¹⁷ ‘These great beasts, which are four in number, are four kings who will arise from the earth. ¹⁸ But the ^[a](A)saints of the Highest One will ^(B)receive the kingdom and take possession of the kingdom forever, ^[b]for all ages to come.’

¹⁹ “Then I desired to know the ^[c]exact meaning of the ^(C)fourth beast, which was different from all ^[d]the others, exceedingly dreadful, with its teeth of iron and its claws of bronze, and which devoured, crushed, and trampled down the remainder with its feet,