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Daniel 2

2 And in the year of two to the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams. And his spirit was troubled, and his sleep finished for him.2 Then the king said to call the magicians and the enchanters and the sorcerers and the Chaldeans to declare to the king his dreams. And they came, and they stood to the face of the king.3 And the king said to them, “I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.”4 Then the Chaldeans said to the king, in Aramaic, “O King, live forever! Tell the dream to your servants, and we will show the interpretation.”5 The king answered and was saying to the Chaldeans, “The word from me, is firm. If you do not make me know the dream and its interpretation, you will be made, into limbs, and your houses will be made a rubbish heap.6 But if you show the dream and its interpretation, you will receive gifts, a reward, and great honor from before me. Therefore, show me the dream and its interpretation.”7 They answered again and were saying, “Let the king tell the dream to his servants, and we will show the interpretation.”8 The king answered and was saying, “I am knowing for certain that you are buying time all before that you see that the word from me is firm.9 But if you do not make me know the dream, your decree is one. For you have agreed together to speak a false and corrupted word before me until that the time is changed. Therefore, tell the dream to me, and I will know that you do show me its interpretation.”10 The Chaldeans answered before the king and were saying, “There is not a man upon the earth who is able to show the matter of the king, all before that any great and powerful king has not asked a matter like this from any magician or enchanter or Chaldean.11 For the matter that the king asks, is difficult, and there is not another who will show, it before the king except the gods, who, their dwelling is not with flesh.”12 All before this, the king became angry and became very furious, and he said to destroy all of the wise men of Babylon.13 And the decree went out that the wise men were to be killed. And they sought Daniel and his friends, to be killed.

14 Then Daniel replied with prudence and discretion to Arioch the captain of the guard of the king, who had gone out to kill the wise men of Babylon.15 He answered, saying to Arioch, the commander of the king, “Upon what, is the decree from before the king being urgent?” Then Arioch made Daniel know the matter.16 Then Daniel went in and sought from the king that he give time to him, that he might show the interpretation to the king.

17 Then Daniel went to his house, and he made Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his friends, know the matter,18 that they might seek mercies from before the God of the heavens concerning this mystery, that they might not destroy Daniel and his friends with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.19 Then the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of the heavens.20 Daniel answered and was saying,

“May his name, of God, be blessed from eternity and to eternity,

for wisdom and power, for, they are to him.

21 And he, is the one changing times and seasons,

the one removing kings and setting up kings,

the one giving wisdom to the wise

and knowledge to the knowers of understanding.

22 He is revealing the deep and the hidden;

he knows what, is in the darkness,

and the light is lodged with him.

23 God of my fathers, I am thanking and praising, you,

for you have given wisdom and power to me.

And now, you have made me know what we sought from you,

for you have made us know the matter of the king.”

24 All before this, Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon. He went, and thus he said to him, “May you not destroy the wise men of Babylon. Bring me in before the king, and I will show the interpretation to the king.”

25 Then Arioch, in hastening himself, brought Daniel in before the king, and thus he said to him, that “I have found a man from the sons of the captivity of Judah who will make the king know the interpretation.”26 The king answered and was saying to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, “Are you being able to make me know the dream that I saw and its interpretation?”27 Daniel answered before the king and said, “The mystery that the king has asked, wise men, enchanters, magicians, diviners, are not being able to show to the king.28 However, there is a God in the heavens revealing mysteries, and he has made King Nebuchadnezzar know that which will be at the end of days. Your dream and the visions of your head upon your bed was this.29 You, O king, your thoughts arose upon your bed, about that which will be after this, and the revealer of mysteries has made you know that which will be.30 And I, this mystery has been revealed to me not because of wisdom that is in me more than all of the living, but for the purpose that they may make the king know the interpretation and you may know the thoughts of your heart.

31 You, O King, were looking, and behold, a huge statue. This statue, was great, and its splendor, was exceeding. It stood before you, and its appearance was terrifying.32 This statue, its head, was of fine gold; its chest and arms, of silver; its belly and its thighs, of bronze;33 its legs, of iron; its feet, some of them of iron and some of them of clay.34 You were looking until that a stone was cut out, but not by hands, and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and it crushed them.35 Then at once the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold crumbled, and they became like the chaff of the threshing floors of summer. And the wind carried them away, and any place was not found for them. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain, and it filled all of the earth.

36 This, was the dream. And we will tell its interpretation before the king.37 You, O king, are the king of kings to whom the God of the heavens has given the kingdom, the power, the strength, and the glory.38 And in everywhere that are dwelling the sons of man, the beast of the field, and the bird of the heavens, he has given into your hand, and he has made you rule over all of them. You are the head of gold.39 And after you another kingdom will arise, earthward from you, and a third kingdom, another, of bronze, that will rule over all of the earth.40 And a fourth kingdom will be, strong as iron, all before that iron is crushing and shattering everything. And like iron that is breaking, it will crush and break all of these.41 And that you saw the feet and the toes, some of them clay of a potter and some of them iron, it will be a divided kingdom. For some of the firmness of iron will be in it, all before that you saw iron mixed with the clay of mire.42 And, as the toes of the feet, some of them, were iron and some of them, were clay, some of the kingdom will be strong and some of it will be brittle.43 That you saw the iron mixed with the clay of mire, they will be mixing themselves by the seed of man, but they will not be cleaving this with this, even as iron does not mix itself with clay.44 And in the days of those kings, the God of the heavens will set up a kingdom that will not be destroyed to eternities, and the kingdom will not be left to another people. It will crush and finish all of these kingdoms, but it, it will stand to eternities.45 All before that you saw that a stone was cut from a mountain, but not by hands, and it crushed the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold, the great God has made the king know that which will be after this. And the dream, is certain and its interpretation, is confirmed.”

46 Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face and worshiped Daniel, and he said to present an offering and incense to him.47 The king answered and was saying to Daniel, “In truth that your God is the God of gods and the Lord of kings and the revealer of mysteries, for you have been able to reveal this mystery.”48 Then the king made Daniel great, and he gave many great gifts to him, and he made him rule over all of the province of Babylon and chief of the governors over all of the wise men of Babylon.49 And Daniel sought from the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the work of the province of Babylon. But Daniel, was at the gate of the king.

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