20. The tree you saw that grew in size and strength, that was as high as the sky, that could be seen from every corner of the earth,
21. with its beautiful leaves and its abundant fruit, and that had enough food for everyone, with wild animals living under it and birds nesting in its branches—
22. Your Majesty, that tree is you! You have grown large and become powerful. Your greatness is as high as the sky; your rule extends to the edge of the earth!
23. "Your Majesty, the holy watcher you saw coming down from heaven, who said, ‘Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave its deepest root in the earth, bound with iron and bronze in the field grass, dew from heaven is to wash it, and it must live with the wild animals until seven periods of time pass over it’—
24. Your Majesty, this is the dream’s meaning: It is the sentence of the Most High, delivered to my master the king.