³¹ “You, O king, were watching; and behold, a great image! This great image, whose splendor was excellent, stood before you; and its form was awesome. ^32 (A)This image’s head was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and ^[a]thighs of bronze, ³³ its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of ^[b]clay. ³⁴ You watched while a stone was cut out ^(B)without hands, which struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. ^35 (C)Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together, and became ^(D)like chaff from the summer threshing floors; the wind carried them away so that ^(E)no trace of them was found. And the stone that struck the image ^(F)became a great mountain ^(G)and filled the whole earth.

⁴¹ Whereas you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay. ⁴² And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, ^(A)so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly ^[a]fragile. ⁴³ As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they will mingle with the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not mix with clay.