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Thou didst see until a stone was cut out, not with hands, which smote the image upon its feet
that were of iron and baked clay and broke them to pieces.
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Then was the iron, the baked clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold broken to pieces together and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away that no place was found for them again; and the stone that smote the image was made into a great mountain that filled the whole earth.
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This
is the dream, and we will tell its interpretation before the king.
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Thou, O king,
art king of kings, for the God of heaven has given thee the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the majesty.
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And everything that is inhabited by children of men, beasts of the field, and fowls of the heaven,
he has given into thine hand, and has made thee ruler over them all. Thou
art this head of gold.
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And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the land.
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And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron; and as iron breaks in pieces and subdues all
things, and as iron that breaks all these things, it shall break in pieces and bruise.
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And whereas thou didst see the feet and toes, part of baked potters’ clay and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divisive; but there shall be in it
some of the strength of the iron, such as thou didst see the iron mixed with baked clay.
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And
as the toes of the feet
were part of iron and part of baked clay,
so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly fragile.
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Concerning that which thou didst see, the iron mixed with baked clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men, but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron does not mix with clay.
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And in the days of those kings the God of heaven shall raise up a kingdom which eternally shall never become corrupted, and this kingdom shall not be left to another people,
but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.