1. In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream, and visions passed through his mind as he was lying in bed. He wrote down the substance of his dream.
2. Daniel said: “In my vision at night I looked, and there before me were the four winds of heaven churning up the great sea.
3. Four great beasts, each different from the others, came up out of the sea.
4. “The first was like a lion, and it had the wings of an eagle. I watched until its wings were torn off and it was lifted from the ground so that it stood on two feet like a human being, and the mind of a human was given to it.