Daniel 2:31–45

³¹Thou, O king, ^†sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose ^ddbrightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. ^32eThis image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his ^||thighs of brass, ³³His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. ³⁴Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out ^||fwithout hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and ^gbrake them to pieces. ³⁵Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became ^hlike the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that ⁱno place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image ⁱⁱbecame a great mountain, and ^jfilled the whole earth.

³⁶This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king. ³⁷Thou, O king, art ^ka king of kings: for ^lmthe God of heaven ^mhath given thee a kingdom, ⁿpower, and ^ostrength, and ⁿglory. ³⁸And wheresoever the children of men dwell, ^othe beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. ^pThou art this head of gold. ³⁹And after thee shall arise ^qanother kingdom ^pinferior to thee, and ^ranother third kingdom ^pof brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth. ⁴⁰And ^sthe fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: ^tforasmuch as iron ^gbreaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it ^gbreak in pieces and bruise. ⁴¹And whereas thou sawest ^uthe feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but ^sthere shall be in it of the strength of the iron, ^tforasmuch as thou sawest ^vthe iron mixed with miry clay. ⁴²And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly ^||broken. ⁴³And whereas thou sawest ^viron mixed with miry clay, ^wthey shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave ^†one to another, ^veven as iron is not mixed with clay. ⁴⁴And in ^†the days of these kings shall ^lthe God of heaven set up ^xya kingdom, ^ywhich shall never be destroyed: and the ^†kingdom shall not be left to other people, but ^zit shall ^gbreak in pieces and ^zzconsume all these kingdoms, and ^xit shall stand for ever. ^45tForasmuch as ^athou sawest that ^bthe stone was cut out of the mountain ^||without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; ^cthe great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass ^†hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.