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Daniel 7:1

New American Bible - revised edition

In the first year of King Belshazzar of Babylon, as Daniel lay in bed he had a dream, visions in his head. Then he wrote down the dream; the account began:

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(Indeed, the Lord God does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.)

King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles, with whom he drank.

Finally there came before me Daniel, whose name is Belteshazzar after the name of my god, and in whom is a spirit of the holy gods. I repeated the dream to him:

To these four young men God gave knowledge and proficiency in all literature and wisdom, and to Daniel the understanding of all visions and dreams.

Let the prophets who have dreams tell their dreams; let those who have my word speak my word truthfully! What has straw to do with wheat? —oracle of the Lord.

Write down, therefore, what you have seen, and what is happening, and what will happen afterwards.

Then the Lord answered me and said: Write down the vision; Make it plain upon tablets, so that the one who reads it may run.

Because of this, my spirit was anguished and I, Daniel, was terrified by my visions.

As the visions during the night continued, I saw coming with the clouds of heaven One like a son of man. When he reached the Ancient of Days and was presented before him,

In the second year of his reign, King Nebuchadnezzar had a dream which left his spirit no rest and robbed him of his sleep.

the Lord said: Now listen to my words: If there are prophets among you, in visions I reveal myself to them, in dreams I speak to them;

There God, speaking to Israel in a vision by night, called: Jacob! Jacob! He answered, “Here I am.”

When the seven thunders had spoken, I was about to write it down; but I heard a voice from heaven say, “Seal up what the seven thunders have spoken, but do not write it down.”

I must boast; not that it is profitable, but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.

For whatever was written previously was written for our instruction, that by endurance and by the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

After this first vision, I, Daniel, had another, in the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar.

After this, in the visions of the night I saw a fourth beast, terrifying, horrible, and of extraordinary strength; it had great iron teeth with which it devoured and crushed, and it trampled with its feet what was left. It differed from the beasts that preceded it. It had ten horns.

That very night Belshazzar, the Chaldean king, was slain:

You, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this;

In the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles by the river Chebar, the heavens opened, and I saw divine visions.—

So Jeremiah called Baruch, son of Neriah, and he wrote down on a scroll what Jeremiah said, all the words which the Lord had spoken to him.

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

Now come, write it on a tablet they can keep, inscribe it on a scroll; That in time to come it may be an eternal witness.

The Lord said to me: Take a large tablet, and inscribe on it with an ordinary stylus, “belonging to Maher-shalal-hash-baz,”

In my thoughts during visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on mortals,

Some time afterward, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: Do not fear, Abram! I am your shield; I will make your reward very great.

Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to his scribe, Baruch, son of Neriah, who wrote on it at Jeremiah’s dictation all the words contained in the scroll which Jehoiakim, king of Judah, had burned in the fire, adding many words like them.

In a divine vision he brought me to the land of Israel, where he set me down on a very high mountain. In front of me, there was something like a city built on it.

The king asked Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, “Can you tell me the dream that I had and its meaning?”

Let his mind be changed from a human one; let the mind of a beast be given him, till seven years pass over him.




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