“Its leaves were beautiful, and it had much fruit, and in it was food for all. The animals of the field had shade under it, and the birds of the sky lived in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it.”
Daniel 4:12 (WEB)
Context Reading
10These were the visions of my head on my bed: I saw, and behold, a tree in the middle of the earth; and its height was great. 11The tree grew and was strong. Its height reached to the sky and its sight to the end of all the earth. 12Its leaves were beautiful, and it had much fruit, and in it was food for all. The animals of the field had shade under it, and the birds of the sky lived in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it. 13“I saw in the visions of my head on my bed, and behold, a holy watcher came down from the sky. 14He cried aloud and said this: ‘Cut down the tree, and cut off its branches! Shake off its leaves and scatter its fruit! Let the animals get away from under it and the birds from its branches.