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| | <center><small>''The vision of the four beasts, and of the kingdom of God.<br/>555 B.C. (?)''<ref>after Bishop [[James Ussher]]</ref><br/><span style="color:#800000">''553 B.C. (?)''</span><ref>According to current historical and archaeological research.</ref></small></center> | | <center><small>''The vision of the four beasts, and of the kingdom of God.<br/>555 B.C. (?)''<ref>after Bishop [[James Ussher]]</ref><br/><span style="color:#800000">''553 B.C. (?)''</span><ref>According to current historical and archaeological research.</ref></small></center> |
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| − | | + | '''1''' In the first year of Belshazzar king of [[Babylon]] [[Daniel]] had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, ''and'' told the sum of the matters. |
| − | '''1''' In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, ''and'' told the sum of the matters. | |
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| | '''2''' Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. | | '''2''' Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. |
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| | '''3''' And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. | | '''3''' And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. |
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| − | '''4''' The first ''was'' like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it. | + | '''4''' The first ''was'' like a lion, and had eagle's wings:<ref>See also the reference to eagle's wings at [[Isaiah, Chapter 40|Isaiah 40:31]].</ref> I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the [[earth]], and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it. |
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| | '''5''' And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and ''it had'' three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. | | '''5''' And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and ''it had'' three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. |