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While the lion was saying these words to the eagle, I looked
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and saw that the remaining head had disappeared. The two wings that had gone over to it rose up and set themselves up to reign, and their reign was brief and full of tumult.
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When I looked again, they were already vanishing. The whole body of the eagle was burned, and the earth was exceedingly terrified. Then I woke up in great perplexity of mind and great fear, and I said to my spirit,
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"You have brought this upon me, because you search out the ways of the Most High.
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I am still weary in mind and very weak in my spirit, and not even a little strength is left in me, because of the great fear with which I have been terrified tonight.
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Therefore I will now entreat the Most High that he may strengthen me to the end."
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Then I said, "O sovereign Lord, if I have found favor in your sight, and if I have been accounted righteous before you beyond many others, and if my prayer has indeed come up before your face,
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strengthen me and show me, your servant, the interpretation and meaning of this terrifying vision so that you may fully comfort my soul.
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For you have judged me worthy to be shown the end of the times and the last events of the times."