New American Standard Bible 1995

Daniel 4:10-14

10‘Now these were the 1visions 2in my mind as I lay on my bed: I was looking, and behold, there was a 3tree in the midst of the 4earth and its height was great.11The tree grew large and became strong And its height 5reached to the sky, And it was visible to the end of the whole earth.12Its foliage was 6beautiful and its fruit abundant, And in it was food for all. The 7beasts of the field found 8shade under it, And the 9birds of the sky dwelt in its branches, And all 10living creatures fed themselves from it.

13‘I was looking in the 11visions 12in my mind as I lay on my bed, and behold, 13an angelic watcher, a 14holy one, descended from heaven.14He shouted out and spoke as follows: “15Chop down the tree and cut off its branches, Strip off its foliage and scatter its fruit; Let the 16beasts flee from under it And the birds from its branches.

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Notes

1. Daniel 4:10 Dan 4:5 ↩
2. Daniel 4:10 Lit of my head ↩
3. Daniel 4:10 Ezek 31:3, 6 ↩
4. Daniel 4:10 Or land, and so throughout the ch ↩
5. Daniel 4:11 Deut 9:1; Dan 4:21, 22 ↩
6. Daniel 4:12 Ezek 31:7 ↩
7. Daniel 4:12 Jer 27:6; Ezek 31:6 ↩
8. Daniel 4:12 Lam 4:20 ↩
9. Daniel 4:12 Ezek 17:23; Matt 13:32; Luke 13:19 ↩
10. Daniel 4:12 Lit flesh ↩
11. Daniel 4:13 Dan 7:1 ↩
12. Daniel 4:13 Lit of my head ↩
13. Daniel 4:13 Dan 4:17, 23 ↩
14. Daniel 4:13 Deut 33:2; Ps 89:7; Dan 8:13 ↩
15. Daniel 4:14 Ezek 31:10-14; Dan 4:23; Matt 3:10; 7:19; Luke 13:7-9 ↩
16. Daniel 4:14 Ezek 31:12, 13; Dan 4:12 ↩

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