Daniel 2:32-45

32The head of the statue was pure gold, its chest and arms were silver, its stomach and thighs were bronze,

33its legs were iron, and its feet were partly iron and partly fired clay.

34As you were watching, a stone broke off without a hand touching it, struck the statue on its feet of iron and fired clay, and crushed them.

35Then the iron, the fired clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were shattered and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away, and not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

36“This was the dream; now we will tell the king its interpretation.

37Your Majesty, you are king of kings. The God of the heavens has given you sovereignty, power, strength, and glory.

38Wherever people live — or wild animals, or birds of the sky — he has handed them over to you and made you ruler over them all. You are the head of gold.

39“After you, there will arise another kingdom, inferior to yours, and then another, a third kingdom, of bronze, which will rule the whole earth.

40A fourth kingdom will be as strong as iron; for iron crushes and shatters everything, and like iron that smashes, it will crush and smash all the others.

41You saw the feet and toes, partly of a potter’s fired clay and partly of iron — it will be a divided kingdom, though some of the strength of iron will be in it. You saw the iron mixed with clay,

42and that the toes of the feet were partly iron and partly fired clay — part of the kingdom will be strong, and part will be brittle.

43You saw the iron mixed with clay — the peoples will mix with one another but will not hold together, just as iron does not mix with fired clay.

44“In the days of those kings, the God of the heavens will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, and this kingdom will not be left to another people. It will crush all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, but will itself endure forever.

45You saw a stone break off from the mountain without a hand touching it, and it crushed the iron, bronze, fired clay, silver, and gold. The great God has told the king what will happen in the future. The dream is certain, and its interpretation reliable.”