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He understood that the vision concerned events certain to happen in the future—times of war and great hardship.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/10-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>When this vision came to me, I, Daniel, had been in mourning for three whole weeks. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/10-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>All that time I had eaten no rich food. No meat or wine crossed my lips, and I used no fragrant lotions until those three weeks had passed.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/10-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>On April 23,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> as I was standing on the bank of the great Tigris River, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/10-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I looked up and saw a man dressed in linen clothing, with a belt of pure gold around his waist. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/10-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>His body looked like a precious gem. His face flashed like lightning, and his eyes flamed like torches. His arms and feet shone like polished bronze, and his voice roared like a vast multitude of people.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/10-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Only I, Daniel, saw this vision. The men with me saw nothing, but they were suddenly terrified and ran away to hide. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/10-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>So I was left there all alone to see this amazing vision. My strength left me, my face grew deathly pale, and I felt very weak. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/10-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then I heard the man speak, and when I heard the sound of his voice, I fainted and lay there with my face to the ground.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/10-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Just then a hand touched me and lifted me, still trembling, to my hands and knees. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/10-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And the man said to me, “Daniel, you are very precious to God, so listen carefully to what I have to say to you. Stand up, for I have been sent to you.” When he said this to me, I stood up, still trembling.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/10-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then he said, “Don’t be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day you began to pray for understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your request has been heard in heaven. I have come in answer to your prayer. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/10-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But for twenty-one days the spirit prince<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> of the kingdom of Persia blocked my way. Then Michael, one of the archangels,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a> came to help me, and I left him there with the spirit prince of the kingdom of Persia.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/10-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Now I am here to explain what will happen to your people in the future, for this vision concerns a time yet to come.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/10-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>While he was speaking to me, I looked down at the ground, unable to say a word. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/10-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then the one who looked like a man<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">f</span></a> touched my lips, and I opened my mouth and began to speak. I said to the one standing in front of me, “I am filled with anguish because of the vision I have seen, my lord, and I am very weak. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/10-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>How can someone like me, your servant, talk to you, my lord? My strength is gone, and I can hardly breathe.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/10-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then the one who looked like a man touched me again, and I felt my strength returning. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/10-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“Don’t be afraid,” he said, “for you are very precious to God. Peace! Be encouraged! Be strong!”</p><p class="reg">As he spoke these words to me, I suddenly felt stronger and said to him, “Please speak to me, my lord, for you have strengthened me.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/10-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>He replied, “Do you know why I have come? Soon I must return to fight against the spirit prince of the kingdom of Persia, and after that the spirit prince of the kingdom of Greece<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">g</span></a> will come. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/10-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Meanwhile, I will tell you what is written in the Book of Truth. (No one helps me against these spirit princes except Michael, your spirit prince.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">h</span></a> <A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">10:1 </span><span class="ft">The third year of Cyrus’s reign was 536 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">10:4 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">On the twenty-fourth day of the first month,</span><span class="ft"> of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar. This date in the book of Daniel can be cross-checked with dates in surviving Persian records and can be related accurately to our modern calendar. This event occurred on April 23, 536 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">10:13a </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">the prince;</span><span class="ft"> also in 10:13c, 20.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">10:13b </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">the chief princes.</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">10:13c </span><span class="ft">As in one Greek version; Hebrew reads </span><span class="it">and I was left there with the kings of Persia.</span><span class="ft"> The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.</span><br><span class="fn">f</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">10:16 </span><span class="ft">As in most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text; one manuscript of the Masoretic Text and one Greek version read </span><span class="it">Then something that looked like a human hand.</span><br><span class="fn">g</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">10:20 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">of Javan.</span><br><span class="fn">h</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">10:21 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">against these except Michael, your prince.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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