Daniel 4:23-25

Lexham English Bible

²³ And inasmuch that the king saw the watcher, a holy one coming down from heaven^[a] and he said, “Cut down the tree and destroy it, but the stump of its root in the earth leave with a band of iron and bronze in the grass of the field, and let it be watered with the dew of heaven and let his lot be with the animals of the field until seven times have passed over him.”^{[b] 24} This is the explanation, O king, and it is a decree of the Most High that has come upon my lord the king: ²⁵ you will be driven away from human society^[c] and you will dwell^[d] with the animals^[e] of the field, and you will be caused to graze grass like the oxen yourself,^[f] and you will be watered with the dew of heaven, and seven periods of time will pass over you until that you have acknowledged that the Most High is sovereign over the kingdom of humankind, and to whom he wills^[g] he gives it.