2. As I looked, it spread its wings over the whole earth, and all the winds of heaven blew toward it, and the clouds gathered around it.
3. Out of its wings grew opposing wings. These became small, tiny wings.
4. Its heads were at rest. The middle head was larger than the other heads, but it was also at rest with them.
5. I kept looking and saw the eagle flying with its wings to rule over the earth and over those who lived on the earth.
6. I saw how everything under heaven was made to submit to it, and no one opposed it, not a single creature that lives on the earth.
7. I looked and saw the eagle rise on its talons and call out to its wings, saying,
8. "Don’t all watch together. Let each one sleep in its place and take turns watching,
9. but the heads will be kept for the end."