¹⁵ Samuel lay down until the morning; then he opened the doors of the Lord’s house. He was afraid to tell Eli the vision,

1 In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, while I was among the exiles by the Chebar Canal,^(A) the heavens opened^(B) and I saw visions of God.^(C)

⁷ Only I, Daniel, saw the vision.^(A) The men who were with me did not see it,^(B) but a great terror fell on them,^(C) and they ran and hid. ⁸ I was left alone, looking at this great vision.^(D) No strength was left in me; my face grew deathly pale,^[a](E) and I was powerless.

¹⁶ Suddenly one with human likeness^(A) touched my lips.^(B) I opened my mouth and said to the one standing in front of me, “My lord, because of the vision, anguish overwhelms me and I am powerless.^(C)

¹⁰ I was in the Spirit^[a][b](A) on the Lord’s day,^[c] and I heard a loud voice behind me like a trumpet ¹¹ saying, “Write on a scroll^[d] what you see and send it to the seven churches: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”

¹² I turned to see whose voice^(B) it was that spoke to me. When I turned I saw seven gold lampstands,