I am the one who has placed all these nations under the power of my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia, and I have made even the wild animals serve him.

All nations will serve him, and they will serve his son and his grandson until the time comes for his own nation to fall. Then his nation will serve powerful nations and great kings.

on Israel's highest mountain. It will grow branches and bear seed and become a magnificent cedar. Birds of every kind will live there and find shelter in its shade.

Every kind of bird built nests in its branches; The wild animals bore their young in its shelter; The nations of the world rested in its shade.

They captured the source of our life, the king the LORD had chosen, the one we had trusted to protect us from every invader.

"No one knows, however, when that day or hour will come---neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son; only the Father knows.

It is like this. A man takes a mustard seed and plants it in his field. The plant grows and becomes a tree, and the birds make their nests in its branches."