I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven;
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsI saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from heaven.
As I lay on my bed, I also saw in the visions of my mind a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven.
`I was looking, in the visions of my head on my bed, and lo, a sifter, even a holy one, from the heavens is coming down.
I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from the heavens;
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentDaniel — A Hebrew exile at Babylonian and Persian courts sees empires rise and fall, a Son of Man coming with clouds, and seventy weeks locating Messiah in time. The canon's densest apocalyptic text — and its most interpretively contested.
- Author
- Daniel (traditional — Jesus cites ‘Daniel the prophet’ in Matt 24:15); critical scholarship dates composition to the 2nd c. BC Maccabean period (§7.9 — both surfaced)
- Date
- Traditional: 6th c. BC. Critical: c. 165 BC. Site default: traditional; critical view surfaced at depth 2