Daniel 8:1–12

Vision of the Ram and Goat

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

²I ^alooked in the vision, and 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 longer than the other, with the longer one coming up last.

⁴I saw the ram ^abutting westward, northward, and southward, and no other beasts could stand before him nor was there anyone to rescue from his ¹power, but ^bhe did as he pleased and magnified himself.

⁵While I was observing, 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 his eyes.

⁶He came up to the ram that had the two horns, which I had seen standing in front of the ¹canal, and rushed at him in his mighty wrath.

⁷I saw him come beside the ram, and he was enraged at him; and he struck the ram and shattered his two horns, and the ram had no strength to withstand him. So he hurled him to the ground and trampled on him, and there was none to rescue the ram from his ¹power.

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

The Little Horn

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

¹⁰It 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.

¹¹It 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 ^afling truth to the ground and perform its will and prosper.