¹⁰ These are the visions I saw while lying in bed:^(A) I looked, and there before me stood a tree in the middle of the land. Its height was enormous.^{(B) 11} The tree grew large and strong and its top touched the sky; it was visible to the ends of the earth.^{(C) 12} Its leaves were beautiful, its fruit abundant, and on it was food for all. Under it the wild animals found shelter, and the birds lived in its branches;^(D) from it every creature was fed.

¹³ “In the visions I saw while lying in bed,^(E) I looked, and there before me was a holy one,^(F) a messenger,^[a] coming down from heaven. ¹⁴ He called in a loud voice: ‘Cut down the tree^(G) and trim off its branches; strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the animals flee from under it and the birds from its branches.^(H)

²⁰ The tree you saw, which grew large and strong, with its top touching the sky, visible to the whole earth, ²¹ with beautiful leaves and abundant fruit, providing food for all, giving shelter to the wild animals, and having nesting places in its branches for the birds^(A)— ²² Your Majesty, you are that tree!^(B) You have become great and strong; your greatness has grown until it reaches the sky, and your dominion extends to distant parts of the earth.^(C)

²³ “Your Majesty saw a holy one,^(D) a messenger, coming down from heaven and saying, ‘Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump, bound with iron and bronze, in the grass of the field, while its roots remain in the ground. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven; let him live with the wild animals, until seven times pass by for him.’^(E)

²⁴ “This is the interpretation, Your Majesty, and this is the decree^(F) the Most High has issued against my lord the king: