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27 Therefore, O king, may my advice be pleasing to you. Break away from your sins by doing what is right, and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps your prosperity will be prolonged.”[a]

28 Now all this happened[b] to King Nebuchadnezzar. 29 After twelve months, he happened to be walking around on the battlements[c] of the royal palace of Babylon.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 4:27 tn Aram “if there may be a lengthening to your prosperity.”
  2. Daniel 4:28 tn Aram “reached.”
  3. Daniel 4:29 tn The word “battlements” is not in the text but is supplied from context. Many English versions supply “roof” here (e.g., NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV); cf. NLT “on the flat roof.”