1. “At that time Michael, the great prince who watches over your people,will arise.There will be a time of distressunlike any other from the nation’s beginningup to that time.But at that time your own people,all those whose names are found written in the book,will escape.
2. Many of those who sleepin the dusty ground will awake – some to everlasting life,and others to shame and everlasting abhorrence.
3. But the wise will shinelike the brightness of the heavenly expanse.And those bringing many to righteousness will be like the stars forever and ever.
4. “But you, Daniel, close up these words and seal the book until the time of the end. Many will dash about, and knowledge will increase.”
5. I, Daniel, watched as two others stood there, one on each side of the river.