1. 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:
2. I saw in my vision by night, and behold the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.
3. And four great beasts, different one from another, came up out of the sea.