5. I had a terrifying dream. My thoughts while I was lying in bed and the vision in my mind overwhelmed me.
6. I ordered all Babylon’s sages to come before me, so they might tell me the dream’s meaning.
7. So the dream interpreters, enchanters, Chaldeans, and diviners came. I told them the dream, but they couldn’t interpret it for me.
8. Daniel, who is called Belteshazzar after the name of my god, was the last to come before me. In him is the breath of the holy gods! I told Daniel the dream:
9. “Belteshazzar, chief of the dream interpreters, I know the breath of the holy gods is in you, and no mystery is too difficult for you. Tell me the meaning of the visions I had in my dream.
10. In my mind, as I lay in bed, I saw a vision:At the center of the earth was a towering tree.