DAN 7:21 Parallel Verse View

Note: This view shows ‘verses’ which are not natural language units and hence sometimes only part of a sentence will be visible—click on any Bible version abbreviation down the left-hand side to see the verse in more of its context. Normally the OET discourages the reading of individual ‘verses’, but this view is only designed as a tool for doing comparisons of different translations—the older translations are further down the page (so you can read up from the bottom to trace the English translation history). The OET segments on this page are still very early looks into the unfinished texts of the Open English Translation of the Bible—please double-check these texts in advance before using in public.

Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) I kept watching, and that horn was waging war with those followers and gaining over them[ref]

Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

ULT I kept looking, and this horn was waging war with the saints and prevailing against them

UST While I was having the vision, I saw that this horn attacked God’s people and was defeating them.

BSB As I watched, this horn was waging war against the saints and prevailing against them,

MSB (Same as BSB above)

OEB No OEB DAN book available

WEBBE I saw, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them,

WMBB I saw, and the same horn made war with the holy ones, and prevailed against them,

NET While I was watching, that horn began to wage war against the holy ones and was defeating them,

LSV I was seeing, and this horn is making war with the saints, and has prevailed over them,

FBV I watched as this horn attacked God's dedicated people and was conquering them,

T4T While I was having the vision, I saw that this horn attacked God’s people and was defeating them.

LEB _⌊I continued watching_⌋,[fn] and this horn made war with the holy ones[fn] and it prevailed over them,

7:21 Literally “I was watching”

7:21 Or “saints”

BBE And I saw how that horn made war on the saints and overcame them,

Moff the horn which I saw making war upon the saints and overcoming them

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

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

DRA I beheld, and lo, that horn made war against the saints, and prevailed over them,

YLT 'I was seeing, and this horn is making war with the saints, and hath prevailed over them,

Drby I beheld, and that horn made war with the saints, and prevailed over them;

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

SLT I was seeing, and this horn made an encounter with the holy ones, and prevailed against them;

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

KJB-1769 I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;

KJB-1611 I beheld, and the same horne made warre with the Saints, and preuailed against them;
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation)

Bshps I behelde, and the same horne made battaile against the sainctes, yea & preuayled against them.
(I beheld, and the same horn made battle against the sainctes, yea and prevailed against them.)

Gnva I beheld, and the same horne made battel against the Saintes, yea, and preuailed against them,
(I beheld, and the same horn made battle against the Saints, yea, and prevailed against them, )

Cvdl I behelde, and the same horne made battail agaynst the sayntes, yee ad gat the victory off them:
(I beheld, and the same horn made battail against the saints, ye/you_all and gat the victory off them:)

Wycl I bihelde, and lo! thilke horn made batel ayens hooli men, and hadde maistrie of hem,
(I beheld, and lo! that horn made battle against holy men, and had mastery of hem,)

Luth Und ich sah dasselbige Horn streiten wider die Heiligen und behielt den Sieg wider sie,
(And I saw the_same Horn argue/battle against the saints/holy_ones and retained the victory against they/she/them,)

ClVg Aspiciebam, et ecce cornu illud faciebat bellum adversus sanctos, et prævalebat eis,
(Aspiciebam, and behold horn it/this/that he_was_doing war against saints, and beforevalebat to_them, )

SOTN SIL Open Translator’s Notes:

Section 7:1–28 Daniel dreamed about four beasts

Daniel had a vision of four beasts on earth and of God on his throne in heaven. One of the heavenly beings explained to Daniel that the four beasts represented four earthly kingdoms.

Paragraph 7:19–22

Daniel received some more information about the fourth beast in the vision

7:21a

As I watched,

While I was watching,
Then in my dream/vision I had seen

As I watched: The Aramaic phrase that the BSB translates as As I watched indicates that Daniel continued to see images in a dream or vision. It introduces the next scene in Daniel’s dream. Other ways to translate this include:

as I looked (NRSV)

as my dream continued, I saw…

then in my dream…

7:21b

this horn was waging war against the saints and prevailing against them,

this horn fought God’s holy people and began to defeat them.
this final horn attacking and overcoming God’s own people.

this horn was waging war against the saints and prevailing against them: In Daniel’s dream, the final horn, the little horn that looked the most imposing, was fighting and overcoming God’s people. Here is another way to translate this:

the little horn began making war against God’s holy people and was defeating them (NCV)

In some languages it may be natural to combine the ideas of waging war against and prevailing against an enemy into a clause with one verb. For example:

the little horn was conquering the holy people

against the saints: Some English translations, such as the NRSV, say “with the holy people.” The English preposition “with” here means against. The little horn attacked God’s holy people.

the saints: The Aramaic phrase that the BSB translates as the saints is literally “the holy ones.” In this context it refers to the people who belonged to God and were consecrated to him or set apart for him. See 7:18a and how you translated this there. Here is another way to translate this:

God’s holy people (NLT)

Parallel DAN 7:21

Section 7:1–28 Daniel dreamed about four beasts

Paragraph 7:19–22

7:21a

7:21b