5. Then I, Daniel, looked, and there before me stood two others, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river.
6. One said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the water of the river, “How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?”
7. And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was over the water of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by Him who lives forever that it would be for a time, times, and half a time. And when they finish shattering the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.
8. As for me, I heard, but I could not understand. So I said, “My lord, what shall be the result of these things?”
9. And he said, “Go your way, Daniel. For these words are closed up and sealed until the time of the end.
10. Many shall be purified and made white and tried. But the wicked shall do wickedly, and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand.