15 “I, Daniel, was worried. The visions that went through my mind frightened me.
16 I came near one of those standing there. I asked him what all this meant.“So he told me. He explained to me what these things meant.
17 He said, ‘The four great animals are four kingdoms. Those four kingdoms will come from the earth.
18 But the people who belong to the Most High God will receive the power to rule. And they will have the power to rule forever. They will have it from now on.’
19 “Then I wanted to know what the fourth animal meant. It was different from all the other animals. It was very terrible. It had iron teeth and bronze claws. It was the animal that crushed and ate what it killed. And it walked on whatever was left.
20 I also wanted to know about the ten horns on its head. And I wanted to know about the little horn that grew there. It had pulled out three of the other ten horns. It looked greater than the others. And it had eyes and a mouth that kept bragging.
21 As I watched, the little horn began making war against God’s people. And the horn kept killing them