Daniel 4:30-37

4:30 The king uttered these words: “Is this not the great Babylon that I have built for a royal residence ¹  by my own mighty strength ²  and for my majestic honor?” 4:31 While these words were still on the king’s lips, ³  a voice came down from heaven: “It is hereby announced to you, ⁴  King Nebuchadnezzar, that your kingdom has been removed from you! 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 ⁵  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 ⁶  this pronouncement about ⁷  Nebuchadnezzar came true. ⁸  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. ⁹ 

4:34 But at the end of the appointed time ¹⁰  I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up ¹¹  toward heaven, and my sanity returned to me.

I extolled the Most High,

and I praised and glorified the one who lives forever.

For his authority is an everlasting authority,

and his kingdom extends from one generation to the next.

4:35 All the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nothing. ¹² 

He does as he wishes with the army of heaven

and with those who inhabit the earth.

No one slaps ¹³  his hand

and says to him, ‘What have you done?’

4:36 At that time my sanity returned to me. I was restored ¹⁴  to the honor of my kingdom, and my splendor returned to me. My ministers and my nobles were seeking me out, and I was reinstated ¹⁵  over my kingdom. I became even greater than before. 4:37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all his deeds are right and his ways are just. He is able to bring down those who live ¹⁶  in pride.

Daniel 5:18-24

5:18 As for you, O king, the most high God bestowed on your father Nebuchadnezzar a kingdom, greatness, honor, and majesty. ¹⁷  5:19 Due to the greatness that he bestowed on him, all peoples, nations, and language groups were trembling with fear ¹⁸  before him. He killed whom he wished, he spared ¹⁹  whom he wished, he exalted whom he wished, and he brought low whom he wished. 5:20 And when his mind ²⁰  became arrogant ²¹  and his spirit filled with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and his honor was removed from him. 5:21 He was driven from human society, his mind ²²  was changed to that of an animal, he lived ²³  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.

5:22 “But you, his son ²⁴  Belshazzar, have not humbled yourself, ²⁵  although you knew all this. 5:23 Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. You brought before you the vessels from his temple, and you and your nobles, together with your wives and concubines, drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone – gods ²⁶  that cannot see or hear or comprehend! But you have not glorified the God who has in his control ²⁷  your very breath and all your ways! 5:24 Therefore the palm of a hand was sent from him, and this writing was inscribed.

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