32. Its head was pure gold, its chest and arms were silver, its belly and thighs bronze,
33. its legs iron, its feet partly iron and partly clay.
34. While you watched, a stone was hewn from a mountain without a hand being put to it, and it struck its iron and clay feet, breaking them in pieces.
35. The iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold all crumbled at once, fine as the chaff on the threshing floor in summer, and the wind blew them away without leaving a trace. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
36. “This was the dream; the interpretation we shall also give in the king’s presence.
37. You, O king, are the king of kings; to you the God of heaven has given dominion and strength, power and glory;
38. human beings, wild beasts, and birds of the air, wherever they may dwell, he has handed over to you, making you ruler over them all; you are the head of gold.
39. Another kingdom shall take your place, inferior to yours, then a third kingdom, of bronze, which shall rule over the whole earth.
40. There shall be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron; it shall break in pieces and subdue all these others, just as iron breaks in pieces and crushes everything else.
41. The feet and toes you saw, partly of clay and partly of iron, mean that it shall be a divided kingdom, but yet have some of the hardness of iron. As you saw the iron mixed with clay tile,
42. and the toes partly iron and partly clay, the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile.