10As to the visions of my head on my bed, I was looking, and lo, a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height [is] great:
11become great hath the tree, yea, strong, and its height doth reach to the heavens, and its vision to the end of the whole land;
12its leaves [are] fair, and its budding great, and food for all [is] in it: under it take shade doth the beast of the field, and in its boughs dwell do the birds of the heavens, and of it fed are all flesh.
13`I was looking, in the visions of my head on my bed, and lo, a sifter, even a holy one, from the heavens is coming down.
14He is calling mightily, and thus hath said, Cut down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its budding, move away let the beast from under it, and the birds from off its branches;
15but the stump of its roots leave in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field, and with the dew of the heavens is it wet, and with the beasts [is] his portion in the herb of the earth;
16his heart from man`s is changed, and the heart of a beast is given to him, and seven times pass over him;