Daniel 7 7:1 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 . 7:2 Daniel spake and said , I saw in my vision by night , and, behold , the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea . 7:3 And four great beasts came up from the sea , diverse one from another . 7:4 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. 7:5 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 . 7:6 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. 7:7 After this I saw in the night visions , and behold a fourth beast , dreadful and terrible , and strong exceedingly ; and it had great iron teeth : it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it [was] diverse from all the beasts that [were] before it; and it had ten horns . 7:8 I 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 the roots : and, behold , in this horn [were] eyes like the eyes of man , and a mouth speaking great things. 7:9 I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit , whose garment [was] white as snow , and the hair of his head like the pure wool : his throne [was like] the fiery flame , [and] his wheels [as] burning fire . 7:10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set , and the books were opened . 7:11 I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake : I beheld [even ] till the beast was slain , and his body destroyed , and given to the burning flame . 7:12 As concerning the rest of the beasts , they had their dominion taken away : yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time . 7:13 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 , and they brought him near before him. 7:14 And there was given him dominion , and glory , and a kingdom , that all people , nations , and languages , should serve him: his dominion [is] an everlasting dominion , which shall not pass away , and his kingdom [that] which shall not be destroyed . 7:15 I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of [my] body , and the visions of my head troubled me. 7:16 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 . 7:17 These great beasts , which are four , [are] four kings , [which] shall arise out of the earth . 7:18 But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom , and possess the kingdom for ever , even for ever and ever . 7:19 Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast , which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful , whose teeth [were of] iron , and his nails [of] brass ; [which] devoured , brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet ; 7:20 And of the ten horns that [were] in his head , and [of] the other which came up, and before whom three fell ; even [of] that horn that had eyes , and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look [was] more stout than his fellows . 7:21 I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints , and prevailed against them; 7:22 Until 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 . 7:23 Thus he said , The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth , which shall be diverse from all kingdoms , and shall devour the whole earth , and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. 7:24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom [are] ten kings [that] shall arise : and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first , and he shall subdue three kings . 7:25 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 . 7:26 But the judgment shall sit , and they shall take away his dominion , to consume and to destroy [it] unto the end . 7:27 And the kingdom and dominion , and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven , shall be given to the people of the saints of the most