Daniel 4:25

4:25 You will be driven38 from human society,39 and you will live40 with the wild animals. You will be fed41 grass like oxen,42 and you will become damp with the dew of the sky. Seven periods of time will pass by for you, before43 you understand that the Most High is ruler over human kingdoms and gives them to whomever he wishes.

38	tn The Aramaic indefinite active plural is used here like the English passive. So also in v. 28, 29, 32.
39	tn Aram “from mankind.” So also in v. 32.
40	tn Aram “your dwelling will be.” So also in v. 32.
41	tn Or perhaps “be made to eat.”
42	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.
43	tn Aram “until.”