Daniel 4:30

4:30 The king uttered these words: “Is this not the great Babylon that I have built for a royal residence ¹  by my own mighty strength ²  and for my majestic honor?”

Daniel 4:34-35

4:34 But at the end of the appointed time ³  I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up ⁴  toward heaven, and my sanity returned to me.

I extolled the Most High,

and I praised and glorified the one who lives forever.

For his authority is an everlasting authority,

and his kingdom extends from one generation to the next.

4:35 All the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nothing. ⁵ 

He does as he wishes with the army of heaven

and with those who inhabit the earth.

No one slaps ⁶  his hand

and says to him, ‘What have you done?’

¹ tn Aram “house.”

² tn Aram “by the might of my strength.”

³ tn Aram “days.”

⁴ tn Aram “lifted up my eyes.”

⁵ tc The present translation reads כְּלָא (kÿla’), with many medieval Hebrew MSS, rather than כְּלָה (kÿlah) of BHS.

⁶ tn Aram “strikes against.”