⁷ For there is hope of a tree; if it is cut down, it will come to life again, and its branches will not come to an end.

¹⁰ I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.

⁶ In days to come Jacob will take root: Israel will put out buds and flowers; and the face of the world will be full of fruit.

¹⁴ If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.

¹ And there will come a rod out of the broken tree of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will give fruit.

¹⁵ But keep its broken end and its roots still in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass; let him have the young grass of the field for food, and let him be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his part be with the beasts.

²³ 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 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 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.