1. In Belshazzar’s first year as king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream. He saw visions as he was lying on his bed, and he wrote down what he had dreamed.
2. Daniel said: “I saw my vision at night. In the vision the wind was blowing from all four directions, which made the sea very rough.
3. I saw four huge animals come up from the sea, and each animal was different from the others.