8In the third year of the kingdom of Belshazzar the king, a vision appeared to me, Daniel,^a after the one that appeared to me previously.^b ²And I saw in the vision, and when I saw,^c I was in Susa, the citadel that was in the province of Elam. And I saw in the vision, and I myself^d was at the stream of Ulai.^e ³And I lifted up my eyes and I saw, and look! A ram^f standing before^g the stream, and it had^h two horns, and the horns were long, but the one was longer than the second, and the longer one came up after the other one.ⁱ ⁴I saw the ram charging westward and northward and southward, and none of the beasts stood before it,^j and there was no rescuing from its power,^k and it did what it wanted^l and it became strong.^m

⁵And I was considering this, and look, a he-goat coming from the west across the face of the whole earth, and it was not touching the ground;ⁿ and the he-goat had a conspicuous horn^o between its eyes. ⁶Then it came toward the ram that had the two horns^p that I saw standing before^q the stream, and it ran at it with^r the rage of its power. ⁷And I saw it approaching the ram and it was furious at it, and it struck the ram, and it broke its two horns, and there was not strength in the ram to stand before him,^s and he threw it down to the ground and trampled it, and there was no one who could rescue the ram^t from its power. ⁸And the he-goat grew exceedingly great,^u and at the height of its power^v the great horn was broken, and four conspicuous horns^w came up in place of it toward the four winds of heaven.

⁹And from one of them^x came forth a horn, a little one,^y and it grew exceedingly^z toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the beautiful land. ¹⁰And it grew up to the host of heaven, and it threw down to the ground some of the host and some of the stars and trampled them. ¹¹Even against the prince of the hosts it acted arrogantly and took away from him the regular burnt offering, and the place of his sanctuary was overthrown. ¹²And on account of transgression, the host was given over to the horn in addition to the regular burnt offering. And it cast down truth to the ground, and it acted,^a and it had success.

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Footnotes

aLiterally “I Daniel”
bLiterally “in the beginning”
cLiterally “and it was at my seeing”
dLiterally “I, I was”
eOr “Ulai Canal” (NASB); “stream of the Ulai” (NEB)
fHebrew “One ram”
gLiterally “to the face of”
hLiterally “for it”
iLiterally “in the behind of the other”
jLiterally “all the beasts not they withstood to the face of him”
kLiterally “its hand”
lLiterally “according to its will”
mOr “it/he magnified itself/himself”
nOr “earth,” or “land”
oLiterally “a horn of vision”
pLiterally “the owner of the two horns”
qLiterally “to the face of”
rOr “in”
sLiterally “and not was strength in the ram to withstand to the face of him”
tLiterally “and not he/it was one rescuing”
uLiterally “until much”
vLiterally “and at his being powerful”
wLXX reads “others” here for “conspicuous.” The words in Hebrew can be confused for each other
xLiterally “And from the one from them”
yLiterally “one from little”
zOr “pre-eminently”
aLiterally “did”