“Come, let me bring wine and fill ourselves with strong drink. And tomorrow shall be as today, even much greater.”
Daniel 4:4 - The Scriptures 1998 I, Neḇ More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in mine house, and flourishing in my palace: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my house and prospering in my palace. American Standard Version (1901) I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace. Common English Bible “While I, Nebuchadnezzar, was safe in my house, content in my palace, Catholic Public Domain Version Then the seers, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers entered, and I explained about the dream in their presence, but they did not reveal its answer to me. English Standard Version 2016 I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at ease in my house and prospering in my palace. |
“Come, let me bring wine and fill ourselves with strong drink. And tomorrow shall be as today, even much greater.”
“Your heart was lifted up because of your loveliness, you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendour. I threw you to the earth, I laid you before sovereigns, to look at you.
“Speak, and you shall say, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “See, I am against you, O Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim, O great monster who lies in the midst of his rivers, who has said, ‘My River is my own, and I, I have made it for myself.’
“And the matter that the sovereign is asking is difficult, and there is no other who is able to reveal it to the sovereign except the elahin, whose dwelling is not with flesh.”
So all the sovereign’s wise ones came, but they were unable to read the writing, or to make known its interpretation to the sovereign.
“And at that time it shall be, that I search Yerushalayim with lamps and punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, ‘יהוה does no good, nor does He evil.’