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And I said, "Lord who bearest rule, if I have found grace before Thy sight, and if I am justified with Thee before many others, and if my prayer indeed has come up before Thy face,
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comfort me then and show me, Thy servant, the interpretation and plain meaning of this fearful vision, that Thou mayest perfectly comfort my soul.
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For Thou hast judged me worthy to show me the last times."
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And He said unto me, "This is the interpretation of the vision:
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the eagle whom thou sawest come up from the sea is the kingdom which was seen in the vision of thy brother Daniel.
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But it was not expounded unto him; therefore now I declare it unto thee.
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Behold, the days will come that there shall rise up a kingdom upon earth, and it shall be feared above all the kingdoms that were before it.
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In the same shall twelve kings reign, one after another,
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whereof the second shall begin to reign and shall have more time than any of the twelve.
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And this do the twelve wings signify which thou sawest.
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As for the voice which thou heardest speak, and that thou sawest not to go out from the heads but from the midst of the body thereof, this is the interpretation: