thou not judged with truth.
[42] For thou hast afflicted the meek, thou hast hurt the peaceable, thou hast
loved liars, and destroyed the dwellings of them that brought forth fruit, and hast cast down the walls of
such as did thee no harm.
[43] Therefore is thy wrongful dealing come up unto the Highest, and thy pride
unto the Mighty.
[44] The Highest also hath looked upon the proud times, and, behold, they are ended,
and his abominations are fulfilled.
[45] And therefore appear no more, thou eagle, nor thy horrible wings,
nor thy wicked feathers nor thy malicious heads, nor thy hurtful claws, nor all thy vain body:
[46] That all
the earth may be refreshed, and may return, being delivered from thy violence, and that she may hope
for the judgment and mercy of him that made her.
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[1] And it came to pass, whiles the lion spake these words unto the eagle, I saw,
[2] And, behold, the
head that remained and the four wings appeared no more, and the two went unto it and set themselves
up to reign, and their kingdom was small, and fill of uproar.
[3] And I saw, and, behold, they appeared no
more, and the whole body of the eagle was burnt so that the earth was in great fear: then awaked I out
of the trouble and trance of my mind, and from great fear, and said unto my spirit,
[4] Lo, this hast thou
done unto me, in that thou searchest out the ways of the Highest.
[5] Lo, yet am I weary in my mind,
and very weak in my spirit; and little strength is there in me, for the great fear wherewith I was afflicted
this night.
[6] Therefore will I now beseech the Highest, that he will comfort me unto the end.
[7] And I
said, Lord that bearest rule, if I have found grace before thy sight, and if I am justified with thee before
many others, and if my prayer indeed be come up before thy face;
[8] Comfort me then, and shew me
thy servant the interpretation and plain difference of this fearful vision, that thou mayest perfectly comfort
my soul.
[9] For thou hast judged me worthy to shew me the last times.
[10] And he said unto me, This is
the interpretation of the vision:
[11] The eagle, whom thou sawest come up from the sea, is the kingdom
which was seen in the vision of thy brother Daniel.
[12] But it was not expounded unto him, therefore
now I declare it unto thee.
[13] Behold, the days will come, that there shall rise up a kingdom upon earth,
and it shall be feared above all the kingdoms that were before it.
[14] In the same shall twelve kings
reign, one after another:
[15] Whereof the second shall begin to reign, and shall have more time than
any of the twelve.
[16] And this do the twelve wings signify, which thou sawest.
[17] As for the voice which
thou heardest speak, and that thou sawest not to go out from the heads but from the midst of the body
thereof, this is the interpretation:
[18] That after the time of that kingdom there shall arise great strivings,
and it shall stand in peril of failing: nevertheless it shall not then fall, but shall be restored again to his
beginning.
[19] And whereas thou sawest the eight small under feathers sticking to her wings, this is the
interpretation:
[20] That in him there shall arise eight kings, whose times shall be but small, and their
years swift.
[21] And two of them shall perish, the middle time approaching: four shall be kept until their
end begin to approach: but two shall be kept unto the end.
[22] And whereas thou sawest three heads
resting, this is the interpretation:
[23] In his last days shall the most High raise up three kingdoms, and
renew many things therein, and they shall have the dominion of the earth,
[24] And of those that dwell
therein, with much oppression, above all those that were before them: therefore are they called the heads
of the eagle.
[25] For these are they that shall accomplish his wickedness, and that shall finish his last
end.
[26] And whereas thou sawest that the great head appeared no more, it signifieth that one of them
shall die upon his bed, and yet with pain.
[27] For the two that remain shall be slain with the sword.
[28]
For the sword of the one shall devour the other: but at the last shall he fall through the sword himself.
[29]
And whereas thou sawest two feathers under the wings passing over the head that is on the right side;
[30]
It signifieth that these are they, whom the Highest hath kept unto their end: this is the small kingdom
and full of trouble, as thou sawest.
[31] And the lion, whom thou sawest rising up out of the wood, and
roaring, and speaking to the eagle, and rebuking her for her unrighteousness with all the words which
thou hast heard;
[32] This is the anointed, which the Highest hath kept for them and for their wickedness
unto the end: he shall reprove them, and shall upbraid them with their cruelty.
[33] For he shall set them
before him alive in judgment, and shall rebuke them, and correct them.
[34] For the rest of my people
shall he deliver with mercy, those that have been pressed upon my borders, and he shall make them
joyful until the coming of the day of judgment, whereof I have spoken unto thee from the the beginning.
[35]
This is the dream that thou sawest, and these are the interpretations.
[36] Thou only hast been meet to
know this secret of the Highest.
[37] Therefore write all these things that thou hast seen in a book, and