23 E quanto ao que viu o rei, um vigia, um santo, que descia do céu, e disse: cortai a árvore, e a destruí, porém o tronco com as suas raízes deixai na terra, e com atadura de ferro e de bronze, na erva do campo; e seja molhado do orvalho do céu, e a sua porção seja com as bestas do campo, até que passem sobre ele sete tempos:
Then Your Majesty saw a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven who said, ‘Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump and its roots in the ground, and bind it with iron and bronze, surrounded by the new grass of the field. Let him become soaked with the dew of heaven and let him live with the animals outside in the undergrowth. Let his mind become like that of an animal. Let him be like this for seven times.’