¹⁶ and I heard a human voice by the Ulai, calling, “Gabriel, help this man understand the vision.”^(A)

² In those days when King Ahasuerus sat on his royal throne in the citadel of Susa,^(A)

²⁴ Elam is there and all its hordes around its grave, all of them killed, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised into the world below, who spread terror in the land of the living. They bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit.^(A)

² I,^[a] Daniel, saw in my vision by night the four winds of heaven stirring up the great sea,

Daniel’s Visions Interpreted

¹⁵ As for me, Daniel, my spirit was troubled within me,^[a] and the visions of my head terrified me.^(A)