Daniel 4:1-12 ▼

1 Nebuchadnezzar the king to all the peoples, nations, and [men of every] language that live in all the earth: |May your peace abound!

2 |It has seemed good to me to declare the signs and wonders which the Most High God has done for me.

3 |How great are His signs And how mighty are His wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom And His dominion is from generation to generation.

4 |I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at ease in my house and flourishing in my palace.

5 |I saw a dream and it made me fearful; and [these] fantasies [as I lay] on my bed and the visions in my mind kept alarming me.

6 |So I gave orders to bring into my presence all the wise men of Babylon, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.

7 |Then the magicians, the conjurers, the Chaldeans and the diviners came in and I related the dream to them, but they could not make its interpretation known to me.

8 |But finally Daniel came in before me, whose name is Belteshazzar according to the name of my god, and in whom is a spirit of the holy gods; and I related the dream to him, [saying],

9 O Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, since I know that a spirit of the holy gods is in you and no mystery baffles you, tell [me] the visions of my dream which I have seen, along with its interpretation.

10 Now [these were] the visions in my mind [as I lay] on my bed: I was looking, and behold, [there was] a tree in the midst of the earth and its height [was] great.

11 The tree grew large and became strong And its height reached to the sky, And it [was] visible to the end of the whole earth.

12 Its foliage [was] beautiful and its fruit abundant, And in it [was] food for all. The beasts of the field found shade under it, And the birds of the sky dwelt in its branches, And all living creatures fed themselves from it.