“Peace! ( AP) Be strong now be strong.” ( AQ) ( AN) 19 “Do not be afraid, you who are highly esteemed,” ( AO) he said. 17 How can I, your servant, talk with you, my lord? My strength is gone and I can hardly breathe.” ( AL)ġ8 Again the one who looked like a man touched ( AM) me and gave me strength. ( AJ) I said to the one standing before me, “I am overcome with anguish ( AK) because of the vision, my lord, and I feel very weak. ( AI) 16 Then one who looked like a man touched my lips, and I opened my mouth and began to speak. ( AH)”ġ5 While he was saying this to me, I bowed with my face toward the ground and was speechless. 14 Now I have come to explain ( AF) to you what will happen to your people in the future, ( AG) for the vision concerns a time yet to come. Then Michael, ( AE) one of the chief princes, came to help me, because I was detained there with the king of Persia. ( AC) 13 But the prince ( AD) of the Persian kingdom resisted me twenty-one days. Since the first day that you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble ( AA) yourself before your God, your words ( AB) were heard, and I have come in response to them. ( W) 11 He said, “Daniel, you who are highly esteemed, ( X) consider carefully the words I am about to speak to you, and stand up, ( Y) for I have now been sent to you.” And when he said this to me, I stood up trembling.ġ2 Then he continued, “Do not be afraid, ( Z) Daniel. ( U)ġ0 A hand touched me ( V) and set me trembling on my hands and knees. ( T) 9 Then I heard him speaking, and as I listened to him, I fell into a deep sleep, my face to the ground. 8 So I was left alone, ( Q) gazing at this great vision I had no strength left, ( R) my face turned deathly pale ( S) and I was helpless.
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6 His body was like topaz, ( K) his face like lightning, ( L) his eyes like flaming torches, ( M) his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, ( N) and his voice ( O) like the sound of a multitude.ħ I, Daniel, was the only one who saw the vision those who were with me did not see it, ( P) but such terror overwhelmed them that they fled and hid themselves.
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3 I ate no choice food no meat or wine touched my lips ( E) and I used no lotions at all until the three weeks were over.Ĥ On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was standing on the bank ( F) of the great river, the Tigris, ( G) 5 I looked up ( H) and there before me was a man dressed in linen, ( I) with a belt of fine gold ( J) from Uphaz around his waist. The understanding of the message came to him in a vision.Ģ At that time I, Daniel, mourned ( D) for three weeks. ( B) Its message was true ( C) and it concerned a great war. 10 In the third year of Cyrus ( A) king of Persia, a revelation was given to Daniel (who was called Belteshazzar).