42As the toes were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle.


In Context

39 "After you, another kingdom will rise, inferior to yours. Next, a third kingdom, one of bronze, will rule over the whole earth.

40 Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron-for iron breaks and smashes everything-and as iron breaks things to pieces, so it will crush and break all the others.

41 Just as you saw that the feet and toes were partly of baked clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom; yet it will have some of the strength of iron in it, even as you saw iron mixed with clay.

42 As the toes were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle.

43 And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people will be a mixture and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay.

44 "In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever.

Daniel 2:42 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:42And [as] the toes of the feet [were] part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:42And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:42And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:42And as the toes of the feet were part of iron and part of clay, the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:42And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:42And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:42As the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:42As to the toes of the feet, part of them iron, and part of them clay: some part of the kingdom is strong, and some part of it is brittle.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:42And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.