30. But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but to the intent that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your heart.
31. You, O king, saw, and behold, a great image. This image, which was mighty, and whose brightness was excellent, stood before you; and its aspect was awesome.
32. As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass,
33. its legs of iron, its feet part of iron, and part of clay.
34. You saw until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.
35. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them: and the stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
36. This is the dream; and we will tell its interpretation before the king.
37. You, O king, are king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory;
38. and wherever the children of men dwell, the animals of the field and the birds of the sky has he given into your hand, and has made you to rule over them all: you are the head of gold.
39. After you shall arise another kingdom inferior to you; and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.
40. The fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron, because iron breaks in pieces and subdues all things; and as iron that crushes all these, shall it break in pieces and crush.
41. Whereas you saw the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, because you saw the iron mixed with miry clay.
42. As the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.