12:1 “At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people - everyone whose name is found written in the book - will be delivered.
12:2 Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.
12:3 Those who are wise* will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever. / *Or who impart wisdom
12:4 But you, Daniel, roll up and seal the words of the scroll until the time of the end. Many will go here and there to increase knowledge.”
12:5 Then I, Daniel, looked, and there before me stood two others, one on this bank of the river and one on the opposite bank.
12:6 One of them said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, “How long will it be before these astonishing things are fulfilled?”
12:7 The man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, lifted his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and I heard him swear by him who lives forever, saying, “It will be for a time, times and half a time.* When the power of the holy people has been finally broken, all these things will be completed.” / *Or a year, two years and half a year
12:8 I heard, but I did not understand. So I asked, “My lord, what will the outcome of all this be?”
12:9 He replied, “Go your way, Daniel, because the words are rolled up and sealed until the time of the end.
12:10 Many will be purified, made spotless and refined, but the wicked will continue to be wicked. None of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand.
12:11 “From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days.
12:12 Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches the end of the 1,335 days.
12:13 “As for you, go your way till the end. You will rest, and then at the end of the days you will rise to receive your allotted inheritance.”