Nebuchadnezzar Restored

34 (A)At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and (B)my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised and honored (C)him who lives forever,

(D)for his dominion is an everlasting dominion,
    and (E)his kingdom endures from generation to generation;
35 (F)all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing,
    and (G)he does according to his will among the host of heaven
    and among the inhabitants of the earth;
(H)and none can stay his hand
    or (I)say to him, “What have you done?”

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(A)Whatever the Lord pleases, he does,
    in heaven and on earth,
    in the seas and all deeps.

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25 nor is he served by human hands, (A)as though he needed anything, since he himself (B)gives to all mankind (C)life and breath and everything. 26 And (D)he made from one man every nation of mankind to live (E)on all the face of the earth, (F)having determined allotted periods and (G)the boundaries of their dwelling place, 27 (H)that they should seek God, (I)and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. (J)Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, 28 for

(K)“‘In him we live and move and have our being’;[a]

as even some of (L)your own poets have said,

“‘For we are indeed his offspring.’[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 17:28 Probably from Epimenides of Crete
  2. Acts 17:28 From Aratus's poem “Phainomena”

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