Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
Daniel
14 chapters
Chapters
Daniel 1
In the third year of the reign of Joakim king of Juda, Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and besieged it.
Daniel 2
In the second year of the reign of Nabuchodonosor, Nabuchodonosor had a dream, and his spirit was terrified, and his dream went out of his mind.
Daniel 3
King Nabuchodonosor made a statue of gold, of sixty cubits high, and six cubits broad, and he set it up in the plain of Dura of the province of Babylon.
Daniel 4
I, Nabuchodonosor, was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace:
Daniel 5
Baltasar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his nobles: and every one drank according to his age.
Daniel 6
It seemed good to Darius, and he appointed over the kingdom a hundred and twenty governors to be over his whole kingdom.
Daniel 7
In the first year of Baltasar king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream: and the vision of his head was upon his bed: and writing the dream, he comprehended it in few words: and relating the sum of it in short, he said:
Daniel 8
In the third year of the reign of king Baltasar, a vision appeared to me. I Daniel, after what I had seen in the beginning,
Daniel 9
In the first year of Darius the son of Assuerus of the seed of the Medes, who reigned over the kingdom of the Chaldeans:
Daniel 10
In the third year of Cyrus king of the Persians, a word was revealed to Daniel surnamed Baltassar, and a true word, and great strength: and he understood the word: for there is need of understanding in a vision.
Daniel 11
And from the first year of Darius the Mede I stood up that he might be strengthened and confirmed.
Daniel 12
But at that time shall Michael rise up, the great prince, who standeth for the children of thy people: and a time shall come such as never was from the time that nations began even until that time. And at that time shall thy people be saved, every one that shall be found written in the book.
Daniel 13
Now there was a man that dwelt in Babylon, and his name was Joakim:
Daniel 14
And Daniel was the king’s guest, and was honoured above all his friends.