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Daniel 4:7

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

Then false diviners, astronomers, Chaldees, and beholders of altars entered; and I told the dream in the sight of them, and they showed not to me the solving thereof,

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which devoured the fairness of the former; I told this dream to [the] expounders, and no man there is that expoundeth it.

and when the morrowtide was made, he was afeared by inward dread, and he sent to all the expounders of Egypt, and to all the wise men; and when they were called, he told the dream, and none was that expounded it.

I saw the wicked man enhanced above; and raised up as the cedars of Lebanon.

and I make void the signs of false diviners, and I turn into madness diviners that divine by sacrifices offered to fiends; and I turn wise men back-ward, and I make their science fond [or folly].

Lo! Assur as a cedar in Lebanon, fair in branches, and full of boughs, and high by highness; and his height was raised [up] among thick boughs.

in which were no wem, fair in shape, and learned in all wisdom, wary in knowing, and taught in chastising, either learning, and that might stand in the palace of the king, that he should teach them the letters and language of Chaldees.

Therefore [the] Chaldees answered before the king, and said, King, no man is on earth that may [ful] fill thy word; but neither any great man and mighty of kings asketh such a word of any false diviner, and astronomer, and of a man of Chaldea.

And Daniel answered before the king, and said, the private which the king asketh, [the] wise men, and astronomers, and false diviners, and lookers of altars, may not show to the king.

They answered the second time, and said, the king say the dream to his servants, and we shall show the interpreting thereof.

And anon in that time men of Chaldea nighed, and accused the Jews,

I, Nebuchadnezzar, the king, saw this dream. Therefore thou, Belteshazzar, tell hastily the interpreting, for all the wise men of my realm be not able to say to me the solving; but thou mayest, for the spirit of [the] holy gods is in thee.

Therefore the king cried strongly, that they should bring in astronomers, Chaldees, and false diviners by look-ing of altars. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever shall read this scripture, and maketh open the interpreting thereof to me, shall be clothed in purple, and he shall have a golden band in the neck, and he shall be the third in my realm.

Then all the wise men of the king entered, and might not read the scripture, neither show to the king the interpreting thereof.




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