Daniel 4:21
4:21 whose foliage was attractive and its fruit plentiful, and from which there was food available for all, under whose branches wild animals 1 used to live, and in whose branches birds of the sky used to nest –
Daniel 4:35
4:35 All the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nothing. 2
He does as he wishes with the army of heaven
and with those who inhabit the earth.
No one slaps 3 his hand
and says to him, ‘What have you done?’
Daniel 4:37
4:37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all his deeds are right and his ways are just. He is able to bring down those who live 4 in pride.
Daniel 9:13
9:13 Just as it is written in the law of Moses, so all this calamity has come on us. Still we have not tried to pacify 5 the LORD our God by turning back from our sin and by seeking wisdom 6 from your reliable moral standards. 7
1 tn Aram “the beasts of the field” (also in vv. 23, 25, 32).
2 tc The present translation reads כְּלָא (kÿla’), with many medieval Hebrew MSS, rather than כְּלָה (kÿlah) of BHS.
3 tn Aram “strikes against.”
4 tn Aram “walk.”
5 tn Heb “we have not pacified the face of.”
6 tn Or “by gaining insight.”
7 tn Heb “by your truth.” The Hebrew term does not refer here to abstract truth, however, but to the reliable moral guidance found in the covenant law. See vv 10-11.