Daniel 4:22-24

Lexham English Bible

²² —it is you, O king, who have grown great and you have grown strong, and so your greatness has increased and it has reached to heaven^[a] and your sovereignty to the end of the earth. ²³ And inasmuch that the king saw the watcher, a holy one coming down from heaven^[b] and he said, “Cut down the tree and destroy it, but the stump of its root in the earth leave with a band of iron and bronze in the grass of the field, and let it be watered with the dew of heaven and let his lot be with the animals of the field until seven times have passed over him.”^{[c] 24} This is the explanation, O king, and it is a decree of the Most High that has come upon my lord the king: