Because of this the king became indignant and very furious and gave orders to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were crushed all at the same time and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away so that not a trace of them was found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

‘The tree grew large and became strong
And its height reached to the sky,
And it was visible to the end of the whole earth.

The tree that you saw, which became large and grew strong, whose height reached to the sky and was visible to all the earth

But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became so proud that he behaved arrogantly, he was deposed from his royal throne and his glory was taken away from him.

When he had spoken to me according to these words, I turned my face toward the ground and became speechless.