Daniel 2:32-45

32The 1head 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 2continued looking until a 3stone was cut out 4without hands, and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and 5crushed them. 35Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were crushed 6all at the same time and became 7like chaff from the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away so that 8not a trace of them was found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great 9mountain and filled the whole earth.

36“This was the dream; now we will tell 10its interpretation before the king. 37You, O king, are the 11king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the 12kingdom, the 13power, the strength and the glory; 38and wherever the sons of men dwell, or the 14beasts 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 15fourth 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 16common 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 17common clay, they will combine with one another 18in 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 19God of heaven will 20set up a 21kingdom which will never be destroyed, and that kingdom will not be 22left for another people; it will 23crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, but it will itself endure forever. 45Inasmuch as you saw that a 24stone was cut out of the mountain without hands and that it crushed the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold, the 25great God has made known to the king what 26will take place 27in the future; so the dream is true and its interpretation is trustworthy.”