Daniel 4:15-17

New Living Translation

¹⁵ But leave the stump and the roots in the ground,
    bound with a band of iron and bronze
    and surrounded by tender grass.
Now let him be drenched with the dew of heaven,
    and let him live with the wild animals among the plants of the field.
¹⁶ For seven periods of time,
    let him have the mind of a wild animal
    instead of the mind of a human.
¹⁷ For this has been decreed by the messengers^[a];
    it is commanded by the holy ones,
so that everyone may know
    that the Most High rules over the kingdoms of the world.
He gives them to anyone he chooses—
    even to the lowliest of people.”