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(A) Just as I was thinking about these horns, a smaller horn appeared, and three of the other horns were pulled up by the roots to make room for it. This horn had the eyes of a human and a mouth that spoke with great arrogance.

Judgment

Daniel wrote:

(B) Thrones were set up
    while I was watching,
and the Eternal God[a]
    took his place.
His clothing and his hair
    were white as snow.
His throne was a blazing fire
    with fiery wheels,
10 (C) and flames were dashing out
    from all around him.
Countless thousands
were standing there
    to serve him.
The time of judgment began,
    and the books[b] were opened.

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Footnotes

  1. 7.9 Eternal God: Aramaic “Ancient of Days.”
  2. 7.10 books: Containing the record of the good and evil that each person has done.

“While I was thinking about the horns, there before me was another horn, a little(A) one, which came up among them; and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like the eyes of a human being(B) and a mouth that spoke boastfully.(C)

“As I looked,

“thrones were set in place,
    and the Ancient of Days(D) took his seat.(E)
His clothing was as white as snow;(F)
    the hair of his head was white like wool.(G)
His throne was flaming with fire,
    and its wheels(H) were all ablaze.
10 A river of fire(I) was flowing,
    coming out from before him.(J)
Thousands upon thousands attended him;
    ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him.
The court was seated,
    and the books(K) were opened.

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