²⁰ and not consider himself better than his fellow Israelites and turn from the law^(A) to the right or to the left.^(B) Then he and his descendants will reign a long time over his kingdom in Israel.^(C)

⁵ For David had done what was right in the eyes of the Lord and had not failed to keep^(A) any of the Lord’s commands all the days of his life—except in the case of Uriah^(B) the Hittite.

³² So be careful to do what the Lord your God has commanded you;^(A) do not turn aside to the right or to the left.^(B)

²⁰ But when his heart became arrogant and hardened with pride,^(A) he was deposed from his royal throne^(B) and stripped^(C) of his glory.^{(D) 21} He was driven away from people and given the mind of an animal; he lived with the wild donkeys and ate grass like the ox; and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until he acknowledged that the Most High God is sovereign^(E) over all kingdoms on earth and sets over them anyone he wishes.^(F)

²² “But you, Belshazzar, his son,^[a] have not humbled^(G) yourself, though you knew all this. ²³ Instead, you have set yourself up against^(H) the Lord of heaven. You had the goblets from his temple brought to you, and you and your nobles, your wives^(I) and your concubines drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand.^(J) But you did not honor the God who holds in his hand your life^(K) and all your ways.^(L)

Psalm 131

A song of ascents. Of David.

⁷ or because of these surpassingly great revelations.^(A) Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh,^(B) a messenger of Satan,^(C) to torment me.

¹³ Yet because the wicked do not fear God,^(A) it will not go well with them, and their days^(B) will not lengthen like a shadow.