14 When its rule was coming to an end and it was about to vanish like the first wing,
15 a voice said to it,
16 “Listen, you have ruled the world for a long time, and I want you to hear this message before you disappear:
17 no one after you will rule as long as you did — not even half as long.”
18 The third wing rose up and governed as the earlier ones had done; then it also vanished.
19 The same thing happened to all the other wings: one after the other they rose to power and then vanished.
20 I kept looking, and after a while the other small wings on the right side rose up to seize power. Some of them governed briefly and quickly disappeared,