Daniel 4:24
New International Version
“This is the interpretation, Your Majesty, and this is the decree the Most High has issued against my lord the king:

New Living Translation
“‘This is what the dream means, Your Majesty, and what the Most High has declared will happen to my lord the king.

English Standard Version
this is the interpretation, O king: It is a decree of the Most High, which has come upon my lord the king,

Berean Standard Bible
This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree that the Most High has issued against my lord the king:

King James Bible
This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the most High, which is come upon my lord the king:

New King James Version
this is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the Most High, which has come upon my lord the king:

New American Standard Bible
this is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the Most High, which has come upon my lord the king:

NASB 1995
this is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the Most High, which has come upon my lord the king:

NASB 1977
this is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the Most High, which has come upon my lord the king:

Legacy Standard Bible
this is the interpretation, O king, and this is the resolution of the Most High, which has reached my lord the king:

Amplified Bible
this is the interpretation, O king: It is the decree of the Most High [God], which has come upon my lord the king:

Christian Standard Bible
This is the interpretation, Your Majesty, and this is the decree of the Most High that has been issued against my lord the king:

Holman Christian Standard Bible
This is the interpretation, Your Majesty, and this is the sentence of the Most High that has been passed against my lord the king:

American Standard Version
this is the interpretation, O king, and it is the decree of the Most High, which is come upon my lord the king:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
This is the interpretation, oh King: a decree of the Most High has arrived upon my Lord the King

Brenton Septuagint Translation
this is the interpretation of it, O king, and it is a decree of the Most High, which has come upon my lord the king.

Contemporary English Version
Your Majesty, God Most High has sent you this message, and it means

Douay-Rheims Bible
This is the interpretation of the sentence of the most High, which is come upon my lord the king.

English Revised Version
this is the interpretation, O king, and it is the decree of the Most High, which is come upon my lord the king:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"This is the meaning, Your Majesty. The Most High has decided to apply it to you, Your Majesty.

Good News Translation
"This, then, is what it means, Your Majesty, and this is what the Supreme God has declared will happen to you.

International Standard Version
"This is the meaning, your majesty, and this is the decree that the Most High has issued against his majesty, the king:

JPS Tanakh 1917
this is the interpretation, O king, and it is the decree of the Most High, which is come upon my lord the king,

Literal Standard Version
This [is] the interpretation, O king, and it [is] the decree of the Most High that has come against my lord the king:

Majority Standard Bible
This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree that the Most High has issued against my lord the king:

New American Bible
Therefore, O king, may my advice be acceptable to you; atone for your sins by good deeds, and for your misdeeds by kindness to the poor; then your contentment will be long lasting.”

NET Bible
this is the interpretation, O king! It is the decision of the Most High that this has happened to my lord the king.

New Revised Standard Version
this is the interpretation, O king, and it is a decree of the Most High that has come upon my lord the king:

New Heart English Bible
This is the interpretation, O king, and it is the decree of the Most High, which is come on my lord the king:

Webster's Bible Translation
This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the most High, which is come upon my lord the king:

World English Bible
“This is the interpretation, O king, and it is the decree of the Most High, which has come on my lord the king:

Young's Literal Translation
This is the interpretation, O king, and the decree of the Most High it is that hath come against my lord the king:

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Daniel Interprets the Second Dream
23And you, O king, saw a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying: ‘Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump with its roots in the ground, and a band of iron and bronze around it, in the tender grass of the field. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, and graze with the beasts of the field till seven times pass him by.’ 24This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree that the Most High has issued against my lord the king: 25You will be driven away from mankind, and your dwelling will be with the beasts of the field. You will feed on grass like an ox and be drenched with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass you by, until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes.…

Cross References
Job 40:11
Unleash the fury of your wrath; look on every proud man and bring him low.

Job 40:12
Look on every proud man and humble him; trample the wicked where they stand.

Psalm 107:40
He pours out contempt on the nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

Daniel 4:2
I am pleased to declare the signs and wonders that the Most High God has performed for me.

Daniel 4:19
For a time, Daniel, who was also known as Belteshazzar, was perplexed, and his thoughts alarmed him. So the king said, "Belteshazzar, do not let the dream or its interpretation alarm you." "My lord," replied Belteshazzar, "may the dream apply to those who hate you, and its interpretation to your enemies!


Treasury of Scripture

This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the most High, which is come on my lord the king:

the decree.

Daniel 4:17
This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.

Job 20:29
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.

Psalm 2:7
I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

come.

Job 1:12-19
And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD…

Job 40:11,12
Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him…

Psalm 107:40
He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.

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Daniel 4
1. Nebuchadnezzar confesses God's kingdom,
4. makes relation of his dreams, which the magicians could not interpret.
8. Daniel hears the dream.
19. He interprets it.
28. The dream fulfilled.














(24) Which is come upon.--See Note on Daniel 4:13.

Verse 24. - This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the Most High, which is come upon my lord the king. The passage in the Seventy which is parallel with this is partly in the last clause of the previous verse and partly in the verse that occupies a similar place to this in the Septuagint text, "The judgments of the great God shall come upon thee, and the Most High and his angels assail thee (κατατρέχουσιν ἐπὶ σὲ)." The change of tense here indicates that the second clause is an alternative rendering, brought into the text from the margin. In this marginal note meta has been taken as "assail," and malka, "O king," has been, by transposition of the two final letters, read mela'k, "angel." Theodotion and the Peshitta agree with the Massoretic text. The respectful tone in which Daniel addresses Nebuchadnezzar in the received text is to be observed; it is utterly alien to the boastful tone Judaism was afterwards accustomed to impute to its old saints. That there is no reference to the watchers or to their decree in this is imputed to Daniel's recognition of its true source; but in the Septuagint there is nothing equivalent to the statement in ver. 17. The fact that it is omitted here confirms the suspicion against it which we expressed in regard to the earlier verse.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
This
דְּנָ֥ה (də·nāh)
Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's 1836: This

is the interpretation,
פִשְׁרָ֖א (p̄iš·rā)
Noun - masculine singular determinate
Strong's 6591: An interpretation

O king,
מַלְכָּ֑א (mal·kā)
Noun - masculine singular determinate
Strong's 4430: A king

and this is the decree
וּגְזֵרַ֤ת (ū·ḡə·zê·raṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 1510: A decree

that the Most High
עִלָּאָה֙ (‘il·lā·’āh)
Adjective - masculine singular determinate
Strong's 5943: highest', a name of God

has issued
מְטָ֖ת (mə·ṭāṯ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 4291: To arrive, extend, happen

against
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5922: Above, over, upon, against

my lord
מָרִ֥י (mā·rî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 4756: Lord -- lord

the king:
מַלְכָּֽא׃ (mal·kā)
Noun - masculine singular determinate
Strong's 4430: A king


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