Daniel 4:25
ContextNETBible | You will be driven 1 from human society, 2 and you will live 3 with the wild animals. You will be fed 4 grass like oxen, 5 and you will become damp with the dew of the sky. Seven periods of time will pass by for you, before 6 you understand that the Most High is ruler over human kingdoms and gives them to whomever he wishes. |
XREF | Job 30:3-8; Ps 75:7; Ps 83:18; Ps 106:20; Jer 27:5; Da 2:21; Da 4:17,32,34,35; Da 4:32,33; Da 5:21-31; Da 5:21; Mr 5:3,4 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn The Aramaic indefinite active plural is used here like the English passive. So also in v. 28, 29,32. 2 tn Aram “from mankind.” So also in v. 32. 3 tn Aram “your dwelling will be.” So also in v. 32. 4 tn Or perhaps “be made to eat.” 5 sn Nebuchadnezzar’s insanity has features that are associated with the mental disorder known as boanthropy, in which the person so afflicted imagines himself to be an ox or a similar animal and behaves accordingly. 6 tn Aram “until.” |