Daniel 4:12

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

11become great hath the tree, yea, strong, and its height doth reach to the heavens, and its vision to the end of the whole land;

13'I was looking, in the visions of my head on my bed, and lo, 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 causeth them to wander In vacancy — no way!

Job 14:9From the fragrance of water it doth flourish, And hath made a crop as a plant.

Lamentations 4:20The breath of our nostrils — the anointed of Jehovah, Hath been captured in their pits, of whom we said: 'In his shadow we do live among nations.'

Ezekiel 31:6In his boughs made a nest hath every fowl of the heavens, And under his branches brought forth hath every beast of the field, And in his shade dwell do all great nations.

Mark 13:32'And concerning that day and the hour no one hath known — not even the messengers who are in the 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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