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Daniel 5:18

Good News Translation

“The Supreme God made your father Nebuchadnezzar a great king and gave him dignity and majesty.

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Evil-merodach treated him kindly and gave him a position of greater honor than he gave the other kings who were exiles with him in Babylonia.

The Lord, the Most High, is to be feared; he is a great king, ruling over all the world.

I thank the Lord for his justice; I sing praises to the Lord, the Most High.

I will sing with joy because of you. I will sing praise to you, Almighty God.

because you, Lord, are supreme forever.

‘I am going to send for all the peoples from the north and for my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia. I am going to bring them to fight against Judah and its inhabitants and against all the neighboring nations. I am going to destroy this nation and its neighbors and leave them in ruins forever, a terrible and shocking sight. I, the Lord, have spoken.

“By my great power and strength I created the world, human beings, and all the animals that live on the earth; and I give it to anyone I choose.

All nations will serve him, and they will serve his son and his grandson until the time comes for his own nation to fall. Then his nation will serve powerful nations and great kings.

He knows when we are denied the rights he gave us;

Good and evil alike take place at his command.

so I have rejected it and will let a foreign ruler have it. He will give that tree what it deserves for its wickedness.

This is the decision of the alert and watchful angels. So then, let all people everywhere know that the Supreme God has power over human kingdoms and that he can give them to anyone he chooses—even to those who are least important.’

At this, Daniel, who is also called Belteshazzar, was so alarmed that he could not say anything. The king said to him, “Belteshazzar, don't let the dream and its message alarm you.” Belteshazzar replied, “Your Majesty, I wish that the dream and its explanation applied to your enemies and not to you.

Listen to my account of the wonders and miracles which the Supreme God has shown me.

You will be driven away from human society, live with wild animals, and eat grass like an ox for seven years. Then you will acknowledge that the Supreme God has power over human kingdoms and that he can give them to anyone he chooses.”

“When the seven years had passed,” said the king, “I looked up at the sky, and my sanity returned. I praised the Supreme God and gave honor and glory to the one who lives forever. “He will rule forever, and his kingdom will last for all time.

He was driven away from human society, and his mind became like that of an animal. He lived with wild donkeys, ate grass like an ox, and slept in the open air with nothing to protect him from the dew. Finally he admitted that the Supreme God controls all human kingdoms and can give them to anyone he chooses.

God sent his angel to shut the mouths of the lions so that they would not hurt me. He did this because he knew that I was innocent and because I have not wronged you, Your Majesty.”

It was on the road at midday, Your Majesty, that I saw a light much brighter than the sun, coming from the sky and shining around me and the men traveling with me.

“And so, King Agrippa, I did not disobey the vision I had from heaven.

“But the Most High God does not live in houses built by human hands; as the prophet says,

The Most High assigned nations their lands; he determined where peoples should live. He assigned to each nation a heavenly being,




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