Four beasts from the sea

2Daniel answered and said, “I was seeing in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea.”

3And four great beasts were coming up from the sea, different from one another.

4The first was like a lion, and it had the wings of an eagle. I kept watching until its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the earth and made to stand on two feet like a man, and a human heart was given to it.

5And look, another beast, a second one, resembling a bear; it was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth. And this is what they were saying to it: “Arise, eat much flesh.”

6After this I kept looking, and behold, another, like a leopard; it had four wings of a bird on its back, and the beast had four heads, and dominion was given to it.

7After this I kept looking in the visions of the night, and behold, a fourth beast, terrifying and dreadful and exceedingly strong. It had large iron teeth; it devoured and crushed, and it trampled the remainder with its feet. It was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.

8I was considering the horns, and behold, another horn, a little one, came up among them, and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. And behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.