“When this period was over,
I,
King Nebuchadnezzar,
Lifted up my eyes
To heaven.
My reason returned
To me.
I blessed
The Most High.
I praised him.
I honored the one
Who lives forever.
His sovereignty is
An everlasting sovereignty.
His kingdom endures
From generation to generation.
All the inhabitants
Of the earth
Are accounted
As nothing.
He does
What he wills
With the host
Of heaven,
As well as among the inhabitants
Of the earth.
There is no one
Who can stay his hand.
No one can say to him.
‘What are you doing?’”
After all this humiliation and his unreasonable activity, King Nebuchadnezzar lifted up his eyes to heaven. He blessed and praised the Most High God. He honored the eternal God who ruled the whole world, whose dominion and power would last forever, because his kingdom would endure for all generations. All humans were as nothing in his eyes. He does whatever he wants to do with the heavenly beings as well as the human beings. There was no one on earth who could question what he was doing. The king has basically converted to the God of Israel in this first-person singular account.
