fulfilled.

8:18. And when he spoke to me, I fell flat on the ground: and he touched
me, and set me upright.

8:19. And he said to me: I will shew thee what things are to come to
pass in the end of the malediction: for the time hath its end.

8:20. The ram, which thou sawest with horns, is the king of the Medes
and Persians.

8:21. And the he goat, is the king of the Greeks, and the great horn
that was between his eyes, the same is the first king.

8:22. But whereas when that was borken, there arose up four for it, four
kings shall rise up of his nation, but not with his strength.

8:23. And after their reign, when iniquities shall be grown up, there
shall arise a king of a shameless face, and understanding dark
sentences.

8:24. And his power shall be strengthened, but not by his own force: and
he shall lay all things waste, and shall prosper, and do more than can
be believed. And he shall destroy the mighty, and the people of the
saints,

8:25. According to his will, and craft shall be successful in his hand:
and his heart shall be puffed up, and in the abundance of all things he
shall kill many: and he shall rise up aginst the prince of princes, and
shall be broken without hand.

8:26. And the vision of the evening and the morning, which was told, is
true: thou, therefore, seal up the vision, because it shall come to pass
after many days.

8:27. And I, Daniel, languished, and was sick for some days: and when I
was risen up, I did the king's business, and I was astonished at the
vision, and there was none that could interpret it.

Daniel Chapter 9

Daniel's confession and prayer: Gabriel informs him concerning the
seventy weeks to the coming of Christ.

9:1. In the first year of Darius, the son of Assuerus, of the seed of
the Medes, who reigned over the kingdom of the Chaldeans:

9:2. The first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by books the
number of the years, concerning which the word of the Lord came to
Jeremias, the prophet, that seventy years should be accomplished of the
desolation of Jerusalem.

9:3. And I set my face to the Lord, my God, to pray and make
supplication with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.

9:4. And I prayed to the Lord, my God, and I made my confession, and
said: I beseech thee, O Lord God, great and terrible, who keepest the
covenant, and mercy to them that love thee, and keep thy commandments.

9:5. We have sinned, we have committed iniquity, we have done wicked