Daniel 4:34

4:34 But at the end of the appointed time ¹  I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up ²  toward heaven, and my sanity returned to me.

I extolled the Most High,

and I praised and glorified the one who lives forever.

For his authority is an everlasting authority,

and his kingdom extends from one generation to the next.

Daniel 7:7

7:7 “After these things, as I was watching in the night visions ³  a fourth beast appeared – one dreadful, terrible, and very strong. ⁴  It had two large rows ⁵  of iron teeth. It devoured and crushed, and anything that was left it trampled with its feet. It was different from all the beasts that came before it, and it had ten horns.

Daniel 10:16

10:16 Then ⁶  one who appeared to be a human being ⁷  was touching my lips. I opened my mouth and started to speak, saying to the one who was standing before me, “Sir, ⁸  due to the vision, anxiety has gripped me and I have no strength.

[4:34]  ¹ tn Aram “days.”

[4:34]  ² tn Aram “lifted up my eyes.”

[7:7]  ³ tn The Aramaic text has also “and behold.” So also in vv. 8, 13.

[7:7]  ⁴ sn The fourth animal differs from the others in that it is nondescript. Apparently it was so fearsome that Daniel could find nothing with which to compare it. Attempts to identify this animal as an elephant or other known creature are conjectural.

[7:7]  ⁵ tn The Aramaic word for “teeth” is dual rather than plural, suggesting two rows of teeth.

[10:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “Behold.”

[10:16]  ⁶ 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]  ⁷ tn Heb “my lord,” here a title of polite address. Cf. v. 19.