17. How can I, your servant, talk with you, my lord? My strength is gone and I can hardly breathe.”
18. Again the one who looked like a man touched me and gave me strength.
19. “Do not be afraid, you who are highly esteemed,” he said. “Peace! Be strong now; be strong.” When he spoke to me, I was strengthened and said, “Speak, my lord, since you have given me strength.”
20. So he said, “Do you know why I have come to you? Soon I will return to fight against the prince of Persia, and when I go, the prince of Greece will come;
21. but first I will tell you what is written in the Book of Truth. (No one supports me against them except Michael, your prince.