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The message was true but extremely hard to understand.<a href="#fn" id="link_Dan.10.1!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> It was explained to him in a vision.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v27_10_2"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.10.2" class="v27_10_2">2</span>At that time I was mourning for three weeks. </span><span class="v27_10_3"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.10.3" class="v27_10_3">3</span>I did not eat any rich food or any meat, drink any wine, or comb my hair until the three weeks were past.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v27_10_4"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.10.4" class="v27_10_4">4</span>On the twenty-fourth day of the first month of the year I was standing on the bank of the mighty Tigris River. </span><span class="v27_10_5"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.10.5" class="v27_10_5">5</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Dan.10.5!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> I looked up and saw someone who was wearing linen clothes and a belt of fine gold. </span><span class="v27_10_6"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.10.6" class="v27_10_6">6</span>His body shone like a jewel. His face was as bright as a flash of lightning, and his eyes blazed like fire. His arms and legs shone like polished bronze, and his voice sounded like the roar of a great crowd.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v27_10_7"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.10.7" class="v27_10_7">7</span>I was the only one who saw the vision. Those who were with me did not see anything, but they were terrified and ran and hid. </span><span class="v27_10_8"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.10.8" class="v27_10_8">8</span>I was left there alone, watching this amazing vision. I had no strength left, and my face was so changed that no one could have recognized me. </span><span class="v27_10_9"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.10.9" class="v27_10_9">9</span>When I heard his voice, I fell to the ground unconscious and lay there face downward. </span><span class="v27_10_10"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.10.10" class="v27_10_10">10</span>Then a hand took hold of me and raised me to my hands and knees; I was still trembling.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v27_10_11"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.10.11" class="v27_10_11">11</span>The angel said to me, “Daniel, God loves you. Stand up and listen carefully to what I am going to say. I have been sent to you.” When he had said this, I stood up, still trembling.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v27_10_12"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.10.12" class="v27_10_12">12</span>Then he said, “Daniel, don't be afraid. God has heard your prayers ever since the first day you decided to humble yourself in order to gain understanding. I have come in answer to your prayer. </span><span class="v27_10_13"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.10.13" class="v27_10_13">13</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Dan.10.13!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The angel prince of the kingdom of Persia opposed me for twenty-one days. Then Michael, one of the chief angels, came to help me, because I had been left there alone in Persia. </span><span class="v27_10_14"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.10.14" class="v27_10_14">14</span>I have come to make you understand what will happen to your people in the future. This is a vision about the future.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v27_10_15"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.10.15" class="v27_10_15">15</span>When he said this, I stared at the ground, speechless. </span><span class="v27_10_16"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.10.16" class="v27_10_16">16</span>Then the angel, who looked like a human being, reached out and touched my lips. I said to him, “Sir, this vision makes me so weak that I can't stop trembling. </span><span class="v27_10_17"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.10.17" class="v27_10_17">17</span>I am like a slave standing before his master. How can I talk to you? I have no strength or breath left in me.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v27_10_18"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.10.18" class="v27_10_18">18</span>Once more he took hold of me, and I felt stronger. </span><span class="v27_10_19"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.10.19" class="v27_10_19">19</span>He said, “God loves you, so don't let anything worry you or frighten you.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v27_10_19">When he had said this, I felt even stronger and said, “Sir, tell me what you have to say. You have made me feel better.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v27_10_20"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.10.20-Dan.10.21" class="v27_10_20">20-21</span>He said, “Do you know why I came to you? It is to reveal to you what is written in the Book of Truth. Now I have to go back and fight the guardian angel of Persia. After that the guardian angel of Greece will appear. There is no one to help me except Michael, Israel's guardian angel.<a href="#fn" id="link_Dan.10.20-Dan.10.21!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">10.1: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">but extremely hard to understand; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">and it was about a great war.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">10.20-21: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Probable text </char><char style="fq" closed="false">guardian angel; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">guardian angel. And I, in the first year of Darius the Mede.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. All rights reserved.</span></p> <p class="yiv9003199930MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Bible text from the Good News Translation (GNT) is not to be reproduced in copies or otherwise by any means except as permitted in writing by American Bible Society, 101 North Independence Mall East, Floor 8, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2155 (<a href="http://www.americanbible.org">www.americanbible.org</a>). Learn more at <a href="http://www.gnt.bible">www.gnt.bible</a> . 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