4 I, Nebuchadnezzar, was living comfortably at home. I was prosperous while living in my palace.
5 I had a dream that terrified me. The visions I had while I was asleep frightened me.
6 So I ordered all the wise advisers in Babylon to be brought to me to tell me the dream’s meaning.
7 The magicians, psychics, astrologers, and fortunetellers came to me. I told them the dream, but they couldn’t tell me its meaning.
8 Finally, Daniel came to me. (He had been renamed Belteshazzar after my god ⌊Bel⌋.) The spirit of the holy gods is in him.I told him the dream:
9 “Belteshazzar, head of the magicians, I know the spirit of the holy gods is in you. No secret is too hard for you ⌊to uncover⌋. Tell me the meaning of the visions I had in my dream.
10 These are the visions I had while I was asleep: I was looking, and I saw an oak tree in the middle of the earth. It was very tall.