1. In the third year of Cyrus the king of the Persians, a word was revealed to Daniel, who was called by his name Belteshazzar, and the word was reliable and it concerned a great tribulation, and he understood the word and he received understanding.
2. In those days, I, Daniel, I myself was in mourning for three whole weeks.
3. I had not eaten any choice food, and meat and wine did not enter my mouth, and I did not use any ointment until the end of three whole weeks.
4. And then on the twenty-fourth day of the first month, I myself was on the bank of the great river; that is, the Tigris.