^{27 Ref} Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of your tranquillity.

^{28 Ref} All this came on the king Nebuchadnezzar.

^{29 Ref} At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon.

^{30 Ref} The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?

^{31 Ref} While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from the sky, [saying], O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: The kingdom is departed from you: