13 “As I was lying in my bed, I also saw in the visions of my mind a watcher, a holy one,B,o coming down from heaven.p 14 He called out loudly:

Cut down the tree and chop off its branches;

strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit.

Let the animals flee from under it,

and the birds from its branches.q

15 But leave the stump with its roots in the groundr

and with a band of iron and bronze around it

in the tender grass of the field.

Let him be drenched with dew from the sky

and share the plants of the earths

with the animals.

16 Let his mind be changed from that of a human,

and let him be given the mind of an animal

for seven periods of time.C,D,t