Daniel 2:31-45

31“You, O king, were looking and behold, there was a single great statue; that statue, which was large and 1of extraordinary splendor, was standing in front of you, and its appearance was 2awesome. 32The 3head of that statue was made of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze, 33its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay. 34You 4continued looking until a 5stone was cut out 6without hands, and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and 7crushed them. 35Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were crushed 8all at the same time and became 9like chaff from the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away so that 10not a trace of them was found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great 11mountain and filled the whole earth.

36“This was the dream; now we will tell 12its interpretation before the king. 37You, O king, are the 13king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the 14kingdom, the 15power, the strength and the glory; 38and wherever the sons of men dwell, or the 16beasts of the field, or the birds of the sky, He has given them into your hand and has caused you to rule over them all. You are the head of gold. 39After you there will arise another kingdom inferior to you, then another third kingdom of bronze, which will rule over all the earth. 40Then there will be a 17fourth kingdom as strong as iron; inasmuch as iron crushes and shatters all things, so, like iron that breaks in pieces, it will crush and break all these in pieces. 41In that you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, it will be a divided kingdom; but it will have in it the toughness of iron, inasmuch as you saw the iron mixed with 18common clay. 42As the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of pottery, so some of the kingdom will be strong and part of it will be brittle. 43And in that you saw the iron mixed with 19common clay, they will combine with one another 20in the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, even as iron does not combine with pottery. 44In the days of those kings the 21God of heaven will 22set up a 23kingdom which will never be destroyed, and that kingdom will not be 24left for another people; it will 25crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, but it will itself endure forever. 45Inasmuch as you saw that a 26stone was cut out of the mountain without hands and that it crushed the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold, the 27great God has made known to the king what 28will take place 29in the future; so the dream is true and its interpretation is trustworthy.”