Lady Liberty Emphasizes Freedom

27 The mystery about which the king has
inquired--wise men who cannot tell to the king,
but there is a God in heaven who reveals
mysteries, and He has made known to King
Nebuchadnezzar what is to be at the end of days.
This is your dream and the vision that entered you
mind in your bed; O king, the thoughts that came
to your mind in your bed are about future events:
He who reveals mysteries has let you know what is
to happen. Not because my wisdom is greater than
that of other creatures has this mystery been
revealed to me, but in order that the meaning
should be made know to the king, and that you may
know the thoughts of your mind.

36 Such was the dream, and we will now tell the king
its meaning. You, O king--- king of kings, to whom
the God of Heaven has given kingdom, power, might,
and glory; into whose hands He has given men, wild
beasts, and the fowl of heaven, wherever they may
dwell ; and to whom He has given dominion over them
all--- you are the head of gold. But another kingdom
will arise after you, inferior to yours; then yet a
third kingdom, of bronze, which will rule over the
whole earth, But the fourth kingdom will be as strong
as iron; just as iron crushes and shatters
everything----and like iron that smashes----so will
it crush and smash all these. You saw the feet and
the toes, part potter's clay and part iron; that
means it will be a divided kingdom; it will have only
some of the stability of iron, inasmuch as you saw
iron mixed with comman clay.

And the toes were part iron and part clay;
that [means] the kingdom will be in part
stong and in part brittle. You saw iron mixed
with comman clay; that means: they shall
intermingle with the offspring of men, but
shall not hold together, just as iron does
not mix with clay. And in the time of those
kings, the God of Heaven will establish a
kingdom that shall never be destroyed, a
kingdom that shall not be transferred to
another people. it will crush and wipe out
all these kingdoms, but shall itself last
forever--- just as you saw how a stone was
hewn from the mountain, not by hands, and
crushed the iron, bronze, clay, silver, and
gold. The Great God has made known to the
king what will happen in the future. The
dream is sure and its interpretation
reliable.

31 O king, as you looked on there appeared a great
statue. This statue, which was huge and its
brightness surpassing, stood before you, and its
appearance was awesome, The head of that statue was
of fine gold: its breast and arms were of silver; its
belly and thighs, of bronze; its legs were of iron,
and its feet part iron and part clay. As you looked
on, a stone was hewn out, not by hands, and struck
the statue on its feet of iron and clay and crushed
them. All at once, the iron, clay, bronze, silver,
and gold were crushed, and became like chaff of the
threshing floors of summer; a wind carried them off
until no trace of them was left. But the stone that
struck the statue became a great mountain that filled
the whole earth.