After twelve months, he happened to be walking around on the battlements of the royal palace of Babylon.

Then King Belshazzar was very terrified, and he was visibly shaken. His nobles were completely dumbfounded.

So these supervisors and satraps came by collusion to the king and said to him, “O King Darius, live forever!

Then those officials who had gone to the king came by collusion and found Daniel praying and asking for help before his God.

Then King Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and language groups who were living in all the land: “Peace and prosperity!

While he was saying this to me, I was flat on the ground and unable to speak.

And in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood to strengthen him and to provide protection for him.)

Blessed is the one who waits and attains to the 1,335 days.

Consequently the supervisors and satraps were trying to find some pretext against Daniel in connection with administrative matters. But they were unable to find any such damaging evidence, because he was trustworthy and guilty of no negligence or corruption.

The tree that you saw that grew large and strong, whose top reached to the sky, and which could be seen in all the land,

Now this Daniel was distinguishing himself above the other supervisors and the satraps, for he had an extraordinary spirit. In fact, the king intended to appoint him over the entire kingdom.

So these men concluded, “We won’t find any pretext against this man Daniel unless it is in connection with the law of his God.”

He rescues and delivers and performs signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth. He has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions!”

until the Ancient of Days arrived and judgment was rendered in favor of the holy ones of the Most High. Then the time came for the holy ones to take possession of the kingdom.

I alone was left to see this great vision. My strength drained from me, and my vigor disappeared; I was without energy.

How, sir, am I able to speak with you? My strength is gone, and I am breathless.”

Those who share the king’s fine food will attempt to destroy him, and his army will be swept away; many will be killed in battle.

Many of those who sleep in the dusty ground will awake – some to everlasting life, and others to shame and everlasting abhorrence.

“But you, Daniel, close up these words and seal the book until the time of the end. Many will dash about, and knowledge will increase.”

Many will be purified, made clean, and refined, but the wicked will go on being wicked. None of the wicked will understand, though the wise will understand.