KJ3 Literal Translation
Daniel 11
The overthrow of Persia by the king of Greece. The invasion and tyranny of the Romans.
1And I, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I was standing for one who strengthens, and for a stronghold for him.
2And now I will declare the truth to you: Behold! Three kings shall stand up in Persia; and the fourth shall be rich in all greater riches. And when he is made strong by his riches he shall stir up all the kingdom of Greece.
3And a mighty king shall stand up and shall rule with great authority and do according to his will.
4And when he stands up his kingdom shall be shattered and shall be divided to the four winds of the heavens, and not to his posterity, and not according to his authority with which he ruled. For his kingdom shall be pulled up and not to others besides these.
5And the king of the south shall be strong. And one of his rulers, even he will be strong on him, and he will rule. His rule shall be a great rule.
6And at the end of the years they shall join together, and the king of the south's daughter shall come to the king of the north to make full equity, but she shall not keep the power of the arm. And he will not stand, and not his arm. But she and those who brought her shall be given up, also her boy, and he making her strong in these times.
7But the shoots of her roots will stand in his place, and he shall come to the army and will enter into the fortress of the king of the north. And he will act against them and will show strength.
8And he will also bring their gods with their molten images, with silver and gold vessels of their possessions, into exile to Egypt. And for years he will stand away from the king of the north.
9And the king of the south will come into his kingdom and will return to his own land.
10But his sons shall be stirred up and shall gather a multitude of great forces. And coming one shall come and overflow and pass through. And he will return to his fortress and be stirred up.
11And the king of the south will be bitter and will go out and fight with him, with the king of the north. And he shall raise a great multitude, but the multitude shall be given into his hand.
12And having borne away the multitude, his heart will be lifted up. And he will cause myriads to fall, but he shall not be strong.
13For the king of the north shall return and raise a greater multitude than the former. And at the end of times, years, coming he shall come with a great army and with much baggage.
14And in those times many shall stand up against the king of the south. And the sons of the breakers of your people shall rise up to make stand the vision, but they shall stumble.
15And the king of the north shall come and pour out a siege mound and seize a guarded fortification. And the arms of the south shall not stand, and his choice people, for there will be no firmness to stand.
16But he who comes against him will do as he wills, and none shall stand before him. And he shall stand in the glorious land, and annihilation shall be in his hand.
17And he shall set his face to go in with the might of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; and he shall do. And he shall give the daughter of women to him, to destroy it. But she shall not stand, and not be for him.
18And he shall turn his face to the coastlands and shall capture many. But a ruler shall make cease his reproach for him, but his reproach shall return to him.
19And he shall turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land, but he will stumble and fall and shall not be found.
20And one passing over, a tax exacter, shall stand in his place, for the glory of the kingdom. But within one of the days he will be shattered, but not in anger and not in battle.
21And a despised one shall stand up on his place, and they shall not give to him the honor of the king. But he shall come in while at ease and make strong the kingdom by intrigues.
22And the arms of the overflow shall be swept from before his face, and they will be shattered, and also the ruler of a covenant.
23And after they join themselves to him, he will practice deceit; for he shall come and shall be strong with a few people.
24He will go in safely, even into the rich places of the province. And he shall do what his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers. He shall plunder and spoil and scatter goods among them. And he shall devise his plots against the strongholds, even for a time.
25And he will stir up his power and his heart against the king of the south with a great army. And the king of the south will be stirred up to battle with a great and very mighty army. But he shall not stand, for they will devise plots against him.
26Yea, those who eat his food shall shatter him, and his army shall overflow. And many will fall down slain.
27And both of them, the kings, shall have in their hearts to do evil, and they will speak lies at one table but will not prosper, for the end still shall be at the appointed time.
28And he will return to his land with great wealth. And his heart shall be against the holy covenant. And he will act, and he shall return to his land.
29At the appointed time he will return and come against the south, but it will not be as the former or as the latter.
30For the ships of Kittim will come against him, and he will be pained and turn back and be furious against the holy covenant. And he will work, and he will return and heed the forsakers of the holy covenant.
31And forces will stand away from him, and they will pollute the sanctuary, the stronghold. And they shall turn aside the continual sacrifice, and they will place the abomination that desolates.
32And he will defile by flatteries those who do evil against the covenant. But the people who know their God will be strong and will work.
33And those who ponder among the people will instruct many, and they will stumble by the sword and by flame, by exile and spoil for days.
34And when they shall stumble, they will be helped with a little help, but many will join them with hypocrisy.
35And many of those who ponder shall stumble, to refine and to purge them, and to make white to the time of the end; for it is yet for the appointed time.
36And the king shall do according to his will. And he shall exalt and magnify himself above every god; he shall even speak marvelous things against the God of gods and shall prosper until the fury is finished. For that which is decreed shall be done.
37He shall not consider the God of his fathers, and not the desire of women; yea, he will not come to any god. For he shall magnify himself above all.
38But in his place he shall honor the god of strongholds, and he shall honor a god whom his fathers did not know, with gold and silver and with precious stones, and desirable things.
39And he will act in the fortifications of the strongholds with an alien god, whom he shall acknowledge. He shall multiply in glory, and he shall cause them to rule over many and shall divide the land for a price.
40And at the end time, the king of the south will press against him. And the king of the north shall come against him like a tempest, with chariots and with horsemen and with many ships. And he shall go into the lands and shall overflow and pass over.
41And he shall go in to the glorious land, and many will be stumbled. But these shall escape out of his hand: Edom and Moab, and the chief of the sons of Ammon.
42And his hand will stretch out against the lands, and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43But he will rule over the treasures of gold and silver, and over all Egypt's desirable things. And the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44But news shall trouble him from the east and from the north. And he will go out with great fury to destroy and to devote many to destruction.
45And he shall plant the tents of his palace between the seas, in the glorious holy mountain. Yet he shall go to his end, and there is not a helper for him.
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