<p class="poetry">I have received a distressing message:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;The deceiver deceives,p> <p class="poetry">the destroyer destroys.p> <p class="poetry">Attack, you Elamites!p> <p class="poetry">Lay siege, you Medes!p> <p class="poetry">I will put an end to all the groaning!&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

The male goat acted even more arrogantly. But no sooner had the large horn become strong than it was broken, and there arose four conspicuous horns<n id="1" /> in its place,<n id="2" /> extending toward the four winds of the sky.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">To you this entire prophetic revelation<n id="1" /> is like words in a sealed scroll. When they hand it to one who can read<n id="2" /> and say, &#8220;Read this,&#8221; he responds, &#8220;I can&#8217;t, because it is sealed.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">While I was contemplating all this,<n id="1" /> a male goat<n id="2" /> was coming from the west over the surface of all the land<n id="3" /> without touching the ground. This goat had a conspicuous horn<n id="4" /> between its eyes.