Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Then the herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O peoples, nations, and languages,
WEB
Then the herald loudly proclaimed, “O people of every nation and language, this is what you are commanded:
YLT
And a crier is calling mightily: `To you they are saying: O peoples, nations, and languages!
DBT
And the herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, [O] peoples, nations, and languages,
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentDaniel — A Hebrew exile at Babylonian and Persian courts sees empires rise and fall, a Son of Man coming with clouds, and seventy weeks locating Messiah in time. The canon's densest apocalyptic text — and its most interpretively contested.
- Author
- Daniel (traditional — Jesus cites ‘Daniel the prophet’ in Matt 24:15); critical scholarship dates composition to the 2nd c. BC Maccabean period (§7.9 — both surfaced)
- Date
- Traditional: 6th c. BC. Critical: c. 165 BC. Site default: traditional; critical view surfaced at depth 2