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Daniel 4:30

New English Translation

The king uttered these words: “Is this not the great Babylon that I have built for a royal residence by my own mighty strength and for my majestic honor?”

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The primary regions of his kingdom were Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar.

He displayed the riches of his royal glory and the splendor of his majestic greatness for a lengthy period of time – a hundred and eighty days, to be exact!

Praise the Lord, O my soul! O Lord my God, you are magnificent. You are robed in splendor and majesty.

Wealthy people do not understand; they are like animals that perish.

They mock and say evil things; they proudly threaten violence.

When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

A person’s pride will bring him low, but one who has a lowly spirit will gain honor.

Babylon, the most admired of kingdoms, the Chaldeans’ source of honor and pride, will be destroyed by God just as Sodom and Gomorrah were.

Tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: “‘Look, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster lying in the midst of its waterways, who has said, “My Nile is my own, I made it for myself.”

While these words were still on the king’s lips, a voice came down from heaven: “It is hereby announced to you, King Nebuchadnezzar, that your kingdom has been removed from you!

They sweep by like the wind and pass on. But the one who considers himself a god will be held guilty.”

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

So the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, ‘Give this man your place.’ Then, ashamed, you will begin to move to the least important place.

So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.

In the same way, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.

A second angel followed the first, declaring: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great city! She made all the nations drink of the wine of her immoral passion.”

The great city was split into three parts and the cities of the nations collapsed. So Babylon the great was remembered before God, and was given the cup filled with the wine made of God’s furious wrath.

On her forehead was written a name, a mystery: “Babylon the Great, the Mother of prostitutes and of the detestable things of the earth.”

They will stand a long way off because they are afraid of her torment, and will say, “Woe, woe, O great city, Babylon the powerful city! For in a single hour your doom has come!”

Then one powerful angel picked up a stone like a huge millstone, threw it into the sea, and said, “With this kind of sudden violent force Babylon the great city will be thrown down and it will never be found again!




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