²¹ and whose foliage was beautiful and its fruit abundant, and in which was food for all, under which the beasts of the field inhabited, and in whose branches the birds of the sky dwelt— ²² it is ^(A)you, O king; for you have become great and grown strong, and your greatness has become even greater and reached to the sky and your ^[a](B)dominion to the end of the earth. ²³ But in that the king saw a watcher, a holy one, descending from heaven and saying, “^(C)Chop down the tree and destroy it; yet leave the stump ^[b]with its roots in the earth, but with a band of iron and bronze around it in the new grass of the field, and let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, and let ^[c]him share with the beasts of the field until ^(D)seven ^[d]periods of time pass over him,”