30. But as for me, this mystery is not revealed to me because I posses more wisdom than any other living person, but in order that the king may know the interpretation and understand the thoughts of your heart.
31. “You looked, O king, and behold, there before you stood a huge statue—an enormous and dazzling image, whose appearance was awesome.
32. The head of that statue was of pure gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze,
33. its legs of iron, and its feet partly iron and partly clay.
34. While you were watching, a stone was cut out, but not by hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them.
35. Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were crushed together, and became like chaff from summer threshing-floors that the wind blows away. Not a trace of them could be found. Then the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
36. “This was the dream. Now we will tell the king its interpretation.
37. You, O king, are the king of kings to whom the God of heaven has given sovereignty, power, might and glory.