Daniel 4:13-15

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹³ “I saw in the visions of my head as I lay in bed, and behold, a watcher, a holy one,^[a] came down from heaven. ¹⁴ He cried aloud and said thus, ‘Hew down the tree and cut off its branches, strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit; let the beasts flee from under it and the birds from its branches. ¹⁵ But leave the stump of its roots in the earth, bound with a band of iron and bronze, amid the tender grass of the field. Let him be wet with the dew of heaven; let his lot be with the beasts in the grass of the earth;