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         <div class="pm"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DAN.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then Daniel (also called Belteshazzar) was greatly perplexed for a time, and his thoughts terrified him. So the king said, &#8220;Belteshazzar, do not let the dream or its meaning alarm you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DAN.4.19"><span class="content">Belteshazzar answered, &#8220;My lord, if only the dream applied to your enemies and its meaning to your adversaries! </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DAN.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The tree you saw, which grew large and strong, with its top touching the sky, visible to the whole earth, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DAN.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">with beautiful leaves and abundant fruit, providing food for all, giving shelter to the wild animals, and having nesting places in its branches for the birds&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DAN.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Your Majesty, you are that tree! You have become great and strong; your greatness has grown until it reaches the sky, and your dominion extends to distant parts of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DAN.4.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DAN.4.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;Your Majesty saw a holy one, a messenger, coming down from heaven and saying, &#8216;Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump, bound with iron and bronze, in the grass of the field, while its roots remain in the ground. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven; let him live with the wild animals, until seven times pass by for him.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DAN.4.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="DAN.4.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is the interpretation, Your Majesty, and this is the decree the Most High has issued against my lord the king: </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="DAN.4.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">You will be driven away from people and will live with the wild animals; you will eat grass like the ox and be drenched with the dew of heaven. Seven times will pass by for you until you acknowledge that the Most High is sovereign over all kingdoms on earth and gives them to anyone he wishes. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="DAN.4.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The command to leave the stump of the tree with its roots means that your kingdom will be restored to you when you acknowledge that Heaven rules. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="DAN.4.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Therefore, Your Majesty, be pleased to accept my advice: Renounce your sins by doing what is right, and your wickedness by being kind to the oppressed. It may be that then your prosperity will continue.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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