Daniel 2:38–45

^2:38Wherever human beings,⁵⁶ wild animals,⁵⁷ and birds of the sky live—he has given them into your power.⁵⁸ He has given you authority over them all. You are the head of gold. ^2:39Now after you another kingdom⁵⁹ will arise, one inferior to yours. Then a third kingdom, one of bronze, will rule in all the earth. ^2:40Then there will be a fourth kingdom, one strong like iron. Just like iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything, and as iron breaks in pieces⁶⁰ all of these metals,⁶¹ so it will break in pieces and crush the others.^622:41In that you were seeing feet and toes⁶³ partly of wet clay⁶⁴ and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom. Some of the strength of iron will be in it, for you saw iron mixed with wet clay.^652:42In that the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, the latter stages of this kingdom will be partly strong and partly fragile. ^2:43And⁶⁶ in that you saw iron mixed with wet clay, so people will be mixed⁶⁷ with one another⁶⁸ without adhering to one another, just as⁶⁹ iron does not mix with clay. ^2:44In the days of those kings the God of heaven will raise up an everlasting kingdom that will not be destroyed and a kingdom that will not be left to another people. It will break in pieces and bring about the demise of all these kingdoms. But it will stand forever. ^2:45You saw that a stone was cut from a mountain, but not by human hands; it smashed the iron, bronze, clay, silver, and gold into pieces. The great God has made known to the king what will occur in the future.⁷⁰ The dream is certain, and its interpretation is reliable.”