Daniel 8:1-8

New American Standard Bible 1995

Vision of the Ram and Goat

8 In the third year of the reign of Belshazzar the king a vision appeared to me, ^[a]Daniel, subsequent to the one which appeared to me ^[b]previously. ² I ^(A)looked in the vision, and while I was looking I was in the citadel of ^(B)Susa, which is in the province of ^(C)Elam; and I looked in the vision and I myself was beside the Ulai ^[c]Canal. ³ Then I lifted my eyes and looked, and behold, a ^(D)ram which had two horns was standing in front of the ^[d]canal. Now the two horns were ^[e]long, but one was ^[f]longer than the other, with the ^[g]longer one coming up last. ⁴ I saw the ram ^(E)butting westward, northward, and southward, and no other beasts could stand before him nor was there anyone to rescue from his ^[h]power, but ^(F)he did as he pleased and magnified himself.

⁵ While I was observing, behold, a male goat was coming from the west over the surface of the whole earth without touching the ground; and the ^[i]goat had a ^(G)conspicuous horn between his eyes. ⁶ He came up to the ram that had the two horns, which I had seen standing in front of the ^[j]canal, and rushed at him in his mighty wrath. ⁷ I saw him come beside the ram, and he was enraged at him; and he struck the ram and shattered his two horns, and the ram had no strength to withstand him. So he hurled him to the ground and trampled on him, and there was none to rescue the ram from his ^[k]power. ⁸ Then the male goat magnified himself exceedingly. But as soon as ^(H)he was mighty, the ^(I)large horn was broken; and in its place there came up four conspicuous horns toward the ^(J)four winds of heaven.