12As for the rest of the beasts, their authority was taken away: but they let them go on living for a measure of time.
13I saw in visions of the night, and there was coming with the clouds of heaven one like a man, and he came to the one who was very old, and they took him near before him.
14And to him was given authority and glory and a kingdom; and all peoples, nations, and languages were his servants: his authority is an eternal authority which will not come to an end, and his kingdom is one which will not come to destruction.
15As for me, Daniel, my spirit was pained because of this, and the visions of my head were troubling me.
16I came near to one of those who were waiting there, questioning him about what all this was. And he said to me that he would make clear to me the sense of these things.
17These great beasts are four kings who will be cut off from the earth.
18But the saints of the Most High will take the kingdom, and it will be theirs for ever, even for ever and ever.
