1. Neḇuḵaḏnetstsar the sovereign, to all peoples, nations and languages that dwell in all the earth: Peace be increased to you.
2. I thought it good to declare the signs and wonders which the Most High Elah has worked for me.
3. How great are His signs, and how mighty His wonders! His reign is an everlasting reign, and His rulership is from generation to generation.
4. I, Neḇuḵaḏnetstsar, was at rest in my house, and prospering in my palace.
5. I saw a dream and it frightened me, and the thoughts on my bed and the visions of my head alarmed me.
6. So I issued a decree to bring in all the wise ones of Baḇel before me, to make known to me the interpretation of the dream.
7. So the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the diviners came in, and I related the dream to them, but its interpretation they did not make known to me.
8. And at last Dani’ĕl, whose name is Bĕlteshatstsar, according to the name of my elah, came before me. In him is the Spirit of the Set-apart Elah. So I related the dream to him, saying,
9. “Bĕlteshatstsar, chief of the magicians, because I know that the Spirit of the Set-apart Elah is in you, and no secret is too difficult for you, explain to me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and its interpretation.
10. “Now the visions of my head on my bed were these: I looked, and saw a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height great.