Daniel 7:4 - Tree of Life Version

⁴ “The first was like a lion with eagle’s wings. As I watched, its wings were pulled off and it was lifted off the ground. It was made to stand upon two feet like a man, and the heart of a human was given to it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ The first [the Babylonian empire under Nebuchadnezzar] was like a lion and had eagle's wings. I looked till the wings of it were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth and made to stand upon two feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it. [Dan. 2:37, 38.]

American Standard Version (1901)

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 to stand upon two feet as a man; and a man’s heart was given to it.

Common English Bible

⁴ The first was like a lion with eagle’s wings. I observed it until its wings were pulled off, and it was lifted up from the ground. It was then set on two feet, like a human being, and it received a human mind.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ The first was like a lioness and had the wings of an eagle. I watched as its wings were plucked off, and it was raised from the earth and stood on its feet like a man, and the heart of a man was given to it.

English Standard Version 2016

⁴ The first was like a lion and had eagles’ wings. Then as I looked its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man, and the mind of a man was given to it.

Daniel 7:4 Cross References

2 Samuel 1:23

Saul and Jonathan, loved and delightful, parted neither in life nor death. They were swifter than eagles, stronger than lions.

Job 25:6

how much less man who is but a maggot— a son of man who is a worm!”

Psalm 9:20

Arise, Adonai, do not let man triumph. Let the nations be judged before You.

Jeremiah 25:38

He has left His lair, like a lion. For their land has become a waste, because of the fury of the oppressor and because of His fierce anger.

Jeremiah 4:13

See, he comes up like clouds, and his chariots like whirlwinds. His horses are swifter than eagles— “Oy ! We are ruined!”

Jeremiah 4:7

A lion has come up from his thicket— a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his place to make your land a wasteland. Your cities will lie in ruins, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 48:40

For thus says Adonai: “Behold, he will swoop down like a vulture and spread out his wings against Moab.

Jeremiah 49:19

Look, it is like a lion coming up from the thickets of the Jordan to a secure pasture—for abruptly I will make him run away from it. I appoint over it whomever I choose. For who is like Me? Who will summon me to court? What shepherd stands up to Me?”

Lamentations 4:19

Our pursuers were swifter than eagles of the sky; they pursued us over the mountains; they ambushed us in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 17:3

Say, thus says Adonai Elohim: “A great eagle with large wings and broad wings, full of feathers which had varied colors, came to Lebanon and took hold of the top of the cedar.

Ezekiel 28:2

“Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘So your heart is exalted and you say, “I am a god! I sit in the seat of the gods in the heart of the seas!” Yet you are human, not a god, even if you set up your heart like the heart of a god.

Ezekiel 28:9

Will you still say, ‘I am a god’ before the one who slays you? Yet you are man, and not a god, in the hand of those who pierce you.

Daniel 2:38

Wherever mankind, beasts of the field, and fowls of the heaven dwell, He has given them into your hand, and made you ruler over them all. You are the head of gold.

Daniel 7:12

As for the rest of the beasts, their dominion had been taken away, yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.

Daniel 7:5

“And behold there before me was another beast, a second one, like a bear. It raised itself up on one side; it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. It was told, ‘Arise, devour much flesh!’

Matthew 24:28

For wherever the carcass is, there the vultures will gather.

Deuteronomy 28:49

“Adonai will raise up a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, just as the eagle swoops down—a nation whose language you will not understand,

Revelation 13:2

Now the beast that I saw was like a leopard, his feet like a bear’s, and his mouth like a lion’s. And the dragon gave him his power and his throne and great authority.