Daniel 4:21-23

Expanded Bible

²¹ Its leaves were beautiful, and it had plenty of fruit for everyone to eat. It was a home for the ·wild animals [^Lanimals of the field], and its branches were nesting places for the birds of the ·sky [heavens]. ²² O king, you are that tree! You have become great and powerful, like the tall tree that ·touched [reached] the ·sky [heavens]. Your ·power [sovereignty] reaches to the ·far parts [ends] of the earth.

²³ “O king, you saw an ·observer, a holy angel [^Lholy watcher], coming down from heaven who said, ‘Cut down the tree and destroy it. But leave the stump and its roots in the ground with a band of iron and bronze around it; leave it in the field with the grass. Let him become wet with dew and live like a ·wild animal [^Lanimal of the field] for seven ·years [^Lperiods; times].’