Daniel 4:5

4:5 I saw a dream that ¹  frightened me badly. The things I imagined while lying on my bed – these visions of my mind – were terrifying me.

Daniel 4:10

4:10 Here are the visions of my mind ²  while I was on my bed.

While I was watching,

there was a tree in the middle of the land. ³ 

It was enormously tall. ⁴ 

Daniel 7:1

Daniel has a Vision of Four Animals Coming up from the Sea

7:1 In the first ⁵  year of King Belshazzar of Babylon, Daniel had ⁶  a dream filled with visions ⁷  while he was lying on his bed. Then he wrote down the dream in summary fashion. ⁸ 

¹ tn Aram “and it.”

² tc The LXX lacks the first two words (Aram “the visions of my head”) of the Aramaic text.

³ tn Instead of “in the middle of the land,” some English versions render this phrase “a tree at the center of the earth” (NRSV); NAB, CEV “of the world”; NLT “in the middle of the earth.” The Hebrew phrase can have either meaning.

⁴ tn Aram “its height was great.”

⁵ sn The first year of Belshazzar’s reign would have been ca. 553 B.C. Daniel would have been approximately 67 years old at the time of this vision.

⁶ tn Aram “saw.”

⁷ tn Aram “and visions of his head.” The Aramaic is difficult here. Some scholars add a verb thought to be missing (e.g., “the visions of his head [were alarming him]”), but there is no external evidence to support such a decision and the awkwardness of the text at this point may be original.

⁸ tn Aram “head of words.” The phrase is absent in Theodotion. Cf. NIV “the substance of his dream.”