²⁰“But when his heart was ^alifted up and his spirit became so ¹^bproud that he behaved arrogantly, he was ^cdeposed from his royal throne and his glory was taken away from him.

²¹“He was also ^adriven away from ¹mankind, and his heart was made like that of beasts, and his dwelling place was with the ^bwild donkeys. He was given grass to eat like cattle, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until he recognized that the ^cMost High God is ruler over the realm of mankind and that He sets over it whomever He wishes.

²²“Yet you, his ¹son, Belshazzar, have ^anot humbled your heart, ²even though you knew all this,

²³but you have ^aexalted yourself against the ^bLord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of His house before you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines have been drinking wine from them; and you have praised the ^cgods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which do not see, hear or understand. But the God ^din whose hand are your life-breath and all your ^eways, you have not glorified.

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Footnotes

1Lit strong
1Lit the sons of man
1Or descendant
2Lit inasmuch as you

Cross references

a Ex 9:17; Job 15:25; Is 14:13–15; Dan 4:30, 31
b 2 Kin 17:14; 2 Chr 36:13
c Job 40:11, 12; Jer 13:18
a Job 30:3–7; Dan 4:32, 33
b Job 39:5–8
c Ex 9:14–16; Ps 83:17, 18; Ezek 17:24; Dan 4:17, 34, 35
a Ex 10:3; 2 Chr 33:23; 36:12
a 2 Kin 14:10; Is 2:12; 37:23; Jer 50:29; Dan 5:3, 4
b Dan 4:37
c Ps 115:4–8; Is 37:19; Hab 2:18, 19
d Job 12:10
e Job 31:4; Ps 139:3; Prov 20:24; Jer 10:23