Daniel Has a Vision of a Goat and a Ram
8:1 1 In the third year2 of King Belshazzar’s reign, a vision appeared to me, Daniel, after the one that had appeared to me previously.3 8:2 In this4 vision I saw myself in Susa5 the citadel,6 which is located in the province of Elam. In the vision I saw myself at the Ulai Canal.7 8:3 I looked up8 and saw9 a10 ram with two horns standing at the canal. Its two horns were both long,11 but one was longer than the other. The longer one was coming up after the shorter one. 8:4 I saw that the ram was butting westward, northward, and southward. No animal12 was able to stand before it, and there was none who could deliver from its power.13 It did as it pleased and acted arrogantly.14
8:5 While I was contemplating all this,15 a male goat16 was coming from the west over the surface of all the land17 without touching the ground. This goat had a conspicuous horn18 between its eyes. 8:6 It came to the two-horned ram that I had seen standing beside the canal and rushed against it with raging strength.19 8:7 I saw it approaching the ram. It went into a fit of rage against the ram20 and struck it21 and broke off its two horns. The ram had no ability to resist it.22 The goat hurled the ram23 to the ground and trampled it. No one could deliver the ram from its power.24 8:8 The male goat acted even more arrogantly. But no sooner had the large horn become strong than it was broken, and there arose four conspicuous horns25 in its place,26 extending toward the four winds of the sky.27
8:9 From one of them came a small horn.28 But it grew to be very big, toward the south and the east and toward the beautiful land.29 8:10 It grew so big it reached the army30 of heaven, and it brought about the fall of some of the army and some of the stars31 to the ground, where it trampled them. 8:11 It also acted arrogantly against the Prince of the army,32 from whom33 the daily sacrifice was removed and whose sanctuary34 was thrown down. 8:12 The army was given over,35 along with the daily sacrifice, in the course of his sinful rebellion.36 It hurled37 truth38 to the ground and enjoyed success.39
8:13 Then I heard a holy one40 speaking. Another holy one said to the one who was speaking, “To what period of time does the vision pertain—this vision concerning the daily sacrifice and the destructive act of rebellion and the giving over of both the sanctuary and army to be trampled?” 8:14 He said to me, “To 2,300 evenings and mornings;41 then the sanctuary will be put right again.”42
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