New American Standard Bible 1995

Daniel 5:18-22

18 1O king, the 2Most High God 3granted 4sovereignty, 5grandeur, glory and majesty to Nebuchadnezzar your father.

19Because of the grandeur which He bestowed on him, all the peoples, nations and men of every 6language feared and trembled before him; 7whomever he wished he killed and whomever he wished he spared alive; and whomever he wished he elevated and whomever he wished he humbled.

20But when his heart was 8lifted up and his spirit became so 9 10proud that he behaved arrogantly, he was 11deposed from his royal throne and his glory was taken away from him.

21He was also 12driven away from 13mankind, and his heart was made like that of beasts, and his dwelling place was with the 14wild donkeys. He was given grass to eat like cattle, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until he recognized that the 15Most High God is ruler over the realm of mankind and that He sets over it whomever He wishes.

22Yet you, his 16son, Belshazzar, have 17not humbled your heart, 18even though you knew all this,

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Notes

1. Daniel 5:18 Lit You, O king ↩
2. Daniel 5:18 Dan 4:2; 5:21 ↩
3. Daniel 5:18 Dan 2:37, 38; 4:17 ↩
4. Daniel 5:18 Or the kingdom ↩
5. Daniel 5:18 Jer 25:9; 27:5-7 ↩
6. Daniel 5:19 Lit tongue ↩
7. Daniel 5:19 Dan 2:12, 13; 3:6; 11:3, 16, 36 ↩
8. Daniel 5:20 Ex 9:17; Job 15:25; Is 14:13-15; Dan 4:30, 31 ↩
9. Daniel 5:20 Lit strong ↩
10. Daniel 5:20 2 Kin 17:14; 2 Chr 36:13 ↩
11. Daniel 5:20 Job 40:11, 12; Jer 13:18 ↩
12. Daniel 5:21 Job 30:3-7; Dan 4:32, 33 ↩
13. Daniel 5:21 Lit the sons of man ↩
14. Daniel 5:21 Job 39:5-8 ↩
15. Daniel 5:21 Ex 9:14-16; Ps 83:17, 18; Ezek 17:24; Dan 4:17, 34, 35 ↩
16. Daniel 5:22 Or descendant ↩
17. Daniel 5:22 Ex 10:3; 2 Chr 33:23; 36:12 ↩
18. Daniel 5:22 Lit inasmuch as you ↩

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