Daniel

And I in the first year of Darius the Mede stood to strengthen and support him.

And now I will tell thee the truth. Behold, there shall arise yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than all: and after that he has gotten riches, he shall rise up against all the kingdoms of the Greeks.

Then a mighty king shall arise, and shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.

And when he is risen up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided to the four winds of heaven; but not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, and given to others besides them.

And the king of the south shall be strong, and one of his princes shall prevail against him and shall obtain great dominion.

And after their years they shall be joined together: and the daughter of the king of the south shall come to the king of the north to make agreements with him: but she shall not retain the power of the arm; and his seed shall not stand: and she shall be delivered up, and they that brought her, and the young man that strengthened her in the time.

But out of a branch of her root shall one arise in his place, and shall come against the host, and shall enter into the stronghold of the king of the north, and shall do according to his will, and shall prevail.

And he shall carry as captives into Egypt their gods with their images, and their precious vessels of silver and gold, and he shall stand for many years more than the king of the north.

And the king of the south shall enter into the kingdom of the king of the north, and shall return to his own land.

And his sons shall gather a multitude among many: and one of them shall certainly come, and overwhelm, and pass through, and he shall return, and fight to his stronghold.

And the king of the south shall be greatly enraged, and shall come and fight with the king of the north: and he shall cause a great multitude; and the multitude shall be delivered into his hand.

And he shall take the multitude, and his heart shall be exalted; and he shall cast down many thousands, and he shall not prevail.

For the king of the north shall return, and bring a multitude greater than before; and after many years he shall certainly come with a great army and with much wealth.

And in those days many shall rise up against the king of the south; and the transgressors of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish a vision, and they shall fall.

And the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mound, and take the strong city: and the arms of the king of the south shall not withstand, and his chosen ones shall rise up, but there shall be no strength to stand.

And he that comes against him shall do according to his will, and there shall be none to stand before him: and he shall stand in the land of glory, and it shall be consumed by his hand.

And he shall set his face to come with the power of his whole kingdom, and shall cause everything to prosper with him: and he shall give him the daughter of women to corrupt her: but she shall not continue, neither be on his side.

And he shall turn his face to the islands, and shall take many: and a prince shall cause his own reproach to cease; he shall cause his reproach to turn upon him.

Then he shall turn back his face to the strength of his own land: but he shall be weak, and fall, and not be found.

And there shall arise out of his root one that shall build the temple, for the glory of his kingdom: in a few days he shall be destroyed, not in wrath, nor in war.

And there shall stand up in his place one that is dishonoured, and he shall not have the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in prosperously, and obtain the kingdom by deceitful means.

And the arms of him that overflows shall be washed away as a flood from before him, and shall be broken, and the prince of the covenant.

And after the joining of him with them, he shall work deceitfully, and he shall come up, and shall be strong with a small nation.

And he shall enter in peace into strong cities, and that shall be done which was not done to his fathers, nor to the fathers of his fathers: he shall scatter among them prey, and spoil, and plunder; and he shall devise plans against strong cities, until his time.

And his strength and his heart shall be stirred up against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall engage in war with a great and very strong army, but he shall not stand: for they shall devise plans against him.

And they that eat of his dainties shall destroy him, and his army shall be dispersed, and many shall fall down slain.

And both the kings, their hearts set upon mischief, shall speak lies at the same table: but it shall not prosper; for yet the end is for a fixed time.

And he shall return to his land with much wealth; and his heart shall be against the holy covenant: and he shall do mischief, and return to his own land.

At the appointed time he shall return, and shall come into the south, but the last shall not be like the first.

And there shall come against him ships of the Romans, and he shall be brought low, and shall return, and shall be enraged against the holy covenant: and he shall do mischief, and shall return, and shall have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant.

And seeds shall spring up out of him, and they shall profane the sanctuary of strength, and they shall remove the constant sacrifice, and give the abomination of desolation.

And the transgressors shall bring a covenant by deceitful ways: but a people knowing their God shall be strong, and do.

And the intelligent of the people shall understand many things: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, and by captivity, and by spoil of days.

And when they fall, they shall be helped with a little help: but many shall attach themselves to them with treachery.

And some of the intelligent shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, until the time of the end; for it is yet for a fixed time.

And the king shall do according to his will, and shall exalt himself and magnify himself against every god, and shall speak great swelling words, and shall prosper until the indignation shall be accomplished: for it is coming to an end.

And he shall not regard any gods of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor any god; for he shall magnify himself above all.

And he shall honour the god of the fortresses on his place: and a god whom his fathers knew not, he shall honour with gold, and silver, and precious stones, and desirable things.

And he shall do thus in the strong fortress of refuge with a strange god, and shall greatly increase their glory, and shall subject many to them, and shall distribute the land for a price.

And at the time of the end he shall make an attack on the king of the south: and the king of the north shall come against him with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the land, and pass through, and overflow.

And he shall enter into the land of glory, and many shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.

And he shall stretch forth his hand over the land; and the land of Egypt shall not escape.

And he shall have the mastery over the secret treasures of gold and silver, and over all the desirable things of Egypt, and of the Libyans and Ethiopians in their strongholds.

But rumour and anxiety from the east and from the north shall trouble him; and he shall come with great wrath to destroy many utterly.

And he shall pitch the tabernacle of his palace between the seas and the holy mountain of desire; and he shall come to his portion, and there is none to deliver him.