Daniel 7:1–8

Daniel’s Vision of Four Beasts and the Son of Man

7In the first year of Belshazzar the king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions^a of his head as he lay on his bed; then he wrote down the dream and the summary^b of the words as follows:^{c 2}Daniel explained^d and said, “I was looking in my vision in the night, and look, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea. ³And four great beasts were coming up from the sea, differing from one another.^{e 4}The first was like a lion and had^f the wings of an eagle. I was watching until its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the earth and it was raised on its feet like a human, and a human heart was given to it. ⁵And look, another beast, a second one, looking like a bear. And it was raised up on one side and three tusks^g were in its mouth between its teeth, and so it was told,^h “Arise, eat much flesh!” ⁶After this I was watching and look, another beast like a leopard; it had four wingsⁱ of a bird on its back, and the beast had^j four heads, and dominion was given to it. ⁷After this in the visions of the night I was looking and there was a fourth beast, terrifying and frightful and exceedingly strong, and it had^k great iron teeth,^l and it was devouring and crushing, and it stamped the remainder^m with its feet; and it was different from all the other beasts that preceded itⁿ and it had ten horns.^{o 8}I was considering the horns, and look, another little horn came up among^p them, and three of the earlier horns were rooted out^q from before it, and there were eyes like the eyes of a human^r in this horn and also a mouth that was speaking boastfully.