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New Living Translation (NLT)

Daniel 10
¹⁶ Then the one who looked like a man touched my lips, and I opened my mouth and began to speak. I said to the one standing in front of me, “I am filled with anguish because of the vision I have seen, my lord, and I am very weak.
¹⁷ How can someone like me, your servant, talk to you, my lord? My strength is gone, and I can hardly breathe.”
¹⁸ Then the one who looked like a man touched me again, and I felt my strength returning.
¹⁹ “Don’t be afraid,” he said, “for you are very precious to God. Peace! Be encouraged! Be strong!” As he spoke these words to me, I suddenly felt stronger and said to him, “Please speak to me, my lord, for you have strengthened me.”
²⁰ He replied, “Do you know why I have come? Soon I must return to fight against the spirit prince of the kingdom of Persia, and after that the spirit prince of the kingdom of Greece will come.
²¹ Meanwhile, I will tell you what is written in the Book of Truth. (No one helps me against these spirit princes except Michael, your spirit prince.
Daniel 11
¹ I have been standing beside Michael to support and strengthen him since the first year of the reign of Darius the Mede. (In print editions of the NLT, this verse is run in with the final paragraph in chapter 10.)
² “Now then, I will reveal the truth to you. Three more Persian kings will reign, to be succeeded by a fourth, far richer than the others. He will use his wealth to stir up everyone to fight against the kingdom of Greece.
³ “Then a mighty king will rise to power who will rule with great authority and accomplish everything he sets out to do.
⁴ But at the height of his power, his kingdom will be broken apart and divided into four parts. It will not be ruled by the king’s descendants, nor will the kingdom hold the authority it once had. For his empire will be uprooted and given to others.
⁵ “The king of the south will increase in power, but one of his own officials will become more powerful than he and will rule his kingdom with great strength.