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After this I looked again and saw the head in the middle suddenly disappear, just as the wings had done.
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But the two heads remained, which also in like manner ruled over the earth and its inhabitants.
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And while I looked, I saw the head on the right side devour the one on the left.
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Then I heard a voice saying to me, "Look in front of you and consider what you see."
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When I looked, I saw what seemed to be a lion roused from the forest, roaring; and I heard how it uttered a human voice to the eagle, and spoke, saying,
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"Listen and I will speak to you. The Most High says to you,
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"Are you not the one that remains of the four beasts that I had made to reign in my world, so that the end of my times might come through them?
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You, the fourth that has come, have conquered all the beasts that have gone before; and you have held sway over the world with great terror, and over all the earth with grievous oppression; and for so long you have lived on the earth with deceit.
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You have judged the earth, but not with truth,
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for you have oppressed the meek and injured the peaceable; you have hated those who tell the truth, and have loved liars; you have destroyed the homes of those who brought forth fruit, and have laid low the walls of those who did you no harm.
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Your insolence has come up before the Most High, and your pride to the Mighty One.