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href="/bsb/daniel/7.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#001320" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/niv/daniel/7.htm">New International Version</a></span><br />&#8220I, Daniel, was troubled in spirit, and the visions that passed through my mind disturbed me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/daniel/7.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />I, Daniel, was troubled by all I had seen, and my visions terrified me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/daniel/7.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />“As for me, Daniel, my spirit within me was anxious, and the visions of my head alarmed me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/daniel/7.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />I, Daniel, was grieved in my spirit, and the visions in my mind alarmed me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/daniel/7.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of <i>my</i> body, and the visions of my head troubled me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/daniel/7.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />“I, Daniel, was grieved in my spirit within <i>my</i> body, and the visions of my head troubled me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/daniel/7.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“As for me, Daniel, my spirit was distressed within me, and the visions in my mind kept alarming me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/daniel/7.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220As for me, Daniel, my spirit was distressed within me, and the visions in my mind kept alarming me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/daniel/7.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“As for me, Daniel, my spirit was distressed within me, and the visions in my mind kept alarming me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/daniel/7.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />“As for me, Daniel, my spirit was distressed within me, and the visions of my head kept alarming me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/daniel/7.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“As for me, Daniel, my spirit was distressed <i>and</i> anxious within me, and the visions [that appeared] in my mind kept alarming (agitating) me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/daniel/7.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />“As for me, Daniel, my spirit was deeply distressed within me, and the visions in my mind terrified me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/daniel/7.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />As for me, Daniel, my spirit was deeply distressed within me, and the visions in my mind terrified me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/daniel/7.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />As for me, Daniel, my spirit was grieved in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/daniel/7.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Daniel wrote: I was terrified by these visions, and I didn't know what to think. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/daniel/7.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />As for me Daniel, my spirit was grieved in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/daniel/7.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />I, Daniel, was deeply troubled, and my visions frightened me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/daniel/7.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />The visions I saw alarmed me, and I was deeply disturbed. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/daniel/7.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />"Now as for me, Daniel, I was emotionally troubled, and what I had seen in the visions kept alarming me. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/daniel/7.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />I, Daniel, was grieved in my spirit, and the visions in my mind alarmed me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/daniel/7.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />"As for me, Daniel, my spirit was distressed, and the visions of my mind were alarming me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/daniel/7.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />As for me, Daniel, my spirit was grieved in the midst of my body, and the visions of my mind troubled me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/daniel/7.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/daniel/7.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />“As for me, Daniel, my spirit was grieved within my body, and the visions of my head troubled me. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/daniel/7.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />My spirit has been pierced—I, Daniel—in the midst of the sheath, and the visions of my head trouble me;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/daniel/7.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> 'Pierced hath been my spirit -- I, Daniel -- in the midst of the sheath, and the visions of my head trouble me;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/daniel/7.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />I Daniel was grieved in the midst of the sheath, and the visions of my heart will terrify me.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/daniel/7.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />My spirit trembled, I Daniel was affrighted at these things, and the visions of my head troubled me. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/daniel/7.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />My spirit was terrified. I, Daniel, was fearful at these things, and the visions of my head disturbed me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/daniel/7.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Because of this, my spirit was anguished and I, Daniel, was terrified by my visions.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/daniel/7.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />As for me, Daniel, my spirit was troubled within me, and the visions of my head terrified me.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/daniel/7.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />As for me, Daniel, my spirit was grieved in my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/daniel/7.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />My spirit was grieved. I, Daniel, was in my bed, and the visions of my head troubled me<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/daniel/7.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />As for me Daniel, my spirit was pained in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head affrighted me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/daniel/7.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br /><i>As for</i> me Daniel, my spirit in my body trembled, and the visions of my head troubled me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/daniel/7-15.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/shUZJK-vYxI?start=2657" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/daniel/7.htm">Daniel's Visions Interpreted</a></span><br> <span class="reftext">15</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/576.htm" title="576: ’ă·nāh (Pro-1cs) -- I. (Aramaic) or.anah (Aramaic); corresponding to 'aniy; I.">I,</a> <a href="/hebrew/1841.htm" title="1841: ḏā·nî·yêl (N-proper-ms) -- God is my judge, an Isr. leader in Bab. (Aramaic) corresponding to Daniye'l; Danijel, the Heb. Prophet.">Daniel,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3735.htm" title="3735: ’eṯ·kə·rî·yaṯ (V-Hitpael-Perf-3fs) -- To be distressed. (Aramaic) probably corresponding to karah in the sense of piercing (figuratively); to grieve.">was grieved</a> <a href="/hebrew/1459.htm" title="1459: bə·ḡō·w (Prep-b:: N-msc) -- Midst, middle. (Aramaic) corresponding to gev; the middle.">in</a> <a href="/hebrew/7308.htm" title="7308: rū·ḥî (N-csc:: 1cs) -- Wind, spirit. (Aramaic) corresponding to ruwach.">my spirit,</a> <a href="/hebrew/5085.htm" title="5085: niḏ·neh (N-ms) -- A sheath. (Aramaic) from the same as nadan; a sheath; figuratively, the body (as the receptacle of the soul)."></a> <a href="/hebrew/2376.htm" title="2376: wə·ḥez·wê (Conj-w:: N-mpc) -- Vision, appearance. (Aramaic) from chaza'; a sight.">and the visions</a> <a href="/hebrew/7217.htm" title="7217: rê·šî (N-msc:: 1cs) -- Head. (Aramaic) corresponding to ro'sh; the head; figuratively, the sum.">in my mind</a> <a href="/hebrew/927.htm" title="927: yə·ḇa·hă·lun·na·nî (V-Piel-Imperf-3mp:: 1cse) -- To alarm, dismay. (Aramaic) corresponding to bahal; to terrify, hasten.">alarmed me.</a> </span><span class="reftext">16</span>I approached one of those who were standing there, and I asked him the true meaning of all this. So he told me the interpretation of these things:…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/13-1.htm">Revelation 13:1-10</a></span><br />Then I saw a beast with ten horns and seven heads rising out of the sea. There were ten royal crowns on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads. / The beast I saw was like a leopard, with the feet of a bear and the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority. / One of the heads of the beast appeared to have been mortally wounded. But the mortal wound was healed, and the whole world marveled and followed the beast. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/17-7.htm">Revelation 17:7-14</a></span><br />“Why are you so amazed?” said the angel. “I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and ten horns. / The beast that you saw—it was, and now is no more, but is about to come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction. And those who dwell on the earth whose names were not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet will be. / This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/12-3.htm">Revelation 12:3-4</a></span><br />Then another sign appeared in heaven: a huge red dragon with seven heads, ten horns, and seven royal crowns on his heads. / His tail swept a third of the stars from the sky, hurling them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, ready to devour her child as soon as she gave birth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/19-11.htm">Revelation 19:11-16</a></span><br />Then I saw heaven standing open, and there before me was a white horse. And its rider is called Faithful and True. With righteousness He judges and wages war. / He has eyes like blazing fire, and many royal crowns on His head. He has a name written on Him that only He Himself knows. / He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and His name is The Word of God. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/1-1.htm">Revelation 1:1</a></span><br />This is the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants what must soon come to pass. He made it known by sending His angel to His servant John,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/4-1.htm">Revelation 4:1-2</a></span><br />After this I looked and saw a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had previously heard speak to me like a trumpet was saying, “Come up here, and I will show you what must happen after these things.” / At once I was in the Spirit, and I saw a throne standing in heaven, with someone seated on it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/24-15.htm">Matthew 24:15</a></span><br />So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand),<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_thessalonians/2-3.htm">2 Thessalonians 2:3-4</a></span><br />Let no one deceive you in any way, for it will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness—the son of destruction—is revealed. / He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship. So he will seat himself in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_peter/1-10.htm">1 Peter 1:10-12</a></span><br />Concerning this salvation, the prophets who foretold the grace to come to you searched and investigated carefully, / trying to determine the time and setting to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow. / It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, when they foretold the things now announced by those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-10.htm">1 Corinthians 2:10</a></span><br />But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/1-1.htm">Ezekiel 1:1</a></span><br />In the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles by the River Kebar, the heavens opened and I saw visions of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/37-1.htm">Ezekiel 37:1-14</a></span><br />The hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out by His Spirit and set me down in the middle of the valley, and it was full of bones. / He led me all around among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, and indeed, they were very dry. / Then He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones come to life?” “O Lord GOD,” I replied, “only You know.” ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/6-1.htm">Isaiah 6:1-4</a></span><br />In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted; and the train of His robe filled the temple. / Above Him stood seraphim, each having six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. / And they were calling out to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of Hosts; all the earth is full of His glory.” ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/21-2.htm">Isaiah 21:2-4</a></span><br />A dire vision is declared to me: “The traitor still betrays, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I will put an end to all her groaning.” / Therefore my body is filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am bewildered to hear, I am dismayed to see. / My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight I desired has turned to horror.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/1-11.htm">Jeremiah 1:11-14</a></span><br />And the word of the LORD came to me, asking, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” “I see a branch of an almond tree,” I replied. / “You have observed correctly,” said the LORD, “for I am watching over My word to accomplish it.” / Again the word of the LORD came to me, asking, “What do you see?” “I see a boiling pot,” I replied, “and it is tilting toward us from the north.” ...</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the middle of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.</p><p class="hdg">was grieved.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/daniel/7-28.htm">Daniel 7:28</a></b></br> Hitherto <i>is</i> the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/daniel/8-27.htm">Daniel 8:27</a></b></br> And I Daniel fainted, and was sick <i>certain</i> days; afterward I rose up, and did the king's business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood <i>it</i>.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/15-17.htm">Jeremiah 15:17,18</a></b></br> I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation… </p><p class="hdg">body.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_peter/1-14.htm">2 Peter 1:14</a></b></br> Knowing that shortly I must put off <i>this</i> my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.</p><p class="hdg">the visions.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/daniel/2-1.htm">Daniel 2:1,3</a></b></br> And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/daniel/4-5.htm">Daniel 4:5</a></b></br> I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/40-7.htm">Genesis 40:7,8</a></b></br> And he asked Pharaoh's officers that <i>were</i> with him in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye <i>so</i> sadly to day? … </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/daniel/5-9.htm">Affrighted</a> <a href="/daniel/5-9.htm">Alarmed</a> <a href="/daniel/4-5.htm">Alarming</a> <a href="/daniel/2-3.htm">Anxious</a> <a href="/daniel/7-11.htm">Body</a> <a href="/daniel/7-2.htm">Daniel</a> <a href="/daniel/6-14.htm">Distressed</a> <a href="/ezekiel/26-18.htm">Disturbed</a> <a href="/ezekiel/13-22.htm">Grieved</a> <a href="/daniel/7-9.htm">Head</a> <a href="/daniel/7-13.htm">Kept</a> <a href="/daniel/4-10.htm">Midst</a> <a href="/daniel/7-4.htm">Mind</a> <a href="/daniel/6-20.htm">Pained</a> <a href="/daniel/7-1.htm">Passed</a> <a href="/ezekiel/35-8.htm">Pierced</a> <a href="/ezekiel/21-30.htm">Sheath</a> <a href="/daniel/6-3.htm">Spirit</a> <a href="/daniel/5-10.htm">Trouble</a> <a href="/daniel/6-20.htm">Troubled</a> <a href="/ezekiel/34-28.htm">Troubling</a> <a href="/daniel/7-13.htm">Visions</a> <a href="/daniel/6-12.htm">Within</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/daniel/7-28.htm">Affrighted</a> <a href="/daniel/7-28.htm">Alarmed</a> <a href="/daniel/7-28.htm">Alarming</a> <a href="/matthew/6-25.htm">Anxious</a> <a href="/daniel/10-6.htm">Body</a> <a href="/daniel/7-28.htm">Daniel</a> <a href="/hosea/4-19.htm">Distressed</a> <a href="/matthew/2-3.htm">Disturbed</a> <a href="/daniel/11-30.htm">Grieved</a> <a href="/daniel/7-20.htm">Head</a> <a href="/daniel/7-21.htm">Kept</a> <a href="/daniel/9-27.htm">Midst</a> <a href="/daniel/7-28.htm">Mind</a> <a href="/joel/2-6.htm">Pained</a> <a href="/daniel/7-22.htm">Passed</a> <a href="/habakkuk/3-14.htm">Pierced</a> <a href="/habakkuk/3-9.htm">Sheath</a> <a href="/daniel/10-12.htm">Spirit</a> <a href="/daniel/7-28.htm">Trouble</a> <a href="/daniel/7-28.htm">Troubled</a> <a href="/micah/4-4.htm">Troubling</a> <a href="/hosea/12-10.htm">Visions</a> <a href="/daniel/11-20.htm">Within</a><div class="vheading2">Daniel 7</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/daniel/7-1.htm">Daniel's vision of the four beasts,</a></span><br><span class="reftext">9. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/daniel/7-9.htm">and of God's kingdom.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">15. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/daniel/7-15.htm">The interpretation thereof.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/daniel/7.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/daniel/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/daniel/7.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>I, Daniel, was grieved in my spirit</b><br>Daniel, a prophet and statesman in the Babylonian and Medo-Persian empires, experiences deep emotional distress. This phrase indicates a personal and internal struggle, reflecting the weight of the visions he received. The term "spirit" suggests an inner turmoil that goes beyond mere mental discomfort, indicating a profound spiritual disturbance. This aligns with other biblical figures who experienced similar distress when confronted with divine revelations, such as Ezekiel (<a href="/ezekiel/3-14.htm">Ezekiel 3:14-15</a>) and John in Revelation (<a href="/revelation/1-17.htm">Revelation 1:17</a>).<p><b>and the visions in my mind alarmed me.</b><br>The visions Daniel received were not only spiritually unsettling but also mentally alarming. The term "visions" refers to the symbolic and prophetic imagery shown to Daniel, which included beasts and heavenly courts, representing future kingdoms and divine judgment. This alarm is understandable given the apocalyptic nature of the visions, which reveal the rise and fall of empires and the ultimate establishment of God's kingdom. The phrase "in my mind" suggests that these visions were vivid and clear, impacting Daniel's understanding and perception. This experience is similar to other prophetic visions in the Bible, such as those given to Isaiah (Isaiah 6) and John (Revelation 4-5), which also contain elements of divine majesty and judgment.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/d/daniel.htm">Daniel</a></b><br>A prophet and a key figure in the Old Testament, known for his unwavering faith and ability to interpret dreams and visions. In this chapter, Daniel receives a vision that deeply troubles him.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/v/visions.htm">Visions</a></b><br>Daniel experiences a series of symbolic visions that reveal future events and kingdoms. These visions are complex and filled with imagery that requires interpretation.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/s/spirit.htm">Spirit</a></b><br>Refers to Daniel's inner being or soul, indicating the depth of his emotional and spiritual response to the visions he received.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/m/mind.htm">Mind</a></b><br>The seat of Daniel's thoughts and understanding, where the visions were processed and understood, causing him alarm.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/a/alarm.htm">Alarm</a></b><br>The emotional response Daniel has to the visions, indicating a sense of fear or concern about their meaning and implications.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/u/understanding_prophetic_visions.htm">Understanding Prophetic Visions</a></b><br>Prophetic visions often contain symbolic language that requires careful interpretation. Seek wisdom and guidance from the Holy Spirit and trusted biblical resources.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/e/emotional_responses_to_god's_revelations.htm">Emotional Responses to God's Revelations</a></b><br>It's natural to feel alarmed or grieved when confronted with challenging revelations. Use these emotions as a prompt to seek God more earnestly in prayer and study.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_faith_in_uncertainty.htm">The Role of Faith in Uncertainty</a></b><br>Like Daniel, we may not always understand God's plans fully. Trust in God's sovereignty and faithfulness, even when the future seems uncertain.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_community_in_interpretation.htm">The Importance of Community in Interpretation</a></b><br>Engage with a community of believers to discuss and interpret challenging scriptures. God often uses the collective wisdom of the church to bring clarity.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/p/prayer_as_a_response_to_fear.htm">Prayer as a Response to Fear</a></b><br>When faced with fear or anxiety, turn to prayer as a means of finding peace and understanding, trusting that God will provide insight and comfort.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_daniel_7.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Daniel 7</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_are_the_four_beasts_in_daniel_7.htm">What are the four beasts in Daniel 7?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/did_a_meteor_destroy_sodom_and_gomorrah.htm">What did Jesus mean by 'hair like wool'?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_will_god_judge_and_restore_israel.htm">How will God's judgment and restoration manifest for Israel?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_is_tekoa's_biblical_significance.htm">Who is the author of the Book of Daniel?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/daniel/7.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(15) <span class= "bld">Midst.</span>--See margin. The body was regarded as the <span class= "ital">sheath</span> of the soul.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/daniel/7.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verses 15-18.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me. I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things. These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth, But the saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.</span> The version of the Septuagint differs in some points from the Massoretic. In the fifteenth verse there is no reference to the spirit being in the body; it adds "of the night" after "visions," and changes "my head" into "my thoughts." The sixteenth verse presents no essential points of difference. In the seventeenth verse the differences are more considerable, "These great beasts are four kingdoms, which shall be destroyed from the earth." There seems a good deal to be said for the reading behind this version. The first variation, "kingdoms" instead of "kings," may be due to logic, but it has further "destroyed from" instead of "arising out of," which cannot have resulted from the Massoretic. The verb <span class="accented">qoom</span>, "to stand up," followed by <span class="accented">rain</span>, "from," is not elsewhere used in the sense which we find in the Massoretic here. When one is prone on the earth, as Saul before the revelation of the witch of Endor, "he stood up from the earth" (<a href="/1_samuel/28-23.htm">1 Samuel 28:23</a>, Targum Jonathan) - word for word as here. When Abraham (<a href="/genesis/23-3.htm">Genesis 23:3</a>, Targum Onkelos) arose from before his dead, we have a similar construction. In <a href="/2_samuel/11-2.htm">2 Samuel 11:2</a>, "David arose from his couch." This construction involves Change of position, either directly or implicitly. It is difficult to understand how the one reading arose from the other. The condensation of the sense as it appears in the Septuagint is not likely to be attained by a <span class="accented">falsarius.</span> In ver. 18 there is nothing calling for remark, save that the reduplication of "for ever and ever "is omitted. While Theodotion is nearer the Massoretic text, he too differs from it in some points - his rendering of <span class="accented">nidnay</span> by <span class="greek">ἕξις</span>. Schleusner thinks this probably a false reading for <span class="greek">ἐκστάσις</span>. However, in <a href="/judges/14-9.htm">Judges 14:9</a> we have <span class="greek">ἕξις</span> used for "body." In the seventeenth verse we have "kingdoms" instead of "kings." The last clause agrees with the Massoretic, but there is subjoined <span class="greek">αἱ</span> <span class="greek">ἀρθήσονται</span>, "which shall be taken away" - an addition that suggests that some of the manuscripts before Theodotion had the same reading as that before the Septuagint translator. He renders <span class="accented">yeqoomoon rain</span> by <span class="greek">ἀναστήσονται ἐπί</span>, showing that at all events he had a different preposition. The reduplication of "for ever and ever" is omitted. The Peshitta ver. 15 has "in the midst of my couch" instead of "in the midst of my body." In the sixteenth verse it resolves the bystanders into "servants." In the seventeenth verse the preposition is not <span class="accented">rain</span>, but '<span class="accented">al.</span> Jerome, instead of <span class="accented">corpus</span>, "body," has <span class="accented">in his</span>, "in these," - as if he had read <span class="accented">b'idena</span> instead of <span class="accented">nidnay</span>; he also in ver. 17 reads <span class="accented">regna</span>, not <span class="accented">reges.</span> The Mas-seretic text has some peculiarities. The first words afford one of the rare instances where we have the 'ithpael instead of the hithpael; it may be due to scribal correction. In the seventeenth verse '<span class="accented">inoon</span> (K'thib) affords an instance of the frequent Syriasm in Daniel. The "Most High" is rendered by a plural adjective, <span class="hebrew">עֶלְיונִין</span> ('<span class="accented">elyoneen</span>); it is explained differently. Kranichfeld and Stuart regard it as <span class="accented">pluralis excellentiae.</span> Bevan and Behrmann regard it as a case of attraction, the latter giving as parallel instances, <span class="accented">hence</span> '<span class="accented">ayleem</span> (<a href="/psalms/29-1.htm">Psalm 29:1</a>) and <span class="accented">benee nebeem.</span> The difficulty remains that neither the <span class="accented">pluralis excellentiae</span> nor change of number is known in Aramaic. The fact that this strange form has produced no effect on any of the versions makes the reading suspicious. Professor Fuller sees in this word a proof of Babylonian influence, but he does not assign his reason, We now enter a new stage in the development of this vision. After the wonderful assize has ended, Daniel dreams that he is still standing among these innumerable multitudes, and, feeling that all these things are symbols, he is grieved because he cannot comprehend what is meant by them. So from one of those attendants who crowd the canvas of his vision he asks an explanation, or rather "the certainty," of this vision; he wishes to know whether it is s mere vision or of the nature of a revelation. This is a perfectly natural psychological condition in dreaming. In the act of dreaming we question ourselves whether we are dreaming or not; we may even ask one of the characters in our dream the question. The interpretation is interesting, but has been already, to some extent forestalled. A difficulty is seen by some commentators - how these four kingdoms could be said to arise, when one of them was nearing its fall. If we take the reading of the Septuagint, this difficulty is obviated. Saadia Gaon makes these four kings the nominative to the verb "receive" (wrongly translated in our Authorized Version, "take"), and maintains each of these empires shall hold the kingdom of Israel until the Messiah shall come. This view would necessitate grammatically that the Messiah should never come, but that the reign of these four world-empires should be prolonged into eternity. "The saints of the Most High," in the thought of Daniel would be, of necessity, the Jews; for we need not discuss the possibility of the angels being the holy ones implied here - they always have the kingdoms of the world under them - but we may see the Israel of faith in this figure. The believers in Christ are the true Israel, and the kingdom of heaven which Christ set up is thus promised to fill the earth. The Church is thus the true ultimate state. If we regard the Church as a society formed of those who are mutually attracted to each other. have a mutual love for each other, end have a common love to God, then all the history of the world is tending towards the establishment of such a society, universal as the world. National hatreds are much less acute now than they were. Despite the efforts to rouse class against class, there seems more sympathy between classes than there was. The final break-down of national and class oppositions, not necessarily by the abolition of either class or nation, will prepare the way for the Christ-commanded love which is the tie that unites the members of the true eternal Church of God. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/daniel/7-15.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">I,</span><br /><span class="heb">אֲנָ֥ה</span> <span class="translit">(’ă·nāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Pronoun - first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_576.htm">Strong's 576: </a> </span><span class="str2">I</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Daniel,</span><br /><span class="heb">דָנִיֵּ֖אל</span> <span class="translit">(ḏā·nî·yêl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1841.htm">Strong's 1841: </a> </span><span class="str2">Daniel -- 'God is my judge', an Israelite leader in Babylon</span><br /><br /><span class="word">was grieved</span><br /><span class="heb">אֶתְכְּרִיַּ֥ת</span> <span class="translit">(’eṯ·kə·rî·yaṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hitpael - Perfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3735.htm">Strong's 3735: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be distressed</span><br /><br /><span class="word">in</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּג֣וֹא</span> <span class="translit">(bə·ḡō·w)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1459.htm">Strong's 1459: </a> </span><span class="str2">Midst, middle</span><br /><br /><span class="word">my spirit,</span><br /><span class="heb">רוּחִ֛י</span> <span class="translit">(rū·ḥî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - common singular construct | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7308.htm">Strong's 7308: </a> </span><span class="str2">Wind, breath, exhalation, life, anger, unsubstantiality, a region of the sky, spirit</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and the visions</span><br /><span class="heb">וְחֶזְוֵ֥י</span> <span class="translit">(wə·ḥez·wê)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2376.htm">Strong's 2376: </a> </span><span class="str2">Vision, appearance</span><br /><br /><span class="word">in my mind</span><br /><span class="heb">רֵאשִׁ֖י</span> <span class="translit">(rê·šî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7217.htm">Strong's 7217: </a> </span><span class="str2">The head, the sum</span><br /><br /><span class="word">alarmed me.</span><br /><span class="heb">יְבַהֲלֻנַּֽנִי׃</span> <span class="translit">(yə·ḇa·hă·lun·na·nî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_927.htm">Strong's 927: </a> </span><span class="str2">To terrify, hasten</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/daniel/7-15.htm">Daniel 7:15 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/daniel/7-15.htm">Daniel 7:15 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/daniel/7-15.htm">Daniel 7:15 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/daniel/7-15.htm">Daniel 7:15 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/daniel/7-15.htm">Daniel 7:15 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/daniel/7-15.htm">Daniel 7:15 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/daniel/7-15.htm">Daniel 7:15 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/daniel/7-15.htm">Daniel 7:15 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/daniel/7-15.htm">Daniel 7:15 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/daniel/7-15.htm">Daniel 7:15 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/daniel/7-15.htm">OT Prophets: Daniel 7:15 As for me Daniel my spirit was (Dan. 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