Then I, Daniel, looked, and two others appeared, one standing on this bank of the stream and one on the other.
But then a hand touched me and roused me to my hands and knees.
Then one in human form touched my lips, and I opened my mouth to speak and said to the one who stood before me, “My lord, because of the vision such pains have come upon me that I retain no strength.
But you, Daniel, keep the words secret and the book sealed until the time of the end. Many shall be running back and forth, and evil shall increase.”
One of them said to the man clothed in linen, who was upstream, “How long shall it be until the end of these wonders?”