NIV 23 "Your Majesty saw a holy one, a messenger, coming down from heaven and saying, 'Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump, bound with iron and bronze, in the grass of the field, while its roots remain in the ground.
23"Wena, nkhosi, ubone sitfunywa, lesingcwele, sehla siphuma ezulwini, sitsi: 'Sijube leso sihlahla usibhubhise, kodvwa ushiye siphunti saso, siboshwe ngensimbi nangelitfusi etjanini besiganga, timphandze taso tisesele phansi emhlabatsini.