1. In the first year that Belshazzar was king of Babylonia, I had a dream and saw a vision in the night. I wrote the dream down, and this is the record
2. of what I saw that night:Winds were blowing from all directions and lashing the surface of the ocean.
3. Four huge beasts came up out of the ocean, each one different from the others.
4. The first one looked like a lion, but had wings like an eagle. While I was watching, the wings were torn off. The beast was lifted up and made to stand upright. And then a human mind was given to it.