Daniel 2:40-42

Expanded Bible

⁴⁰ Then there will be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron [^Cperhaps the Greeks or the Romans]. In the same way that iron crushes and smashes things to pieces, the fourth kingdom will smash and crush all the other kingdoms [^Cthese kingdoms might not be specific kingdoms but symbolic of a series of unnamed oppressive nations].

⁴¹ “You saw that the statue’s feet and toes were partly ·baked [pottery] clay and partly iron. That means the fourth kingdom will be a divided kingdom. It will have some of the strength of iron in it, just as you saw iron was mixed with ·clay [or pottery; or terra cotta]. ⁴² The toes of the statue were partly iron and partly ·clay [or pottery; or terra cotta]. So the fourth kingdom will be partly strong [^Clike iron] and partly ·breakable [brittle; ^Clike baked clay].