Daniel 4:5

4:5 I saw a dream that ¹  frightened me badly. The things I imagined while lying on my bed – these visions of my mind – were terrifying me.

Daniel 4:7-8

4:7 When the magicians, astrologers, wise men, and diviners entered, I recounted the dream for them. But they were unable to make known its interpretation to me. 4:8 Later Daniel entered (whose name is Belteshazzar after the name of my god, ²  and in whom there is a spirit of the holy gods). I recounted the dream for him as well,

Daniel 4:10

4:10 Here are the visions of my mind ³  while I was on my bed.

While I was watching,

there was a tree in the middle of the land. ⁴ 

It was enormously tall. ⁵ 

Daniel 4:22

4:22 it is you, ⁶  O king! For you have become great and strong. Your greatness is such that it reaches to heaven, and your authority to the ends of the earth.

[4:5]  ¹ tn Aram “and it.”

[4:8]  ² sn This explanation of the meaning of the name Belteshazzar may be more of a paronomasia than a strict etymology.

[4:10]  ³ tc The LXX lacks the first two words (Aram “the visions of my head”) of the Aramaic text.

[4:10]  ⁴ tn Instead of “in the middle of the land,” some English versions render this phrase “a tree at the center of the earth” (NRSV); NAB, CEV “of the world”; NLT “in the middle of the earth.” The Hebrew phrase can have either meaning.

[4:10]  ⁵ tn Aram “its height was great.”

[4:22]  ⁶ sn Much of modern scholarship views this chapter as a distortion of traditions that were originally associated with Nabonidus rather than with Nebuchadnezzar. A Qumran text, the Prayer of Nabonidus, is often cited for parallels to these events.