Daniel
Chapters 4:24-30
New International Version Anglicized
24‘This is the interpretation, Your Majesty, and this is the decree the Most High has issued against my lord the king:
25you will be driven away from people and will live with the wild animals; you will eat grass like the ox and be drenched with the dew of heaven. Seven times will pass by for you until you acknowledge that the Most High is sovereign over all kingdoms on earth and gives them to anyone he wishes.
26The command to leave the stump of the tree with its roots means that your kingdom will be restored to you when you acknowledge that Heaven rules.
27Therefore, Your Majesty, be pleased to accept my advice: renounce your sins by doing what is right, and your wickedness by being kind to the oppressed. It may be that then your prosperity will continue.’
28All this happened to King Nebuchadnezzar.
29Twelve months later, as the king was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon,
30he said, ‘Is not this the great Babylon I have built as the royal residence, by my mighty power and for the glory of my majesty?’