After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, restraining the four winds of the earth, so that the wind could not blow on the earth or on the sea or on any tree.
And he will send out his angels with a great trumpet call, and they will gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.
I will bring on Elam the four winds from the four quarters of the sky, and will scatter them toward all those winds. There will be no nation where the outcasts of Elam will not come.
“After this I saw visions in the night, and suddenly a fourth beast appeared, awesome, powerful, and exceedingly strong. It had great iron teeth. It devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet. It was different from all the animals that were before it. It had ten horns.
“I saw in the night visions, and there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of humanity, and he came even to the Ancient of Days, and they brought him near before him.
I saw the vision. Now it was so, that when I saw, I was in the citadel of Susa, which is in the province of Elam. I saw in the vision, and I was by the river Ulai.
The male goat magnified himself exceedingly. When he was strong, the great horn was broken; and instead of it there came up four notable horns toward the four winds of the sky.
When he stands up, his kingdom will be broken and will be divided toward the four winds of the sky, but not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion with which he ruled; for his kingdom will be plucked up, even for others besides these.