Daniel 4:1-37 Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all peoples, leagues and language-groups that are abiding in the entire earth:Your welfare be growing great!"

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all peoples, leagues and language-groups that are abiding in the entire earth:Your welfare be growing great!" ² The signs and the amazing deeds that the Supreme Eloah does with me, it is seemly before me to disclose to you:" ³ His signs how immense, and His amazing deeds how mighty! His kingdom is an eonian kingdom, and His jurisdiction is with generation after generation." ⁴ I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at ease in my house, and flourishing in my palace." ⁵ A dream I perceived and it is terrifying me, and portents on my bed, even the visions of my head are flustering me." ⁶ Then from me a decree was promulgated to bring in before me all the wise men of Babylon, that the interpretation of the dream they shall make known to me." ⁷ Then went in the sacred scribes, the magi, the Chaldeans and the hieromancers, and I am stating the dream before them, yet its interpretation they did not make known to me." ⁸ Further, last of all, Daniel comes in before me, whose name is Belteshazzar, after the name of my eloah. Now, seeing that the spirit of the holy Elohim is in him, I state the dream before him also:" ⁹ Belteshazzar, grandee of the sacred scribes, seeing that I know that the spirit of the holy Elohim is in you, and no secret at all bothers you, hear the visions of my dream that I perceived, and state its interpretation to me." ¹⁰ Now the visions of my head on my bed are these:Perceiving am I, and lo, an oak in the midst of the earth, and its height is enormous." ¹¹ The oak increases and is mighty, and its height is reaching to the heavens, and it is perceptible to the extremity of the entire earth." ¹² Its leaves are seemly, and its pollination abundant, and sustenance for all is in it. Under it the animal of the field is shaded, and in its boughs are abiding the birds of the heavens, and from it all flesh is having sustenance for itself." ¹³ Perceiving am I in the visions of my head on my bed, and lo, a holy rouser is alighting from the heavens." ¹⁴ He is calling with potency and this is what he is saying, `Slash down the oak; cut away its boughs. Shake off its leaves; scatter its pollinated fruit. Wander shall the animals from under it, and the birds from its boughs." ¹⁵ But the stump with its roots leave in the earth clamped with a band of iron and copper. In the verdure of the field with the night mist of the heavens shall he be streaked. With the animals shall be his portion:The herbage of the earth. ¹⁶ His heart shall alter from a mortal's:The heart of an animal shall be granted to him; ¹⁷ thus seven seasons shall pass on over him. In a severance of the rousers is the rescript, and in a statement of the saints is the request, unto the intent that the living shall know that the Supreme is in authority in the kingdom of mortals, and to whom He is willing is He giving it, and a low one of mortals is He setting over it.'" ¹⁸ This dream, I, king Nebuchadnezzar, perceived. Now you, Belteshazzar, state the interpretation, forasmuch as all the wise men of my kingdom can not make known to me the interpretation. Yet you Daniel can, seeing that the spirit of the holy Elohim is in you." ¹⁹ Then Daniel, whose name is Belteshazzar, is desolated one hour, and his ruminations are flustering him. Responding is the king and saying, "Belteshazzar, the dream and its interpretation must not fluster you.Answering is Belteshazzar and saying, "My lord, the dream be for those hating you, and its interpretation for your foes!" ²⁰ The oak that you perceived, that increases and is mighty, and its height is reaching to the heavens, and it is perceptible to the entire earth, ²¹ and its leaves are seemly, and its pollination abundant, and sustenance for all is in it, under it the animal of the field is abiding, and in its boughs are roosting the birds of the heavens--" ²² you it is, O king, seeing that you are increased and mighty, and your grandeur is increased, and reaches to the heavens, and your authority to the extremity of the earth." ²³ And seeing that the king perceived a holy rouser alighting from the heavens and saying, `Slash down the oak and harm it, but the stump with its roots leave in the earth clamped with a band of iron and copper; in the verdure of the field with the night mist of the heavens shall he be streaked; with the animals of the field shall be his portion till seven seasons shall pass on over him'--" ²⁴ This is its interpretation, O king:It is a sentence of severance, inflicted by the Supreme, that reaches to my lord, the king;" ²⁵ for they shall shove you from mortals, and with the animals of the field is to be your abode, and herbage will they feed to you, as oxen, and with the night mist of the heavens will you be streaked; thus seven seasons shall pass on over you till you shall know that the Supreme is in authority in the kingdom of mortals, and that to whom He is willing He is giving it." ²⁶ And, seeing that they say to leave the stump with its roots of the oak, your kingdom will be set up for you again when you shall know that jurisdiction is of the heavens." ²⁷ Only, O king, may my counsel to you be seemly:Break off your sins by being just, and your depravities by being gracious to the humble, in case your days of ease should be lengthened." ²⁸ All this came upon king Nebuchadnezzar ²⁹ when, at the end of twelve months, he is going about on the royal palace of Babylon." ³⁰ Responding is the king to all this by saying, "Is not this Babylon great that I have built to be the house of the kingdom within the might of my safeguarding walls, for the esteem of my honor!" ³¹ While the matter is still in the mouth of the king, a voice falls from the heavens, "To you are they saying, King Nebuchadnezzar:The kingdom passes away from you." ³² From mortals are they shoving you, and with the animals of the field is your abode. Herbage will they feed to you, as oxen. Thus seven seasons shall pass on over you till you shall know that the Supreme is in authority in the kingdom of mortals and to whom He is willing He is giving it." ³³ In the same hour the declaration gathered on Nebuchadnezzar:From mortals is he shoved, herbage is he eating, as oxen, and the night mist of the heavens is streaking his frame, till his hair increased as vultures' feathers and his claws are as those of birds." ³⁴ And at the end of the days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to the heavens, and my knowledge is returning to me. Then I blessed the Supreme, and I lauded and honored Him Who is living for the eon, seeing that His jurisdiction is an eonian jurisdiction, and His kingdom is with generation after generation." ³⁵ All abiding on the earth are reckoned as naught:According to His will is He doing in the army of the heavens and with those abiding on the earth. And no one will actually clap with his hands and say to Him, "What doest Thou? ³⁶ In the stated time my knowledge is returning to me:For the esteem of my kingdom, my honor and my aspect is returning to me. And to me my retinue and my grandees are petitioning, and over my kingdom I am set in due order, and excellent majesty was added to me." ³⁷ Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, am lauding and exalting and honoring the King of the heavens, seeing that all His deeds are verity, and His paths are adjudication; and all walking in pride He can abase."