| 12:1 | “At that time Michael, the great prince who watches over your people,* will arise.* There will be a time of distress unlike any other from the nation’s beginning* up to that time. But at that time your own people, all those whose names are* found written in the book, will escape. |
| 12:2 | Many of those who sleep in the dusty ground will awake – some to everlasting life, and others to shame and everlasting abhorrence.* |
| 12:3 | But the wise will shine like the brightness of the heavenly expanse. And those bringing many to righteousness will be like the stars forever and ever. |
| 12:4 | “But you, Daniel, close up these words and seal the book until the time of the end. Many will dash about,* and knowledge will increase.” |
| 12:5 | I, Daniel, watched as two others stood there, one on each side of the river.* |
| 12:6 | One said to the man clothed in linen who was above the waters of the river, “When will the end of these wondrous events occur?” |
| 12:7 | Then I heard the man clothed in linen who was over the waters of the river as he raised both his right and left hands to the sky* and made an oath by the one who lives forever: “It is for a time, times, and half a time. Then, when the power of the one who shatters* the holy people has been exhausted, all these things will be finished.” |
| 12:8 | I heard, but I did not understand. So I said, “Sir,* what will happen after these things?” |
| 12:9 | He said, “Go, Daniel. For these matters are closed and sealed until the time of the end. |
| 12:10 | Many will be purified, made clean, and refined, but the wicked will go on being wicked. None of the wicked will understand, though the wise will understand. |
| 12:11 | From the time that the daily sacrifice is removed and the abomination that causes desolation is set in place,* there are 1,290 days. |
| 12:12 | Blessed is the one who waits and attains to the 1,335 days. |
| 12:13 | But you should go your way* until the end.* You will rest and then at the end of the days you will arise to receive* what you have been allotted.”* |
Daniel 12 - NET Bible [draft]
