1   In the first yeere of Belshazzar King of Babel, Daniel sawe a dreame, and there were visions in his head, vp&obar; his bed: ^note then he wrote the dreame, Foure beastes. and declared the summe of the matter.

2   Daniel spake and saide, I sawe in my vision by night, and behold, the foure windes of the heauen stroue vpon ^note the great sea:

3   And foure great beastes came vp from the sea one diuers from another.

4   The first was as a ^note lyon, & had egles wings: I beheld, til the wings thereof were pluckt of, and it was lifted vp from the earth, and set vpon his feete as a man, and a mans heart was giuen him.

5   And beholde, another beast which was the second, was like a ^note beare & stood vpon the ^note one side: and hee had three ribbes in his ^note mouth betweene his teeth, ^note and they saide thus vnto him, Arise and deuoure much flesh.

6   After this I behelde, and loe, there was an other like a ^note leopard, which had vpon his backe ^note foure wings of a foule: the beast had also foure heads, and ^note dominion was giuen him.

7   After this I saw in the visions by night, and beholde, the ^note fourth beast was fearefull and terrible and very strong. It had ^note great yron teeth: it deuoured and brake in pieces and stamped ^note the residue vnder his feete: and it was vnlike to the beasts that were before it: for it had ^note ten hornes.

8   As I considered the hornes, beholde, there came vp among them another litle ^note horne, before whome there were ^note three of the first hornes pluckt away: and behold, in this horne were ^note eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking presumptuous things.

9   I behelde, till the ^note thrones were set vp, and the ^note Ancient of dayes did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the heare of his head like the pure wooll: his throne was like the fierie flame, and his wheeles as burning fire.

10   A fierie streame yssued, and came foorth from before him: thousand thousandes ministred vnto him, and tenne thousand ^note thousands stoode before him: the iudgement was set, and the ^note bookes opened.

Christes dominion.

11   Then I behelde, ^note because of the voyce of the presumptuous wordes, which the horne spake: I behelde, euen till the beast was slaine, and his body destroyed, and giuen to the burning fire.

12   As ^note concerning the other beastes, they had taken away their dominion: yet their liues were prolonged for a certaine time and season.

13   ¶2; As I behelde in visions by night, behold, ^note one like the sonne of man came in the cloudes of heauen, and ^note approched vnto the Ancient of dayes, and they brought him before him.

14   And he gaue him ^note dominion, and honour, and a kingdome, that all people, nations and languages should serue him: his dominion is an euerlasting dominion, which shall neuer bee taken away: and his kingdome shall neuer be destroyed.

15   ¶2; I Daniel was ^note troubled in my spirit, in the middes of my body, and the visions of mine head made me afraide.

16   Therefore I came vnto ^note one of them that stoode by, and asked him the trueth of all this: so he tolde me, and shewed me the interpretation of these things.

17   These great beastes which are foure, are foure Kings, which shall arise out of the earth,

18   And they shall take the ^note kingdome of the Saintes of the ^note most High, and possesse the kingdome for euer, euen for euer and euer.

19   ¶2; After this, I woulde knowe the trueth of the fourth beast, which was so ^note vnlike to all the others, very fearefull, whose teeth were of yron, and his nailes of brasse: which deuoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the ^note residue vnder his feete.

20   Also to know of the tenne hornes that were in his head, and of the other which came vp, before whome three fell, and of the horne that had eyes, and of the mouth that spake presumptuous thinges, whose ^note looke was more stoute then his fellowes.

21   I beheld, and the same ^note horne made battel against the Saintes, yea, & preuailed against them,

22   Vntill ^note the Ancient of dayes came, and iudgement was giuen to the Saintes of the most High: and the time approched, that the Saintes possessed the kingdome.

23   Then he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdome in the earth, which shall be vnlike to all the kingdomes, and shall deuoure the whole earth, and shall treade it downe and breake it in pieces.

24   And the ten hornes out of this kingdome are tenne Kings that shall rise: and an other shall rise after them, and he shall be vnlike to the first, and he shall subdue ^note three Kings,

25   And shall speake wordes against ^note the most A vision and the interpretation. High, and shall consume the Saintes of the most High, and thinke that he may ^note change times and lawes, and they shalbe giuen into his hand, vntill a ^note time, and times and the deuiding of time.

26   But the ^note iudgement shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and destroy it vnto the ende.

27   And the ^note kingdome, and dominion, and the greatnesse of the kingdome vnder the whole heauen shalbe giu&ebar; to the holy people of the most High, whose kingdome is an euerlasting kingdome and all ^note powers shall serue and obey him.

28   Euen this is the ende of the matter, I Daniel had many ^note cogitations which troubled mee, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in mine heart.

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