Daniel 4:1-12 ▼

1 King Nabuchodonosor to all nations, tribes, and tongues, who dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied to you.

2 It seemed good to me to declare to you the signs and wonders which the most high God has wrought with me,

3 how great and mighty they are : his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his power to all generations.

4 I Nabuchodonosor was thriving in my house, and prospering.

5 I saw a vision, and it terrified me, and I was troubled on my bed, and the visions of my head troubled me.

6 And I made a decree to bring in before me all the wise men of Babylon, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.

7 So the enchanters, magicians, soothsayers, and Chaldeans came in: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known to me the interpretation thereof;

8 until Daniel came, whose name is Baltasar, according to the name of my God, who has within him the Holy Spirit of God; to whom I said,

9 O Baltasar, chief of the enchanters, of whom I know that the Holy Spirit of God is in thee, and no mystery is too hard for thee, hear the vision of my dream which I had, and tell me the interpretation of it.

10 I had a vision upon my bed; and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height was great.

11 The tree grew large and strong, and its height reached to the sky, and its extent to the extremity of the whole earth:

12 its leaves were fair, and its fruit abundant, and in it was meat for all; and under it the wild beasts of the field took shelter, and the birds of the sky lodged in the branches of it, and all flesh was fed of it.