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Daniel 7:1

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

In the first year of King Belshazzar of Babylon, Daniel had a dream with visions in his mind  as he was lying in his bed. He wrote down the dream,  and here is the summary  of his account.

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Indeed, the Lord God does nothing without revealing his counsel to his servants the prophets.


After this I will pour out my Spirit  on all humanity; then your sons and your daughters will prophesy, your old men will have dreams, and your young men will see visions.


King Belshazzar  held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles and drank wine in their presence.


I had a dream, and it frightened me; while in my bed, the images and visions in my mind alarmed me.


God gave these four young men knowledge and understanding  in every kind of literature and wisdom. Daniel also understood visions and dreams  of every kind.


The prophet who has only a dream should recount the dream, but the one who has my word should speak my word truthfully, for what is straw compared to grain? ’ #– #this is the Lord’s declaration.


Therefore write what you have seen,   what is, and what will take place after this.


The Lord answered me: Write down this vision; clearly inscribe it on tablets so that one may easily read it.


‘As for me, Daniel, my spirit was deeply distressed within me,  and the visions in my mind terrified me.


I continued watching in the night visions, and suddenly one like a son of man was coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was escorted before him.


In the second year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams  that troubled him, and sleep deserted him.


he said: ‘Listen to what I say: If there is a prophet among you from the  Lord, I make myself known to him in a vision; I speak with him in a dream.


That night God spoke to Israel in a vision:  ‘Jacob, Jacob! ’ he said. And Jacob replied, ‘Here I am.’


And when the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven, saying, ‘Seal up what the seven thunders said,  and do not write it down! ’


Boasting is necessary. It is not profitable, but I will move on to visions  and revelations  of the Lord.


For whatever was written in the past was written for our instruction,  so that we may have hope through endurance and through the encouragement from the Scriptures.


In the third year of King Belshazzar’s  reign, a vision appeared to me, Daniel, after the one that had appeared to me earlier.


‘After this, while I was watching in the night visions, suddenly a fourth beast  appeared, frightening and dreadful, and incredibly strong, with large iron teeth. It devoured and crushed, and it trampled with its feet whatever was left. It was different from all the beasts before it, and it had ten horns.


That very night Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans was killed,


‘But you his successor, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart,  even though you knew all this.


In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, while I was among the exiles by the Chebar Canal,  the heavens were opened  and I saw visions of God.


So Jeremiah summoned Baruch  son of Neriah. At Jeremiah’s dictation,  Baruch wrote on a scroll all the words the Lord had spoken to Jeremiah.


All nations will serve him, his son, and his grandson until the time for his own land comes, and then many nations and great kings will enslave him.


Go now, write it on a tablet in their presence and inscribe it on a scroll; it will be for the future, for ever and ever.


Then the Lord said to me, ‘Take a large piece of parchment  and write on it with an ordinary pen:  , Maher-shalal-hash-baz.


Among unsettling thoughts from visions in the night, when deep sleep  comes over men,


After these events, the word of the Lord came  to Abram in a vision: Do not be afraid,  Abram. I am your shield; your reward will be very great.


Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch son of Neriah, the scribe, and he wrote on it at Jeremiah’s dictation  all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim,  Judah’s king, had burned in the fire. And many other words like them were added.


In visions of God  he took me to the land of Israel and set me down on a very high mountain.  On its southern slope was a structure resembling a city.


The king said in reply to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar,  ‘Are you able to tell me the dream I had and its interpretation? ’


‘As I was lying in my bed, I also saw in the visions of my mind a watcher, a holy one,  , coming down from heaven.





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