Dn 2:1In annō secundō regnī Nabuchodonosor, vīdit Nabuchodonosor somnium, et conterritus est spīritus ejus, et somnium ejus fūgit ab eō.In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar saw a dream, and his spirit was terrified, and his dream fled from him. Dn 2:2Praecēpit autem rēx ut convocārentur ariolī, et magī, et maleficī, et Chaldaeī, ut indicārent rēgī somnia sua.Then the king ordered that the soothsayers, and the magi, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans be called together, so that they might make known to the king his dreams. Dn 2:2Quī cum vēnissent, stetērunt cōram rēge.And when they had come, they stood before the king. Dn 2:3Et dīxit ad eōs rēx: Vīdī somnium, et mente cōnfūsus ignōrō quid vīderim.And the king said to them: "I have seen a dream, and, confused in mind, I do not know what I saw." Dn 2:4Respondēruntque Chaldaeī rēgī syriacē: Rēx, in sempiternum vīve!And the Chaldeans answered the king in Syriac: "King, live for ever! Dn 2:4Dīc somnium servīs tuīs, et interpretātiōnem ejus indicābimus.Tell the dream to your servants, and we will make known its interpretation."
Dn 2:5Et respondēns rēx ait Chaldaeīs: Sermō recessit ā mē: nisi indicāveritis mihi somnium, et conjectūram ejus, perībitis vōs, et domus vestrae pūblicābuntur.And answering, the king said to the Chaldeans: "The word has gone away from me: unless you make known to me the dream, and its meaning, you will perish, and your houses will be confiscated. Dn 2:6Sī autem somnium, et conjectūram ejus narrāveritis, praemia, et dōna, et honōrem multum accipiētis ā mē.But if you relate the dream, and its meaning, you will receive from me rewards, and gifts, and much honour. Dn 2:6Somnium igitur, et interpretātiōnem ejus indicāte mihi.Therefore make known to me the dream, and its interpretation." Dn 2:7Respondērunt secundō, atque dīxērunt: Rēx somnium dīcat servīs suīs, et interpretātiōnem illīus indicābimus.They answered a second time, and said: "Let the king tell the dream to his servants, and we will make known its interpretation." Dn 2:8Respondit rēx, et ait: Certē nōvī quod tempus redimitis, scientēs quod recesserit ā mē sermō.The king answered, and said: "Certainly I know that you are buying time, knowing that the word has gone away from me.
Dn 2:9Sī ergō somnium nōn indicāveritis mihi, ūna est dē vōbīs sententia, quod interpretātiōnem quoque fallācem, et dēceptiōne plēnam composuerītis, ut loquāminī mihi dōnec tempus pertrānseat.If therefore you do not make known to me the dream, there is one sentence about you, that you have also composed a false interpretation, full of deceit, in order to speak to me until the time passes by. Dn 2:9Somnium itaque dīcite mihi, ut sciam quod interpretātiōnem quoque ejus vēram loquāminī.Therefore tell me the dream, so that I may know that you are also speaking its true interpretation." Dn 2:10Respondentēs ergō Chaldaeī cōram rēge, dīxērunt: Nōn est homō super terram, quī sermōnem tuum, rēx, possit implēre: sed neque rēgum quisquam magnus et potēns verbum hujuscemodī scīscitātur ab omnī ariolō, et magō, et Chaldaeō.The Chaldeans therefore, answering before the king, said: "There is no man upon the earth who can fulfil your word, king: but neither does any of the kings, great and powerful, ask a word of this kind from any soothsayer, or magus, or Chaldean. Dn 2:11Sermō enim, quem tū quaeris, rēx, gravis est: nec reperiētur quisquam quī indicet illum in cōnspectū rēgis, exceptīs diīs, quōrum nōn est cum hominibus conversātiō.For the word which you seek, king, is heavy: nor will anyone be found who may make it known in the sight of the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with men."
Dn 2:12Quō audītō, rēx, in furōre et in īrā magnā, praecēpit ut perīrent omnēs sapientēs Babylōnis.Which having been heard, the king, in fury and in great anger, ordered that all the wise men of Babylon should perish. Dn 2:13Et ēgressā sententiā, sapientēs interficiēbantur: quaerēbanturque Daniēl et sociī ejus, ut perīrent.And the sentence having gone out, the wise men were being killed: and Daniel and his companions were being sought, so that they might perish. Dn 2:14Tunc Daniēl requīsīvit dē lēge atque sententiā ab Arioch prīncipe mīlitiae rēgis, quī ēgressus fuerat ad interficiendōs sapientēs Babylōnis.Then Daniel inquired about the law and the sentence from Arioch, the chief of the king's soldiery, who had gone out to kill the wise men of Babylon. Dn 2:15Et interrogāvit eum, quī ā rēge potestātem accēperat, quam ob causam tam crūdēlis sententia ā faciē rēgis esset ēgressa.And he asked him, who had received power from the king, for what reason so cruel a sentence had gone out from the face of the king. Dn 2:15Cum ergō rem indicāsset Arioch Daniēlī, Daniēl ingressus rogāvit rēgem ut tempus daret sibi ad solūtiōnem indicandam rēgī.When therefore Arioch had made the matter known to Daniel, Daniel, having gone in, asked the king that he give him time for making known the solution to the king.
Dn 2:17Et ingressus est domum suam, Ananiaeque et Misaëlī et Azarīae, sociīs suīs, indicāvit negōtium, ut quaererent misericordiam ā faciē Deī caelī super sacrāmentō istō, et nōn perīrent Daniēl et sociī ejus cum cēterīs sapientibus Babylōnis.And he went into his house, and to Ananias and Misael and Azarias, his companions, he made known the business, so that they might seek mercy from the face of the God of heaven concerning this secret, and that Daniel and his companions might not perish with the other wise men of Babylon. Dn 2:19Tunc Daniēlī mystērium per vīsiōnem nocte revēlātum est: et benedīxit Daniēl Deum caelī, et locūtus ait: Sit nōmen Dominī benedictum ā saeculō et ūsque in saeculum: quia sapientia et fortitūdō ejus sunt.Then the mystery was revealed to Daniel through a vision at night: and Daniel blessed the God of heaven, and speaking said: "May the name of the Lord be blessed from age and right up to age: because wisdom and strength are his. Dn 2:21Et ipse mūtat tempora, et aetātēs: trānsfert regna, atque cōnstituit: dat sapientiam sapientibus, et scientiam intelligentibus disciplīnam.And he himself changes times, and ages: he transfers kingdoms, and establishes them: he gives wisdom to the wise, and learning to those who understand knowledge.
Dn 2:22Ipse revēlat profunda et abscondita, et nōvit in tenebrīs cōnstitūta: et lūx cum eō est.He himself reveals deep and hidden things, and knows things set in darkness: and light is with him. Dn 2:23Tibi, Deus patrum nostrōrum, cōnfiteor, tēque laudō, quia sapientiam et fortitūdinem dedistī mihi, et nunc ostendistī mihi quae rogāvimus tē, quia sermōnem rēgis aperuistī nōbīs.To you, God of our fathers, I give thanks, and you I praise, because you have given me wisdom and strength, and now you have shown me what we asked of you, because you have opened to us the word of the king." Dn 2:24Post haec Daniēl ingressus ad Arioch, quem cōnstituerat rēx ut perderet sapientēs Babylōnis, sīc eī locūtus est: Sapientēs Babylōnis nē perdās: intrōdūc mē in cōnspectū rēgis, et solūtiōnem rēgī narrābō.After these things Daniel, having gone in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon, spoke thus to him: "Do not destroy the wise men of Babylon: bring me in, into the sight of the king, and I will relate the solution to the king."
Dn 2:25Tunc Arioch festīnus intrōdūxit Daniēlem ad rēgem, et dīxit eī: Invēnī hominem dē fīliīs trānsmigrātiōnis Jūda, quī solūtiōnem rēgī annūntiet.Then Arioch in haste brought Daniel in to the king, and said to him: "I have found a man of the sons of the exile of Judah, who will announce the solution to the king." Dn 2:26Respondit rēx, et dīxit Daniēlī, cujus nōmen erat Baltassar: Putāsne vērē potes mihi indicāre somnium, quod vīdī, et interpretātiōnem ejus?The king answered, and said to Daniel, whose name was Baltassar: "Do you think you truly can make known to me the dream which I saw, and its interpretation?" Dn 2:27Et respondēns Daniēl cōram rēge, ait: Mystērium, quod rēx interrogat, sapientēs, magī, ariolī, et aruspicēs nequeunt indicāre rēgī: sed est Deus in caelō revēlāns mystēria, quī indicāvit tibi, rēx Nabuchodonosor, quae ventūra sunt in novissimīs temporibus.And answering before the king, Daniel said: "The mystery about which the king asks, wise men, magi, soothsayers, and diviners cannot make known to the king: but there is a God in heaven revealing mysteries, who has made known to you, King Nebuchadnezzar, the things which are to come in the last times.
Dn 2:28Somnium tuum, et vīsiōnēs capitis tuī in cubīlī tuō hujuscemodī sunt.Your dream, and the visions of your head on your bed, are of this kind. Dn 2:29Tū, rēx, cōgitāre coepistī in strātō tuō, quid esset futūrum post haec: et quī revēlat mystēria, ostendit tibi quae ventūra sunt.You, king, began to think on your couch what was going to be after these things: and he who reveals mysteries showed you the things which are to come. Dn 2:30Mihi quoque nōn in sapientiā, quae est in mē plūs quam in cūnctīs vīventibus, sacrāmentum hoc revēlātum est: sed ut interpretātiō rēgī manifesta fieret, et cōgitātiōnēs mentis tuae scīrēs.To me also, not through wisdom which is in me more than in all the living, has this secret been revealed: but so that the interpretation might be made plain to the king, and you might know the thoughts of your mind. Dn 2:31Tū, rēx, vidēbās, et ecce quasi statua ūna grandis: statua illa magna, et statūra sublīmis stābat contrā tē, et intuitus ejus erat terribilis.You, king, were looking, and behold, as it were one great statue: that statue, great and lofty in stature, was standing opposite you, and its look was terrible.
Dn 2:32Hujus statuae caput ex aurō optimō erat, pectus autem et brachia dē argentō, porrō venter et femora ex aere, tībiae autem ferreae: pedum quaedam pars erat ferrea, quaedam autem fictilis.The head of this statue was of finest gold, but the chest and the arms of silver, then the belly and the thighs of bronze, but the shins of iron: of the feet one part was of iron, but another part of clay. Dn 2:34Vidēbās ita, dōnec abscissus est lapis dē monte sine manibus: et percussit statuam in pedibus ejus ferreīs et fictilibus, et comminuit eōs.You were looking thus, until a stone was cut off from a mountain without hands: and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. Dn 2:35Tunc contrīta sunt pariter ferrum, testa, aes, argentum, et aurum, et redācta quasi in favillam aestīvae āreae, quae Rapta sunt ventō, nūllusque locus inventus est eīs: lapis autem, quī percusserat statuam, factus est mōns magnus, et implēvit ūniversam terram.Then were crushed together the iron, the earthenware, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, and reduced as it were to the ash of a summer threshing-floor, which were snatched away by the wind, and no place was found for them: but the stone which had struck the statue became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
Dn 2:36Hoc est somnium: interpretātiōnem quoque ejus dīcēmus cōram tē, rēx.This is the dream: its interpretation also we will tell before you, king. Dn 2:37Tū rēx rēgum es: et Deus caelī regnum, et fortitūdinem, et imperium, et glōriam dedit tibi: et omnia, in quibus habitant fīliī hominum, et bēstiae agrī: volucrēs quoque caelī dedit in manū tuā, et sub ditiōne tuā ūniversa cōnstituit: tū es ergō caput aureum.You are king of kings: and the God of heaven has given you kingdom, and strength, and command, and glory: and all things in which the sons of men dwell, and the beasts of the field: the birds of heaven too he has given into your hand, and all things he has set under your dominion: you therefore are the head of gold. Dn 2:39Et post tē cōnsurget regnum aliud minus tē argenteum: et regnum tertium aliud aereum, quod imperābit ūniversae terrae.And after you there will rise another kingdom, less than you, of silver: and another, a third kingdom, of bronze, which will rule over the whole earth. Dn 2:40Et regnum quartum erit velut ferrum: quōmodo ferrum comminuit, et domat omnia, sīc comminuet, et conteret omnia haec.And the fourth kingdom will be like iron: in the way that iron breaks in pieces, and subdues all things, so it will break in pieces, and crush all these.
Dn 2:41Porrō quia vīdistī pedum, et digitōrum partem testae figulī, et partem ferream, regnum dīvīsum erit: quod tamen dē plantāriō ferrī oriētur, secundum quod vīdistī ferrum mistum testae ex lutō.Further, because you saw part of the feet and of the toes of potter's earthenware, and part of iron, the kingdom will be divided: which however will arise from the planting of iron, according as you saw the iron mixed with earthenware of clay. Dn 2:42Et digitōs pedum ex parte ferreōs, et ex parte fictilēs: ex parte regnum erit solidum, et ex parte contrītum.And the toes of the feet, partly of iron, and partly of clay: partly the kingdom will be solid, and partly broken. Dn 2:43Quod autem vīdistī ferrum mistum testae ex lutō, commiscēbuntur quidem hūmānō sēmine, sed nōn adhaerēbunt sibi, sīcut ferrum miscērī nōn potest testae.But as you saw the iron mixed with earthenware of clay, they will indeed be mingled with human seed, but they will not cling to one another, just as iron cannot be mixed with earthenware. Dn 2:44In diēbus autem regnōrum illōrum suscitābit Deus caelī regnum, quod in aeternum nōn dissipābitur, et regnum ejus alterī populō nōn trādētur: comminuet autem, et cōnsūmet ūniversa regna haec, et ipsum stābit in aeternum.But in the days of those kingdoms the God of heaven will raise up a kingdom which will never be scattered, and its kingdom will not be handed over to another people: but it will break in pieces, and consume all these kingdoms, and it itself will stand for ever.
Dn 2:45Secundum quod vīdistī, quod dē monte abscissus est lapis sine manibus, et comminuit testam, et ferrum, et aes, et argentum, et aurum, Deus magnus ostendit rēgī quae ventūra sunt posteā: et vērum est somnium, et fidēlis interpretātiō ejus.According as you saw that a stone was cut off from the mountain without hands, and broke in pieces the earthenware, and the iron, and the bronze, and the silver, and the gold, the great God has shown the king the things which are to come afterwards: and the dream is true, and its interpretation faithful." Dn 2:46Tunc rēx Nabuchodonosor cecidit in faciem suam, et Daniēlem adōrāvit, et hostiās, et incēnsum praecēpit ut sacrificārent eī.Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face, and worshipped Daniel, and victims and incense he ordered that they should sacrifice to him. Dn 2:47Loquēns ergō rēx, ait Daniēlī: Vērē Deus vester Deus deōrum est, et Dominus rēgum, et revēlāns mystēria: quoniam tū potuistī aperīre hoc sacrāmentum.Speaking therefore, the king said to Daniel: "Truly your God is the God of gods, and Lord of kings, and revealing mysteries: since you have been able to open this secret." Dn 2:48Tunc rēx Daniēlem in sublīme extulit, et mūnera multa et magna dedit eī: et cōnstituit eum prīncipem super omnēs prōvinciās Babylōnis, et praefectum magistrātuum super cūnctōs sapientēs Babylōnis.Then the king raised Daniel on high, and gave him many and great gifts: and he appointed him chief over all the provinces of Babylon, and prefect of the magistrates over all the wise men of Babylon.
Dn 2:49Daniēl autem postulāvit ā rēge, et cōnstituit super opera prōvinciae Babylōnis Sidrach, Misach, et Abdenago: ipse autem Daniēl erat in foribus rēgis.But Daniel made a request of the king, and he appointed over the works of the province of Babylon Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago: but Daniel himself was in the doors of the king.