7 “These were the visions I saw while in bed: I saw a tree of great height at the center of the earth.
8 It was large and strong, with its top touching the heavens, and it could be seen to the ends of the earth.
9 Its leaves were beautiful, its fruit abundant, providing food for all. Under it the wild beasts found shade, in its branches the birds of the air nested; all flesh ate of it.
10 In the vision I saw while in bed, a holy watcher came down from heaven
11 and cried aloud in these words:‘Cut down the tree and lop off its branches,strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit;Let the beasts flee from beneath it, and the birds from its branches,
12 but leave its stump in the earth.Bound with iron and bronze,let him be fed with the grass of the fieldand bathed with the dew of heaven;let his lot be with the beasts in the grass of the earth.
13 Let his mind be changed from a human one;let the mind of a beast be given him,till seven years pass over him.