But afterwards you couldn't tell they'd eaten them because they looked just as skinny and ugly as before. Then I woke up.
These skinny, ugly cows ate the first seven healthy-looking cows.
Then I fell asleep again. In my second dream I saw seven heads of grain growing on one stalk, ripe and healthy.
Then he saw another seven cows that came up behind them. They looked ugly and skinny as they stood beside the other cows on the bank of the Nile.
They will not be humiliated in bad times; even in days of famine they will have plenty to eat.
People destroy others on the right, yet they're still hungry for more; people destroy others on the left, but they're still not satisfied. In the end they even destroy themselves!
“Son of man,” he said to me, “eat and fill yourself up with this scroll I'm giving you.” So I ate the scroll, and it tasted as sweet as honey.