2 In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three weeks of days.
3 I ate no pleasant bread, neither did flesh nor wine come into my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all until the three weeks of days were fulfilled.
4 And in the twenty-fourth day of the first month as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel;
5 and lifting up my eyes, I saw, and behold a man clothed in linens, whose loins were girded with very pure gold:
6 his body was like the stone of Tarsis turquoise, and his face as a bolt of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to brilliant brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of an army.
7 And only I, Daniel, saw that vision: for the men that were with me did not see the vision; but a great fear fell upon them, and they fled and hid themselves.
8 Therefore I was left alone and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me, for my strength was turned into dismay, and I retained no strength.