Daniel 4:9-10

4:9 saying, “Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, in whom I know there to be a spirit of the holy gods and whom no mystery baffles, consider ¹  my dream that I saw and set forth its interpretation! 4:10 Here are the visions of my mind ²  while I was on my bed.

While I was watching,

there was a tree in the middle of the land. ³ 

It was enormously tall. ⁴ 

Daniel 6:22

6:22 My God sent his angel and closed the lions’ mouths so that they have not harmed me, because I was found to be innocent before him. Nor have I done any harm to you, O king.”

Daniel 7:11

7:11 “Then I kept on watching because of the arrogant words of the horn that was speaking. I was watching ⁵  until the beast was killed and its body destroyed and thrown into ⁶  the flaming fire.

Daniel 8:17

8:17 So he approached the place where I was standing. As he came, I felt terrified and fell flat on the ground. ⁷  Then he said to me, “Understand, son of man, ⁸  that the vision pertains to the time of the end.”

Daniel 9:21

9:21 yes, while I was still praying, ⁹  the man Gabriel, whom I had seen previously ¹⁰  in a vision, was approaching me in my state of extreme weariness, ¹¹  around the time of the evening offering.

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¹ tc The present translation assumes the reading חֲזִי (khazi, “consider”) rather than the MT חֶזְוֵי (khezvey, “visions”). The MT implies that the king required Daniel to disclose both the dream and its interpretation, as in chapter 2. But in the following verses Nebuchadnezzar recounts his dream, while Daniel presents only its interpretation.

² tc The LXX lacks the first two words (Aram “the visions of my head”) of the Aramaic text.

³ tn Instead of “in the middle of the land,” some English versions render this phrase “a tree at the center of the earth” (NRSV); NAB, CEV “of the world”; NLT “in the middle of the earth.” The Hebrew phrase can have either meaning.

⁴ tn Aram “its height was great.”

⁵ tc The LXX and Theodotion lack the words “I was watching” here. It is possible that these words in the MT are a dittography from the first part of the verse.

⁶ tn Aram “and given over to” (so NRSV).

⁷ tn Heb “on my face.”

⁸ tn Or “human one.”

⁹ tn Heb “speaking in prayer.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “in the beginning.”

¹¹ tn The Hebrew expression בִּיעָף מֻעָף (mu’af bi’af) is very difficult. The issue is whether the verb derives from עוּף (’uf, “to fly”) or from יָעַף (ya’af, “to be weary”). Many ancient versions and modern commentators take the first of these possibilities and understand the reference to be to the swift flight of the angel Gabriel in his coming to Daniel. The words more likely refer to the extreme weariness, not of the angel, but of Daniel. Cf. 7:28; 8:27; 10:8-9, 16-17; also NASB.