Daniel 8:1–12

The Vision of the Ram and Goat

¹In the third year of the reign of Belshazzar the king, a vision appeared to me, ¹Daniel, after the one which appeared to me ²previously.

²And I ^alooked in the vision. And it happened that while I was looking, I was in the citadel of ^bSusa, which is in the province of ^cElam; and I looked in the vision, and I myself was beside the Ulai ¹Canal.

³Then I lifted my eyes and looked, and behold, a ^aram which had two horns was standing in front of the ¹canal. Now the two horns were ²long, but one was ³longer than the other, with the ⁴longer one coming up last.

⁴I saw the ram ^abutting westward, northward, and southward, and no other beasts could stand before it, nor was there anyone to deliver from its ¹power, but ^bit did as it pleased and magnified itself.

⁵And while I was considering, behold, a male goat was coming from the west over the surface of the whole earth without touching the ground; and the ¹goat had a ^aconspicuous horn between its eyes.

⁶Then it came up to the ram that had the two horns, which I had seen standing in front of the ¹canal, and ran at it in his strong wrath.

⁷And I saw it reach the side of the ram, and it was enraged at it; and it struck the ram and broke its two horns in pieces, and the ram had no strength to stand in ¹opposition to it. So it threw it down to the ground and trampled on it, and there was none to deliver the ram from its ²power.

⁸Then the male goat magnified itself exceedingly. But as soon as ^ait was mighty, the ^blarge horn was broken; and in its place there came up four conspicuous horns toward the ^cfour winds of ¹heaven.

The Small Horn

⁹And out of one of them came forth a rather ^asmall horn. And it grew exceedingly great toward the south, toward the east, and toward the ^1bBeautiful Land.

¹⁰Then it grew up to the host of heaven and caused some of the host and some of the ^astars to fall to the earth, and it ^btrampled them down.

¹¹And it even ^amagnified itself ¹to be equal with the ²Commander of the host; and it removed the ^bregular sacrifice from Him, and the place of His sanctuary was thrown down.

¹²And on account of transgression the host will be given over to the horn along with the regular sacrifice; and it will ^athrow truth down to the ground and do its will and succeed.