"While you were in bed, the dream and the visions that came to your head were as follows: Your majesty, when you were in bed, thoughts came to your mind about what would happen in the future, and the Revealer of Secrets has made known to you what will take place.

I had a dream that made me afraid. The thoughts that went through my mind while in bed and the visions in my head terrified me.

Let his mind be changed from that of a man, and let him be given the mind of an animal until seven seasons of time pass by for him.

Then all the king's advisors came in, but they were unable to read the writing or tell the king what it meant.

He was driven away from human society and given the mind of an animal. He lived with wild donkeys, ate grass like cattle, and his body was soaked with dew from the sky until he realized that the Most High God is sovereign over human kingdoms and places over them whomever he desires.

In the first year of the reign of King Belshazzar of Babylon, Daniel dreamed a dream, receiving visions in his mind while in bed, after which he recorded the dream, relating this summary of events.