Daniel 5:18-23

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¹⁸ O king, the ^(A)Most High God ^(B)gave ^(C)Nebuchadnezzar your father ^(D)kingship and greatness and glory and majesty. ¹⁹ And because of the greatness that he gave him, ^(E)all peoples, nations, and languages ^(F)trembled and feared before him. Whom he would, he killed, and whom he would, he kept alive; whom he would, he raised up, and whom he would, he humbled. ²⁰ But ^(G)when his heart was lifted up and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, ^(H)he was brought down from his kingly throne, and his glory was taken from him. ^21 (I)He was driven from among the children of mankind, and his mind was made like that of a beast, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, ^(J)until he knew that the ^(K)Most High God rules the kingdom of mankind and sets over it whom he will. ²² And you his son,^{[a] (L)}Belshazzar, ^(M)have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this, ²³ but you have lifted up yourself against ^(N)the Lord of heaven. And ^(O)the vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them. ^(P)And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, ^(Q)but the God in whose hand is your breath, and ^(R)whose are all your ways, ^(S)you have not honored.