Daniel 7

¹Keldanilerin kralı Baltasar'ın saltanatının birinci yılında, Daniel yatağında uzanırken bir rüya ve zihninde görümler gördü; sonra bu rüyayı yazdı.

²Ben Daniel, gece görümümde izliyordum ve işte, göğün dört rüzgarı büyük denize doğru şiddetle hücum ediyordu.

³Ve denizden, birbirinden tamamen farklı dört büyük canavar yükseliyordu.

⁴Birincisi dişi bir aslan gibiydi ve kartalınkiler gibi kanatları vardı; ben bakarken kanatları koparıldı, yerden kaldırıldı, bir insan gibi iki ayağı üzerine dikildi ve ona bir insan yüreği verildi.

⁵Ve işte, ayıya benzeyen ikinci bir canavar belirdi; bir yanı üzerinde dikilmişti ve ağzında, dişlerinin arasında üç kaburga kemiği vardı; ona şöyle deniyordu: "Kalk, bol bol et ye!"

⁶Bundan sonra bakmaya devam ettim ve işte, leopar gibi başka bir canavar gördüm; üzerinde kuşunkiler gibi dört kanat vardı; bu canavarın dört başı vardı ve ona egemenlik yetkisi verildi.

⁷Bundan sonra gece görümünde izliyordum; işte, korkunç, dehşet verici ve olağanüstü güçlü dördüncü bir canavar gördüm; büyük demir dişleri vardı; yiyip parçalıyor ve geriye kalanları ayaklarıyla çiğniyordu; kendisinden önceki tüm canavarlardan tamamen farklıydı ve on boynuzu vardı.

⁸Ben bu boynuzları dikkatle incelerken, işte, aralarından başka bir küçük boynuz çıktı ve onun önünde önceki boynuzlardan üçü kökünden söküldü; ve işte, bu boynuzda insan gözü gibi gözler ve büyük sözler söyleyen bir ağız vardı.

⁹Ben bakarken tahtlar kuruldu ve günleri kadim olan tahtına oturdu; giysisi kar gibi beyaz, başının saçları ise tertemiz yün gibiydi; tahtı alev alev yanan bir ateşti, tekerlekleri ise parıldayan bir yangındı.

¹⁰Önünden ateşten bir nehir çıkıp akıyordu; binlerce binler O'na hizmet ediyor, on binlerce on binler önünde duruyordu; mahkeme kuruldu ve kitaplar açıldı.

¹¹O boynuzun söylediği büyük sözlerin sesinden ötürü o sırada bakmaya devam ettim; canavar ortadan kaldırılıp bedeni yok edilene ve yanmak üzere ateşe verilene dek baktım.

¹²Diğer canavarlara gelince, onların egemenliği ellerinden alınmıştı; ancak belirli bir süre ve vakit için yaşamlarının uzatılmasına izin verildi.

¹³Gece görümünde izliyordum; işte, göğün bulutlarıyla birlikte insanoğluna benzer biri geliyordu; günleri kadim olanın yanına vardı ve O'nun huzuruna takdim edildi.

¹⁴Kendisine egemenlik, onur ve krallık verildi; bütün halklar, oymaklar ve diller O'na hizmet etsin diye; O'nun yetkisi, son bulmayacak sonsuz bir yetkidir ve krallığı asla yıkılmayacaktır.

¹⁵Ben Daniel'in ruhu bünyemin içinde ürperdi ve zihnimdeki görümler beni dehşete düşürdü.

¹⁶Orada duranlardan birine yaklaştım ve bütün bunların kesin gerçeğini ondan öğrenmek istedim; o da bana kesin gerçeği söyledi ve sözlerin yorumunu bildirdi:

¹⁷"Bu dört büyük canavar, yeryüzünde yükselecek ve nihayetinde ortadan kaldırılacak olan dört krallıktır.

¹⁸Ancak En Yüce Olan'ın kutsalları krallığı teslim alacaklar ve sonsuza dek, evet, sonsuzlar boyunca ona sahip olacaklar."

¹⁹Sonra, diğer canavarların hepsinden farklı, olağanüstü korkunç, demirden dişleri ve tunçtan tırnakları olan, yiyip parçalayan ve geriye kalanı ayaklarıyla çiğneyen dördüncü canavar hakkında kesin gerçeği öğrenmek istedim.

²⁰Ayrıca başındaki on boynuz ile sonradan çıkan ve önünden üç boynuzun düşüp elendiği diğer boynuz hakkında bilgi almak istedim; o boynuzun gözleri, büyük sözler söyleyen bir ağzı vardı ve görünüşü diğerlerinden daha heybetliydi.

²¹Ben bakarken, bu boynuz kutsallarla savaşmaktaydı ve onlara üstün gelmekteydi;

²²ta ki günleri kadim olan gelip En Yüce Olan'ın kutsalları lehine hüküm verene ve kutsalların krallığı teslim alacağı vakit erişene dek.

²³Bana şöyle dedi: "Dördüncü canavar, yeryüzünde olacak dördüncü krallıktır; bütün krallıklardan üstün olacak, tüm dünyayı yiyip bitirecek, onu çiğneyecek ve parçalayacaktır.

²⁴On boynuz ise bu krallıktan çıkacak on kraldır; onlardan sonra, kötülükte öncekilerin hepsini aşacak olan ve üç kralı tahtından indirecek başka bir kral ortaya çıkacaktır.

²⁵En Yüce Olan'a karşı sözler söyleyecek, En Yüce Olan'ın kutsallarını yıpratıp aşındıracak, vakitleri ve yasayı değiştirmeyi tasarlayacaktır; kutsallar bir vakit, vakitler ve yarım vakit boyunca onun eline teslim edileceklerdir.

²⁶Ama mahkeme kurulacak ve onun egemenliği, tamamen yok edilip sonsuza dek mahvedilmek üzere elinden alınacaktır.

²⁷Göklerin altındaki tüm krallıkların krallığı, yetkisi ve büyüklüğü, En Yüce Olan'ın kutsalları olan halka verilecektir; O'nun krallığı sonsuz bir krallıktır ve bütün egemenlikler O'na hizmet edip boyun eğecektir."

²⁸İşte konunun sonu budur; ben Daniel, düşüncelerimden ötürü çok dehşete düştüm ve görünüşüm bende değişti; ama bu sözü yüreğimde sakladım.

¹ΕΝ ἔτει πρώτῳ Βαλτάσαρ βασιλέως Χαλδαίων Δανιὴλ ἐνύπνιον εἶδε, καὶ αἱ ὁράσεις τῆς κεφαλῆς αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τῆς κοίτης αὐτοῦ, καὶ τὸ ἐνύπνιον αὐτοῦ ἔγραψεν·

²ἐγὼ Δανιὴλ ἐθεώρουν ἐν ὁράματί μου τῆς νυκτὸς καὶ ἰδοὺ οἱ τέσσαρες ἄνεμοι τοῦ οὐρανοῦ προσέβαλον εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν τὴν μεγάλην.

³καὶ τέσσαρα θηρία μεγάλα ἀνέβαινον ἐκ τῆς θαλάσσης διαφέροντα ἀλλήλων.

⁴τὸ πρῶτον ὡσεὶ λέαινα, καὶ πτερὰ αὐτῇ ὡσεὶ ἀετοῦ· ἐθεώρουν ἕως οὗ ἐξετίλη τὰ πτερὰ αὐτῆς, καὶ ἐξῄρθη ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς καὶ ἐπὶ ποδῶν ἀνθρώπου ἐστάθη, καὶ καρδία ἀνθρώπου ἐδόθη αὐτῇ.

⁵καὶ ἰδοὺ θηρίον δεύτερον ὅμοιον ἄρκῳ, καὶ εἰς μέρος ἓν ἐστάθη, καὶ τρεῖς πλευραὶ ἐν τῷ στόματι αὐτῆς ἀναμέσον τῶν ὀδόντων αὐτῆς, καὶ οὕτως ἔλεγον αὐτῇ· ἀνάστηθι, φάγε σάρκας πολλάς.

⁶ὀπίσω τούτου ἐθεώρουν καὶ ἰδοὺ θηρίον ἕτερον ὡσεὶ πάρδαλις, καὶ αὐτῇ πτερὰ τέσσαρα πετεινοῦ ὑπεράνω αὐτῆς, καὶ τέσσαρες κεφαλαὶ τῷ θηρίῳ, καὶ ἐξουσία ἐδόθη αὐτῇ.

⁷ὀπίσω τούτου ἐθεώρουν καὶ ἰδοὺ θηρίον τέταρτον φοβερὸν καὶ ἔκθαμβον καὶ ἰσχυρὸν περισσῶς, καὶ οἱ ὀδόντες αὐτοῦ σιδηροῖ μεγάλοι, ἐσθίον καὶ λεπτῦνον καὶ τὰ ἐπίλοιπα τοῖς ποσὶν αὐτοῦ συνεπάτει, καὶ αὐτὸ διάφορον περισσῶς παρὰ πάντα τὰ θηρία τὰ ἔμπροσθεν αὐτοῦ, καὶ κέρατα δέκα αὐτῷ.

⁸προσενόουν τοῖς κέρασιν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἰδοὺ κέρας ἕτερον μικρὸν ἀνέβη ἐν μέσῳ αὐτῶν, καὶ τρία κέρατα τῶν ἔμπροσθεν αὐτοῦ ἐξερριζώθη ἀπὸ προσώπου αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἰδοὺ ὀφθαλμοὶ ὡσεὶ ὀφθαλμοὶ ἀνθρώπου ἐν τῷ κέρατι τούτῳ καὶ στόμα λαλοῦν μεγάλα.

⁹ἐθεώρουν ἕως ὅτου οἱ θρόνοι ἐτέθησαν, καὶ παλαιὸς ἡμερῶν ἐκάθητο, καὶ τὸ ἔνδυμα αὐτοῦ λευκὸν ὡσεὶ χιών, καὶ ἡ θρὶξ τῆς κεφαλῆς αὐτοῦ ὡσεὶ ἔριον καθαρόν, ὁ θρόνος αὐτοῦ φλὸξ πυρός, οἱ τροχοὶ αὐτοῦ πῦρ φλέγον·

¹⁰ποταμὸς πυρὸς εἷλκεν ἔμπροσθεν αὐτοῦ· χίλιαι χιλιάδες ἐλειτούργουν αὐτῷ, καὶ μύριαι μυριάδες παρειστήκεισαν αὐτῷ· κριτήριον ἐκάθισε, καὶ βίβλοι ἠνεῴχθησαν.

¹¹ἐθεώρουν τότε ἀπὸ φωνῆς τῶν λόγων τῶν μεγάλων, ὧν τὸ κέρας ἐκεῖνο ἐλάλει, ἕως οὗ ἀνῃρέθη τὸ θηρίον καὶ ἀπώλετο, καὶ τὸ σῶμα αὐτοῦ ἐδόθη εἰς καῦσιν πυρός.

¹²καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν θηρίων μετεστάθη ἡ ἀρχή, καὶ μακρότης ζωῆς ἐδόθη αὐτοῖς ἕως καιροῦ καὶ καιροῦ.

¹³ἐθεώρουν ἐν ὁράματι τῆς νυκτὸς καὶ ἰδοὺ μετὰ τῶν νεφελῶν τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ὡς υἱὸς ἀνθρώπου ἐρχόμενος ἦν καὶ ἕως τοῦ παλαιοῦ τῶν ἡμερῶν ἔφθασε καὶ ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ προσηνέχθη.

¹⁴καὶ αὐτῷ ἐδόθη ἡ ἀρχὴ καὶ ἡ τιμὴ καὶ ἡ βασιλεία, καὶ πάντες οἱ λαοί, φυλαί, γλῶσσαι αὐτῷ δουλεύσουσιν· ἡ ἐξουσία αὐτοῦ ἐξουσία αἰώνιος, ἥτις οὐ παρελεύσεται, καὶ ἡ βασιλεία αὐτοῦ οὐ διαφθαρήσεται. -

¹⁵῎Εφριξε τὸ πνεῦμά μου ἐν τῇ ἕξει μου, ἐγὼ Δανιήλ, καὶ αἱ ὁράσεις τῆς κεφαλῆς μου ἐτάρασσόν με.

¹⁶καὶ προσῆλθον ἑνὶ τῶν ἑστηκότων καὶ τὴν ἀκρίβειαν ἐζήτουν παρ’ αὐτοῦ μαθεῖν περὶ πάντων τούτων, καὶ εἶπέ μοι τὴν ἀκρίβειαν καὶ τὴν σύγκρισιν τῶν λόγων ἐγνώρισέ μοι·

¹⁷ταῦτα τὰ θηρία τὰ μεγάλα τὰ τέσσαρα, τέσσαρες βασιλεῖαι ἀναστήσονται ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς,

¹⁸αἳ ἀρθήσονται· καὶ παραλήψονται τὴν βασιλείαν ἅγιοι ῾Υψίστου καὶ καθέξουσιν αὐτὴν ἕως αἰῶνος τῶν αἰώνων.

¹⁹καὶ ἐζήτουν ἀκριβῶς περὶ τοῦ θηρίου τοῦ τετάρτου, ὅτι ἦν διαφέρον παρὰ πᾶν θηρίον, φοβερὸν περισσῶς, οἱ ὀδόντες αὐτοῦ σιδηροῖ καὶ ὄνυχες αὐτοῦ χαλκοῖ. ἐσθίον καὶ λεπτῦνον καὶ τὰ ἐπίλοιπα τοῖς ποσὶν αὐτοῦ συνεπάτει·

²⁰καὶ περὶ τῶν κεράτων αὐτοῦ τῶν δέκα τῶν ἐν τῇ κεφαλῇ αὐτοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἑτέρου τοῦ ἀναβάντος καὶ ἐκτινάξαντος τῶν προτέρων τρία, κέρας ἐκεῖνο, ᾧ οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ καὶ στόμα λαλοῦν μεγάλα καὶ ἡ ὅρασις αὐτοῦ μείζων τῶν λοιπῶν.

²¹ἐθεώρουν καὶ τὸ κέρας ἐκεῖνο ἐποίει πόλεμον μετὰ τῶν ἁγίων καὶ ἴσχυσε πρὸς αὐτούς,

²²ἕως οὗ ἦλθεν ὁ παλαιὸς ἡμερῶν καὶ τὸ κρίμα ἔδωκεν ἁγίοις ῾Υψίστου, καὶ ὁ καιρὸς ἔφθασε καὶ τὴν βασιλείαν κατέσχον οἱ ἅγιοι.

²³καὶ εἶπε· τὸ θηρίον τὸ τέταρτον, βασιλεία τετάρτη ἔσται ἐν τῇ γῇ, ἥτις ὑπερέξει πάσας τὰς βασιλείας καὶ καταφάγεται πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν καὶ συμπατήσει αὐτὴν καὶ κατακόψει.

²⁴καὶ τὰ δέκα κέρατα αὐτοῦ, δέκα βασιλεῖς ἀναστήσονται, καὶ ὀπίσω αὐτῶν ἀναστήσεται ἕτερος, ὃς ὑπεροίσει κακοῖς πάντας τοὺς ἔμπροσθεν, καὶ τρεῖς βασιλεῖς ταπεινώσει·

²⁵καὶ λόγους πρὸς τὸν ῞Υψιστον λαλήσει καὶ τοὺς ἁγίους ῾Υψίστου παλαιώσει καὶ ὑπονοήσει τοῦ ἀλλοιῶσαι καιροὺς καὶ νόμον. καὶ δοθήσεται ἐν χειρὶ αὐτοῦ ἕως καιροῦ καὶ καιρῶν καὶ ἥμισυ καιροῦ.

²⁶καὶ τὸ κριτήριον καθίσει καὶ τὴν ἀρχὴν μεταστήσουσι τοῦ ἀφανίσαι καὶ τοῦ ἀπολέσαι ἕως τέλους.

²⁷καὶ ἡ βασιλεία καὶ ἡ ἐξουσία καὶ ἡ μεγαλωσύνη τῶν βασιλέων τῶν ὑποκάτω παντὸς τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἐδόθη ἁγίοις ῾Υψίστου, καὶ ἡ βασιλεία αὐτοῦ βασιλεία αἰώνιος, καὶ πᾶσαι αἱ ἀρχαὶ αὐτῷ δουλεύσουσι καὶ ὑπακούσονται.

²⁸ἕως ὧδε τὸ πέρας τοῦ λόγου. ἐγὼ Δανιήλ, οἱ διαλογισμοί μου ἐπὶ πολὺ συνετάρασσόν με, καὶ ἡ μορφή μου ἠλλοιώθη ἐπ’ ἐμοί, καὶ τὸ ῥῆμα ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ μου διετήρησα.

¹In the first year of Baltasar, king of the Chaldeans Daniel had a dream, and visions of his head upon his bed: and he wrote his dream.

²I Daniel beheld, and, lo, the four winds of heaven blew violently upon the great sea.

³And there came up four great beasts out of the sea, differing from one another.

⁴The first [was] as a lioness, and her wings as an eagle’s; I beheld until her wings were plucked, and she was lifted off from the earth, and she stood on human feet, and a man’s heart was given to her.

⁵And, behold, a second beast like a bear, and it supported itself on one side, and there were three ribs in its mouth, between its teeth: and thus they said to it, Arise, devour much flesh.

⁶After this one I looked, and behold another wild beast as a leopard, and it had four wings of a bird upon it: and the wild beast had four heads, and power was given to it.

⁷After this one I looked, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and exceedingly strong, and its teeth were of iron; devouring and crushing to atoms, and it trampled the remainder with its feet: and it was altogether different from the beasts that were before it; and it [had] ten horns.

⁸I noticed his horns, and behold, another little horn came up in the midst of them, and before it three of the former horns were rooted out: and, behold, [there were] eyes as the eyes of a man in this horn, and a mouth speaking great things.

⁹I beheld until the thrones were set, and the Ancient of days sat; and his raiment was white as snow, and the hair of his head, as pure wool: his throne was a flame of fire, [and] his wheels burning fire.

¹⁰A stream of fire rushed forth before him: thousand thousands ministered to him, and ten thousands of myriads, attended upon him: the judgment sat, and the books were opened.

¹¹I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which that horn spoke, until the wild beast was slain and destroyed, and his body given to be burnt with fire.

¹²And the dominion of the rest of the wild beasts was taken away; but a prolonging of life was given them for certain times.

¹³I beheld in the night vision, and, lo, [one] coming with the clouds of heaven as the Son of man, and he came on to the Ancient of days, and was brought near to him.

¹⁴And to him was given the dominion, and the honour, and the kingdom; and all nations, tribes, and languages, shall serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom shall not be destroyed.

¹⁵[As for] me Daniel, my spirit in my body trembled, and the visions of my head troubled me.

¹⁶And I drew near to one of them that stood by, and I sought to learn of him the truth of all these things: and he told me the truth, and made known to me the interpretation of the things.

¹⁷These four beasts are four kingdoms [that] shall rise up on the earth:

¹⁸which shall be taken away; and the saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom, and possess it for ever and ever.

¹⁹Then I enquired carefully concerning the fourth beast; for it differed from every [other] beast, exceeding dreadful: its teeth were of iron, and its claws of brass, devouring, and utterly breaking to pieces, and it trampled the remainder with its feet:

²⁰and concerning it ten horns that were in its head, and the other that came up, and rooted up [some] of the former, which had eyes, and a mouth speaking great things, and his look was bolder than the rest.

²¹I beheld, and that horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;

²²until the Ancient of days came, and he gave judgment to the saints of the Most High; and the time came on, and the saints possessed the kingdom.

²³And he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom on the earth, which shall excel all [other] kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and trample and destroy it.

²⁴And his ten horns are ten kings [that] shall arise: and after them shall arise another, who shall exceed all the former ones in wickedness and he shall subdue three kings.

²⁵And he shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and shall think to change times and law: and [power] shall be given into his hand for a time and times and half a time.

²⁶And the judgment has sat, and they shall remove [his] dominion to abolish it, and to destroy it utterly.

²⁷And the kingdom and the power and the greatness of the kings that are under the whole heaven were given to the saints of the Most High; and his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all powers shall serve and obey him.

²⁸Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my thoughts greatly troubled me, and my countenance was changed: but I kept the matter in my heart.