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The Book of Daniel, Chapter 4, Verse 5

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I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in mine house, and flourishing in my palace:
King James Version
I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.
American Standard Version
I saw a dream which made me afraid; and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.
New English Translation
I saw a dream that frightened me badly. The things I imagined while lying on my bed– these visions of my mind– were terrifying me.
World English Bible
I saw a dream which made me afraid; and the thoughts on 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.
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I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven;
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He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches:
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Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and [let] his portion [be] with the beasts in the grass of the earth: