4 “I was living comfortably in my palace, enjoying great prosperity.
5 But I had a frightening dream and saw terrifying visions while I was asleep.
6 I ordered all the royal advisers in Babylon to be brought to me so that they could tell me what the dream meant.
7 Then all the fortune tellers, magicians, wizards, and astrologers were brought in, and I told them my dream, but they could not explain it to me.
8 Then Daniel came in. (He is also called Belteshazzar, after the name of my god.) The spirit of the holy gods is in him, so I told him what I had dreamt. I said to him:
9 Belteshazzar, chief of the fortune tellers, I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and that you understand all mysteries. This is my dream. Tell me what it means.
10 “While I was asleep, I had a vision of a huge tree in the middle of the earth.