Then the Levites, Yeshua, and Kadmi'el, Bani, Chashavneyah, Sherevyah, Hodiyah, Shevanyah, [and] Petachyah, said, Stand up and bless the LORD your God from everlasting to everlasting; and blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.
Now I, Nevukhadnetzar 1, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying, *Halleluyah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns!