Daniel 2:36-40

New American Standard Bible

The Interpretation—Babylon the First Kingdom

³⁶ “This was the dream; and now we will tell ^(A)its interpretation before the king. ³⁷ You, O king, are the ^(B)king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the ^[a]kingdom, the ^(C)power, the strength, and the honor; ³⁸ and wherever the sons of mankind live, or the ^(D)animals of the field, or the birds of the sky, He has handed them over to you and has made you ruler over them all. You are the head of gold.

Medo-Persia and Greece

³⁹ And after you another kingdom will arise inferior to you, then another third kingdom of bronze, which will rule over all the earth.

Rome

⁴⁰ Then there will be a ^(E)fourth kingdom as strong as iron; just as iron smashes and crushes everything, so, like iron that crushes, it will smash and crush all these things.