Daniel 4:12

its leaves [are] beautiful, and its budding great, and food for all [is] in it: under it the beast of the field takes shade, and in its boughs dwell the birds of the heavens, and of it are all flesh fed.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it.

In Context

11the tree has become great, indeed, strong, and its height reaches to the heavens, and its vision to the end of the whole land;

13I was looking, in the visions of my head on my bed, and behold, a sifter, even a holy one, from the heavens is coming down.

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Cross References

Job 12:24Turning aside the heart || Of the heads of the people of the land, || And He causes them to wander || In vacancy—no way!

Job 14:9From the fragrance of water it flourishes, || And has made a crop as a plant.

Lamentations 4:20The breath of our nostrils—the anointed of YHWH, || Has been captured in their pits, of whom we said: “We live among nations in his shadow.”

Ezekiel 31:6Every bird of the heavens has made a nest in his boughs, || And every beast of the field has brought forth under his branches, || And all great nations dwell in his shade.

Mark 13:32And concerning that day and the hour no one has known—not even the messengers who are in Heaven, not even the Son—except the Father.

Matthew Henry on Daniel 4:5-19

Nebuchadnezzar's Second Dream; Nebuchadnezzar Relates His Dream. ( b. c. 570.) 4 I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in mine house, and flourishing in my palace: 5 I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me. 6 Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known unto me the interpretation of the dream. 7 Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before… Read the whole commentary →

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