But afterward you wouldn’t have known it, for they were still as thin and scrawny as before! Then I woke up.
These thin, scrawny cows ate the seven fat cows.
“In my dream I also saw seven heads of grain, full and beautiful, growing on a single stalk.
Then he saw seven more cows come up behind them from the Nile, but these were scrawny and thin. These cows stood beside the fat cows on the riverbank.
They will not be disgraced in hard times; even in famine they will have more than enough.
They will attack their neighbor on the right but will still be hungry. They will devour their neighbor on the left but will not be satisfied. In the end they will even eat their own children.
“Fill your stomach with this,” he said. And when I ate it, it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth.