1 “At that time Michael, the great prince who watches over your people,will arise.There will be a time of distressunlike any other from the nation’s beginningup to that time.But at that time your own people,all those whose names are found written in the book,will escape.
2 Many of those who sleepin the dusty ground will awake – some to everlasting life,and others to shame and everlasting abhorrence.
3 But the wise will shinelike the brightness of the heavenly expanse.And those bringing many to righteousness will be like the stars forever and ever.
4 “But you, Daniel, close up these words and seal the book until the time of the end. Many will dash about, and knowledge will increase.”
5 I, Daniel, watched as two others stood there, one on each side of the river.
6 One said to the man clothed in linen who was above the waters of the river, “When will the end of these wondrous events occur?”