Daniel 3:23

3:23 But those three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell into the furnace ¹  of blazing fire while still securely bound. ² 

Daniel 4:25

4:25 You will be driven ³  from human society, ⁴  and you will live ⁵  with the wild animals. You will be fed ⁶  grass like oxen, ⁷  and you will become damp with the dew of the sky. Seven periods of time will pass by for you, before ⁸  you understand that the Most High is ruler over human kingdoms and gives them to whomever he wishes.

Daniel 4:32-33

4:32 You will be driven from human society, and you will live with the wild animals. You will be fed grass like oxen, and seven periods of time will pass by for you before ⁹  you understand that the Most High is ruler over human kingdoms and gives them to whomever he wishes.”

4:33 Now in that very moment ¹⁰  this pronouncement about ¹¹  Nebuchadnezzar came true. ¹²  He was driven from human society, he ate grass like oxen, and his body became damp with the dew of the sky, until his hair became long like an eagle’s feathers, and his nails like a bird’s claws. ¹³ 

Daniel 5:21

5:21 He was driven from human society, his mind ¹⁴  was changed to that of an animal, he lived ¹⁵  with the wild donkeys, he was fed grass like oxen, and his body became damp with the dew of the sky, until he came to understand that the most high God rules over human kingdoms, and he appoints over them whomever he wishes.

Daniel 9:7

9:7 “You are righteous, ¹⁶  O Lord, but we are humiliated this day ¹⁷  – the people ¹⁸  of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far away in all the countries in which you have scattered them, because they have behaved unfaithfully toward you.

[3:23]  ¹ tn Aram “into the midst of the furnace.” For stylistic reasons the words “the midst of” have been left untranslated.

[3:23]  ² sn The deuterocanonical writings known as The Prayer of Azariah and The Song of the Three present at this point a confession and petition for God’s forgiveness and a celebration of God’s grace for the three Jewish youths in the fiery furnace. Though not found in the Hebrew/Aramaic text of Daniel, these compositions do appear in the ancient Greek versions.

[4:25]  ³ tn The Aramaic indefinite active plural is used here like the English passive. So also in v. 28, 29,32.

[4:25]  ⁴ tn Aram “from mankind.” So also in v. 32.

[4:25]  ⁵ tn Aram “your dwelling will be.” So also in v. 32.

[4:25]  ⁶ tn Or perhaps “be made to eat.”

[4:25]  ⁷ sn Nebuchadnezzar’s insanity has features that are associated with the mental disorder known as boanthropy, in which the person so afflicted imagines himself to be an ox or a similar animal and behaves accordingly.

[4:25]  ⁸ tn Aram “until.”

[4:32]  ⁹ tn Aram “until.”

[4:33]  ¹⁰ tn Aram “hour.”

[4:33]  ¹¹ tn Or “on.”

[4:33]  ¹² tn Aram “was fulfilled.”

[4:33]  ¹³ tn The words “feathers” and “claws” are not present in the Aramaic text, but have been added in the translation for clarity.

[5:21]  ¹⁴ tn Aram “heart.”

[5:21]  ¹⁵ tn Aram “his dwelling.”

[9:7]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “to you (belongs) righteousness.”

[9:7]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and to us (belongs) shame of face like this day.”

[9:7]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “men.”