The book of Daniels first prophecy about the
four empires and the age that would follow.
Chapter 2 Verse 31 You, O king, saw, and behold
a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood
before you; and the form of it was terrible. 32. This image's head was
of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his
thighs of brass, 33. His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of
clay. 34. You looked until that a stone was cut out without hands, which
struck the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and broke
them to pieces. 35. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver,
and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of
the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, that no
place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a
great mountain, and filled the whole earth. 36. This is the dream; and
we will tell the interpretation of it before the king.
37. You, O king,
(Nebuchadnezzar) are a king of kings: for the God of
heaven has given you a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. 38. And
where ever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the
fowls of the heaven has he given into your hand, and has made you ruler
over them all. You are this head of gold. 39. And after you shall arise
another kingdom inferior to you, and another third kingdom of brass,
which shall bear rule over all the earth. 40. And the fourth kingdom
shall be strong as iron: for as much as iron breaks in pieces and
subdues all things: and as iron that breaks all these, shall it break in
pieces and bruise. 41. And where as you saw the feet and toes, part of
potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there
shall be in it of the strength of the iron, for as much as you saw the
iron mixed with miry clay. 42. And as the toes of the feet were part of
iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and
partly broken. 43. And where as you saw iron mixed with miry clay, they
shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave
one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. 44. And in the days
of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall
never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people,
but it will crush and bring to an end all these kingdoms, and it shall
stand for ever. 45. For as much as you saw that the stone was cut out of
the mountain without hands, (the Messiah) and that it
broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold;
the great God has made known to the king what shall come to pass
hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation of it sure.
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