7In the first year of Belshazzar^l king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream, and visions^m passed through his mindⁿ as he was lying in bed.^o He wrote^p down the substance of his dream.

²Daniel said: “In my vision at night I looked, and there before me were the four winds of heaven^q churning up the great sea. ³Four great beasts,^r each different from the others, came up out of the sea.

⁴“The first was like a lion,^s and it had the wings of an eagle.^t I watched until its wings were torn off and it was lifted from the ground so that it stood on two feet like a human being, and the mind of a human was given to it.

⁵“And there before me was a second beast, which looked like a bear. It was raised up on one of its sides, and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. It was told, ‘Get up and eat your fill of flesh!’^u

⁶“After that, I looked, and there before me was another beast, one that looked like a leopard.^v And on its back it had four wings like those of a bird. This beast had four heads, and it was given authority to rule.

⁷“After that, in my vision^w at night I looked, and there before me was a fourth beast—terrifying and frightening and very powerful. It had large iron^x teeth; it crushed and devoured its victims and trampled^y underfoot whatever was left.^z It was different from all the former beasts, and it had ten horns.^a

⁸“While I was thinking about the horns, there before me was another horn, a little^b one, which came up among them; and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like the eyes of a human being^c and a mouth that spoke boastfully.^d

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Cross references

lSee Da 5:1
mSee Eze 40:2
nSee Da 1:17
o Ps 4:4; See Da 4:13
pSee Jer 36:4
qSee Eze 37:9; Da 8:8; 11:4; Rev 7:1
r Rev 13:1
sSee 2 Ki 24:1; Ps 7:2; Jer 4:7; Rev 13:2
tSee Eze 17:3
u Da 2:39
v Rev 13:2
wSee Eze 40:2
xSee Da 2:40
y Da 8:10
z Da 8:7
aSee Rev 12:3
b Da 8:9
c Rev 9:7
dSee Ps 12:3; Rev 13:5–6