Daniel 7
World English Bible (WEB) • 28 verses
1In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head while on his bed. Then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters.
2Daniel spoke and said, “I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the sky broke out on the great sea.
3Four great animals came up from the sea, different from one another.
RelatedRevelation 13:1 · Daniel 7:17 · Daniel 2:32-33 · Daniel 7:4-8 · Zechariah 6:1-8 · Psalms 76:4
4“The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings. I watched until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth and made to stand on two feet as a man. A man’s heart was given to it.
RelatedIsaiah 14:13-17 · Jeremiah 4:7 · Habakkuk 1:6-8 · Ezekiel 17:3 · Matthew 24:28 · Habakkuk 2:5-10
5“Behold, there was another animal, a second, like a bear. It was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth. They said this to it: ‘Arise! Devour much flesh!’
RelatedDaniel 2:39 · Proverbs 17:12 · Isaiah 13:17-18 · Jeremiah 50:21-32 · Hosea 13:8 · Isaiah 56:9
6“After this I saw, and behold, another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird. The animal also had four heads; and dominion was given to it.
7“After this I saw in the night visions, and, behold, there was a fourth animal, awesome, powerful, and exceedingly strong. It had great iron teeth. It devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet. It was different from all the animals that were before it. It had ten horns.
RelatedRevelation 13:1 · Revelation 12:3 · Revelation 17:12 · Daniel 7:23-24 · Daniel 7:19-20 · Daniel 2:40-42
8“I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots; and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking arrogantly.
RelatedRevelation 13:5-6 · Revelation 13:1 · Psalms 12:3 · Revelation 9:7 · Daniel 8:9-12 · Revelation 13:11-13
9“I watched until thrones were placed, and one who was Ancient of Days sat. His clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool. His throne was fiery flames, and its wheels burning fire.
10A fiery stream issued and came out from before him. Thousands of thousands ministered to him. Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The judgment was set. The books were opened.
RelatedIsaiah 30:27 · Deuteronomy 33:2 · Revelation 20:11-15 · Psalms 50:3 · Revelation 5:11 · Nahum 1:5-6
11“I watched at that time because of the voice of the arrogant words which the horn spoke. I watched even until the animal was slain, and its body destroyed, and it was given to be burned with fire.
RelatedRevelation 19:20 · Revelation 20:10 · Daniel 7:8 · 2 Thessalonians 2:8 · Daniel 8:25 · Revelation 18:8
12As for the rest of the animals, their dominion was taken away; yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.
13“I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the Ancient of Days, and they brought him near before him.
RelatedMatthew 26:64 · Revelation 1:7 · Luke 21:27 · Revelation 14:14 · Matthew 24:30 · Mark 14:61-62
14Dominion was given him, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which will not pass away, and his kingdom one that will not be destroyed.
RelatedRevelation 11:15 · Daniel 7:27 · Daniel 2:44 · John 3:35 · 1 Corinthians 15:24-28 · Ephesians 1:20-22
15“As for me, Daniel, my spirit was grieved within my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.
16I came near to one of those who stood by, and asked him the truth concerning all this. “So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.
RelatedRevelation 7:13-14 · Revelation 5:5 · Daniel 7:10 · Zechariah 2:3 · Daniel 10:11-12 · Daniel 8:13-16
17‘These great animals, which are four, are four kings, who will arise out of the earth.
RelatedJohn 18:36 · Daniel 7:3-4 · Psalms 17:14 · Revelation 13:1 · Daniel 8:19-22 · Revelation 13:11
18But the saints of the Most High will receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.’
RelatedDaniel 7:27 · Isaiah 60:12-14 · Revelation 5:10 · Revelation 20:4 · Revelation 2:26-27 · 2 Timothy 2:11-12
19“Then I desired to know the truth concerning the fourth animal, which was different from all of them, exceedingly terrible, whose teeth were of iron, and its nails of bronze; which devoured, broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet;
20and concerning the ten horns that were on its head and the other horn which came up, and before which three fell, even that horn that had eyes and a mouth that spoke arrogantly, whose look was more stout than its fellows.
21I saw, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them,
RelatedDaniel 12:7 · Daniel 8:24 · Revelation 17:14 · Revelation 13:5-18 · Revelation 17:6 · Revelation 12:3-4
22until the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High, and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
RelatedDaniel 7:18 · Revelation 5:10 · Revelation 20:4 · 2 Thessalonians 2:8 · Daniel 7:9-11 · Luke 22:29-30
23“So he said, ‘The fourth animal will be a fourth kingdom on earth, which will be different from all the kingdoms, and will devour the whole earth, and will tread it down and break it in pieces.
24As for the ten horns, ten kings will arise out of this kingdom. Another will arise after them; and he will be different from the former, and he will put down three kings.
RelatedDaniel 7:20 · Daniel 11:36 · Revelation 13:1 · 2 Thessalonians 2:3-10 · Revelation 17:12-13 · Revelation 17:16-18
25He will speak words against the Most High, and will wear out the saints of the Most High. He will plan to change the times and the law; and they will be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.
RelatedDaniel 12:7 · Revelation 12:14 · 2 Thessalonians 2:4 · Revelation 13:5-11 · Revelation 12:6 · Daniel 12:11-12
26“‘But the judgment will be set, and they will take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it to the end.
27The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky, will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions will serve and obey him.’
28“Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts troubled me greatly, and my face was changed in me; but I kept the matter in my heart.”
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