No matter what question the king asked or what problem he raised, these four knew ten times more than any fortuneteller or magician in his whole kingdom.

Then he gave Daniel a high position, presented him with many splendid gifts, put him in charge of the province of Babylon, and made him the head of all the royal advisers.

There is a man in your kingdom who has the spirit of the holy gods in him. When your father was king, this man showed good sense, knowledge, and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods. And King Nebuchadnezzar, your father, made him chief of the fortunetellers, magicians, wizards, and astrologers.

Then Daniel came in. (He is also called Belteshazzar, after the name of my god.) The spirit of the holy gods is in him, so I told him what I had dreamed. I said to him:

and he said to them, "We will never find a better man than Joseph, a man who has God's spirit in him."

Who can save us from those powerful gods? They are the gods who slaughtered the Egyptians in the desert!

But I had a frightening dream and saw terrifying visions while I was asleep.

he said to them, "I'm worried about a dream I've had. I want to know what it means."

and he said, "Now then, these are all one people and they speak one language; this is just the beginning of what they are going to do. Soon they will be able to do anything they want!

So the LORD scattered them all over the earth, and they stopped building the city.

Your old fears of foreign tax collectors and spies will be only a memory.

Justice and right will make you strong. You will be safe from oppression and terror.

You think you are wiser than Danel, that no secret can be kept from you.

"This is the dream I had," said King Nebuchadnezzar. "Now, Belteshazzar, tell me what it means. None of my royal advisers could tell me, but you can, because the spirit of the holy gods is in you."

They answered the king in Aramaic, "May Your Majesty live forever! Tell us your dream, and we will explain it to you."

The king said to them, "I have made up my mind that you must tell me the dream and then tell me what it means. If you can't, I'll have you torn limb from limb and make your houses a pile of ruins.

So the wine steward said, "In my dream there was a grapevine in front of me

I was holding the king's cup; so I took the grapes and squeezed them into the cup and gave it to him."

In three days the king will release you, pardon you, and restore you to your position. You will give him his cup as you did before when you were his wine steward.

After all, I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here in Egypt I didn't do anything to deserve being put in prison."

In the top basket there were all kinds of baked goods for the king, and the birds were eating them."

In three days the king will release you---and have your head cut off! Then he will hang your body on a pole, and the birds will eat your flesh."

The king said to him, "I have had a dream, and no one can explain it. I have been told that you can interpret dreams."

The king said, "I dreamed that I was standing on the bank of the Nile,

Then seven other cows came up which were thin and bony. They were the poorest cows I have ever seen anywhere in Egypt.

but no one would have known it, because they looked just as bad as before. Then I woke up.

Then seven heads of grain sprouted, thin and scorched by the desert wind,

Joseph said to the king, "The two dreams mean the same thing; God has told you what he is going to do.

The seven thin cows which came up later and the seven thin heads of grain scorched by the desert wind are seven years of famine.

There will be seven years of great plenty in all the land of Egypt.

The time of plenty will be entirely forgotten, because the famine which follows will be so terrible.

"Now you should choose some man with wisdom and insight and put him in charge of the country.

Order them to collect all the food during the good years that are coming, and give them authority to store up grain in the cities and guard it.

When Gideon arrived, he heard a man telling a friend about a dream. He was saying, "I dreamed that a loaf of barley bread rolled into our camp and hit a tent. The tent collapsed and lay flat on the ground."

When Gideon heard about the man's dream and what it meant, he fell to his knees and worshiped the LORD. Then he went back to the Israelite camp and said, "Get up! The LORD is giving you victory over the Midianite army!"