Daniel 4:9-16
Legacy Standard Bible
9 ‘O Belteshazzar, (A)chief of the magicians, since I know that (B)a spirit of the holy gods is in you, and (C)no mystery is difficult for you, (D)say to me the visions of my dream which I have seen, along with its interpretation.
10 ‘Now these were the (E)visions in my head as I lay on my bed: I was looking, and behold, there was a (F)tree in the midst of the [a]earth, and its height was great.
11 The tree grew large and became strong,
And its height (G)reached to the sky,
And it was visible to the end of the whole earth.
12 Its foliage was (H)beautiful and its fruit abundant,
And in it was food for all.
The (I)beasts of the field found (J)shade under it,
And the (K)birds of the sky inhabited its branches,
And all flesh fed itself from it.
13 ‘I was looking in the (L)visions in my head as I lay on my bed, and behold, (M)a [b]watcher, a (N)holy one, descended from heaven.
14 He called out loudly and said thus:
“(O)Chop down the tree and cut off its branches,
Strip off its foliage and scatter its fruit;
Let the (P)beasts flee from under it
And the birds from its branches.
15 Yet (Q)leave the stump [c]with its roots in the earth,
But with a band of iron and bronze around it
In the new grass of the field;
And let him be drenched with the dew of heaven,
And let [d]him share with the beasts in the grass of the earth.
16 Let his heart be changed from that of a man,
And let the heart of a beast be given to him,
And let (R)seven [e]periods of time pass over him.
Footnotes
- Daniel 4:10 Or land, so in ch
- Daniel 4:13 Angel, so in ch
- Daniel 4:15 Lit of
- Daniel 4:15 Lit his portion be with
- Daniel 4:16 Years
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