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Daniel 4:20-22
New English Translation
Daniel 4:20-22
New English Translation
20 The tree that you saw that grew large and strong, whose top reached to the sky, and that could be seen[a] in all the land, 21 whose foliage was attractive and its fruit plentiful, and from which there was food available for all, under whose branches wild animals[b] used to live, and in whose branches birds of the sky used to nest— 22 it is you,[c] O king! For you have become great and strong. Your greatness is such that it reaches to heaven, and your authority to the ends of the earth.
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- Daniel 4:20 tn Aram “its sight.”
- Daniel 4:21 tn Aram “the beasts of the field” (also in vv. 23, 25, 32).
- Daniel 4:22 sn Much of modern scholarship views this chapter as a distortion of traditions that were originally associated with Nabonidus rather than with Nebuchadnezzar. A Qumran text, the Prayer of Nabonidus, is often cited for parallels to these events.
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