of the children of the captivity of Juda, that
will resolve the question to the king.

2:26. The king answered, and said to Daniel, whose name was Baltassar:
Thinkest thou indeed that thou canst tell me the dream that I saw, and
the interpretation thereof?

2:27. And Daniel made answer before the king, and said: The secret that
the king desireth to know, none of the wise men, or the philosophers, or
the diviners, or the soothsayers, can declare to the king.

2:28. But there is a God in heaven that revealeth mysteries, who hath
shewn to thee, O king Nabuchodonosor, what is to come to pass in the
latter times. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are
these:

2:29. Thou, O king, didst begin to think in thy bed, what should come to
pass hereafter: and he that revealeth mysteries shewed thee what shall
come to pass.

2:30. To me also this secret is revealed, not by any wisdom that I have
more than all men alive: but that the interpretation might be made
manifest to the king, and thou mightest know the thought of thy mind.

2:31. Thou, O king, sawest, and behold there was as it were a great
statue: this statue, which was great and high, tall of stature, stood
before thee, and the look thereof was terrible.

2:32. The head of this statue was of fine gold, but the breast and the
arms of silver, and the belly and the thighs of brass.

2:33. And the legs of iron, the feet part of iron and part of clay.

2:34. Thus thou sawest, till a stone was cut out of a mountain without
hands: and it struck the statue upon the feet thereof that were of iron
and clay, and broke them in pieces.

2:35. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold
broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of a summer's
threshing floor, and they were carried away by the wind: and there was
no place found for them: but the stone that struck the statue became a
great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

2:36. This is the dream: we will also tell the interpretation thereof
before thee, O king.

2:37. Thou art a king of kings: and the God of heaven hath given thee a
kingdom, and strength, and power, and glory:

2:38. And all places wherein the children of men, and the beasts of the
field do dwell: he hath also given the birds of the air into thy hand,
and hath put all things under thy power: thou, therefore, art the head
of gold.

2:39. And after thee shall rise up another kingdom, inferior to thee, of