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living, but for
their
sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the king, and that thou mightest
know the thoughts of thy heart.
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Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was
excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof
was
terrible.
32
This image’s head
was
of fine
gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,
33
His legs of iron, his feet
part of iron and part of clay.
34
Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote
the image upon his feet
that were
of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
35
Then was the iron,
the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of
the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them:
and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
36
This
is
the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.
37
Thou, O king,
art
a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and
glory.
38
And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the
heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou
art
this head
of gold.
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And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom
of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.
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And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron:
forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all
things:
and as iron that breaketh all these,
shall it break in pieces and bruise.
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And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’
clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the
iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
42
And
as
the toes of the feet
were
part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
43
And
whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men:
but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
44
And in the days of
these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the
kingdom shall not be left to other people,
but
it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms,
and it shall stand for ever.
45
Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain
without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the
great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain,
and the interpretation thereof sure.
46
Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded
that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him.
47
The king answered unto Daniel,
and said, Of a truth
it is,
that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of
secrets, seeing thou couldst reveal this secret.
48
Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave
him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the
governors over all the wise
men
of Babylon.
49
Then Daniel requested of the king, and he set
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel
sat
in
the gate of the king.
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