And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.

And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.

He awoke in alarm, remembering that something solemn had been presented to him in a dream, without being able to recall the form in which it had clothed itself. His thoughts on the unprecedented greatness to which his power had attained () made him anxious to know what the issue of all this should be: "As for thee, O king, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed." God meets this wish in the way most calculated to impress him.

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