Before the words were out of his mouth, a voice spoke from heaven, "King Nebuchadnezzar, listen to what I say! Your royal power is now taken away from you.

The words came true immediately. Nebuchadnezzar was driven out of human society and ate grass like an ox. The dew fell on his body, and his hair grew as long as eagle feathers and his nails as long as bird claws.

no wicked people have been happy for long.

But they had not yet satisfied their craving and were still eating,

when God became angry with them and killed their strongest men, the best young men of Israel.

If you get more stubborn every time you are corrected, one day you will be crushed and never recover.

Then I will say to myself, Lucky man! You have all the good things you need for many years. Take life easy, eat, drink, and enjoy yourself !'

But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night you will have to give up your life; then who will get all these things you have kept for yourself ? ' "

For you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord will come as a thief comes at night.

When people say, "Everything is quiet and safe," then suddenly destruction will hit them! It will come as suddenly as the pains that come upon a woman in labor, and people will not escape.

The royal advisers came forward, but none of them could read the writing or tell the king what it meant.

The advisers and magicians were brought in to read this writing and tell me what it means, but they could not discover the meaning.

That is why God has sent the hand to write these words.

And this is what it means: number, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end;

divisions, your kingdom is divided up and given to the Medes and Persians."

he canceled the unfavorable record of our debts with its binding rules and did away with it completely by nailing it to the cross.

And I saw the dead, great and small alike, standing before the throne. Books were opened, and then another book was opened, the book of the living. The dead were judged according to what they had done, as recorded in the books.

Then death and the world of the dead were thrown into the lake of fire. (This lake of fire is the second death.)