Daniel 4:20
Good News Translation
The tree, so tall that it reached the sky, could be seen by everyone in the world.

New Revised Standard Version
The tree that you saw, which grew great and strong, so that its top reached to heaven and was visible to the end of the whole earth,

Contemporary English Version
You saw a tree that grew so big and strong that it reached up to heaven and could be seen from anywhere on earth.

New American Bible
As for the king’s vision of a holy watcher, who came down from heaven and proclaimed: ‘Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave its stump in the earth. Bound with iron and bronze, let him be fed with the grass of the field, and bathed with the dew of heaven; let his lot be with wild beasts till seven years pass over him’—

Douay-Rheims Bible
And whereas the king saw a watcher, and a holy one come down from heaven, and say: Cut down the tree, and destroy it, but leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, and let it be bound with iron and brass, among the grass without, and let it be sprinkled with the dew of heaven, and let his feeding be with the wild beasts, till seven times pass over him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And whereas the king saw a watcher, and a holy one come down from heaven, and say: Cut down the tree, and destroy it, but leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, and let it be bound with iron and brass, among the grass without, and let it be sprinkled with the dew of heaven, and let his feeding be with the wild beasts, till seven times pass over him.

Daniel 4:10-12 I saw in the vision of my head upon my bed, and behold a watcher, and a holy one came down from heaven. . . .

Ezekiel 31:3,16 Behold, the Assyrian like a cedar in Libanus, with fair branches, and full of leaves, of a high stature, and his top was elevated among the thick boughs. . . .

Context
Daniel Interprets the Second Dream
19It is thou, O king, who art grown great, and become mighty: for thy greatness hath grown, and hath reached to heaven, and thy power unto the ends of the earth. 20And whereas the king saw a watcher, and a holy one come down from heaven, and say: Cut down the tree, and destroy it, but leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, and let it be bound with iron and brass, among the grass without, and let it be sprinkled with the dew of heaven, and let his feeding be with the wild beasts, till seven times pass over him.21This is the interpretation of the sentence of the most High, which is come upon my lord, the king.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 31:3
Behold, the Assyrian like a cedar in Libanus, with fair branches, and full of leaves, of a high stature, and his top was elevated among the thick boughs.

Daniel 4:10
I saw in the vision of my head upon my bed, and behold a watcher, and a holy one came down from heaven.

Daniel 4:21
This is the interpretation of the sentence of the most High, which is come upon my lord, the king.

Daniel 4:19
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