Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsNow I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days; for the vision is yet for many days.
Now I have come to explain to you what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision concerns those days.”
and I have come to cause thee to understand that which doth happen to thy people in the latter end of the days, for yet the vision is after days.
And I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people at the end of the days: for the vision is yet for [many] days.
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