Daniel 7:2

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“Daniel declared: “In my vision in the night I looked, and suddenly the four winds of heaven were churning up the great sea.”

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BSBPD

“Daniel declared: “In my vision in the night I looked, and suddenly the four winds of heaven were churning up the great sea.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of heaven brake forth upon the great sea.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Answered hath Daniel and said, `I was seeing in my vision by night, and lo, the four winds of the heavens are coming forth to the great sea;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Daniel 7:2 — 4 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Isaiah 17:12Alas, the tumult of many peoples; they rage like the roaring seas and clamoring nations; they rumble like the crashing of mighty waters.
  2. Jeremiah 51:42The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered in turbulent waves.
  3. Revelation 7:1After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back its four winds so that no wind would blow on land or sea or on any tree.
  4. Revelation 17:15Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute was seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.

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