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nevertheless, a great dread fell on them, and they ran away to hide themselves. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/10-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>So I was left alone and saw this great vision; yet no strength was left in me, for my natural color turned to a deathly pallor, and I retained no strength. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/10-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>But I heard the sound of his words; and as soon as I heard the sound of his words, I fell into a deep sleep on my face, with my face to the ground. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Daniel Comforted</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/10-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>Then behold, a hand touched me and set me trembling on my hands and knees. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/10-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>He said to me, O Daniel, man of high esteem, understand the words that I am about to tell you and stand upright, for I have now been sent to you. And when he had spoken this word to me, I stood up trembling. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/10-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>Then he said to me, Do not be afraid, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart on understanding <i>this</i> and on humbling yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to your words. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/10-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>But the prince of the kingdom of Persia was withstanding me for twenty-one days; then behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left there with the kings of Persia. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/10-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>Now I have come to give you an understanding of what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision pertains to the days yet <i>future.</i> <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/10-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>When he had spoken to me according to these words, I turned my face toward the ground and became speechless. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/10-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>And behold, one who resembled a human being was touching my lips; then I opened my mouth and spoke and said to him who was standing before me, O my lord, as a result of the vision anguish has come upon me, and I have retained no strength. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/10-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>For how can such a servant of my lord talk with such as my lord? As for me, there remains just now no strength in me, nor has any breath been left in me. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/10-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>Then <i>this</i> one with human appearance touched me again and strengthened me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/10-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>He said, O man of high esteem, do not be afraid. Peace be with you; take courage and be courageous! Now as soon as he spoke to me, I received strength and said, May my lord speak, for you have strengthened me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/10-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>Then he said, Do you understand why I came to you? But I shall now return to fight against the prince of Persia; so I am going forth, and behold, the prince of Greece is about to come. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/10-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>However, I will tell you what is inscribed in the writing of truth. Yet there is no one who stands firmly with me against these <i>forces</i> except Michael your prince. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/daniel/10.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with pure gold of Uphaz:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/daniel/10.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And I lifted up my eyes, and I saw: and behold a man clothed in linen, and his loins were girded with the finest gold: <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/daniel/10.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />and I lifted up mine eyes and looked, and behold, a certain man clothed in linen, and his loins were girded with pure gold of Uphaz;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/daniel/10.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with pure gold of Uphaz:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/daniel/10.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Then I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/daniel/10.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and behold, a man clothed in linen, whose thighs were adorned with pure gold of Uphaz:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/daniel/10.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> and I lift up mine eyes, and look, and lo, a certain one clothed in linen, and his loins girt with pure gold of Uphaz,<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/november_15_oh_man_of.htm">November 15. "Oh, Man of Desires" (Margin) (Dan. x. 11). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Oh, man of desires" (margin) (Dan. x. 11). This was the divine character given to Daniel of old. It is translated in our version, "O man, greatly beloved." But it literally means "O man of desires!" This is a necessary element in all spiritual forces. It is one of the secrets of effectual prayer, "What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them." The element of strong desire gives momentum to our purposes and prayers. Indifference is an unwholesome condition; indolence and <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/november_15_oh_man_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_38_1892/daniels_band.htm">Daniel's Band</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"O Daniel, a man greatly beloved."--Daniel 10:11. It did not do Daniel any harm to know that he was greatly beloved of God; or else he would not have received that information from heaven. Some people are always afraid that, if Christian people obtain full assurance, and receive a sweet sense of divine love, they will grow proud, and be carried away with conceit. Do not you have any such fear for other people, and especially do not be afraid of it for yourselves. I know of no greater blessing that <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_38_1892/daniels_band.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 38: 1892</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/tertullian/on_fasting_in_opposition_to_the_psychics/elucidations.htm">Elucidations. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">I. (Greater licence, p. 104.) In this treatise, which is designed to justify the extremes of Montanistic fasts, Tertullian's genius often surprises us by his ingenuity. This is one of the instances where the forensic orator comes out, trying to outflank and turn the position of an antagonist who has gained an advantage. The fallacy is obvious. Kaye cites, in comparison, a passage [1125] from "The Apparel of Women," and another [1126] from "The Exhortation to Chastity." He remarks, "Were we required <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/tertullian/on_fasting_in_opposition_to_the_psychics/elucidations.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Tertullian—</span><span class="citation2">On Fasting. In Opposition to the Psychics</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_a/youthful_confessors.htm">Youthful Confessors</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank; therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself. 9. Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs. 10. And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink; for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_a/youthful_confessors.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/teresa/the_life_of_st_teresa_of_jesus/chapter_xx_the_difference_between.htm">The Difference Between Union and Rapture. What Rapture Is. The Blessing it is to the Soul. The Effects of It. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">1. I wish I could explain, with the help of God, wherein union differs from rapture, or from transport, or from flight of the spirit, as they speak, or from a trance, which are all one. [1] I mean, that all these are only different names for that one and the same thing, which is also called ecstasy. [2] It is more excellent than union, the fruits of it are much greater, and its other operations more manifold; for union is uniform in the beginning, the middle, and the end, and is so also interiorly. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/teresa/the_life_of_st_teresa_of_jesus/chapter_xx_the_difference_between.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Teresa of Avila—</span><span class="citation2">The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/brown/christ_the_way_the_truth_and_the_life/chapter_xvi_how_to_make.htm">How to Make Use of Christ as the Truth, when Error Prevaileth, and the Spirit of Error Carrieth Many Away. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">There is a time when the spirit of error is going abroad, and truth is questioned, and many are led away with delusions. For Satan can change himself into an angel of light, and make many great and fairlike pretensions to holiness, and under that pretext usher in untruths, and gain the consent of many unto them; so that in such a time of temptation many are stolen off their feet, and made to depart from the right ways of God, and to embrace error and delusions instead of truth. Now the question is, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/brown/christ_the_way_the_truth_and_the_life/chapter_xvi_how_to_make.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Brown (of Wamphray)—</span><span class="citation2">Christ The Way, The Truth, and The Life</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_46_the_prophets_of.htm">"The Prophets of God Helping Them"</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Close by the Israelites who had set themselves to the task of rebuilding the temple, dwelt the Samaritans, a mixed race that had sprung up through the intermarriage of heathen colonists from the provinces of Assyria with the remnant of the ten tribes which had been left in Samaria and Galilee. In later years the Samaritans claimed to worship the true God, but in heart and practice they were idolaters. It is true, they held that their idols were but to remind them of the living God, the Ruler of the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_46_the_prophets_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ellen Gould White—</span><span class="citation2">The Story of Prophets and Kings</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet_talks_on_the_crowned_christ_of_revelation/iii_a_sight_of_the_crowned.htm">A Sight of the Crowned Christ</a><br></span><span class="snippet">(Revelation, Chapter i.) "Since mine eyes were fixed on Jesus, I've lost sight of all beside, So enchained my spirit's vision, Looking at the Crucified." "The Lord Christ passed my humble cot: I knew him, yet I knew him not; But as I oft had done before, I hurried through my narrow door To touch His garment's hem. "He drew me to a place apart From curious crowd and noisy mart; And as I sat there at His feet I caught the thrill of His heart-beat Beyond His garment's hem. "Rare was the bread He broke <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet_talks_on_the_crowned_christ_of_revelation/iii_a_sight_of_the_crowned.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">by S. D. Gordon—</span><span class="citation2">Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lee/sermons_on_various_important_subjects/sermon_xxvii_departed_saints_fellow.htm">Departed Saints Fellow Servants with those yet on Earth. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets." That the saints do not remain insensible, while their bodies are in the dull, but become angels, * see and serve God and bear his messages, and minister to the heirs of salvation, hath been argued from several considerations, in the preceding discourse; but we chiefly depend on revelation. The text and several other scriptures, we conceive to be our purpose, and sufficient to establish our theory, and that the same is illustrated and confirmed <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lee/sermons_on_various_important_subjects/sermon_xxvii_departed_saints_fellow.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Andrew Lee et al—</span><span class="citation2">Sermons on Various Important Subjects</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/evans/the_great_doctrines_of_the_bible/the_doctrine_of_satan.htm">The Doctrine of Satan. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">I. HIS EXISTENCE AND PERSONALITY. 1. EXISTENCE. 2. PERSONALITY. II. HIS PLACE AND POWER. 1. A MIGHTY ANGEL. 2. PRINCE OF POWER OF THE AIR. 3. GOD OF THIS WORLD. 4. HEAD OF KINGDOM OF DARKNESS. 5. SOVEREIGN OVER DEATH. III. HIS CHARACTER. 1. ADVERSARY. 2. DIABOLOS. 3. WICKED ONE. 4. TEMPTER. IV. OUR ATTITUDE TOWARDS SATAN. 1. LIMITED POWER OF SATAN. 2. RESIST HIM. V. HIS DESTINY. 1. A CONQUERED ENEMY. 2. UNDER ETERNAL CURSE. VI. DEMONS. THE DOCTRINE OF SATAN. Throughout the Scriptures Satan is set <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/evans/the_great_doctrines_of_the_bible/the_doctrine_of_satan.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. William Evans—</span><span class="citation2">The Great Doctrines of the Bible</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/steps_to_christ/chapter_3_repentance.htm">Repentance</a><br></span><span class="snippet">How shall a man be just with God? How shall the sinner be made righteous? It is only through Christ that we can be brought into harmony with God, with holiness; but how are we to come to Christ? Many are asking the same question as did the multitude on the Day of Pentecost, when, convicted of sin, they cried out, "What shall we do?" The first word of Peter's answer was, "Repent." Acts 2:37, 38. At another time, shortly after, he said, "Repent, . . .and be converted, that your sins may be blotted <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/steps_to_christ/chapter_3_repentance.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ellen Gould White—</span><span class="citation2">Steps to Christ</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/daniel/10-5.htm">Daniel 10:5 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/daniel/10-5.htm">Daniel 10:5 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/daniel/10-5.htm">Daniel 10:5 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/daniel/10-5.htm">Daniel 10:5 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/daniel/10-5.htm">Daniel 10:5 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/daniel/10-5.htm">Daniel 10:5 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/daniel/10-5.htm">Daniel 10:5 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../daniel/10-4.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Daniel 10:4"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Daniel 10:4" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../daniel/10-6.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Daniel 10:6"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Daniel 10:6" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/daniel/10-5.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>