Daniel 10 · Verse 14

Daniel 10:14

Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.
Daniel 10:14, King James Version

Daniel 10:14 in other translations

BSBNow I have come to explain to you what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision concerns those days.”
WEBNow I have come to make you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision is yet for many days.”
ASVNow I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days; for the vision is yet for many days.
YLTand I have come to cause thee to understand that which doth happen to thy people in the latter end of the days, for yet the vision is after days.
DARBYAnd I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people at the end of the days: for the vision is yet for many days.
BBENow I have come to give you knowledge of the fate of your people in the later days; for there is still a vision for the days.
WebsterNow I have come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.

What does Daniel 10:14 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
14. what shall befall thy people in the latter days--an intimation that the prophecy, besides describing the doings of Antiochus, reaches to the concluding calamities of Israel's history, prior to the nation's full restoration at Christ's coming--calamities of which Antiochus' persecutions were the type. vision is for many days--that is, extends far into the future.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 14 For yet the vision is for many days - There are many things which remain yet to be revealed, and the time of their accomplishment is very distant.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Daniel 10:10-21

Whenever we enter into communion with God, it becomes us to have a due sense of the infinite distance between us and the holy God. How shall we, that are dust and ashes, speak to the Lord of glory? Nothing is more likely, nothing more effectual to revive the drooping spirits of the saints, than to be assured of God's love to them. From the very first day we begin to look toward God in a way of duty, he is ready to…

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Daniel 10:14 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וּבָ֙אתִי֙u.Va.tiand I have comeH935
לַהֲבִ֣ינְךָ֔la.ha.Vi.ne.khato make understand youH995
אֵ֛ת'et<obj.>H853
אֲשֶׁר\־'a.Sher-[that] whichH834
יִקְרָ֥הyik.Rahit will happenH7136
לְעַמְּךָ֖le.'a.me.Khato people yourH5971
בְּאַחֲרִ֣יתbe.'a.cha.Ritat [the] end ofH319
הַיָּמִ֑יםhai.ya.Mimthe daysH3117
כִּי\־ki-forH3588
ע֥וֹדodstillH5750
חָז֖וֹןcha.Zon[the] visionH2377
לַיָּמִֽים\׃lai.ya.Mim[is] for the daysH3117

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Daniel 10:14

  • Daniel 8:26

    And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days.

  • Daniel 2:28

    But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;

  • Daniel 12:4

    But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

  • Habakkuk 2:3

    For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

  • Daniel 12:9

    And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.

  • Isaiah 2:2

    And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.

  • Deuteronomy 4:30

    When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;

  • Genesis 49:1

    And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.

  • Micah 4:1

    But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.

  • Hosea 3:5

    Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days.

  • 2 Timothy 3:1

    This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

  • Deuteronomy 31:21

    And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
in the.
2:28; Ge 49:1; De 4:30; 31:21; Isa 2:2; Ho 3:5; Mic 4:1; 2Ti 3:1
the vision.
1; 8:26; 12:4,9; Hab 2:3; Heb 2:3

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Context

  • Daniel 10:13

    But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.

  • Daniel 10:14

    Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.

  • Daniel 10:15

    And when he had spoken such words unto me, I set my face toward the ground, and I became dumb.

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Daniel 10:14 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Soy pues venido para hacerte saber lo que ha de venir á tu pueblo en los postreros días; porque la visión es aún para días.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et je suis venu pour te faire comprendre ce qui arrivera à ton peuple à la fin des jours; car la vision est encore pour beaucoup de jours.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und ich bin gekommen, um dich verstehen zu lassen, was deinem Volke am Ende der Tage widerfahren wird; denn das Gesicht geht noch auf ferne Tage.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Veni autem ut docerem te quæ ventura sunt populo tuo in novissimis diebus, quoniam adhuc visio in dies.