Daniel 10:14-17

10:14 Now I have come to help you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision pertains to future days.”

10:15 While he was saying this to me, ¹  I was flat on ²  the ground and unable to speak. 10:16 Then ³  one who appeared to be a human being ⁴  was touching my lips. I opened my mouth and started to speak, saying to the one who was standing before me, “Sir, ⁵  due to the vision, anxiety has gripped me and I have no strength. 10:17 How, sir, am I able to speak with you? ⁶  My strength is gone, ⁷  and I am breathless.”

[10:15]  ¹ tn Heb “speaking to me according to these words.”

[10:15]  ² tn Heb “I placed my face toward.”

[10:16]  ³ tn Heb “Behold.”

[10:16]  ⁴ tc So most Hebrew MSS; one Hebrew MS along with the Dead Sea Scrolls and LXX read “something that looked like a man’s hand.”

[10:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “my lord,” here a title of polite address. Cf. v. 19.

[10:17]  ⁶ tn Heb “How is the servant of this my lord able to speak with this my lord?”

[10:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “does not stand.”