Daniel 2:9 “If you do not tell me the dream, there is only one decree for you. You…”

Daniel 2:9

If you do not tell me the dream, there is only one decree for you. You have conspired to speak before me false and fraudulent words, hoping the situation will change. Therefore tell me the dream, and I will know that you can give me its interpretation.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

But if ye will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof.

World English Bible

But if you don’t make known to me the dream, there is but one law for you; for you have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, until the situation changes. Therefore tell me the dream, and I will know that you can show me its interpretation.”

American Standard Version

But if ye make not known unto me the dream, there is but one law for you; for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can show me the interpretation thereof.

Geneva Bible 1599

But if ye will not declare mee the dreame, there is but one iudgement for you: for ye haue prepared lying and corrupt wordes, to speake before me till the time bee changed: therefore tell me the dreame, that I may knowe, if yee can declare me the interpretation thereof.

Darby Translation

but if ye do not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you; for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me its interpretation.

Young's Literal Translation

[so] that, if the dream ye do not cause me to know — one is your sentence, seeing a word lying and corrupt ye have prepared to speak before me, till that the time is changed, therefore the dream tell ye to me, then do I know that its interpretation ye do shew me.'

Bible in Basic English

That if you do not make my dream clear to me there is only one fate for you: for you have made ready false and evil words to say before me till the times are changed: so give me an account of the dream, and I will be certain that you are able to make the sense of it clear.

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Cross references

“there is”

Esther 4:11 Daniel 3:15

Esther 4:11 · BSB

“All the royal officials and the people of the king’s provinces know that one law applies to every man or woman who approaches the king in the inner court without being summoned—that he be put to death. Only if the king…

Daniel 3:15 · BSB

Now when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music, if you are ready to fall down and worship the statue I have made, very good. But if you refuse to worship, you will be th…

“for”

Isaiah 44:25 Ezekiel 13:6 1 Kings 22:6 1 Kings 22:22 Proverbs 12:19 Ezekiel 13:17

Isaiah 44:25 · BSB

who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who confounds the wise and turns their knowledge into nonsense,

Ezekiel 13:6 · BSB

They see false visions and speak lying divinations. They claim, ‘Thus declares the LORD,’ when the LORD did not send them; yet they wait for the fulfillment of their message.

1 Kings 22:6 · BSB

So the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about four hundred men, and asked them, “Should I go to war against Ramoth-gilead, or should I refrain?” “Go up,” they replied, “and the Lord will deliver it into the hand of…

1 Kings 22:22 · BSB

And he replied, ‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets.’ ‘You will surely entice him and prevail,’ said the LORD. ‘Go and do it.’

Proverbs 12:19 · BSB

Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.

Ezekiel 13:17 · BSB

Now, O son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people who prophesy out of their own imagination. Prophesy against them

“the time”

Daniel 2:21 Daniel 7:25 Daniel 5:28 Daniel 5:31

Daniel 2:21 · BSB

He changes the times and seasons; He removes kings and establishes them. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning.

Daniel 7:25 · BSB

He will speak out against the Most High and oppress the saints of the Most High, intending to change the appointed times and laws; and the saints will be given into his hand for a time, and times, and half a time.

Daniel 5:28 · BSB

PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”

Daniel 5:31 · BSB

and Darius the Mede received the kingdom at the age of sixty-two.

“I shall”

Isaiah 41:23

Isaiah 41:23 · BSB

Tell us the things that are to come, so that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do something good or evil, that we may look on together in dismay.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8The king replied, “I know for sure that you are stalling for time because you see that my word is final.

10The astrologers answered the king, “No one on earth can do what the king requests! No king, however great and powerful, has ever asked anything like this of any magician, enchanter, or astrologer.

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