given into his hand a time, and times, and half a time. 26 But the tribunal shall sit, and his dominion shall be 27 taken away, and consumed and destroyed forever. And the sovereignty, and dominion, and power over all kingdoms under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High; his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve 28 and obey him. Here ended his words. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts terrified me much, and my countenance changed; but I kept the matter in my heart.

VIII.

Vision of the ram and the he-goat, and its explanation.

1 In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar, a vision appeared to me, Daniel, after that which appeared 2 to me at the first. And I saw in a vision, and when I saw, I was in Shushan, in the palace, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and was by 3 the river Ulai. And I lifted up my eyes and saw,

and behold, there stood before the river a ram, which had two horns; and the two horns were high; and one was 4 higher than the other; and the higher came up last. I saw the ram pushing westward and northward and southward, and no beast could stand before him, and none could deliver out of his hand; but he did accord5 ing to his will, and became great. And I gave heed, and behold, a he-goat came from the west, over the face of the whole earth, without touching the ground; and

the goat had a conspicuous horn between his eyes. 6 And he came to the ram, which had two horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran against 7 him in the fury of his power. And I saw him come close to the ram, and he was enraged against him, and smote the ram, and broke his two horns; and there was no power in the ram to stand before him; and he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him; 8 and none could deliver the ram out of his hand. And the he-goat became exceedingly great; but when he was strongest, the great horn was broken, and instead of it grew up four conspicuous ones toward the four 9 winds of heaven. And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which became exceedingly great toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the glorious 10 land. And he exalted himself even to the host of heav

en, and some of the host and of the stars he cast down 11 to the ground, and stamped upon them. Yea, he mag

nified himself even to the prince of the host, and the daily sacrifice was taken away from him, and the place 12 of his sanctuary was cast down. And a host set itself against the daily sacrifice with impiety, and it cast down the law to the ground, and it accomplished its 13 purpose and prospered. And I heard a holy one speak; and another holy one said to the one that had spoken, To how long a time extends the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the impiety of the destroyer, that both the sanctuary and the host shall be trodden under 14 foot? And he said to me, To two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.

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And it came to pass, when I, Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, behold, there stood 16 one before me having the appearance of a man. And

I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai, which called and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand 17 the vision. And he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face, and he said to me, Understand, O son of man! for this 18 vision relates to the time of the end. But when he spake to me, I fell senseless upon my face to the ground; but he touched me, and lifted me up, where I had 19 stood. And he said, Behold, I make known to thee what shall be in the latter time of the indignation; for 20 [the vision relates] to the time of the end. The ram, which thou sawest, having two horns, denotes the kings 21, of Media and Persia. And the rough goat is the king

of Greece; and the great horn between his eyes is the 22 first king. And as that was broken and four arose in

its place, four kingdoms shall arise out of the nation, 23 but not with his power. And toward the end of their

kingdom, when the transgressors have filled up the measure of their iniquities, a king shall arise of a 24 fierce countenance, and cunning in artifices. And his power shall become mighty, but not by his strength; and he will destroy wonderfully, and prosper, and accomplish his purposes, and he will destroy the mighty, 25 and the people of the holy ones. And through his policy will he cause fraud to prosper in his hand, and he will magnify himself in his heart, and he will destroy many in the midst of security, and he will stand up against the prince of princes; but he shall be broken 26 without hand. And the vision of the evening and the

morning, which has been told thee, is true; but do thou 27 shut up the vision; for it relates to distant days. And I, Daniel, fainted, and was sick some days; afterward I rose up and did the king's business; and I was astonished at the vision, but no one explained it.

IX.

Daniel's prayer for the restoration of Jerusalem. Revelation of the seventy weeks. CH. IX.

1 In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus, of the race of the Medes, who became king over the realm of 2 the Chaldeans, in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, attentively considered in the books the number of the years, concerning which the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah, the prophet, that Jerusalem should remain in ruins, till they were accomplished, namely, seventy years. 3 And I set my face toward God, the Lord, and made prayers and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, 4 and ashes. And I prayed to Jehovah, my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and terrible God, who keepeth the covenant and mercy to them 5 that love him and keep his commandments! We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy 6 precepts and thy statutes. Neither have we hearkened to thy servants, the prophets, who spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the 7 people of the land. To thee, O Lord, belongeth righteousness, but to us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, to those that are near, and to those that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass, which they 8 have trespassed against thee. O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to 9 our fathers, because we have sinned against thee. Yet

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with the Lord, our God, is mercy and forgiveness. For 10 we have rebelled against him, and have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah, our God, to walk in his laws, which 11 he set before us by his servants, the prophets. Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, and turned away, SO as not to obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured out upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses, the servant of God, because we have 12 sinned against him. And he hath fulfilled his word which he spake against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing great calamity upon us; 13 for under the whole heaven hath it not been done,

as hath been done to Jerusalem. As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil came upon us. For we made not our prayer to Jehovah, our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and give heed to 14 thy truth. Therefore hath Jehovah, our God, kept

his mind upon the evil, and brought it upon us; for Jehovah, our God, is righteous in all his works which 15 he doeth; for we obeyed not his voice. And now, O Lord, our God, that broughtest thy people forth from the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and madest thee a name, such as it is at this day, we have sinned, we 16 have done wickedly. O Lord, according to all thy goodness, let thine anger and thy fury, I beseech thee, be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain! for because of our iniquities, and the` iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are 17 become a reproach to all that are about us. Now,

therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake! 18 O my God, incline thine ear, and hear! open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which