1. In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia the Word was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the Word was true, but the time appointed was long: and he understood the Word, and had intelligence in the vision.
2. In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three weeks of days.
3. I ate no pleasant bread, neither did flesh nor wine come into my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all until the three weeks of days were fulfilled.
4. And in the twenty-fourth day of the first month as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel;
5. and lifting up my eyes, I saw, and behold a man clothed in linens, whose loins were girded with very pure gold:
6. his body was like the stone of Tarsis turquoise, and his face as a bolt of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to brilliant brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of an army.