Daniel 5:20 Cross References - Thomson

²⁰ But when his heart became elated and his spirit emboldened to shew its arrogance, he was deposed from the throne of his kingdom and his glory was taken from him;

¹⁷ Shouldst thou therefore still determine with respect to my people not to let them go,

¹¹ I know now that the Lord is great above all the gods, for this reason because they were set against these.

⁶ Now why do you continue obstinate, as Egypt and Pharao did? Did they not when he had insulted them, send the people away, and they departed?

¹⁴ yet they hearkened not; but hardened their neck more than their fathers had done;

¹³ when he violated his engagements with Nabuchodonosar, to the performance of which he had caused him to swear by God; but hardened his neck, and strengthened his heart, not to return to the Lord God of Israel.

²⁵ Because he lifted up his hands against the Lord, and hardened his neck against the Lord Almighty: ²⁶ therefore he ran upon him contemptuously, with the thick boss of his buckler. ²⁷ Because he covered his face with fatness; and made collops of fat upon his thighs:

¹¹ and send forth angels in wrath, and humble everyone who is insolent. ¹² Extinguish also the haughty, and turn the wicked into instant corruption.

⁵ Every lofted minded man is impure in the sight of God: and he who hath joined hand to hand unjustly shall not go unpunished.

¹⁸ Pride goeth before destruction: and a haughty spirit before a fall.

¹² How is Lucifer fallen from heaven! He who was harbinger of the morning; he who sent messages to all the nations is trampled down into the earth. ¹³ Thou indeed didst say in thy heart, I will ascend up into heaven; above the stars of heaven I will place my throne; I will seat myself on a lofty mountain; on the lofty mountains which face the north. ¹⁴ I will ascend above the clouds; I will be like the Most High. ¹⁵ But thou must now go down to the mansion of the dead; even down to the foundations of the earth. ¹⁶ They who see thee will express their amazement at thee and say, Is this the man who troubled the earth? who shook kings? ¹⁷ who made the World a desert? who, when he destroyed cities, never dismissed his captives?

¹ Come down, sit on the ground, Virgin daughter of Babylon! Sit on the ground, daughter of the Chaldeans! for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate!

¹⁸ [J] Say to the king and the rulers: Humble yourselves and sit on the ground; for from your head is taken your crown of glory.

¹⁵ Behold I am bringing upon this city and upon all the cities belonging to it and upon all the villages thereof all the evils which I have denounced against it, because they have hardened their necks so as not to hearken to my commandments.

¹⁸ I Come down from glory and sit low in mire. Daibon shall be trampled down because Moab is destroyed. The demolisher of thy strong hold is come up against thee. Stand by the way side and take a view,

⁶ The fortresses of Egypt shall fall, and down shall come the pride of her strength, from Magdolus even to Syene; by the sword they shall fall in it, saith the Lord.

³⁰ he spake, saying, Is not this the great Babylon which I have built for the house of a kingdom, by the might of my power, for the display of my glory? ³¹ While the word was yet in the king's mouth, there came a voice from heaven, To thee Nabuchodonosar it is said, the regal power is gone from thee ³² and thou shalt be driven from among men and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field; and they shall feed thee with grass like an ox; and seven seasons shall revolve over thee, that thou mayst know that the Most High ruleth over the kingdom of men and can give it to whom he will. ³³ In that very hour the word was fulfilled on Nabuchodonosar; and he was driven from among men and ate grass like an ox and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven, until his hair grew strong like the shag of lions and his nails like the claws of birds.

³⁷ Now therefore I Nabuchodonosar praise and extol and glorify the king of heaven; for all his works are true and his ways are judgments and all them who walk in pride he can abase.

⁵¹ With his arm he hath displayed strength. He hath scattered them who were elated with the imagination of their heart. ⁵² From thrones he hath hurled potentates, and exalted them of low degree.

¹⁴ I tell you, this man went down to his house acquitted, and not the other. For whosoever exalteth himself shall be humbled, but he who humbleth himself shall be exalted.

¹³ but while this today is proclaimed, that none of you may be rendered obstinate by the deceitfulness of sin