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11 and cried aloud in these words:

‘Cut down the tree and lop off its branches,
    strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit;
Let the beasts flee from beneath it, and the birds from its branches,
12     but leave its stump in the earth.
Bound with iron and bronze,
    let him be fed with the grass of the field
    and bathed with the dew of heaven;
    let his lot be with the beasts in the grass of the earth.
13 Let his mind be changed from a human one;
    let the mind of a beast be given him,
    till seven years pass over him.

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11 The tree grew large and strong and its top touched the sky; it was visible to the ends of the earth.(A) 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;(B) from it every creature was fed.

13 “In the visions I saw while lying in bed,(C) I looked, and there before me was a holy one,(D) a messenger,[a] coming down from heaven.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 4:13 Or watchman; also in verses 17 and 23