Daniel 8 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ And out of one of them came forth a little horn: and it became great against the south, and against the east, and against the strength.

² 0 And it was magnified even unto the strength of heaven: and it threw down of the strength, and of the stars, and trod upon them.

³ 1 And it was magnified even to the prince of the strength: and it took away from him the continual sacrifice, and cast down the place of his sanctuary.

⁴ 2 And strength was given him against the continual sacrifice, because of sins: and truth shall be cast down on the ground, and he shall do and shall prosper.

⁵ 3 And I heard one of the saints speaking, and one saint said to another, I know not to whom that was speaking: How long shall be the vision, concerning the continual sacrifice, and the sin of the desolation that is made: and the sanctuary, and the strength be trodden under foot?

⁶ 4 And he said to him: Unto evening and morning two thousand three hundred days: and the sanctuary shall be cleansed.

⁷ 5 And it came to pass when I Daniel saw the vision, and sought the meaning, that behold there stood before me as it were the appearance of a man.

⁸ 6 And I heard the voice of a man between Ulai: and he called, and said: Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.

⁹ 7 And he came and stood near where I stood: and when he was come, I fell on my face trembling, and he said to me: Understand, O son of man, for in the time of the end the vision shall be fulfilled.

¹⁰ 8 And when he spoke to me I fell flat on the ground: and he touched me, and set me upright,

¹¹ 9 And he said to me: I will shew thee what things are to come to pass in the end of the malediction: for the time hath its end.

¹² 0 The ram, which thou sawest with horns, is the king of the Medes and Persians.

¹³ 1 And the he goat, is the king of the Greeks, and the great horn that was between his eyes, the same is the first king.

¹⁴ 2 But whereas when that was broken, there arose up four for it: four kings shall rise up of his nation, but not with his strength.

¹⁵ 3 And after their reign, when iniquities shall be grown up, there shall arise a king of a shameless face, and understanding dark sentences.

¹⁶ 4 And his power shall be strengthened, but not by his own force: and he shall lay all things waste, and shall prosper, and do more than can be believed. And he shall destroy the mighty, and the people of the saints,

¹⁷ 5 According to his will, and craft shall be successful in his hand: and his heart shall be puffed up, and in the abundance of all things he shall kill many: and he shall rise up against the prince of princes, and shall be broken without hand.

¹⁸ 6 And the vision of the evening and the morning, which was told, is true: thou therefore seal up the vision, because it shall come to pass after many days.

¹⁹ 7 And I Daniel languished, and was sick for some days: and when I was risen up, I did the king's business, and I was astonished at the vision, and there was none that could interpret it.

²⁰ In the first year of Darius the son of Assuerus of the seed of the Medes, who reigned over the kingdom of the Chaldeans:

²¹ The first year of his reign, I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, concerning which the word of the Lord came to Jeremias the prophet, that seventy years should be accomplished of the desolation of Jerusalem.

²² And I set my face to the Lord my God, to pray and make supplication with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.

²³ And I prayed to the Lord my God, and I made my confession, and said: I beseech thee, O Lord God, great and terrible, who keepest the covenant, and mercy to them that love thee, and keep thy commandments.

²⁴ We have sinned, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly, and have revolted: and we have gone aside from thv commandments, and thy judgments.

²⁵ We have not hearkened to thy servants the prophets, that have spoken in thy name to our kings, to our princes, to our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

²⁶ To thee, O Lord, justice: but to us confusion of face, as at this day to the men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel to them that are near, and to them that are far off in all the countries whither thou hast driven them, for their iniquities by which they have sinned against thee.

²⁷ O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our princes, and to our fathers that have sinned.