Daniel 7:1-8
The Vision of the Four Beasts
7In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel saw a adream and visions in his head as he lay on his bed; then he bwrote the dream down and said the 1following summary of the matter. 2Daniel answered and said, “I was alooking in my vision by night, and behold, the bfour winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea. 3“And four great abeasts were coming up from the sea, different from one another. 4“The first was alike a lion and had the wings of an eagle. I kept looking until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man; and a heart of a man was given to it. 5“And behold, another beast, a second one in the likeness of a bear. And it was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth; and thus they said to it, ‘Arise, devour much meat!’ 6“After this I kept looking, and behold, another one, alike a leopard, which had on its 1back four wings of a bird; the beast also had bfour heads, and 2dominion was given to it. 7“After this I kept looking in the night visions, and behold, a afourth beast, fearsome and terrifying and extraordinarily strong; and it had large iron teeth. It devoured and crushed and trampled down the remainder with its feet; and it was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had bten horns. 8“While I was contemplating the horns, behold, aanother horn, a little one, came up among them, and three of the first horns were pulled out by the roots before it; and behold, 1this horn possessed eyes like the eyes of a man and ba mouth speaking great boasts.