Daniel 4:22-24

Contemporary English Version

²²Your Majesty, that tree is you. Your glorious reputation has reached heaven, and your kingdom covers the earth.

²³Then you saw a holy angel^[a] come down from heaven and say, “Chop down the tree and destroy it! But leave its stump and roots in the ground, fastened there by a chain of iron and bronze. Let it stay for seven years^[b] out in the field with the wild animals, unprotected from the dew.”

²⁴Your Majesty, God Most High has sent you this message, and it means

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Footnotes

4.23 angel: See the note at 4.13.
4.23 years: Aramaic “times.”

Daniel 4:22-24

New International Version

²²Your Majesty, you are that tree!^(A) You have become great and strong; your greatness has grown until it reaches the sky, and your dominion extends to distant parts of the earth.^(B)

²³“Your Majesty saw a holy one,^(C) a messenger, coming down from heaven and saying, ‘Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump, bound with iron and bronze, in the grass of the field, while its roots remain in the ground. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven; let him live with the wild animals, until seven times pass by for him.’^(D)

²⁴“This is the interpretation, Your Majesty, and this is the decree^(E) the Most High has issued against my lord the king:

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