The king spoke and said, Is this not great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom, by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty?

And you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. You shall be fed with grass like oxen, and seven times shall pass over you until you know that the Most High is Ruler in the kingdom of men, and that He gives it to whomever He desires.

As yet you exalt yourself against My people in that you will not let them go.

Now I know that Jehovah is greater than all the gods; for in the very things in which they behaved proudly, He was above them.

For he stretches out his hand against the Mighty God, and acts defiantly against the Almighty,

He has covered his face with his fatness, and made his waist heavy with fat.

Scatter abroad the outburst of your anger; look upon everyone who is proud, and humiliate him.

Look upon everyone who is proud, and humble him; tread down the wicked in their place.

Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Jehovah; though hand join in hand, he shall not go unpunished.

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

How you are fallen from the heavens, O shining one, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations!

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.

Those who see you shall stare at you and consider diligently, saying, Is this the man who made the earth to tremble; who shook kingdoms;

He performs mightily with His arm; He scatters the proud in the thoughts of their hearts.

He puts down the mighty from their thrones, and exalts the lowly.

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

Why then do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When He did mighty things among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?

Nevertheless they would not hear, but stiffened their necks, like the necks of their fathers, who had not believed in Jehovah their God.

And he also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had adjured him by God; but he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to Jehovah the God of Israel.

Thus says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have spoken against it, because they have hardened their necks so that they might not hear My Words.

but exhort one another daily, while it is called Today, that not any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground. There is no throne for you, O daughter of the Chaldeans. For you shall no more be called tender and delicate.

Say to the king and to the queen mother, Humble yourselves; sit down, for your dominion has come down, even the crown of your glory.

O daughter dwelling in Dibon, come down from your glory and sit in thirst. For the plunderer of Moab has come upon you; he has destroyed your strongholds.

Thus says Jehovah: Those who support Egypt shall fall, and the pride of her power shall come down. From Migdol to Syene those within her shall fall by the sword, declares the Lord Jehovah.