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. There is but one decree - there can be no second one reversing the first (Esther 4:11).
Ye have prepared lying and corrupt words - "corrupt," deceitful.
Till the time be changed - until a new state of things arrive, either by my ceasing to trouble myself about the dream, or by a change of government (which perhaps the agitation caused by the dream made Nebuchadnezzar to forebode, and so to suspect the Chaldeans of plotting).
Therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can show me the interpretation thereof - if ye cannot tell the past, a dream actually presented to me, how can know and show the future events prefigured in it?