This is the interpretation of the words:<n id="1" /> As for <i>menei><n id="2" /> &#8211; God has numbered your kingdom&#8217;s days and brought it to an end.

But he would give a double<n id="1" /> portion to Hannah, because he especially loved her.<n id="2" /> Now the <sc>Lordsc> had not enabled her to have children.<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">Who<n id="1" /> can count<n id="2" /> the dust<n id="3" /> of Jacob,p> <p class="poetry">Or number<n id="4" /> the fourth part of Israel?p> <p class="poetry">Let me<n id="5" /> die the death of the upright,<n id="6" />p> <p class="poetry">and let the end of my life<n id="7" /> be like theirs.&#8221;<n id="8" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s anger again raged against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, &#8220;Go count Israel and Judah.&#8221;<n id="1" />

Daniel then spoke to the warden<n id="1" /> whom the overseer of the court officials had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:

And when his mind<n id="1" /> became arrogant<n id="2" /> and his spirit filled with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and his honor was removed from him.

I approached one of those standing nearby and asked him about the meaning<n id="1" /> of all this. So he spoke with me and revealed<n id="2" /> to me the interpretation of the vision:<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">The ten hornsp> <p class="poetry">mean that ten kings will arise from that kingdom.p> <p class="poetry">Another king will arise after them,p> <p class="poetry">but he will be different from the earlier ones.p> <p class="poetry">He will humiliate<n id="1" /> three kings.p>

Everyone who does not observe both the law of your God and the law of the king will be completely<n id="1" /> liable to the appropriate penalty, whether it is death or banishment or confiscation of property or detainment in prison.&#8221;p>

But he<n id="1" /> responded to Daniel, &#8220;I fear my master the king. He is the one who has decided<n id="2" /> your food and drink. What would happen if he saw that you looked malnourished in comparison to the other young men your age?<n id="3" /> If that happened,<n id="4" /> you would endanger my life<n id="5" /> with the king!&#8221;