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And four great beasts were coming up from the sea, differing from one another.[a] The first was like a lion and had[b] the wings of an eagle. I was watching until its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the earth and it was raised on its feet like a human, and a human heart was given to it. And look, another beast, a second one, looking like a bear. And it was raised up on one side and three tusks[c] were in its mouth between its teeth, and so it was told,[d] “Arise, eat much flesh!”

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 7:3 Literally “this from this”
  2. Daniel 7:4 Literally “for him/it”
  3. Daniel 7:5 Or “ribs”
  4. Daniel 7:5 Literally “they were saying”

Four great beasts,(A) each different from the others, came up out of the sea.

“The first was like a lion,(B) and it had the wings of an eagle.(C) I watched until its wings were torn off and it was lifted from the ground so that it stood on two feet like a human being, and the mind of a human was given to it.

“And there before me was a second beast, which looked like a bear. It was raised up on one of its sides, and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. It was told, ‘Get up and eat your fill of flesh!’(D)

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