<p class="poetry">The tree grew large and strong.p> <p class="poetry">Its top reached far into the sky;p> <p class="poetry">it could be seen<n id="1" /> from the borders of all the land.<n id="2" />p>

The tree that you saw that grew large and strong, whose top reached to the sky, and which could be seen<n id="1" /> in all the land,

it is you,<n id="1" /> O king! For you have become great and strong. Your greatness is such that it reaches to heaven, and your authority to the ends of the earth.

And when his mind<n id="1" /> became arrogant<n id="2" /> and his spirit filled with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and his honor was removed from him.

To all the supervisors of the kingdom, the prefects, satraps, counselors, and governors it seemed like a good idea for a royal edict to be issued and an interdict to be enforced. For the next thirty days anyone who prays<n id="1" /> to any god or human other than you, O king, should be thrown into a den of lions.