5 As I was observing, a male goat appeared, coming from the west across the surface of the entire earth without touching the ground. The goat had a conspicuous hornF between his eyes.v 6 He came toward the two-horned ram I had seen standing beside the canal and rushed at him with savage fury. 7 I saw him approaching the ram and, infuriated with him, he struck the ram, breaking his two horns, and the ram was not strong enough to stand against him. The goat threw him to the ground and trampled him, and there was no one to rescue the ram from his power. 8 Then the male goat acted even more arrogantly,w but when he became powerful, the large horn was broken.x Four conspicuous horns came up in its place, pointing toward the four winds of heaven.y

THE LITTLE HORN

9 From one of them a little hornz emerged and grew extensively toward the south and the east and toward the beautiful land.G,aa