1. King Nebuchadnezzar,To those of every people, nation, and language, who live in all the earth: May your prosperity increase.
2. I am pleased to tell you about the miracles and wonders the Most High God has done for me.
3. How great are His miracles,and how mighty His wonders! His kingdom is an eternal 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 had a dream, and it frightened me; while in my bed, the images and visions in my mind alarmed me.
6. So I issued a decree to bring all the wise men of Babylon to me in order that they might make the dream’s interpretation known to me.
7. When the diviner-priests, mediums, Chaldeans, and astrologers came in, I told them the dream, but they could not make its interpretation known to me.
8. Finally Daniel, named Belteshazzar after the name of my god — and the spirit of the holy gods is in him — came before me. I told him the dream:
9. “Belteshazzar, head of the diviners, because I know that you have a spirit of the holy gods and that no mystery puzzles you, explain to me the visions of my dream that I saw, and its interpretation.
10. In the visions of my mind as I was lying in bed, I saw this:There was a tree in the middle of the earth,and its height was great.
11. The tree grew large and strong;its top reached to the sky, and it was visible to the ends of the earth.
12. Its leaves were beautiful, its fruit was abundant,and on it was food for all. Wild animals found shelter under it,the birds of the air lived in its branches,and every creature was fed from it.