1. In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a word was revealed to Daniel, who was named Belteshazzar. And the word was true, and it was a great conflict. And he understood the word and had understanding of the vision.
2. In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three weeks.
3. I ate no delicacies, no meat or wine entered my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, for the full three weeks.
4. On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was standing on the bank of the great river (that is, the Tigris)
5. I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, a man clothed in linen, with a belt of fine gold from Uphaz around his waist.