Daniel 7:1-8

Daniel's Dream of the Four Beasts

7¹ In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel saw a dream and visions in his mind as he lay on his bed ; then he wrote the dream down and related the following summary of it. ² Daniel said e , "I was looking in my vision by night , and behold , the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea . ³ "And four great beasts were coming up from the sea , different from one another . ⁴ "The first was like a lion and had the wings of an eagle . I kept looking until e its wings were plucked , and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man ; a human mind also was given to it. ⁵ "And behold , another beast , a second one, resembling 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, like a leopard , which had on its back four wings of a bird ; the beast also had four heads , and dominion was given to it. ⁷ "After this I kept looking in the night visions , and behold , a fourth beast , dreadful and terrifying and extremely 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 ten horns . ⁸ "While I was contemplating the horns , behold , another horn , a little one , came up among them, and three of the first horns were pulled out by the roots before e it; and behold , this horn possessed eyes like the eyes of a man and a mouth uttering great boasts.