1. King Nebuchadnezzar, to all the peoples, nations, and languages that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.
2. The signs and wonders that the high God has wrought with me are such that I must publish them.
3. How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.
4. I Nebuchadnezzar was quiet in my house and flourishing in my palace;
5. I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the imaginations and visions of my head troubled me in my bed.
6. Therefore I made a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me that they might show me the interpretation of the dream.
7. Then the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the fortune-tellers came in and I told the dream before them; but they never showed me its interpretation.
8. But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name is Belteshazzar, who when I name him it seems to me that I name my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy God; and before him I told the dream, saying,