⁵ Then I, Daniel, looked, and two others appeared, one standing on this bank of the stream and one on the other.

¹⁶ Then one in human form touched my lips, and I opened my mouth to speak and said to the one who stood before me, “My lord, because of the vision such pains have come upon me that I retain no strength.^(A)

¹⁰ But then a hand touched me and roused me to my hands and knees.^(A)

⁴ On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was standing on the bank of the great river (that is, the Tigris),^{(A) 5} I looked up and saw a man clothed in linen, with a belt of gold from Uphaz around his waist.^{(B) 6} His body was like beryl, his face like lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and the sound of his words like the roar of a multitude.^(C)