³¹Even as the words were on his lips, a voice came from heaven, “This is what is decreed for you, King Nebuchadnezzar: Your royal authority has been taken from you.^g ³²You will be driven away from people and will live with the wild animals; you will eat grass like the ox. 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.”^h

³³Immediately what had been said about Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from people and ate grass like the ox. His body was drenchedⁱ with the dew of heaven until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird.^j

³⁴At the end of that time, I, Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes toward heaven, and my sanity^k was restored. Then I praised the Most High; I honored and glorified him who lives forever.^l

His dominion is an eternal dominion;

his kingdom^m endures from generation to generation.ⁿ

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Cross references

e Isa 13:19
fSee Isa 10:13; See 37:24–25; Da 5:20; Hab 1:11; 2:4
gSee 2 Sa 22:28; Da 5:20
hSee Job 9:12
iSee Job 24:8
j Da 5:20–21
kSee Job 12:20
l Da 12:7
m Isa 37:16
n Ps 145:13; See Da 2:44; 5:21; 6:26; Lk 1:33