11:1 And I in the first year of Cyrus stood
to strengthen and confirm [him].
11:2 And now I will tell thee the truth. Behold, there shall yet rise up
three kings in Persia: and the fourth shall be very far richer than all: and
after that he is master of his wealth, he shall rise up against all the
kingdoms of the Greeks.
11:3 An there shall rise up a mighty king, and he shall be lord of a great
empire, and shall do according to his will.
11:4 And when his kingdom shall stand up, it shall be broken, and shall be
divided to the four winds of heaven; but not to his posterity, nor according
to his dominion which he ruled over: for his kingdom shall be plucked up,
and [given] to others beside these.
11:5 And the king of the south shall be strong; and one of their princes
shall prevail against him, and shall obtain a great dominion.
11:6 And after his years they shall associate; and the daughter of the king
of the south shall come to the king of the north, to make agreements with
him: but she shall not retain power of arm; neither shall his seed stand:
and she shall be delivered up, and they that brought her, and the maiden,
and he that strengthened her in these times.
11:7 [But] out of the flower of her root there shall arise [one] [on] his
place, and shall come against the host, and shall enter into the strongholds
of the king of the north, and shall fight against them, and prevail.
11:8 Yea, he shall carry with a body of captives into Egypt their gods with
their molten [images, and] all their precious vessels of silver and gold;
and he shall last longer than the king of the north.
11:9 And he shall enter into the kingdom of the king of the south, and shall
return to his own land.
11:10 And his sons shall gather a multitude among many: and one shall
certainly come, and overflow, and pass through, and he shall rest, and
collect his strength.
11:11 And the king of the south shall be greatly enraged, and shall come
forth, and shall war with the king of the north: and he shall raise a great
multitude; but the multitude shall be delivered into his hand.
11:12 And he shall take the multitude, and his heart shall be exalted; and
he shall cast down many thousands; but he shall not prevail.
11:13 For the king of the north shall return, and bring a multitude greater
than the former, and at the end of the times of years an invading army shall
come with a great force, and with much substance.
11:14 And in those times many shall rise up against the king of the south;
and the children of the spoilers of thy people shall exalt themselves to
establish the vision; and they shall fail.
11:15 And the king of the north shall come in, and cast up a mound, and take
strong cities: and the arms of the king of the south shall withstand, and
his chosen ones shall rise up, but there shall be no strength to stand.
11:16 And he that comes in against him shall do according to his will, and
there is no one to stand before him: and he shall stand in the land of
beauty, and it shall be consumed by his hand.
11:17 And he shall set his face to come in with the force of his whole
kingdom, and shall cause everything to prosper with him: and he shall give
him the daughter of women to corrupt her: but she shall not continue,
neither be on his side.
11:18 And he shall turn his face to the islands, and shall take many, and
cause princes to cease from their reproach: nevertheless his own reproach
shall return to him.
11:19 Then he shall turn back his face to the strength of his own land: but
he shall become weak, and fall, and not be found.
11:20 And there shall arise out of his root one that shall cause a plant of
the kingdom to pass over his place, earning kingly glory: and yet in those
days shall he be broken, yet not openly, nor in war.
11:21 [One] shall stand on his place, [who] has been set a nought, and they
have not put upon him the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in
prosperously, and obtain the kingdom by deceitful ways.
11:22 And the arms of him that overflows shall be washed away as with a
flood from before him, and shall be broken, and [so shall be] the head of
the covenant.
11:23 And because of the leagues made with him he shall work deceit: and he
shall come up, and overpower them with a small nation.
11:24 And he shall enter with prosperity, and [that] into fertile districts;
and he shall do what his fathers and his fathers' fathers have not done; he
shall scatter among them plunder, and spoils, and wealth; and he shall
devise plans against Egypt, even for a time.
11:25 And his strength and his heart shall be stirred up against the king of
the south with a great force; and the king of the south shall engage in war
with a great and very strong force; but [his forces] shall not stand, for
they shall devise plans against him:
11:26 and they shall eat his provisions, and shall crush him, and he shall
carry away armies as with a flood, and many shall fall down slain.
11:27 And [as for] both the kings, their hearts [are set] upon mischief, and
they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper; for yet the
end is for a [fixed] time.
11:28 And he shall return to his land with much substance; and his heart
[shall be] against the holy covenant; and he shall perform [great deeds],
and return to his own land.
11:29 At the [set] time he shall return, and shall come into the south, but
the last [expedition] shall [not] be as the first.
11:30 For the Citians issuing forth shall come against him, and he shall be
brought low, and shall return, and shall be incensed against the holy
covenant: and he shall do [thus], and shall return, and have intelligence
with them that have forsaken the holy covenant.
11:31 And seeds shall spring up out of him, and they shall profane the
sanctuary of strength, and they shall remove the perpetual [sacrifice], and
make the abomination desolate.
11:32 And the transgressors shall bring about a covenant by deceitful ways:
but a people knowing their God shall prevail, and do [valiantly].
11:33 And the intelligent of the people shall understand much: yet they
shall fall by the sword, and by flame, and by captivity, and by spoil of
[many] days.
11:34 And when they are weak they shall be helped with a little help: but
many shall attach themselves to them with treachery.
11:35 And [some] of them that understand shall fall, to try them as with
fire, and to test [them], and that they may be manifested at the time of the
end, for the matter [is] yet for a [set] time.
11:36 And he shall do according to his will, and the king shall exalt and
magnify himself against every god, and shall speak great swelling words, and
shall prosper until the indignation shall be accomplished: for it is coming
to an end.
11:37 And he shall not regard any gods of his fathers, nor the desire of
women, neither shall h regard any deity: for he shall magnify himself above
all.
11:38 And he shall honour the god of forces on his place: and a god whom his
fathers knew not he shall honour with gold, and silver, and precious stones,
and desirable things.
11:39 And he shall do [thus] in the strong places of refuge with a strange
god, and shall increase his glory: and he shall subject many to them, and
shall distribute the land in gifts.
11:40 And at the end of the time he shall conflict with the king of the
south: and the king of the north shall come against him with chariots, and
with horsemen, and with many ships; and they shall enter into the land: and
he shall break in pieces, and pass on:
11:41 and he shall enter into the land of beauty, and many shall fail: but
these shall escape out of his hand, Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the
children of Ammon.
11:42 And he shall stretch forth [his] hand over the land; and the land of
Egypt shall not escape.
11:43 And he shall have the mastery over the secret [treasures] of gold and
silver, and over all the desirable [possessions] of Egypt, and of the
Libyans and Ethiopians in their strongholds.
11:44 But rumors and anxieties out of the east and from the north shall
trouble him; and he shall come with great wrath to destroy many.
11:45 And he shall pitch the tabernacle of his palace between the seas in
the holy mountain of beauty: [but] he shall come to his portion, and there
is none to deliver him. |
11:1 Also I in the first year of Darius the
Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him.
11:2 And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet
three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and
by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of
Grecia.
11:3 And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion,
and do according to his will.
11:4 And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be
divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor
according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked
up, even for others beside those.
11:5 And the king of the south shall be strong, and one of his princes; and
he shall be strong above him, and have dominion; his dominion shall be a
great dominion.
11:6 And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the
king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an
agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he
stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her,
and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times.
11:7 But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his estate,
which shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king
of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail:
11:8 And shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods, with their
princes, and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold; and he shall
continue more years than the king of the north.
11:9 So the king of the south shall come into his kingdom, and shall return
into his own land.
11:10 But his sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a multitude of
great forces: and one shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through:
then shall he return, and be stirred up, even to his fortress.
11:11 And the king of the south shall be moved with choler, and shall come
forth and fight with him, even with the king of the north: and he shall set
forth a great multitude; but the multitude shall be given into his hand.
11:12 And when he hath taken away the multitude, his heart shall be lifted
up; and he shall cast down many ten thousands: but he shall not be
strengthened by it.
11:13 For the king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a
multitude greater than the former, and shall certainly come after certain
years with a great army and with much riches.
11:14 And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the
south: also the robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish
the vision; but they shall fall.
11:15 So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and take the
most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand, neither
his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand.
11:16 But he that cometh against him shall do according to his own will, and
none shall stand before him: and he shall stand in the glorious land, which
by his hand shall be consumed.
11:17 He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole
kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do: and he shall give him
the daughter of women, corrupting her: but she shall not stand on his side,
neither be for him.
11:18 After this shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many:
but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to
cease; without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him.
11:19 Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land: but he
shall stumble and fall, and not be found.
11:20 Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of
the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger,
nor in battle.
11:21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not
give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain
the kingdom by flatteries.
11:22 And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him,
and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.
11:23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he
shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
11:24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province;
and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers'
fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea,
and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
11:25 And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the
south with a great army; and the king of the south shall be stirred up to
battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they
shall forecast devices against him.
11:26 Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy him, and
his army shall overflow: and many shall fall down slain.
11:27 And both of these kings' hearts shall be to do mischief, and they
shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end
shall be at the time appointed.
11:28 Then shall he return into his land with great riches; and his heart
shall be against the holy covenant; and he shall do exploits, and return to
his own land.
11:29 At the time appointed he shall return, and come toward the south; but
it shall not be as the former, or as the latter.
11:30 For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be
grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so
shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that
forsake the holy covenant.
11:31 And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary
of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place
the abomination that maketh desolate.
11:32 And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by
flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do
exploits.
11:33 And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet
they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many
days.
11:34 Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but
many shall cleave to them with flatteries.
11:35 And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to
purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is
yet for a time appointed.
11:36 And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt
himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous
things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be
accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
11:37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of
women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
11:38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom
his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with
precious stones, and pleasant things.
11:39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he
shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule
over many, and shall divide the land for gain.
11:40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him:
and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with
chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into
the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
11:41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall
be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab,
and the chief of the children of Ammon.
11:42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land
of Egypt shall not escape.
11:43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and
over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians
shall be at his steps.
11:44 But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him:
therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make
away many.
11:45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in
the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall
help him. |