5
"Then the king of the South will growstrong, along with one of his princes who will gainascendancyover him and obtaindominion; his domain will be a greatdominion indeed.
6
"After some years they will form an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the South will come to the king of the North to carry out a peacefularrangement. But she will not retain her position of power, nor will he remain with his power, but she will be given up, along with those who brought her in and the one who sired her as well as he who supported her in those times.
7
"But one of the descendants of her line will arise in his place, and he will comeagainst their army and enter the fortress of the king of the North, and he will deal with them and display great strength.
8
"Also their gods with their metalimages and their preciousvessels of silver and gold he will take into captivity to Egypt, and he on his part will refrain from attacking the king of the North for some years.
10
"His sons will mobilize and assemble a multitude of greatforces; and one of them will keep on coming and overflow and passthrough, that he may againwagewar up to his very fortress.
11
"The king of the South will be enraged and goforth and fight with the king of the North. Then the latter will raise a greatmultitude, but that multitude will be given into the hand of the former.
13
"For the king of the North will againraise a greatermultitudethan the former, and after an interval* of someyears he will press on with a greatarmy and muchequipment.
14
"Now in thosetimesmany will rise up against the king of the South; the violentones* among your people will also lift themselves up in order to fulfill the vision, but they will falldown.
15
"Then the king of the North will come, cast up a siegeramp and capture a well-fortifiedcity; and the forces of the South will not stand their ground, not even their choicesttroops, for there will be nostrength to make a stand.
16
"But he who comesagainst him will do as he pleases, and noone will be able to withstand* him; he will also stay for a time in the BeautifulLand, with destruction in his hand.
17
"He will set his face to come with the power of his wholekingdom, bringing with him a proposal of peace which he will put into effect; he will also give him the daughter of women to ruin it. But she will not take a stand for him or be on his side.
18
"Then he will turn his face to the coastlands and capturemany. But a commander will put a stop to his scorn against him; moreover, he will repay him for his scorn.
20
"Then in his place one will arise who will send an oppressorthrough the Jewel of his kingdom; yet within a fewdays he will be shattered, though not in angernor in battle.
21
"In his place a despicable person will arise, on whom the honor of kingship has not been conferred, but he will come in a time of tranquility and seize the kingdom by intrigue.
24
"In a time of tranquility he will enter the richest parts of the realm, and he will accomplishwhat his fathersneverdid, nor his ancestors; he will distributeplunder, booty and possessions among them, and he will devise his schemesagainststrongholds, but only for a time.
25
"He will stir up his strength and courageagainst the king of the South with a largearmy; so the king of the South will mobilize an extremely*large and mightyarmy for war; but he will not stand, for schemes will be devisedagainst him.
27
"As for bothkings, their hearts will be intent on evil, and they will speaklies to each other at the sametable; but it will not succeed, for the end is still to come at the appointedtime.
28
"Then he will return to his land with muchplunder; but his heart will be set against the holycovenant, and he will takeaction and then return to his own land.
30
"For ships of Kittim will come against him; therefore he will be disheartened and will return and becomeenraged at the holycovenant and takeaction; so he will comeback and showregard for those who forsake the holycovenant.
31
"Forces from him will arise, desecrate the sanctuaryfortress, and doaway with the regularsacrifice. And they will set up the abomination of desolation.
32
"By smooth words he will turn to godlessness those who actwickedly toward the covenant, but the people who know their God will displaystrength and takeaction.
33
"Those who haveinsight among the people will giveunderstanding to the many; yet they will fall by sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder for many days.
35
"Some of those who haveinsight will fall, in order to refine, purge and make them pureuntil the endtime; because it is still to come at the appointedtime.