Daniel 11 · דניאל

As for me, in the first year of Daryavesh the Madian, I stood up to confirm and to strengthen him.

And now will I tell thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Paras: and the fourth shall be far richer than all of them: and when he has grown strong through his riches, he shall stir up all against the kingdom of Yavan.

And a mighty king shall stand up, who shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.

And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided towards the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion with which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, and go to others besides those.

And the king of the south shall be strong, but one of his princes shall be stronger than he, and have dominion; his dominion shall be a great dominion.

And at the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king’s daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of her arm; nor shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they who brought her, and he who begot her, and he who strengthened her in those times.

But from a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his place: he shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail:

and he shall also carry captives into Miżrayim their gods, with their princes, and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold; and he shall abstain for some years from attacking the king of the north.

But he shall come into the kingdom of the king of the south, and shall return to his own land.

But his sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and one shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through: then shall he return, and be stirred up, even to his fortress.

And the king of the south shall be moved with anger, and shall come out and fight with him, with the king of the north: and he shall set forth a great multitude; but the multitude shall be given into his hand.

And when he has taken away the multitude, his heart shall be lifted up; and he shall cast down tens of thousands: but he shall not prevail.

For the king of the north shall again set forth a multitude greater than the former, and shall certainly come after certain years with a great army and with abundant supplies.

And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the renegades of thy people shall exalt themselves to fulfil the vision; but they shall stumble.

So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mound, and seize a well fortified city and the arms of the south shall not withstand, nor his chosen people, for they shall have no strength to withstand.

But he who comes against him shall do according to his own will, and none shall stand before him: and he shall stand in the land of beauty, and in his hand shall be destruction.

He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, but he shall make peace with him: and he shall give him the daughter of women, to destroy it: but she shall not stand or remain his.

After this he shall turn his face to the isles, and shall take many: but a commander shall put an end to his insult; indeed, he shall cause his insult to return upon him.

Then he shall turn his face towards the strongholds of his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found.

Then there shall stand up in his place one who shall send an exactor of taxes throughout glory of the kingdom, but within a few days he shall be destroyed, but not in anger, or in battle.

And in his place shall stand up a vile person, to whom the honour of the kingdom has not been given: but he shall come in without difficulty, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.

And the force of the flood shall be swept away before him, and shall be broken; even the prince of the covenant.

And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.

He shall enter without difficulty even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, or his fathers’ fathers; he shall scatter among them prey, and spoil, and riches: and he shall devise schemes against the strongholds, but only for a time.

And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they shall devise schemes against him.

For those who eat his food shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow: and many shall fall down slain.

And both these kings’ hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for the end is yet to come at the time appointed.

Then shall he return into his land with great riches; and his heart shall be set against the holy covenant; and he shall work his will, and return to his own land.

At the time appointed he shall return, and come towards the south; but it shall not be at the latter time as it was at the former.

For ships of Kittim shall come against him: therefore he shall lose heart and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant, and do his will; he shall even return, and have an understanding with those who forsake the holy covenant.

And arms shall stand up on his part, and they shall profane sanctuary and fortress, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate.

And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he seduce by flatteries: but the people who know their God shall be strong, and prevail.

And they who understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, some days.

Now when they shall fall, they shall receive a little help: but many shall join themselves to them with flatteries.

And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to refine, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for the time appointed.

And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak astonishing things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that which is determined shall be done.

Nor shall he regard the gods of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.

But in his place he shall honour the god of strongholds, and a god whom his fathers did not know shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and costly things.

And he shall deal with the strongest fortresses with the help of a foreign god; those whom he acknowledges, he will magnify with honour: and he shall make them rulers over many, and shall divide the land for a price.

And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a storm, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

He shall enter also into the land of beauty, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand – Edom, and Mo᾽av, and the chief of the children of ῾Ammon.

He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Miżrayim shall not escape.

But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Miżrayim: and the Lubbians and the Kushites shall follow in his train.

But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall affright him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to do away with many.

And he shall plant the tents of his palace between the seas and the holy mountain of beauty; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.