Daniel 4:1–12
1 1Nebuchadnezzar the king to all the peoples, nations, and men of every 2language that live in all the earth: “May your 3apeace abound!
2 “It has seemed good to me to declare the signs and wonders which the aMost High God has done for me.
3 “How great are His asigns
And how mighty are His wonders!
His bkingdom is an everlasting kingdom
And His dominion is from generation to generation.
4 “1I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at ease in my house and aflourishing in my palace.
5 “I saw a adream and it made me fearful; and these fantasies as I lay on my bed and the bvisions 1in my mind kept alarming me.
6 “So I gave orders to abring into my presence all the wise men of Babylon, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.
7 “Then the 1amagicians, the conjurers, the 2Chaldeans and the diviners came in and I related the dream 3to them, but they could not make its binterpretation known to me.
8 “But finally Daniel came in before me, whose name is aBelteshazzar according to the name of my god, and in whom is 1ba spirit of the holy gods; and I related the dream 2to him, saying,
9 ‘O Belteshazzar, achief of the magicians, since I know that ba spirit of the holy gods is in you and cno mystery baffles you, dtell me the visions of my dream which I have seen, along with its interpretation.
10 ‘Now these were the avisions 1in my mind as I lay on my bed: I was looking, and behold, there was a btree in the midst of the 2earth and its height was great.
11 ‘The tree grew large and became strong
And its height areached to the sky,
And it was visible to the end of the whole earth.
12 ‘Its foliage was abeautiful and its fruit abundant,
And in it was food for all.
The bbeasts of the field found cshade under it,
And the dbirds of the sky dwelt in its branches,
And all 1living creatures fed themselves from it.