two horns, which I saw standing before the waters: and he ran mightily in his wrath toward him.

And I saw him come hard upon the ram, and was enraged at him, and thrust the ram, and brake his two horns. And the ram had no strength to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and no man could deliver the ram out of his hand.

And the kid grew very great. And when he was grown strongest, the great horn was broken: and there grew up in his place four great horns against the four winds of heaven.

And out of the same one grew a little horn, which became very great toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the good land.

And it grew up unto the host of heaven, and cast some of them, and of the stars, unto the earth, and trod them down.

Yea, it grew up unto the prince of the host, and took away from him the daily sacrifice, and
desolated the tabernacle of his sanctuary.

And such power was given him against the daily sacrifice for sin, that he smote the truth to the ground, and whatsoever he did he prospered.

And I heard a holy man speak, and the same holy man spake unto one that spake: How long shall this vision of the daily sacrifice, and of the sin for which this desolation is made, both the sanctuary and the host, be trodden down?

And he said unto me, Two thousand and three hundred days, from even unto even, shall the sanctuary be consecrated again.

And when I, Daniel, saw such a vision, and would have understood it, behold, it stood before me like a man.

And I heard between Ulai a man’s voice crying, saying, Gabriel, set the face of this man, that he may understand.

And he came hard unto me. And I was afraid when he came, and fell upon my face. And he said unto me, Take heed, thou son of man: for this vision is of the time of the end.

And as he spake unto me, I sank down on my face to the earth in a swoon. And he touched me, and lifted me up, and I stood.

And he said, Behold, I will shew thee how it shall be in the time of the last wrath: for the end hath an appointed time.

The ram with two horns, which thou sawest, are the kings of Media and Persia.

And the he goat is king in Greece. The great horn between his eyes is the first king.

And that four stood in his stead, when it was broken, signifieth that four kingdoms shall arise out of the people, but not so mighty as he was.

After these kingdoms, when the transgressors shall abound, there shall arise an insolent and treacherous king.

He shall be mighty, but not by his power. He shall destroy it marvellously: and he shall succeed in his work. He shall destroy the mighty with the holy people.

And by his prudence shall he be advised of deceit. And shall rise up in his heart, and by prosperity shall he corrupt many, and shall rise up against the prince of all princes. But he shall be broken without hand.

This vision of the evenings and mornings, which is told thee, it is true; but thou shalt keep the vision secret, because it is yet a long time.

And I Daniel was faint, and lay sick some days. And afterward I arose, and did the king’s business. And I marvelled at the vision; and there was none to tell me.
(Daniel)
Chapter 9
Daniel’s prayer and prophecy of the seventy weeks.

In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the tribe of the Medes, who reigned over the kingdom of the Chaldeans,

In the same first year of his reign I Daniel noted in the books the number of the years, which the LORD spake unto Jeremiah the prophet, that Jerusalem should lie desolate seventy years.

And I turned unto GOD the LORD, to pray and to supplicate, with fasting, in sackcloth and ashes.

And I prayed unto the LORD my God, confessing, saying, O Lord, thou greater and terrible God, which keepest covenant and grace unto them that love thee, and keepest thy commandments:

we have sinned, we have done wrong, we have been ungodly, we have gone astray; we have departed from thy commandments and thy statutes.

We hearkened not unto thy servants the prophets, which preached in thy name unto our kings, and to our princes, and to our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

Thou, O LORD, art righteous: but we are ashamed, as now we pray thee, to them of Judah, and to them of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, both to them that are near, and to them that are far off, in all countries, whither thou hast cast us out for their iniquity which they have committed against thee.

Yea, O LORD, we, our kings, our princes, and our fathers, are ashamed, because we have sinned against thee.

But thine, O LORD our God, is mercy and forgiveness. For we have become apostates 10. And obeyed not the voice of the LORD our God, that we should walk in his law, which he set before us by his servants the prophets,

But all Israel transgressed thy law, and turned aside, because they obeyed not thy voice.
Therefore the curse and the oath, which is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, is upon us, because we have sinned against him.

And he hath kept his words which he spake against us, and against our judges that should judge us, in that he hath brought upon us such great calamities, that there was none like them in all heaven, as there was upon Jerusalem.

As it is written in the law of Moses, so all this great evil is come upon us. Neither prayed we before the LORD our God, that we might repent of sins, and receive thy truth.

Therefore the LORD also hath been valiant in this calamity, and hath suffered it to pass upon us. For the LORD our God is righteous in all his works that he doeth: for we have not obeyed his voice.

And now, O LORD our God, who hast brought thy people up out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast made thee a name, as it is now: for we have sinned, and, alas, have been ungodly.

O LORD, for all thy righteousness’ sake turn away thy wrath and thy anger from thy city Jerusalem, and from thy holy mountain. For our sins, and our fathers’ iniquities, Jerusalem and thy people are reproached of all that are round about us.

And now, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications; and look graciously upon thy sanctuary, which is desolate, for the LORD’S sake.

Incline thine ears, O my God, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold how we are distressed, and the city that is called by thy name. For we lie before thee with our prayer, not upon our righteousness, but upon thy great mercy.

O LORD, hear; O LORD, be merciful; O LORD, take heed, and do it, and consume not for thine own sake, O my God. For thy city and thy people are called by thy name.

While I yet spake and prayed, and confessed my sin, and the sin of my people Israel, and lay with my prayer before the LORD my God, about the holy mountain of my God, 21. And as I was thus speaking in my prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I saw before in the vision, flew therefore, and touched me about the time of the evening sacrifice.

And he told me, and spake unto me, saying, Daniel, now am I gone forth to tell thee.

For when thou beganst to pray, this command went forth, and I come to tell thee: for thou art good and worthy. Take heed therefore that thou understand the vision.

Seventy weeks are appointed for thy people, and for thy holy city: and the transgression shall be repented of, and sin shall be sealed, and iniquity shall be atoned for, and everlasting righteousness shall be brought, and visions and prophecies shall be sealed, and the most holy place shall be anointed.

Know therefore, and mark, that from the time when the commandment shall go forth, that Jerusalem should be rebuilt until Christ the Prince, seven weeks and threescore and two weeks, the streets and the walls shall be rebuilt, though it be in a small time.

And after the threescore and two weeks Christ shall be cut off, and shall be nothing. And a people of the prince shall come, and shall destroy the city and the sanctuary, and it shall be cut off as by a flood: and it shall be desolate until the end of the controversy.

And he shall strengthen the covenant of many for a week. And in the midst of the week the sacrifice and the meat offering shall cease. And by the wings shall stand abominations of desolation: and it is determined that desolation shall overflow unto the end.
(Daniel)
Chapter 10
Preparation for the following faces.

In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia there was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was
Belteshazzar, a thing sure and of great things: and he perceived it, and understood the vision.

At the same time I, Daniel, was sad for three weeks.

I did eat no sweetmeats, neither did meat nor wine enter into my mouth: neither did I anoint myself until the three weeks were expired.

In the four and twentieth day of the first month was