^{22 Ref} It is you, O King, who have become great and strong: for your power is increased and stretching up to heaven, and your rule to the end of the earth.

^{23 Ref} And as for the vision which the king saw of a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven, saying, Let the tree be cut down and given to destruction;

^{24 Ref} This is the sense of it, O King, and it is the decision of the Most High which has come on my lord the king: