Daniel 5:18Modern English Version“O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father a kingdom and majesty and glory and honor. See the chapter |
behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the Lord, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations; I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonished for a while, and his thoughts troubled him. The king said, “Belteshazzar, do not let the dream, or its interpretation, trouble you.” Belteshazzar answered, “My lord, if only the dream was for those who hate you, and its interpretation for your enemies!
And he was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was given grass to eat like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that He appoints over it whomever He wills.