14. Now I have come to explain to you what will happen to your people in the future, for the vision concerns a time yet to come.’
15. While he was saying this to me, I bowed with my face towards the ground and was speechless.
16. Then one who looked like a man touched my lips, and I opened my mouth and began to speak. I said to the one standing before me, ‘I am overcome with anguish because of the vision, my lord, and I feel very weak.
17. How can I, your servant, talk with you, my lord? My strength is gone and I can hardly breathe.’
18. Again the one who looked like a man touched me and gave me strength.
19. ‘Do not be afraid, you who are highly esteemed,’ he said. ‘Peace! Be strong now; be strong.’When he spoke to me, I was strengthened and said, ‘Speak, my lord, since you have given me strength.’
20. So he said, ‘Do you know why I have come to you? Soon I will return to fight against the prince of Persia, and when I go, the prince of Greece will come;
21. but first I will tell you what is written in the Book of Truth. (No one supports me