Who can hear what God is saying And receive the knowledge that comes from the Most High. With staring eyes I see in a trance A vision from Almighty God.

I thank the LORD for his justice; I sing praises to the LORD, the Most High.

Let the giving of thanks be your sacrifice to God, and give the Almighty all that you promised.

'You are gods,' I said; 'all of you are children of the Most High.'

Whoever goes to the LORD for safety, whoever remains under the protection of the Almighty,

because you, LORD, are supreme forever.

You said you would climb to the tops of the clouds and be like the Almighty.

This is the decision of the alert and watchful angels. So then, let all people everywhere know that the Supreme God has power over human kingdoms and that he can give them to anyone he chooses---even to those who are least important.'

"The Supreme God made your father Nebuchadnezzar a great king and gave him dignity and majesty.

"But the Most High God does not live in houses built by human hands; as the prophet says,

Eber had two sons: one was named Peleg, because during his time the people of the world were divided; and the other was named Joktan.

The city was called Babylon, because there the LORD mixed up the language of all the people, and from there he scattered them all over the earth.

Heaven belongs to the LORD alone, but he gave the earth to us humans.

From one human being he created all races of people and made them live throughout the whole earth. He himself fixed beforehand the exact times and the limits of the places where they would live.

Canaan's sons---Sidon, the oldest, and Heth---were the ancestors of the peoples who bear their names.

Then and there the LORD made a covenant with Abram. He said, "I promise to give your descendants all this land from the border of Egypt to the Euphrates River,

the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,