18. After this shall he turn his face unto the coastlands, and shall take many: but a ruler for his own behalf shall bring the reproach brought by him to cease; with his reproach removed he shall cause it to turn back on him.
19. Then he shall turn his face toward the fortress of his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found.
20. Then shall arise in his place a raiser of taxes in the glorious kingdom: but within a few days he shall be destroyed, but neither in anger, nor in battle.
21. And in his place shall arise a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honor of royalty: but he shall come in peaceably, and seize the kingdom by flatteries.
22. And with the force of a flood shall they be swept away from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.
23. And after the league is made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small number of people.
24. He shall enter peaceably even into the richest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the plunder, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall devise his plans against the strongholds, but only for a time.
25. And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they shall devise plans against him.
26. Yea, they that feed of the portion of his rich food shall destroy him, and his army shall be swept away: and many shall fall down slain.