^{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:

^{25 Ref} That they will send you out from among men, to be with the beasts of the field; they will give you grass for your food like the oxen, and you will be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven times will go by you, till you are certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure.