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Daniel 4:4

New International Reader's Version

I was at home in my palace. I was content and very successful.

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“Come!” they shout. “Let’s get some wine! Let’s drink all the beer we can! Tomorrow we’ll do the same thing. And that will be even better than today.”

“Moab has been at peace and rest from its earliest days. It is like wine that has not been shaken up. It has not been poured from one jar to another. Moab’s people have not been taken away from their land. They are like wine that tastes as it always did. Its smell has not changed at all.

You thought you were so handsome that it made your heart proud. You thought you were so glorious that it spoiled your wisdom. So I threw you down to the earth. I made an example out of you in front of kings.

Tell him, ‘The Lord and King says, “ ‘ “Pharaoh Hophra, I am against you. King of Egypt, you are like a huge monster lying among your streams. You say, ‘The Nile River belongs to me. I made it for myself.’

What you are asking is much too hard. No one can tell you what you dreamed except the gods. And they don’t live among human beings.”

Daniel, who was also called Belteshazzar, was very bewildered for a while. His thoughts terrified him. So the king said, “Belteshazzar, don’t let the dream or its meaning make you afraid.” Belteshazzar answered, “My master, I wish the dream were about your enemies! I wish its meaning had to do with them!

Then all the king’s wise men came in. But they couldn’t read the writing. They couldn’t tell him what it meant.

At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps. I will punish those who are so contented. They are like wine that has not been shaken up. They think, ‘The Lord won’t do anything. He won’t do anything good or bad.’




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