16. “I drew near to one of those who stood by, and asked him the certainty of all this. And he spoke to me and made known to me the interpretation of the matters:
17. ‘These great beasts, which are four, are four sovereigns which rise up from the earth.
18. ‘Then the set-apart ones of the Most High shall receive the reign, and possess the reign forever, even forever and ever.’
19. “Then I desired for certainty concerning the fourth beast, which was different from all the others, very fearsome, with its teeth of iron and its nails of bronze, which devoured, crushed, and trampled down the rest with its feet,