^4:25You 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.

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Footnotes

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

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

that you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. You shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and you shall be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, till you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

You will be driven away from people and will live with the wild animals; you will eat grass like the ox and be drenched with the dew of heaven. Seven times will pass by for you until you acknowledge that the Most High is sovereign over all kingdoms on earth and gives them to anyone he wishes.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

You will be driven away from people to live with the wild animals. You will feed on grass like cattle and be drenched with dew from the sky for seven periods of time, until you acknowledge that the Most High is ruler over human kingdoms, and he gives them to anyone he wants.

NLTNew Living Translation

You will be driven from human society, and you will live in the fields with the wild animals. You will eat grass like a cow, and you will be drenched with the dew of heaven. Seven periods of time will pass while you live this way, until you learn that the Most High rules over the kingdoms of the world and gives them to anyone he chooses.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

you will be driven away from human society and you will dwell with the animals of the field, and you will be caused to graze grass like the oxen yourself, and you will be watered with the dew of heaven, and seven periods of time will pass over you until that you have acknowledged that the Most High is sovereign over the kingdom of humankind, and to whom he wills he gives it.

KJV 1900King James Version

That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.

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