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Daniel 5:18

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Your Majesty, the Most High God gave sovereignty, majesty, glory, and honor to your predecessor, Nebuchadnezzar.

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He spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and gave him a higher place than all the other exiled kings in Babylon.

For the Lord Most High is awesome. He is the great King of all the earth.

I will thank the Lord because he is just; I will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High.

I will be filled with joy because of you. I will sing praises to your name, O Most High.

But you, O Lord, will be exalted forever.

I will gather together all the armies of the north under King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, whom I have appointed as my deputy. I will bring them all against this land and its people and against the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy you and make you an object of horror and contempt and a ruin forever.

With my great strength and powerful arm I made the earth and all its people and every animal. I can give these things of mine to anyone I choose.

All the nations will serve him, his son, and his grandson until his time is up. Then many nations and great kings will conquer and rule over Babylon.

if they deprive others of their rights in defiance of the Most High,

Does not the Most High send both calamity and good?

I will hand it over to a mighty nation that will destroy it as its wickedness deserves. I have already discarded it.

For this has been decreed by the messengers; it is commanded by the holy ones, so that everyone may know that the Most High rules over the kingdoms of the world. He gives them to anyone he chooses— even to the lowliest of people.”

“Upon hearing this, Daniel (also known as Belteshazzar) was overcome for a time, frightened by the meaning of the dream. Then the king said to him, ‘Belteshazzar, don’t be alarmed by the dream and what it means.’ “Belteshazzar replied, ‘I wish the events foreshadowed in this dream would happen to your enemies, my lord, and not to you!

“I want you all to know about the miraculous signs and wonders the Most High God has performed for me.

You will be driven from human society. You will live in the fields with the wild animals, and you will eat grass like a cow. Seven periods of time will pass while you live this way, until you learn that the Most High rules over the kingdoms of the world and gives them to anyone he chooses.’

“After this time had passed, I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven. My sanity returned, and I praised and worshiped the Most High and honored the one who lives forever. His rule is everlasting, and his kingdom is eternal.

He was driven from human society. He was given the mind of a wild animal, and he lived among the wild donkeys. He ate grass like a cow, and he was drenched with the dew of heaven, until he learned that the Most High God rules over the kingdoms of the world and appoints anyone he desires to rule over them.

My God sent his angel to shut the lions’ mouths so that they would not hurt me, for I have been found innocent in his sight. And I have not wronged you, Your Majesty.”

About noon, Your Majesty, as I was on the road, a light from heaven brighter than the sun shone down on me and my companions.

“And so, King Agrippa, I obeyed that vision from heaven.

However, the Most High doesn’t live in temples made by human hands. As the prophet says,

When the Most High assigned lands to the nations, when he divided up the human race, he established the boundaries of the peoples according to the number in his heavenly court.




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