Daniel 4:37

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and honor [DOU] God, the king who rules in heaven. All of his actions are just and right. And he is able to cause to become humble those who are proud, like I was.”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.

In Context

36When I was able to think correctly again, I was honored again, and I was able to rule my glorious/great kingdom again. My advisors came to me again to talk about what should be done, and I became greater and more powerful than I was before.

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Cross References

Exodus 8:4The frogs will jump up on you and your officials and all the rest of your people.’”

Deuteronomy 32:4He is like a rock [MET] under which we are protected; everything that he does is perfect and completely just/fair [DOU]. He always does what he says that he will do; he never does anything that is wrong.

2 Chronicles 33:11So Yahweh caused the army commanders of Assyria and their soldiers to come to Jerusalem, and they captured Manasseh. They put a hook in his nose and put bronze chains on his feet and took him to Babylon.

Esther 6:10The king replied to Haman, “ Fine! Go and do what you said immediately! Get my robe and my horse, and do just what you suggested! Do it for Mordecai, the Jew, who is sitting outside at the gate of the palace. Do not forget anything that you suggested!”

Psalms 33:4Yahweh always does what he says that he will do; we can trust that everything that he does is right.

Psalms 119:75Yahweh, I know that ◄your regulations/the rules that you have given to us► are right/fair and that you have afflicted/punished me because you faithfully do what you have promised.

Matthew Henry on Daniel 4:35-37

Nebuchadnezzar Restored. ( b. c. 562.) 34 And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation: 35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his… Read the whole commentary →

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