¹In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.

¹V prvom roku Balsazára, babylonského kráľa, videl Daniel sen a videnia svojej hlavy na svojej posteli. Vtedy napísal sen a povedal z neho hlavné veci.

²Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.

²Daniel hovoril a riekol: Videl som vo svojom videní vnoci a hľa, štyri nebeské vetry sa vyrútily na Veľké more.

³And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.

³A štyri veľké zvieratá vystupovaly z mora, rozdielne jedno od druhého.

⁴The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.

⁴Prvé bolo jako lev a malo krýdla orla. Hľadel som, až mu boly krýdla vytrhané, a bolo pozdvihnuté od zeme a postavené na dve nohy jako človek, a bolo mu dané srdce človeka.

⁵And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.

⁵A hľa, iné, druhé zviera sa zjavilo, podobné medveďovi, a bolo postavené po jednej strane, a malo tri rebrá vo svojej tlame, medzi svojimi zubami, a takto mu povedali: Vstaň a nažer sa hojne mäsa!

⁶After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.

⁶Potom som videl a hľa, zase iné zviera čo do podoby jako leopard, ktoré malo štyri vtáčie krýdla na svojom chrbte, a štyri hlavy malo zviera, a bolo mu dané panstvo.

⁷After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.

⁷Potom som videl v nočných videniach a hľa, i štvrté zviera vystúpilo, strašné a hrozné a veľmi silné, ktoré malo veľké železné zuby; žralo a krúšilo a ostatok šliapalo svojimi nohami a to bolo rozdielne od všetkých zvierat, ktoré sa boly zjavily pred ním, a malo desať rohov.

⁸I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.

⁸Pozoroval som jeho rohy, a hľa, iný roh malý vystúpil medzi nimi, a tri z prvých rohov boly vyvrátené pred ním od koreňa a hľa, oči boly na tom rohu jako oči človeka a ústa, ktoré vravely veľké veci.

⁹I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.

⁹Hľadel som, až boly postavené tróny, a posadil sa Starodávny dňov; jeho rúcho bolo biele jako sneh, a vlasy jeho hlavy jako čistá vlna; jeho trón plamene ohňa; jeho kolá horiaci oheň.

¹⁰A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.

¹⁰Ohnivá rieka tiekla a vychádzala zpred neho; tisíc tisícov mu slúžilo, a desaťkrát tisíc desaťtisícov stálo pred ním; zasadol súd, a boly otvorené knihy.

¹¹I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.

¹¹Vtedy som pozrel a hľadel som pre hlas velikej reči, ktorú hovoril roh, a hľadel som, až bolo zviera zabité a jeho telo zahubené a dané, aby ho spálil oheň.

¹²As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time.

¹²A ostatným zvieratám odňali panstvo, avšak bolo im dané predĺženie života do času a do vymeraného času.

¹³I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

¹³Videl som v nočných videniach a hľa, s nebeskými oblakmi prichádzal ktosi na pohľad ako Syn človeka a prišiel až ku Starodávnemu dňov, a dali mu priblížiť sa pred neho.

¹⁴And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.

¹⁴A bolo jemu dané panstvo i sláva i kráľovstvo, a slúžily mu všetky národy a ľudia a jazyky; jeho panstvo je večným panstvom, ktoré nepominie, a jeho kráľovstvo je také, ktoré nebude zničené.

¹⁵I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.

¹⁵A môj, Danielov, duch sa zhrozil v mojich vnútrobách, a videnia mojej hlavy ma predesily.

¹⁶I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.

¹⁶A vtedy som sa priblížil k jednému z tých, ktorí tam stáli, a pýtal som sa ho na istotu všetkého toho. A povedal mi a oznámil mi výklad vecí.

¹⁷These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.

¹⁷Tie veľké zvieratá, ktoré sú štyri, sú štyria kráľovia, ktorí povstanú zo zeme.

¹⁸But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.

¹⁸Ale kráľovstvo dostanú svätí Najvyšších, a držať budú kráľovstvo až na veky a až na veky vekov.

¹⁹Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet;

¹⁹Vtedy som chcel vedieť istotu o tom štvrtom zvierati, ktoré bolo rozdielne od nich od všetkých, strašné náramne, ktoré malo zuby zo železa a pazúry z medi, ktoré žralo a krúšilo a ostatok šliapalo svojimi nohami,

²⁰And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows.

²⁰jako aj o desiatich rohoch, ktoré boly na jeho hlave, a o tom inom, ktorý bol vystúpil, a padly pred ním tri, o tom rohu, ktorý to mal oči a ústa, ktoré vravely veľké veci, a bol na pohľad väčší ako jeho druhovia.

²¹I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;

²¹A hľadiac videl som, že ten roh viedol vojnu so svätými a premáhal ich,

²²Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.

²²až prišiel Starodávny dňov, a daný bol súd svätým Najvyšších, a prišiel čas, a kráľovstvo prevzali svätí.

²³Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.

²³Takto povedal: Štvrtým zvieraťom bude štvrté kráľovstvo na zemi, ktoré bude rozdielne od všetkých kráľovstiev a požerie celú zem a pomláti ju a rozdrtí ju.

²⁴And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.

²⁴A desať rohov znamená, že z toho kráľovstva povstane desať kráľov, a po nich povstane iný, ktorý bude rozdielny od predošlých a poníži troch kráľov.

²⁵And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

²⁵A bude vravieť slová proti Najvyššiemu a unaví svätých Najvyšších a bude pomýšľať na to, že premení časy a zákon. A budú vydaní do jeho ruky až do času a čias a do polovice času.

²⁶But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.

²⁶Ale potom zasadne súd, a odnímu jeho panstvo, aby ho vyplienili a zahubili až do konca.

²⁷And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.

²⁷A kráľovstvo, panstvo a veličenstvo kráľovstiev pod všetkými nebesami bude dané ľudu svätých Najvyšších; jeho kráľovstvo je večným kráľovstvom, a všetky panstvá budú jemu slúžiť a poslúchať ho.

²⁸Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.

²⁸Až potiaľto koniec veci. Mňa, Daniela, veľmi desily moje myšlienky, a zmenilo sa jasné vzozrenie mojej tvári, avšak som zachoval vec vo svojom srdci.