Daniel 4:1–12

The King Acknowledges God

1 1Nebuchadnezzar the king to all the peoples, nations, and men of every 2language that live in all the earth: “May your 3 apeace 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.

The Vision of a Great Tree

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 1 amagicians, 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 1 ba 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.

1	Ch 3:31 in Aram
2	Lit tongue
3	Or welfare or prosperity
a	Ezr 4:17 Da 6:25
a	Da 3:26 Da 4:17 Da 4:24 Da 4:25 Da 4:32 Da 4:34
a	Ps 77:19 Ps 105:27 Is 25:1 Da 6:27
b	Da 2:44 Da 4:34 Da 6:26
1	Ch 4:1 in Aram
a	Ps 30:6 Is 47:7 Is 47:8
a	Da 2:3
b	Da 2:1 Da 2:28 Da 4:10 Da 4:13
1	Lit of my head
a	Ge 41:8 Da 2:2
1	Or soothsayer priests, and so throughout the ch
a	Ge 41:8 Da 2:10 Da 2:27 Da 5:7
2	Or master astrologers
3	Lit before
b	Is 44:25 Je 27:9 Je 27:10 Da 2:7
a	Da 1:7 Da 2:26 Da 5:12
1	Or possibly the Spirit of the holy God, and so throughout the ch
b	Da 4:9 Da 4:18 Da 5:11 Da 5:14
2	Lit before
a	Da 1:20 Da 2:48 Da 5:11
b	Ge 41:38 Da 4:8
c	Eze 28:3 Da 2:47
d	Ge 41:15 Da 2:4 Da 2:5
a	Da 4:5
1	Lit of my head
b	Eze 31:3 Eze 31:6
2	Or land, and so throughout the ch
a	Dt 9:1 Da 4:21 Da 4:22
a	Eze 31:7
b	Je 27:6 Eze 31:6
c	La 4:20
d	Eze 17:23 Mt 13:32 Lk 13:19
1	Lit flesh