Daniel 10:3

³I ate no pleasant food, no meat or wine came into my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.

Daniel 10 opens the final vision of the book, a prolonged revelation given to Daniel in the third year of Cyrus, king of Persia. The chapter establishes the visionary context: Daniel mourns for three weeks, then encounters a terrifying, glorious figure—a divine messenger whose appea