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After this I saw in the night-visions, and, look, a fourth beast, terrible and powerful, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth; it devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.

I looked at that time because of the voice of the great words which the horn spoke; I looked even until the beast was slain, and its body destroyed, and it was given to be burned with fire.

Then I desired to know the truth concerning the fourth beast, which was diverse from all of them, exceeding terrible, whose teeth were of iron, and its nails of bronze; which devoured, broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet;

Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be a fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be diverse from all the kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.

I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart; and there I will devour them like a lioness; the wild beast shall tear them.

And he made proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; don't let them feed, nor drink water;

but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast, and let them cry mightily to God: yes, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.

I will consume man and beast; I will consume the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, and the stumbling blocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the face of the ground, says Yahweh.

For before those days there was no wage for man, nor any wage for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in, because of the adversary: for I set all of man, every man against his neighbor.

and came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on [them] oil and wine; and he set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

for they could not endure that which was enjoined, If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned;

And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss shall make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them.

And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns, and seven heads, and on his horns ten diadems, and on his heads names of blasphemy.

And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were as [the feet] of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his throne, and great authority.

And [I saw] one of his heads as though it had been smitten to death; and his death-stroke was healed: and the whole earth wondered after the beast;

and they worshiped the dragon, because he gave his authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, Who is like the beast? And who is able to war with him?

And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke as a dragon.

And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his sight. And he makes the earth and those that dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose death-stroke was healed.

And he deceives those that dwell on the earth by reason of the signs which it was given him to do in the sight of the beast; saying to those that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast who has the stroke of the sword and lived.

And it was given to him to give spirit to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as should not worship the image of the beast should be killed.