¹⁶ For all that is in the world, is the concupiscence of the flesh, and the concupiscence of the eyes, and the pride of life, which is not of the Father, but is of the world.

¹⁷ And the world passeth away, and the concupiscence thereof: but he that doth the will of God, abideth for ever.

120 I have lifted up my eyes to the mountains, from whence help shall come to me.

² My help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

³ May he not suffer thy foot to be moved: neither let him slumber that keepeth thee.

⁴ Behold he shall neither slumber nor sleep, that keepeth Israel.

⁵ The Lord is thy keeper, the Lord is thy protection upon thy right hand.

⁶ The sun shall not burn thee by day: nor the moon by night.

⁷ The Lord keepeth thee from all evil: may the Lord keep thy soul.

⁸ May the Lord keep thy coming in and thy going out; from henceforth now and for ever.

²⁵ He that boasteth, and puffeth up himself, stirreth up quarrels: but he that trusteth in the Lord, shall be healed.

²⁶ He that trusteth in his own heart, is a fool: but he that walketh wisely, he shall be saved.