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The Book of Daniel, Chapter 4, Verse 2

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Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.
King James Version
I thought it good to shew the signs and wonders that the high God hath wrought toward me.
American Standard Version
It hath seemed good unto me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God hath wrought toward me.
New English Translation
I am delighted to tell you about the signs and wonders that the most high God has done for me.
World English Bible
It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has worked toward me.
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How great [are] his signs! and how mighty [are] his wonders! his kingdom [is] an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion [is] from generation to generation.
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I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in mine house, and flourishing in my palace:
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I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.
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Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise [men] of Babylon before me, that they might make known unto me the interpretation of the dream.
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Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof.
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But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name [was] Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom [is] the spirit of the holy gods: and before him I told the dream, [saying],
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O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods [is] in thee, and no secret troubleth thee, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretation thereof.
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Thus [were] the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof [was] great.
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The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth:
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The leaves thereof [were] fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it [was] meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it.