Daniele 4:5

5 Io vidi un sogno che mi spaventò; e le immaginazioni ch’ebbi in sul mio letto, e le visioni del mio capo, mi conturbarono.

Daniele 4:5 Meaning and Commentary

Daniel 4:5

I saw a dream which made me afraid
Things were represented to his fancy in a dream, as if he saw them with his eyes, as the tree, its leaves and fruit; the shaking and cutting it down to the stump; and though he did not understand the meaning of it, yet he thought it portended some evil, which threw him into a panic; he was afraid that something bad would befall him, though he knew not what: thus God can make the minds of the greatest men uneasy amidst all their glory, pride, and pleasure: and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me;
the thoughts that came into his mind while he was upon his bed dreaming, and the things which were represented to his fancy in his brain, he remembered when awake, gave him a great deal of trouble and uneasiness, what should be the meaning of them, and what would be the issue and event of these things.

Daniele 4:5 In-Context

3 O quanto son grandi i suoi segni! e quanto son potenti i suoi miracoli! il suo regno è un regno eterno, e la sua signoria è per ogni età.

4 Io, Nebucadnesar, era quieto in casa mia, e fioriva nel mio palazzo.

5 Io vidi un sogno che mi spaventò; e le immaginazioni ch’ebbi in sul mio letto, e le visioni del mio capo, mi conturbarono.

6 E da me fu fatto un comandamento, che tutti i savi di Babilonia fossero menati davanti a me, per dichiararmi l’interpretazione del sogno.

7 Allora vennero i magi, gli astrologi, i Caldei, e gl’indovini; ed io dissi loro il sogno; ma non me ne poterono dichiarare l’interpretazione.