Daniel 7:1–7

Vision of the Four Beasts

¹In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel saw a ^adream and visions ¹in his mind as he lay on his bed; then he ^bwrote the dream down and related the ²following summary of ³it.

²Daniel ¹said, “I was ^alooking in my vision by night, and behold, the ^bfour winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea.

³“And four great ^abeasts were coming up from the sea, different from one another.

⁴“The first was ^alike a lion and had the wings of an eagle. I kept looking until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man; a human ¹mind also was given to it.

⁵“And behold, another beast, a second one, resembling a bear. And it was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth; and thus they said to it, ‘Arise, devour much meat!’

⁶“After this I kept looking, and behold, another one, ^alike a leopard, which had on its ¹back four wings of a bird; the beast also had ^bfour heads, and dominion was given to it.

⁷“After this I kept looking in the night visions, and behold, a ^afourth beast, dreadful and terrifying and extremely strong; and it had large iron teeth. It devoured and crushed and trampled down the remainder with its feet; and it was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ^bten horns.