Happily, I have now in my possession a copy taken from the original,
written by one of our scribes, and bearing date which maketh it over one
hundred and seventy years old. If the king desireth, thy servant will
read."
"Read, Daniel," said the king, with much feeling.
Daniel from the same scroll from which he had read before, which was the
Prophecies of Isaiah, read:
"'Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have
holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings
to open before him the two-leaved gates; and the gates shall not he shut,
I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break
in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron: and I
will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret
places, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord which call thee by thy
name, am the God of Israel. For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine
elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though
thou hast not known me.
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