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Daniel 7:1

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Daniel wrote: In the first year of King Belshazzar of Babylonia, I had some dreams and visions while I was asleep one night, and I wrote them down. The four winds were stirring up the mighty sea,

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Later the LORD spoke to Abram in a vision, “Abram, don't be afraid! I will protect you and reward you greatly.”

That night, God spoke to him and said, “Jacob! Jacob!” “Here I am,” Jacob answered.

I was overcome by sleep, but disturbed by dreams;

The LORD told me to write down his message for his people, so that it would be there for ever.

The LORD said, “Isaiah, get something to write on. Then write in big clear letters the name, MAHER-SHALAL-HASH-BAZ.

Their dreams and my truth are as different as straw and wheat. But when prophets speak for me, they must say only what I have told them.

After the LORD finished speaking to me, I got another scroll and gave it to Baruch. Then I told him what to write, so this second scroll would contain even more than was on the scroll Jehoiakim had burnt.

I sent for Baruch son of Neriah and asked him to help me. I repeated everything the LORD had told me, and Baruch wrote it all down on a scroll.

I am Ezekiel—a priest and the son of Buzi. Five years after King Jehoiachin of Judah had been led away as a prisoner to Babylonia, I was living near the River Chebar among those who had been taken there with him. Then on the fifth day of the fourth month of the thirtieth year, the heavens suddenly opened. The LORD placed his hand upon me and showed me some visions.

God made the four young men clever and wise. They read a lot of books and became well educated. Daniel could also tell the meaning of dreams and visions.

During the second year that Nebuchadnezzar was king, he had such horrible nightmares that he could not sleep.

The king asked Daniel, “Can you tell me my dream and what it means?”

“While I was in bed, having this vision, a holy angel came down from heaven

when suddenly I had some horrifying dreams and visions.

One evening, King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his highest officials, and he drank wine with them.

King Belshazzar, you knew all this, but you still refused to honour the Lord who rules from heaven.

That same night, the king was killed.

As I continued to watch the vision that night, I saw what looked like a son of man coming with the clouds of heaven, and he was presented to the Eternal God.

Daniel wrote: I was terrified by these visions, and I didn't know what to think.

The fourth beast was stronger and more terrifying than the others. Its huge teeth were made of iron, and what it didn't grind with its teeth, it smashed with its feet. It was different from the others, and it had horns on its head—ten of them.

Daniel wrote: In the third year of King Belshazzar of Babylonia, I had a second vision

Later, I will give my Spirit to everyone. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your old men will have dreams, and your young men will see visions.

Whatever the LORD God plans to do, he tells his servants, the prophets.

Then the LORD told me: “I will give you my message in the form of a vision. Write it clearly enough to be read at a glance.

Then after commanding them to listen carefully, he said: “I, the LORD, speak to prophets in visions and dreams.

And the Scriptures were written to teach and encourage us by giving us hope.

I have to boast. There is nothing to be gained by it, but I must boast about the visions and other things that the Lord has shown me.

Write what you have seen and what is and what will happen after these things.

After the thunder stopped, I was about to write what it had said. But a voice from heaven shouted, “Keep it secret! Don't write these things.”




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