Daniel 4:10
Good News Translation
"While I was asleep, I had a vision of a huge tree in the middle of the earth.

New Revised Standard Version
Upon my bed this is what I saw; there was a tree at the center of the earth, and its height was great.

Contemporary English Version
In my sleep I saw a very tall tree in the center of the world.

New American Bible
In the vision I saw while in bed, a holy watcher came down from heaven

Douay-Rheims Bible
I saw in the vision of my head upon my bed, and behold a watcher, and a holy one came down from heaven.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I saw in the vision of my head upon my bed, and behold a watcher, and a holy one came down from heaven.

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Daniel 4:20-26 And whereas the king saw a watcher, and a holy one come down from heaven, and say: Cut down the tree, and destroy it, but leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, and let it be bound with iron and brass, among the grass without, and let it be sprinkled with the dew of heaven, and let his feeding be with the wild beasts, till seven times pass over him. . . .

Psalm 37:35,36 I have seen the wicked highly exalted, and lifted up like the cedars of Libanus. . . .

Isaiah 10:33,34 Behold the sovereign Lord of hosts shall break the earthen vessel with terror, and the tall of stature shall be cut down, and the lofty shall be humbled. . . .

Jeremiah 12:2 Thou hast planted them, and they have taken root: they prosper and bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.

Ezekiel 31:3-18 Behold, the Assyrian like a cedar in Libanus, with fair branches, and full of leaves, of a high stature, and his top was elevated among the thick boughs. . . .

Context
Nebuchadnezzar's Dream of a Great Tree
9Its leaves were most beautiful, and its fruit exceeding much: and in it was food for all: under it dwelt cattle and beasts, and in the branches thereof the fowls of the air had their abode: and all flesh did eat of it. 10I saw in the vision of my head upon my bed, and behold a watcher, and a holy one came down from heaven.11He cried aloud, and said thus: Cut down the tree, and chop off the branches thereof: shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruits: let the beasts fly away that are under it, and the birds from its branches.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 31:3
Behold, the Assyrian like a cedar in Libanus, with fair branches, and full of leaves, of a high stature, and his top was elevated among the thick boughs.

Ezekiel 31:6
And when he had spread forth his shadow, all the fowls of the air made their nests in his boughs, and all the beasts of the forest brought forth their young under his branches, and the assembly of many nations dwelt under his shadow.

Daniel 4:5
Till their colleague, Daniel, came in before me, whose name is Baltassar, according to the name of my god, who hath in him the spirit of the holy gods: and I told the dream before him.

Daniel 4:20
And whereas the king saw a watcher, and a holy one come down from heaven, and say: Cut down the tree, and destroy it, but leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, and let it be bound with iron and brass, among the grass without, and let it be sprinkled with the dew of heaven, and let his feeding be with the wild beasts, till seven times pass over him.

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