In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
While the word [was] in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, [saying], O king N’vukhadnetzar [May Nebo protect the crown], to youi it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from youi.
And now the wise [men], the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the interpretation thereof: but they could not show the interpretation of the thing:
The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon N’vukhadnetzar [May Nebo protect the crown]: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ [feathers], and his nails like birds’ [claws].
Then the king’s Countenance (Face, appearance; show favor) was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his waist were loosed, and his knees struck one against another.
The king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] has heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, [and] pangs (extreme sharp pains) as of a woman in travail.