Belshazzar's DANIEL. impious feast. 22 It is thou, O king, that art grown thou know that the Most High ruleth and become strong for thy greatness in the kingdom of men, and giveth it grown, and reacheth unto heaven, to whomsoever he will. and thy dommion to the end of the earth. is 33 The same hour was the thing fur filled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, aud his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws. 34 And at the end of the days 1 Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me,and 1 blessed the Most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to genera tion: 23 And whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from heaven,and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven,and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him ; 24 This is the mterpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the Most High, which is come upon my lord the king; 25 That they shall drive thee from| 35 And all the inhabitants of the earth men, and thy dwelling shall be with are reputed as nothing: and he doeth the beasts of the field," and they shall according to his will in the army of make thee to eat grass as oxen, and heaven, and among the inhabitants of they shall wet thee with the dew of the earth; and none can stay his hand, heaven, and seven times shall pass or say unto him, What doest thou? over thee, till thou know that the 36 At the same time my reason reMost High ruleth in the kingdom of turned unto me; and for the glory of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he my kingdom, mine honour and bright ness returned unto me; and my coun sellors and my lords sought uŭto me; and I was established in my kingdom; and excellent majesty was added unto will. 26 And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the tree roots: thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee, after that thou shalt have known that the me. heavens do rule. 27 Wherefore, O king, let my counsel ne acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity. 28 ¶ All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. 29 At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. 37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise, and extol, and honour the king of hea ven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment; and those that walk in pride he is able to abase. CHAP. V. BE › ELSHAZZAR the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. 2 Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden 30 The king spake and said, Is not and silver vessels which his father this great Babylon, that I have built Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the for the house of the kingdom, by the temple which was in Jerusalem; that might of my power, and for the hon-the king and his princes, his wives and our of my majesty? his concubines, might drink therein. 31 While the word was in the king's 3 Then they brought the golden vesmouth, there fell a voice from heaven, sels that were taken out of the temple saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to of the house of God which was at Je thee it is spoken; The kingdom is de-rusalem; and the king and his princes, parted from thee. his wives and his concubines, drank 32 And they shall drive thee from in them. men, and thy dwelling shall be with 4 They drank wine, and praised the the beasts of the field: they shall gods of gold, and of silver, of brass,ol make thee to eat grass as oxen, and iron, of wood, and of stone. seven times shall pass over thee, until 5 T In the same hour came forth. Daniel reproveth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote 15 And now the wise men, the asover against the candlestick upon the trologers, have been brought in before plaster of the wall of the king's palme,that they should read this writing, ace; and the king saw the part of the and make known unto me the interhand that wrote. 6 Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. pretation thereof; but they could not show the interpretation of the thing: 16 And I have heard of thee, that thou canst make interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to shalt be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom. 7 The king cried aloud to bring in the me the interpretation thereof, thou astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake and said to the wise men of Babylon, Who soever shall read this writing, and show me the interpretation thereof, 17 T Then Daniel answered and said shall be clothed with scarlet, and have before the king,Let thy gifts be to thya chain of gold about his neck, and sell, and give thy rewards to another; shall be the third ruler in the kingdom. yet I will read the writing onto the 8 Then came in all the king's wise king, and make known to him the inmen: but they could not read the terpretation. writing, nor make known to the king 18 0 thou king, the most high God the interpretation thereof. gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour: 9 Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were astonished. 19 And for the majesty that he gave him,all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him; whom he would he slew; and whom be would be kept alive; and whom he would be set up; and whom he would he put down. 10T Now the queen,by reason of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banquet-house; and the queen spake and said, O king, live for ever let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed: 20 But when his heart was lifted up, 11. There is a man in thy kingdom, infand his mind hardened in pride, lie whom is the spirit of the holy gods; was deposed from his kingly throne, and in the days of thy father, light, and they took his glory from him. and understanding, and wisdom, like 21 And he was driven from the sons the wisdom of the gods, was found in of meu; and his heart was made like him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar the beasts, and his dwelling was with thy father, the king, Isay, thy father, the wild asses: they fed him with made master of the magicians, astrol-grass like oxen, and his body was wet ogers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers: with the dew of heaven; till he knew 12 Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, that the most high God ruled in the and knowledge, and understanding, kingdom of men, and that he appoir interpreting of dreams, and showing teth over it whomsoever he will. of hard seutences, and dissolving of] 22 And thou his son, O BelshazzaM", doubts, were found in the same Dan-bast not humbled thy heart, though iel, whom the king named Belteshaz- thou knewest all this; zar: now let Daniel be called, and he 23 But hast lifted up thyself against will show the interpretation. the Lord of heaven; and they have 13 Then was Daniel brought in before brought the vessels of his house be the king. And the king spake and said unto Daniel, drt thou that Daniel, which art of the children of the cap tivity of Judab, whom the king niy father brought out of Jewry? 14 1have even heard of thee,that the spirit of the gods is in thee, and that light, and understanding, and excellent wisdom, is found in thee. fore thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose re all thy ways, hast thou not glori lied: DANIEL. 47 conspiracy against Danicl. 24 Then was the part of the band jany god or mam for thirty days, save sent from him; and this writing was of thee, O king, be shall be cast into written. the den of lious. 25 T And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. 26 This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. 8 Now, Ú king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. 9 Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree. 27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. 10 T Now when Daniel knew that 28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, the writing was signed, he went into and given to the Medes and Persians. his house; and, his windows being 29 Then commanded Belshazzar,and open in his chamber toward Jerusa they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and lem, he kneeled upon his knees three put a chain of gold about his neck, times a day, and prayed, and gave and made a proclamation concerning thanks before his God, as he did afore him, that he should be the third ruler tine. in the kingdom. 30 ¶ In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. 31 And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old. CHAP. VI. I T pleased Darius to set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom; ' 11 Then these men assembled, 2nd found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God. 12 Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king's decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask apeti tion of any god or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not, 13 Then answered they and said be. fore the king, That Daniel, which is of the children of the captivity of Ju 3 Then this Daniel was preferred dah, regardeth not thee, O King, por above the presidents and princes, be- the decree that thou hast signed, but cause an excellent spirit was in him;maketh his petition three times a day, and the king thought to set him over the whole realm. 2 And over these three presidents, of whom Daniel was first; that the princes might give accounts unto them, and the king should have no damage. 14 Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased with 4 Then the presidents and princes hituself, and set his heart on Daniel to sought to find occasion against Daniel deliver him; and he laboured till the concerning the kingdom; but they going down of the sun to deliver him, could find none occasion nor fault; 15 Then these men assembled unto forasinuch as he was faithful, neither the king, and said unto the king, was there any error or fault found in Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed. bun. 6 Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God. 6 Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever. 16 Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God, whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee. 7 All the presidents of the kingdom, 17 And a stone was brought, and laid the governors, and the prices, the upou the mouth of the den; and the counsellors, and the captains, have king sealed it with his own signet,and consulted together to establish a royal with the signet of his lords; that the statute, and to make a firm decree, purpose might not be changed con that whosoever shall ask a petition of [cerning Daniel. His vision CHAP. VII. of the four beasts. 18 Then the king went to his pal-then he wrote the dream, and told the ace, and passed the night fasting: nei- sum of the matters. ther were instrumentsof music brought before him and his sleep went from him. 19 Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions. 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. 3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. 20 And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto 4 The first was like a lion, and bad Daniel; and the king spake and said eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the thereof were plucked, and it was liftliving God, is thy God, whom thou fed up from the earth, and made stand servest continually, able to deliver thee from the Sons? 21 Then said Daniel unto the Ling, O king, live for ever. upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it. 5 And behold another beast,a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself 22 My God hath sent bis angel, and on one side, and it had three ribs in hath shut the lions' mouths, that they the mouth of it between the teeth of have not hurt me: forasinuch as beit: and they said thus unto it, Arise, fore him innocency was found in me; devour much flesh. and also before thee, O king, have 1 done no hurt. 23 Then was the king exceeding glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God. 21 And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den. 6 After this I beheld, and lo, another like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it. 7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast dreadful and terrrible, and strong exceedingly : and it had great iron teeth: it devoued and brake in pieces, aud stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it bad ten horns. 81 considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by 25 ¶ Then king Darius wrote unto the roots: and, behold, in this horn all people, nations, and languages, that were eyes like the eyes of man, and a dwell in all the earth; Peace be mul-mouth speaking great things. tiplied unto you. 9 T1 bebeld till the thrones were 26 Imake a decree, That in every cast down, and the Ancient of days dominion of my kingdom men trem-did sit, whose garment tras white as ble and fear before the God of Daniel: snow, and the hair of his head like for he is the living God, and stedfast the pure wool: his throne was like for ever, and his kingdom that which the fiery fiame, and his wheels as shall not be destroyed, and his domin-burning fire. um shall be even unto the end. 10 A fery stream issued and came 27 He delivereth and rescueth, and forth from before him: thousand thouhe worketh signs and wonders in hea-sands ministered unto him, and ten ven and in earth, who hath delivered thousand times ten thousand stood heDaniel from the power of the lions. fore him: the judgment was set, and 28 So this Daniel prospered in the the books were opened. reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persiau. CHAP. VII. 11 1 beheld then, because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake; I beheld, even till the beast N the first year of Belshazzar king was slain, and his body destroyed,and of Babylon, Daniel had a dream given to the burning flame and vision of his head upon his bed ;/ 12 As concerning the rest of the Daniel's vision of DANIEL. the ram, and he goat. beasts, they had their dominion taken them; and he shall be diverse from away: yet their lives were prolonged the first, and he shall subdue three for a season and time. 13 I saw in the night-visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days,andthey brought him near before him. kings. 25 And he shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand, until a time and times and the dividing of time. 14 And there was given him domin- 27 And the kingdom and dominion, 16 I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things. 17 These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth. 28 Hitherto is the end of the matter As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart. CHAP. VIII. 18 But the saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom, and possess N the third year of the reign of possessing Belshazzar a vision appeared the_kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever. unto me, even unto me Daniel, after 19 Then I would know the truth of that which appeared unto me at the the fourth beast, which was diverse|first. from all the others, exceeding dread-] 2 And I saw in a vision; (and it 20 And of the ten horns that were in 21 I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them; saw the ram pushing westward, 24 And the ten horns out of this 1 |