Daniel 8:1-14 - The Vision Of A Small Horn That Oppresses Israel And Threatens The Temple

¹ In the third year of the rule of Belshazzar the king, a vision was seen by me, Daniel, after the one I saw at first. ² And I saw in the vision; and when I saw it, I was in the strong town Shushan, which is in the country of Elam; and in the vision I was by the water-door of the Ulai. ³ And lifting up my eyes, I saw, there before the stream, a male sheep with two horns: and the two horns were high, but one was higher than the other, the higher one coming up last. ⁴ I saw the sheep pushing to the west and to the north and to the south; and no beasts were able to keep their place before him, and no one was able to get people out of his power; but he did whatever his pleasure was and made himself great.

⁵ And while I was giving thought to this, I saw a he-goat coming from the west over the face of all the earth without touching the earth: and the he-goat had a great horn between his eyes. ⁶ And he came to the two-horned sheep which I saw before the stream, rushing at him in the heat of his power. ⁷ And I saw him come right up to the sheep, and he was moved with wrath against him, attacking the sheep so that his two horns were broken; and the sheep had not strength to keep his place before him, but was pushed down on the earth and crushed under his feet: and there was no one to get the sheep out of his power. ⁸ And the he-goat became very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken, and in its place came up four other horns turned to the four winds of heaven.

⁹ And out of one of them came another horn, a little one, which became very great, stretching to the south and to the east and to the beautiful land. ¹⁰ And it became great, even as high as the army of heaven, pulling down some of the army, even of the stars, to the earth and crushing them under its feet. ¹¹ It made itself great, even as great as the lord of the army; and by it the regular burned offering was taken away, and the place overturned and the holy place made waste. ¹² ... against the regular burned offering; and ... crushed down to the earth, and it did its pleasure and things went well for it.

¹³ Then there came to my ears the voice of a holy one talking; and another holy one said to that certain one who was talking, How long will the vision be while the regular burned offering is taken away, and the unclean thing causing fear is put up, and the holy place crushed under foot?

¹⁴ And he said to him, For two thousand, three hundred evenings and mornings; then the holy place will be made clean.