All this happened to King Nebuchadnezzar.

the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great, which I myself have built by the might of my power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?”

At that moment the sentence against Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from mankind. He ate grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird.

But when his heart became arrogant and his spirit was hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne, and his glory was taken from him.

But you his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, even though you knew all this.

When the army is carried off, the king of the South will be proud in heart and will cast down tens of thousands, but he will not triumph.

In his place one will arise who will send out a tax collector for the glory of the kingdom; but within a few days he will be destroyed, though not in anger or in battle.

But let no man contend; let no man offer reproof; for your people are like those who contend with a priest.

Israel’s arrogance testifies against them, yet they do not return to the LORD their God; despite all this, they do not seek Him.

“Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you will be deeply despised.

The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’

Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.