¹ وفي ذلك الوقت يقوم ميخائيل الرئيس العظيم القائم لبني شعبك ويكون زمان ضيق لم يكن منذ كانت امة الى ذلك الوقت وفي ذلك الوقت ينجى شعبك كل من يوجد مكتوبا في السفر

² وكثيرون من الراقدين في تراب الارض يستيقظون هؤلاء الى الحياة الابدية وهؤلاء الى العار للازدراء الابدي.

³ والفاهمون يضيئون كضياء الجلد والذين ردوا كثيرين الى البر كالكواكب الى ابد الدهور

⁴ اما انت يا دانيال فاخف الكلام واختم السفر الى وقت النهاية. كثيرون يتصفحونه والمعرفة تزداد

⁵ فنظرت انا دانيال واذا باثنين آخرين قد وقفا واحد من هنا على شاطئ النهر وآخر من هناك على شاطئ النهر.

⁶ وقال للرجل اللابس الكتان الذي من فوق مياه النهر الى متى انتهاء العجائب.

⁷ فسمعت الرجل اللابس الكتان الذي من فوق مياه النهر اذ رفع يمناه ويسراه نحو السموات وحلف بالحي الى الابد انه الى زمان وزمانين ونصف. فاذا تم تفريق ايدي الشعب المقدس تتم كل هذه.

⁸ وانا سمعت وما فهمت. فقلت يا سيدي ما هي آخر هذه.

⁹ فقال اذهب يا دانيال لان الكلمات مخفية ومختومة الى وقت النهاية.

¹⁰ كثيرون يتطهرون ويبيّضون ويمحّصون. اما الاشرار فيفعلون شرا ولا يفهم احد الاشرار لكن الفاهمون يفهمون.

¹¹ ومن وقت ازالة المحرقة الدائمة واقامة رجس المخرب الف ومئتان وتسعون يوما.

¹² طوبى لمن ينتظر ويبلغ الى الالف والثلاث مئة والخمسة والثلاثين يوما.

¹³ اما انت فاذهب الى النهاية فتستريح وتقوم لقرعتك في نهاية الايام

³ And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

⁴ Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

⁵ O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.

⁶ I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

⁷ Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.

⁸ For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?

⁹ Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

¹⁰ As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

¹¹ Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

¹² Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

¹³ For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:

¹⁴ And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.

¹⁵ Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.

¹⁶ Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.

¹⁷ And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in One day;

¹⁸ And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.

¹⁹ And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.