1. In the first year of Belshazzar the king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head as he lay on his bed; then he wrote down the dream and the summary of the words as follows:
2. Daniel explained and said, “I was looking in my vision in the night, and look, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea.
3. And four great beasts were coming up from the sea, differing from one another.