face toward the ground; but he touched me, and set me upright. 008:019 He said, Behold, I will make you know what shall be in the latter time of the indignation; for it belongs to the appointed time of the end. 008:020 The ram which you saw, that had the two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia. 008:021 The rough male goat is the king of Greece: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king. 008:022 As for that which was broken, in the place where four stood up, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not with his power. 008:023 In the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce face, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. 008:024 His power shall be mighty, but not by his own power; and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper and do [his pleasure]; and he shall destroy the mighty ones and the holy people. 008:025 Through his policy he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and in [their] security shall he destroy many: he shall also stand up against the prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand. 008:026 The vision of the evenings and mornings which has been told is true: but seal up the vision; for it belongs to many days [to come]. 008:027 I, Daniel, fainted, and was sick certain days; then I rose up, and did the king's business: and I wondered at the vision, but none understood it. 009:001 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans, 009:002 in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years about which the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years. 009:003 I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. 009:004 I prayed to Yahweh my God, and made confession, and said, Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments, 009:005 we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances; 009:006 neither have we listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. 009:007 Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them,