Daniel 2:36-45

36“This was the dream; now we will tell 1its interpretation before the king. 37You, O king, are the 2king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the 3kingdom, the 4power, the strength and the glory; 38and wherever the sons of men dwell, or the 5beasts 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 6fourth 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 7common 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 8common clay, they will combine with one another 9in 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 10God of heaven will 11set up a 12kingdom which will never be destroyed, and that kingdom will not be 13left for another people; it will 14crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, but it will itself endure forever. 45Inasmuch as you saw that a 15stone was cut out of the mountain without hands and that it crushed the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold, the 16great God has made known to the king what 17will take place 18in the future; so the dream is true and its interpretation is trustworthy.”