Daniel 10:2-3

²At that time I, Daniel, mourned for three weeks.

³I ate no choice food; no meat or wine touched my lips; and I used no lotions at all until the three weeks were over.

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