Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.
Parallel translations
- WEB Now I have come to make you understand what shall happen to your people in the latter days; for the vision is yet for many days:
- BSB Now I have come to explain to you what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision concerns those days.”
- NKJV Now I have come to make you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision refers to many days yet to come.”
- NASB Now I have come to explain to you what will happen to your people in the latter days, because the vision pertains to the days still future.”
- NLT Now I am here to explain what will happen to your people in the future, for this vision concerns a time yet to come.”
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Quick answer
The messenger comes to make Daniel understand what will befall his people in the latter days. The vision concerns God's long-range plan for Israel, reaching into the distant future.
Overview
The revelation that follows in chapters 11 and 12 surveys centuries of history and points toward the end. God graciously discloses His purposes so His people can trust Him through coming turmoil. That the message concerns 'the latter days' ties Daniel's prophecy to the unfolding plan of redemption that culminates in Christ and His return.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 15
- Dan 8:26And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days.
- Dan 2:28But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;
- Dan 12:4But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
- Hab 2:3For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
- Dan 12:9And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
- Deut 4:30When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;
- Mic 4:1But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
- Isa 2:2And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
- Gen 49:1And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
- Hos 3:5Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.
- 2 Tim 3:1This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
- Heb 2:3How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
- Dan 9:22And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding.
- Deut 31:21And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.
- Dan 10:1In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, but the time appointed was long: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.
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