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 (Daniel 2:29) 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.