Daniel 7:9–22

The Ancient of Days

⁹“I kept looking

Until ^athrones were set up,

And the Ancient of Days was seated;

His ^bclothing was like white snow

And the ^chair of His head like pure wool.

His ^dthrone was ¹ablaze with fire,

Its ^ewheels were a burning fire.

¹⁰“A river of ^afire was flowing

And coming out from before Him;

^bThousands upon thousands were attending Him,

And myriads upon myriads were standing before Him;

The ^ccourt sat,

And ^dthe books were opened.

¹¹“Then I kept looking because of the sound of the great boastful words which the horn was speaking; I kept looking until the beast was killed, and its body was destroyed and given to the ^aburning ¹fire.

¹²“As for the rest of the beasts, their ¹dominion was taken away, but an extension of life was given to them for an appointed season of time.

The Son of Man

¹³“I kept looking in the night visions,

And behold, with the clouds of heaven

One like a ^aSon of Man was coming,

And He came up to the Ancient of Days

And came near before Him.

¹⁴“And to Him was given ^1adominion,

Glory, and ^ba kingdom,

^cThat all the peoples, nations, and men of every tongue

Might serve Him.

^dHis ²dominion is an everlasting ³dominion

Which will not be taken away;

^eAnd His kingdom is one

Which will not be destroyed.

The Vision Interpreted

¹⁵“As for me, Daniel, my spirit was distressed ¹within me, and the ^avisions of my head kept ^balarming me.

¹⁶“I came near to one of those who were ^astanding by and began seeking out from him the ¹exact meaning of all this. So he ^bsaid it to me and made known to me the interpretation of these things:

¹⁷‘These great beasts, which are four in number, are four kings who will arise from the earth.

¹⁸‘But the ^1asaints of the Highest One will ^breceive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, ²for all ages to come.’

¹⁹“Then I desired to know the ¹exact meaning of the ^afourth beast, which was different from all ²the others, extraordinarily fearsome, with its teeth of iron and its claws of bronze, and which devoured, crushed, and trampled down the remainder with its feet,

²⁰and the meaning of the ten horns that were on its head and the other horn which came up and before which three of them fell, namely, that horn which had eyes and a mouth speaking great boasts and ¹which was larger in appearance than its associates.

²¹“I kept looking, and that horn was ^awaging war with the saints and overcoming them

²²until the Ancient of Days came and ^ajudgment was given in favor of the saints of the Highest One, and the season arrived when the saints took possession of the kingdom.