2 The signs and wonders that the high God has wrought with me are such that I must publish them.
3 How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.
4 I Nebuchadnezzar was quiet in my house and flourishing in my palace;
5 I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the imaginations and visions of my head troubled me in my bed.
6 Therefore I made a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me that they might show me the interpretation of the dream.
7 Then the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the fortune-tellers came in and I told the dream before them; but they never showed me its interpretation.
8 But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name is Belteshazzar, who when I name him it seems to me that I name my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy God; and before him I told the dream, saying,