I, Daniel, looked and saw two others, one standing on either bank of the river.
But then a hand touched me, raising me to my hands and knees.
Then something like a hand touched my lips; I opened my mouth and said to the one standing before me, “My lord, I was seized with pangs at the vision and I was powerless.
“As for you, Daniel, keep secret the message and seal the book until the end time; many shall wander aimlessly and evil shall increase.”
One of them said to the man clothed in linen, who was upstream, “How long shall it be to the end of these appalling things?”