Din in its Aramaic form appears in Daniel and Ezra, where it refers to royal decrees, legal judgments, and matters of law. In Daniel 7:26 it appears in the cosmic courtroom scene: 'the court shall sit in judgment.' The Aramaic din connects to the broader Semitic concept of justice as the ordering principle of society — whether human or divine.
Daniel 7 presents the most dramatic divine courtroom scene in the Old Testament: the Ancient of Days seated, books opened, judgment (din) issued, and the beast condemned. This is not punitive bureaucracy — it is the cosmic righting of all wrongs. The same din that condemned Belshazzar's feast (Daniel 5) is the din that vindicates the Son of Man and gives him everlasting dominion. God's justice is the guarantee that evil has a final reckoning and the oppressed will be vindicated.