Saw a [a]dream, which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed, and the visions of mine head troubled me.

Therefore made I a decree, that they should bring all the wise men of Babel before me, that they might declare unto me the interpretation of the dream.

So came the enchanters, the astrologians, the Chaldeans and the soothsayers, to whom I told the dream, but [b]they could not show me the interpretation thereof,

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 4:2 This was another dream besides that which he saw of the four Empires, for Daniel both declared what that dream was, and what it meant, and here he only expoundeth the dream.
  2. Daniel 4:4 In that that he sent abroad to others, whose ignorance in times past he had experimented, and left Daniel which was ever ready at hand, it declareth the nature of the ungodly, which never seek to the servants of God, but for very necessity, and then they spare no flatterings.

It is my pleasure to tell you about the miraculous signs(A) and wonders that the Most High God(B) has performed for me.

How great are his signs,
    how mighty his wonders!(C)
His kingdom is an eternal kingdom;
    his dominion endures(D) from generation to generation.

I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at home in my palace, contented(E) and prosperous.

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