4:34 But at the end of the appointed time 2 I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up 3 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. 4
He does as he wishes with the army of heaven
and with those who inhabit the earth.
No one slaps 5 his hand
and says to him, ‘What have you done?’
1 tn Aram “until.”
2 tn Aram “days.”
3 tn Aram “lifted up my eyes.”
4 tc The present translation reads כְּלָא (kÿla’), with many medieval Hebrew
5 tn Aram “strikes against.”