In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a ^adream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.

 2 Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.

 3 And four great ^abeasts came up from the ^bsea, diverse one from another.

 4 The ^afirst was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.

 5 And behold another ^abeast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.

 6 After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four ^aheads; and dominion was given to it.

 7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth ^abeast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great ^biron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ^cten horns.

 8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little ^ahorn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a ^bmouth speaking great things.

 9 I beheld till the ^athrones were ^bcast down, and the ^cAncient of days did sit, whose ^dgarment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his ^ewheels as burning fire.

 10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: ^athousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the ^bjudgment was set, and the ^cbooks were opened.

 11 I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the ^abeast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning ^bflame.