Now after you another kingdom<n id="1" /> will arise, one inferior to yours. Then a third kingdom, one of bronze, will rule in all the earth.

<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>

&#8216;These large beasts, which are four in number, represent four kings who will arise from the earth.

<p class="poetry">All the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nothing.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">He does as he wishes with the army of heavenp> <p class="poetry">and with those who inhabit the earth.p> <p class="poetry">No one slaps<n id="2" /> his handp> <p class="poetry">and says to him, &#8216;What have you done?&#8217;p>

<p class="bodytext"><v id="(3:31)" /><n id="1" /> &#8220;King Nebuchadnezzar, to all peoples, nations, and language groups that live in all the land: Peace and prosperity!<n id="2" />

Here are the visions of my mind<n id="1" /> while I was on my bed.p> <p class="poetry">While I was watching,p> <p class="poetry">there was a tree in the middle of the land.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">It was enormously tall.<n id="3" />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.

<p class="bodytext">Then King Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and language groups who were living in all the land: &#8220;Peace and prosperity!<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">&#8220;This is what he told me:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;The fourth beast means that there will be a fourth kingdom on earthp> <p class="poetry">that will differ from all the other kingdoms.p> <p class="poetry">It will devour all the earthp> <p class="poetry">and will trample and crush it.p>

<p class="poetry">But leave its taproot<n id="1" /> in the ground,p> <p class="poetry">with a band of iron and bronze around it<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">surrounded by the grass of the field.p> <p class="poetry">Let it become damp with the dew of the sky,p> <p class="poetry">and let it live with<n id="3" /> the animals in the grass of the land.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;The first one was like a lion with eagles&#8217; wings. As I watched, its wings were pulled off and it was lifted up from the ground. It was made to stand on two feet like a human being, and a human mind<n id="1" /> was given to it.<n id="2" />p>

Then the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were broken in pieces without distinction<n id="1" /> and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors that the wind carries away. Not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the statue became a large mountain that filled the entire earth.