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Daniel 2:39

Verse 39 of 49. The 2nd of 12 chapters in Daniel, in The Major Prophets.

35Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them. The stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

36“This is the dream; and we will tell its interpretation before the king.

37You, O king, are king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, the strength, and the glory.

38Wherever the children of men dwell, he has given the animals of the field and the birds of the sky into your hand, and has made you rule over them all. You are the head of gold.

39“After you, another kingdom will arise that is inferior to you; and another third kingdom of bronze, which will rule over all the earth.

40The fourth kingdom will be strong as iron, because iron breaks in pieces and subdues all things; and as iron that crushes all these, it will break in pieces and crush.

41Whereas you saw the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay and part of iron, it will be a divided kingdom; but there will be in it of the strength of the iron, because you saw the iron mixed with miry clay.

42As the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle.

43Whereas you saw the iron mixed with miry clay, they will mingle themselves with the seed of men; but they won’t cling to one another, even as iron does not mix with clay.

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.