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1 Ode age amoga Belesia: sa da Ba: bilone amoga hina bagade esalu, na, Da: niele, na da gasia simasi amo ganodini ba: i. Na da amo simasi ea hou dedei dagoi. Amo simasi na da agoane ba: i.
[Previously, ] during the first year that Belshazzar was the king of Babylonia, I had a dream and a vision one night as I lay on my bed. [The next morning] I wrote down what I had dreamed. This is what I wrote:
2 Fo bagade da gusudili, guma: dini, gadili amola ganodini amoga manebe ba: i. Foga fabeba: le, hano wayabo bagade da hano gafului bagade ba: i.
I, Daniel, had a vision last night. In the vision I saw that strong winds were blowing from all four directions, stirring up [the water in] the ocean.
3 Amalalu, ohe fi hisu biyaduyale gala bagadedafa da hano bagade amo ganodini gado agoane manebe ba: i.
Then [I saw] four beasts coming out of the ocean. All four of them were different.
4 Ohe bisili age da agoane. E da laione wa: me amo da ougia bagade buhiba ougia agoane ba: i. Amola na ba: loba da ea ougia amo hiougili, fadegai dagoi ba: i. Amalalu, amo ohe da wa: lesili dunu agoane lelebe ba: i dagoi. Amola dunu ea dawa: su defele ema i dagoi ba: i.
The first one resembled a lion, but it had wings like an eagle has. But as I watched, something tore off its wings {its wings were pulled off}. The beast was left there, standing on its two hind/rear legs, like a human being stands. And it was given a mind like humans have.
5 Amola na ba: loba, ohe fi ageyadu amo bea amo dunu agoane lelebe ba: i. Amo bea ohe da didifi gasa udiana amo ea lafi ganodini ba: i. Amola sia: afae da ema misi agoane nabi, “Defea! Dia hanaiga defele hu moma,” amo sia: nabi.
The second beast resembled a bear. It was crouching, and it held between its teeth three ribs [from another animal that it had killed and eaten]. Someone said to it {It was told}, “Stand up and eat as much meat [as you want]!”
6 Amola na bu sosodoloba, ohe fi osoda eno ba: i. Amo ohe da lebade agoane ba: i. Be ea baligiga sio ougia agoane ba: i. E da busa: gi biyaduyale gala amola ea hou da ouligisu bagade ea hou agoane ba: i.
Then I saw in front of me the third of those beasts. It resembled a leopard, but it had four wings protruding from its back. The wings were like a bird’s wings. It had four heads. It was given the power/authority to rule [people].
7 Na bu sosodoloba, ohe biyadu ba: i. Amo ohe da gasa bagade amola nimi bagade ba: i. Amola amoba: le na da beda: i. E da bese bagadedafa amola liligi gasa bagade amo nana manebe ba: i. Amola e da liligi huluane wadela: lesila manebe ba: i. Ohe fi oda da agoai hame ba: i. Amola ea busa: gia hono nabuane agoane ba: i.
In the vision I saw a fourth beast. It was stronger than the other beasts, and it was more terrifying. It crushed other creatures with its huge iron teeth and ate their flesh. The parts of animals that it did not grind with its teeth, it trampled [on the ground]. It was different from the other three beasts: It had ten horns [on its head].
8 Na da bu ha: giwane sosodolalu, amo hono nabuane amo ganodini, hono afae fonobahadi heda: lebe ba: i. Goe hono fonobahadi da hono udiana eno amo hiougili, fadegale fasi dagoi. Amo hono ganodini da dunu ea si defele ba: i amola e da lafi gala, amoga gasa fi sia: bagade manebe nabi.
While I was looking at those horns, I saw a little horn appear [on the head of that beast]. It tore out three of the other horns. This little horn had eyes like humans have, and it had a mouth [with which it spoke] very boastfully.
9 Amola na da sosodoloba, ilia da fisu amo gaguli misini ligisi. Amola Hemonega Esalu Dunu, amo da fisu afae da: iya amogai fibi ba: i. Ea abula da ahea: yaidafa amola anegagi hano agoane ba: i. Amola Ea busa: gi hinabo amo da ahea: yai, sibi ea hinabo agoai ba: i. Goe fisu da wagebei emo (da: i sia: da wili [wheel]) legebe ba: i amola fisu amoga lalu gona: su da: gini ga: ga: la: lebe ba: i.
[Then] while I watched, thrones were put in the places [where they belonged], and [God], the one who had been living forever, sat on one of the thrones. His clothes were as white as snow, and his hair was as white as pure/clean wool. His throne had wheels that were blazing with fire, and his throne was [also] blazing.
10 Lalu bagade da fisu amoga ga ahoanebe ba: i. Dunu amola uda osea: idafa da Hina Gode Ea hawa: hamomusa: gini lelu. Amola dunu amola uda osea: idafa baligili da Ea midadini lelu. Amalalu, fofada: su gilisisu da fili, fofada: su Buga huluane amo houga: i dagoi ba: i.
A fire was rushing out of in front of him like a stream. Many thousands [of people] (OR, [angels]) [were there] serving him, and millions [of other people] (OR, [angels]) were standing in front of him. They started (the court session/judging people), and they opened the books [in which they had written the record of all the good and bad things that people had done].
11 Na ba: laloba, hono fonobahadi amo da gasa fi sia: bagade sia: dalebe na da nabi. Amalalu, ilia da ohe biyadu amo lale medole legele, ea da: i huluane lalu ganodini galagale, ea da: i huluane laluga gugunufinisi dagoi ba: i.
While I was watching, I could hear the little horn speaking very boastfully. As I [continued to] watch, the [fourth] beast was killed. Its corpse was thrown into a fire and completely burned.
12 Be Gode da ohe udiana eno, ilia bu fonobahadi fawane bu esaloma: ne, hame fane lelegei. Be E da ilia gasa bagade ouligisu hou amo fadegai dagoi.
The power/authority of the other [three] beasts was taken away from them, but they were allowed to continue to live for a while.
13 Amola na simasi ganodini liligi amo da osobo bagade dunu agoane ba: i. E da nama doaga: musa: manebe ba: i. Mu mobi da Ea da: i amo sisiga: i. E da Hemonega Esalu Dunu amoga asili, gousa: i.
While I [continued to] see the vision that night, I saw someone who resembled a human being. He was coming [closer to me], surrounded by clouds. Then he was taken to [God], the one who had been living forever.
14 Gode da amo Dunuma gasa bagade ouligisu sogebi i. Bai fifi asi gala sia: hisu hisu amola fi hisu hisu huluane da amo Dunuma nodone hawa: hamomu, Gode da hanai galu. Ea Hinadafa Hou da eso huluane mae fisili, dialalalumu.
He was honored and given great authority to rule over all the nations in the world, in order that people from every people-group and every nation, people from all language groups, would worship/serve him. He will rule forever; he will never stop ruling. The kingdom that he rules will never be destroyed.
15 Na da goe simasi ba: beba: le, bagade fofogadigili, da: i dioi nabi.
As for me, Daniel, I was very terrified by what I had seen in that vision, and I did not know what to think about it.
16 Na da asili, dunu afae gadenene lelu ema simasi ea ba: i nama olelema: ne sia: i. Amalalu, e da bai amo nama olelei.
I went to one of those who were standing in front of the throne of God, and I asked him to tell me what it meant. So he told me the meaning of it.
17 E amane sia: i, “Goe ohe fi biyaduyale bagade amo da osobo dogone fi biyaduyale gala amo gasa bagade ilia da osobo bagadega heda: mu.
[He said], “The four huge beasts represent four kingdoms/empires that will exist on the earth.
18 Amola Gadodafa Gode amo Ea fi dunu da Ea gasa lale, amo gasa ilia da mae fisili, eso huluane gagui dialumu!”
But the Supreme God will give power/authority to his people [to rule], and they shall rule forever.”
19 Amalalu, na da ohe biyadu amo ea hou ema adole ba: i. Amo ohe da eno ohe agoai hame. Na da ema bagade beda: i. Ea ifi da balasega hamoi amola ea bese da ouliga hamoi. Amoga e da dunu goudasu amola ilima osa: gisu.
Then I wanted to know what the fourth beast signified—[the beast] that was different from the other three, the beast that crushed [those that it attacked] with its bronze claws, and [then] ate [their flesh] with its iron teeth, and trampled on the parts of their bodies [that it did not eat].
20 Amola na da eno liligi dawa: mu hanai galu. Amo da ohe ea dialuma da: iya hono nabuane heda: lebe ba: i, amola hono afae da fa: no heda: le, hono udiana eno duga: le fasi. Amo hono da si amola lafi gala. Ea lafidili, e da gasa fi sia: bagade sia: dalu. Amoga, dunu huluane da bagade beda: i.
[I also wanted to know about] the ten horns on its head, and about the horn that appeared later, which got rid of three of the other horns. [I wanted to know what it meant that] it had eyes and a mouth with which it spoke very boastfully. [The beast that was represented by] that horn was more terrifying than the other beasts.
21 Na da ba: laloba, amo hono da Gode Ea fi dunu ilima gegenanu, ili hasali.
While I was having the vision, I saw that this horn attacked God’s people and was defeating them.
22 Amalalu, Hemonega Esalu Dunu amo da misini, fofada: nanu, E da Gode Gadodafa amo Ea fi da bisilua fi E da sia: i dagoi. Gode Ea fi dunu ilia gasadafa lamu eso da doaga: i dagoi.
But then the Supreme God, the one who had been living forever, came and judged in favor of the people who belonged to him. And [I knew that] it was time for God’s people to receive authority [to rule].
23 Dunu amoma na da simasi bai adole ba: i, e da amo bai nama olelei, amane, “Ohe biyadu amo ea bai da osobo dogone fi misunu. Amo fi da osobo dogone fi eno amoga hisu ba: mu. Amo fi da osobo bagade fifi asi gala amo huluane goudane, amoga osa: la heda: mu.
[Then] the man who was standing there said [to me], “The fourth beast represents an empire that will exist on the earth; that [empire] will be different from all [other] empires. [The army of] that empire will crush/kill [people all over] the world and trample [on their bodies].
24 Hono nabuane da hina bagade nabuane ilia da amo osobo dogone fi ouligimu. Amalalu, hina bagade afae eno (e da musa: hina bagade ema hisu ba: mu) amo da misini, eno hina bagade udiana amo huluanema osa: la heda: mu.
As for its ten horns, they represent ten kings who will rule that empire, [one after the other]. Then another [king] will appear. He will be different from the previous kings. He will defeat the three kings [that were represented by the three horns that were pulled out].
25 E da Gadodafa Godema lasogole sia: ga gegemu amola e da Gode Ea fi dunu ilima banenesimu. E da ilia Godema nodomusa: Lolo Nabe amola Gilisisu, amo afadenene amola ga: simusa: dawa: mu. Amo hina bagade da ode udiana amola oubi gafeyale amoga Gode Ea fi dunu ilima nimi bagade hinawane esalumu.
He will revile the Supreme God, and he will oppress God’s people. He will try to change the [sacred] festivals and their [religious] laws/regulations. He will control them for three and a half years.
26 Amalalu, Hebene ganodini gasolo da gilisili fofada: nanu, amo hina bagade ea gasa fadegale, e amola gugunufinisimudafa.
But there will be a session/meeting of the court/judges in heaven, and that king’s authority/power will be taken away, and he will be completely destroyed.
27 Amalalu, Baligili Gadodafa Gode da osobo bagade fifi asi gala huluane ilia hadigi amola ilia gasa amo samogene, Ea fi dunu ilima imunu. Amalalu, ilia gasa da hame dagole, eso huluane amaiwane dialalalumu. Osobo bagade hina dunu huluane da Gode Ea fi dunu ilia sia: nabimu amola ilia hawa: hamosu hamonanumu!”
Then all the power and the greatness of all the kingdoms on the earth will be given to the people who belong to the Supreme God. The kingdom that he rules (OR, they rule) will endure forever. And the rulers of all the nations on the earth will serve and obey him (OR, them).”
28 Defea! Amo simasia ba: i ea bai olelesu da dagoi. Na da bagade beda: iba: le, na odagi da haliga: i bagade ba: i amola na da eno dunuma mae adole, nisu da dadawa: lalu.
That is [what I saw in] my vision/dream. I, Daniel, was terrified, with the result that my face became pale. But I did not tell anyone about the vision [that I had seen].
