New American Standard Bible 1995

Daniel 4:4-8

4“1I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at ease in my house and 2flourishing in my palace.

5I saw a 3dream and it made me fearful; and these fantasies as I lay on my bed and the 4visions 5in my mind kept alarming me.

6So I gave orders to 6bring into my presence all the wise men of Babylon, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.

7Then the 7 8magicians, the conjurers, the 9Chaldeans and the diviners came in and I related the dream 10to them, but they could not make its 11interpretation known to me.

8But finally Daniel came in before me, whose name is 12Belteshazzar according to the name of my god, and in whom is 13 14a spirit of the holy gods; and I related the dream 15to him, saying,

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Notes

1. Daniel 4:4 Ch 4:1 in Aram ↩
2. Daniel 4:4 Ps 30:6; Is 47:7, 8 ↩
3. Daniel 4:5 Dan 2:3 ↩
4. Daniel 4:5 Dan 2:1, 28; 4:10, 13 ↩
5. Daniel 4:5 Lit of my head ↩
6. Daniel 4:6 Gen 41:8; Dan 2:2 ↩
7. Daniel 4:7 Or soothsayer priests, and so throughout the ch ↩
8. Daniel 4:7 Gen 41:8; Dan 2:10, 27; 5:7 ↩
9. Daniel 4:7 Or master astrologers ↩
10. Daniel 4:7 Lit before ↩
11. Daniel 4:7 Is 44:25; Jer 27:9, 10; Dan 2:7 ↩
12. Daniel 4:8 Dan 1:7; 2:26; 5:12 ↩
13. Daniel 4:8 Or possibly the Spirit of the holy God, and so throughout the ch ↩
14. Daniel 4:8 Dan 4:9, 18; 5:11, 14 ↩
15. Daniel 4:8 Lit before ↩

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