Daniel 4:18 (BSB)

This is the dream that I, King Nebuchadnezzar, saw. Now, Belteshazzar, tell me the interpretation, because none of the wise men of my kingdom can interpret it for me. But you are able, because the spirit of the holy gods is in you.”

From Daniel 4. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Daniel 4:18

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Daniel 4:18: Here Nebuchadnezzar repeats what he had formerly said about seeking an interpretation for his dream. He understood the figure which was shewn to him, but he could not understand God’s intentions nor even determine its relation to himself. On this point he implores Daniel’s confidence; he affirms his vision in a dream to induce Daniel to pay great attention to its interpretation.
• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Daniel 4:4-18: Nebuchadnezzar, before he relates the judgments of God that had been wrought upon him for his pride, gives an account of the fair warning he had of them before they came, a due regard to which might have prevented them.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Daniel 4:18: This dream I King Nebuchadnezzar have seen,.... So things were represented to him by a vision in a dream: now thou, O Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation thereof; at once, directly; as he was well assured he could, by what he had already done; having both told him his dream when forgotten by him, and the meaning of it; and therefore doubted not but he could...
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Daniel 4:18: Dan 4:18 (Hebrew_Bible_4:15) Nebuchadnezzar adds to his communication of his dream a command to Daniel to interpret it. The form פּשׁרא (its interpretation) is the old orthography and the softened form for פּשׁרהּ (cf. Dan 4:6).