11. And it was magnified even to the prince of the strength: and it took away from him the continual sacrifice, and cast down the place of his sanctuary.
12. And strength was given him against the continual sacrifice, because of sins: and truth shall be cast down on the ground, and he shall do and shall prosper.
13. And I heard one of the saints speaking, and one saint said to another, I know not to whom that was speaking: How long shall be the vision, concerning the continual sacrifice, and the sin of the desolation that is made: and the sanctuary, and the strength be trodden under foot?
14. And he said to him: Unto evening and morning two thousand three hundred days: and the sanctuary shall be cleansed.
15. And it came to pass when I Daniel saw the vision, and sought the meaning, that behold there stood before me as it were the appearance of a man.
16. And I heard the voice of a man between Ulai: and he called, and said: Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.
17. And he came and stood near where I stood: and when he was come, I fell on my face trembling, and he said to me: Understand, O son of man, for in the time of the end the vision shall be fulfilled.
18. And when he spoke to me I fell flat on the ground: and he touched me, and set me upright,
19. And he said to me: I will shew thee what things are to come to pass in the end of the malediction: for the time hath its end.
20. The ram, which thou sawest with horns, is the king of the Medes and Persians.
21. And the he goat, is the king of the Greeks, and the great horn that was between his eyes, the same is the first king.
22. But whereas when that was broken, there arose up four for it: four kings shall rise up of his nation, but not with his strength.
23. And after their reign, when iniquities shall be grown up, there shall arise a king of a shameless face, and understanding dark sentences.
24. And his power shall be strengthened, but not by his own force: and he shall lay all things waste, and shall prosper, and do more than can be believed. And he shall destroy the mighty, and the people of the saints,