12. As for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was taken away, but their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.
13. “I saw in the night visions,and behold, with the clouds of heaventhere came one like a son of man,and he came to the Ancient of Daysand was presented before him.
14. And to him was given dominionand glory and a kingdom,that all peoples, nations, and languagesshould serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion,which shall not pass away,and his kingdom onethat shall not be destroyed.
15. “As for me, Daniel, my spirit within me was anxious, and the visions of my head alarmed me.
16. I approached one of those who stood there and asked him the truth concerning all this. So he told me and made known to me the interpretation of the things.
17. ‘These four great beasts are four kings who shall arise out of the earth.
18. But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, forever and ever.’
19. “Then I desired to know the truth about the fourth beast, which was different from all the rest, exceedingly terrifying, with its teeth of iron and claws of bronze, and which devoured and broke in pieces and stamped what was left with its feet,
20. and about the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn that came up and before which three of them fell, the horn that had eyes and a mouth that spoke great things, and that seemed greater than its companions.
21. As I looked, this horn made war with the saints and prevailed over them,
22. until the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given for the saints of the Most High, and the time came when the saints possessed the kingdom.
23. “Thus he said: ‘As for the fourth beast,there shall be a fourth kingdom on earth,which shall be different from all the kingdoms,and it shall devour the whole earth,and trample it down, and break it to pieces.