Daniel 2 In the second year of Nebuchadnezzar's kingdom, Nebuchadnezzar dreams dreams; agitated is his spirit and his sleep is fleeing from him."

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ In the second year of Nebuchadnezzar's kingdom, Nebuchadnezzar dreams dreams; agitated is his spirit and his sleep is fleeing from him." ² Saying is the king to call the sacred scribes and the magi and the enchanters and the Chaldeans to tell the king his dreams. Then they are coming and standing before the king. ³ Saying is the king to them, "A dream I dream, and agitated is my spirit to know the dream." ⁴ Speaking are the Chaldeans to the king in Syriac, "O king, live for the eon! State the dream to your servants, and we will disclose the interpretation." ⁵ Answering is the king and saying to the Chaldeans, "The matter is departing from me. Should you not be making known to me the dream and its interpretation, you shall be dismembered, and the confiscation of your houses shall be promulgated." ⁶ Should you disclose the dream and its interpretation to me, gifts and a reward and great esteem shall you receive before me. Only disclose the dream and its interpretation." ⁷ They answer a second time and are saying, "The king will state the dream to his servants, then the interpretation will we disclose." ⁸ Answering is the king and saying, "I know for certain that you would gain time, forasmuch as you perceive that the matter is departing from me." ⁹ For, should you not be making the dream known to me, there is but one edict for you, as you will concoct a lying and corrupt matter to say before me, till the times are altering. Only the dream state to me, and I shall know that its interpretation you will disclose to me." ¹⁰ Answering are the Chaldeans before the king and saying, "Actually no mortal on earth can disclose the king's matter, forasmuch as any other king, grandee, or authority does not ask a matter such as this of any sacred scribe, or magus or Chaldean." ¹¹ The matter that the king is asking is heavy and extraordinary. Actually no other will disclose it before the king, only the elohim whose abode actually is not with any flesh." ¹² Wherefore the king is angry and has great wrath, and says to destroy all the wise men of Babylon." ¹³ Then the edict is issued to despatch all the wise men, and they seek Daniel and all his partners to be dispatched." ¹⁴ Then Daniel replies with counsel and tact to Arioch, the grandee of the king's executioners, seeing that he issues the edict to despatch the wise men of Babylon." ¹⁵ He is responding and saying to Arioch, who has the king's authority, "Why is the edict before the king urgent?Then Arioch made the matter known to Daniel." ¹⁶ Now Daniel goes in and petitions the king that he will give him a stated time to disclose all the interpretation to the king. ¹⁷ Then Daniel departs to his house, and to Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, his partners, he makes all the matter known." ¹⁸ He is charging them to petition for compassions before the Eloah of the heavens concerning this secret; that Daniel and his partners not perish with the remaining wise men of Babylon. ¹⁹ Then to Daniel in a vision that night, the secret of the king is revealed. Then Daniel blesses the Eloah of the heavens." ²⁰ Responding is Daniel and saying, "Blessed be the name of Him Who is the Eloah, from the eon and unto the eon, for the wisdom and the mastery, they are His." ²¹ He is altering the eras and the stated times, causing kings to pass away and causing kings to rise, granting wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those knowing understanding." ²² He is revealing the deep and the concealed things; knowing what is in the darkness since with Him a stream of light solves them. ²³ To Thee, Eloah of my forefathers, am I acclaiming and lauding, that wisdom and mastery Thou dost grant to me. And now Thou dost make known to me that which we petition of Thee; for the king's matter Thou hast made known to us." ²⁴ Wherefore Daniel goes in unto Arioch, whom the king assigned to destroy all the wise men of Babylon. He departs and says to him, "The wise men of Babylon you must not destroy. Bring me in before the king, and the interpretation am I disclosing to the king." ²⁵ Then Arioch, in a fluster, brings Daniel in before the king and says to him, "I have found a wise master of the sons of the deportation of Judah who will make known the interpretation to the king." ²⁶ Responding is the king and saying to Daniel, whose Chaldaic name is Belteshazzar, "Actually, can you make known to me the dream which I perceive, and its interpretation? ²⁷ Answering is Daniel before the king and saying, "The secret which the king is asking, not the wise men, the magi, the sacred scribes, nor the hieromancers can disclose to the king." ²⁸ Actually, the Eloah in the heavens reveals secrets, and He makes known to king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. O king, live for the eon! Your dream, even the visions of your head on your bed; it is this:" ²⁹ You, O king--your ruminations on your bed come up regarding all that shall be after this. The Revealer of secrets makes known to you what that shall be." ³⁰ And I--this secret is revealed to me not by wisdom actually in me more than any other of the living. It is revealed only to the intent that the interpretation to the king be made known, and that you shall know the ruminations of your heart." ³¹ You, O king, perceiving were you, and lo, one great image! This image is grand, and its aspect excellent, rising to your view, and the appearance of the image is terrifying you." ³² The image's head is good gold, its chest and its arms are silver, its belly and its thighs are copper, ³³ its legs are iron, its feet, part of them are iron, and part of them are clay." ³⁴ You were perceiving till a stone severs itself, that is, not by hands, and it collides with the image at its feet that were of iron and clay, and pulverizes them." ³⁵ Then pulverized, as one, are the iron, the clay, the copper, the silver, and the gold, and they are as chaff from summer threshing sites, and the wind lifts them up, and no place at all is found for them. And the stone that collides with the image becomes a vast mountain range, and fills all the earth." ³⁶ This is the dream, and its interpretation will we state before the king." ³⁷ You, O king, are king of kings, seeing that the Eloah of the heavens grants a safeguarded kingdom to you, and might and honor and esteem." ³⁸ In every place where the sons of mortals are abiding, the animal of the field, the flyer of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, He grants into your hand. He gives you authority over them all. You are the head that is gold." ³⁹ In your place shall arise another kingdom of the earth, inferior to you, that is silver; and another kingdom, the third, that is copper, shall have authority in all the earth." ⁴⁰ The fourth kingdom shall be mighty as iron, forasmuch as iron is pulverizing and overcoming all. As iron that smashes, all these shall it pulverize and smash." ⁴¹ Seeing that you perceived the feet and toes, part of them of potter's clay, and part of them of iron:The kingdom shall be composite. And the stability of iron will be in it, forasmuch as you perceived the iron mixed with the muddy clay." ⁴² And the toes of the feet, part of them of iron and part of them of clay:at the end, the kingdom shall be mighty, yet part of it shall be frail." ⁴³ Seeing that you perceived the iron mixed with muddy clay:Thus mixing with wealth is the armed force of the mortal. Yet with wealth it is not clinging, this one with that one, even as iron mixes not with clay." ⁴⁴ In their days, that is, of these kings, the Eloah of the heavens will set up a kingdom that for the eons shall not come to harm. His kingdom shall not be left to another people. It will pulverize and terminate all these kingdoms, and it shall be confirmed for the eons." ⁴⁵ Forasmuch as you perceived that a stone severs itself from a mountain range, that is, not by hands, and it pulverizes the iron, the copper, the clay, the silver, and the gold, the great Eloah makes known to the king what shall occur after this. Certain is the dream and faithful its interpretation." ⁴⁶ Then king Nebuchadnezzar falls on his face and worships Daniel, and he says an approach present and incense of attainment are to be libated to him." ⁴⁷ Answering is the king to Daniel and saying, "In verity, your Eloah, He is the Eloah of elohim, Lord of kings, and only Revealer of hidden secrets, seeing that you can reveal this secret." ⁴⁸ Then the king made much of Daniel:he grants to him immense, huge gifts; and gives him authority over all the province of Babylon; and makes him grandee of the prefects who are over all the wise men of Babylon." ⁴⁹ Then Daniel petitions the king, and he assigns Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego over the administration of the province of Babylon. Thus Daniel is in the gateway of the king."