Daniel 4:34

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Nun lobe und erhebe und verherrliche ich, Nebukadnezar, den König des Himmels; denn all sein Tun ist richtig, und seine Wege sind gerecht; wer aber stolz einhergeht, den kann er demütigen!

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Lutherbible (1912)
Nach dieser Zeit hob ich, Nebukadnezar, meine Augen auf gen Himmel und kam wieder zur Vernunft und lobte den Höchsten. Ich pries und ehrte den, der ewiglich lebt, des Gewalt ewig ist und des Reich für und für währt,

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am 3441, bc 563

at the end: Daniel 4:16, Daniel 4:26, Daniel 4:32

lifted: Psalms 121:1, Psalms 123:1, Psalms 130:1, Psalms 130:2, Jonah 2:2-4, Luke 18:13

I blessed: Job 1:21, Psalms 50:14, Psalms 103:1-4, Psalms 107:8, Psalms 107:15, Psalms 107:22, Psalms 107:31, Isaiah 24:15, Lamentations 3:19-23

the most High: Daniel 4:17, Daniel 4:32, Psalms 7:17, Psalms 9:2, Psalms 92:1, Lamentations 3:38

him: Daniel 12:7, Psalms 90:2, Psalms 102:24, Psalms 146:10, Jeremiah 10:10, John 5:26, 1 Timothy 1:17, 1 Timothy 6:16, Revelation 4:10, Revelation 10:6

whose: Daniel 4:3, Daniel 2:44, Daniel 7:14, Psalms 10:16, Psalms 145:13, Isaiah 9:6, Isaiah 9:7, Jeremiah 10:10, Micah 4:7, Luke 1:33, Revelation 11:15

is from: Psalms 90:1

Reciprocal: Genesis 14:22 - the most Exodus 19:5 - all the earth Joshua 2:11 - for the Lord Joshua 4:24 - all the people 1 Samuel 2:30 - them 1 Kings 1:48 - Blessed 2 Kings 5:15 - now I know 2 Kings 19:15 - thou art the God 2 Kings 19:19 - O Lord 1 Chronicles 29:11 - is the greatness 2 Chronicles 33:13 - knew Ezra 5:8 - the great God Job 9:4 - wise in heart Job 25:2 - Dominion Psalms 89:13 - a mighty arm Psalms 92:8 - art most Psalms 93:2 - Thy Psalms 99:2 - high Psalms 103:19 - his kingdom Psalms 145:12 - make known Ecclesiastes 3:14 - whatsoever Isaiah 40:17 - as nothing Isaiah 54:16 - I have Isaiah 57:15 - the high Jeremiah 10:6 - thou Ezekiel 36:23 - and the heathen Daniel 2:37 - power Daniel 3:28 - Blessed Daniel 4:25 - till Daniel 4:31 - fell Daniel 4:36 - my reason Daniel 4:37 - I Nebuchadnezzar Daniel 6:26 - for Daniel 6:27 - and he Daniel 7:27 - whose kingdom Jonah 1:14 - for Jonah 1:16 - feared Matthew 6:13 - thine Matthew 21:29 - he repented Luke 1:64 - and he Luke 8:39 - and published Acts 7:48 - the most High Romans 11:36 - of him 2 Corinthians 1:3 - Blessed Ephesians 1:3 - Blessed Ephesians 4:6 - who 1 Timothy 6:15 - who James 4:7 - Submit 1 Peter 4:11 - dominion Revelation 1:6 - to him

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And at the end of the days,.... Of the time fixed in the dream; that is, at the end of seven years, as Jarchi rightly interprets it; this according to Bishop Usher n, Dean Prideaux o, and Mr. Whiston p, was in the year of the world 3442 A.M., and before Christ 563, in the forty second year of his reign; after which he lived but one year, reigning from the death of his father forty three years, and according to the Jewish accounts forty five; they reckoning from the beginning of his partnership in the kingdom with his father, and his first coming with an army into Syria.

I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven: for, during the seven years he ate grass like an ox, his eyes were fixed upon the earth, looking out for his food, and especially if he went on all four, as the beasts do; but now standing upright, in his erect form as a man, he looked upwards; though this phrase does not merely design his looking up to the heavens, and viewing them from his bodily eyes; but his sense and consideration of the divine Majesty in heaven, his praying to him, lifting up the eyes being a prayer gesture, and his devotion towards him;

and mine understanding returned to me; his understanding as a man, which he had been deprived of during this time; and so came to know in what state and condition he was, by whom brought into it, and for what reason;

and I blessed the most High; the most high God, he whose name alone is Jehovah, the God of gods, who is higher than the highest; him the king blessed for returning his understanding and reason to him, and restoring him to his senses; for which he had just cause to be thankful, for a greater blessing cannot be enjoyed;

and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever; the living and true God, the author of life to all that have it, and who upholds in it; who lives in and of himself, and for evermore; which no mere man, even the most exalted and dignified, does:

whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation; :-.

n Annales Vet. Test. A. M. 3442. o Connexium, &c. part. 1. p. 106. p Chronological Tables, cent. 10.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And at the end of the days - That is, the time designated; to wit, the “seven times” that were to pass over him.

I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven - Probably the first thing that indicated returning reason. It would not be unnatural, on the supposition that he was deprived of reason at the very instant that a voice seemed to speak to him from heaven, and that he continued wholly insane or idiotic during the long interval of seven years, that the first indication of returning reason would be his looking up to the place from where that voice seemed to come, as if it were still speaking to him. In some forms of mental derangement, when it comes suddenly upon a man, the effect is wholly to annihilate the interval, so that, when reason is restored, the individual connects in his recollection the last thing which occurred when reason ceased with the moment when it is restored. A patient had been long an inmate of an insane apartment in Providence, Rhode Island. He was a seaman, and had been injured on the head when his vessel was in a naval engagement, and it was supposed that his brain had been permanently affected.

For many years he was idiotic, and no hopes were entertained of his recovery. It was at length suggested that the operation of trepanning should be performed, and the very instant that the bone was raised from its pressure on the brain, he exclaimed, “Has she struck?” The whole interval of time was obliterated from his memory. Similar instances are mentioned by Dr. Abercrombie (“Intellectual Powers,” pp. 252, 253). A man had been employed for a day with a beetle and wedges in splitting pieces of wood for erecting a fence. At night, before going home, he put the beetle and wedges into the hollow of an old tree, and directed his sons, who had been at work in an adjoining field, to accompany him next morning to assist in making the fence. In the night he became maniacal, and continued in a state of insanity for several years, during which time his mind was not occupied with any of the subjects with which he had been conversant when in health.

After several years his reason returned suddenly, and the first question he asked was, whether his sons had brought home the beetle and wedges. A lady had been intensely engaged for some time in a piece of needlework. Before she had completed it she became insane, and continued in that state for seven years; after which her reason returned suddenly. One of the first questions she asked related to her needlework, though she had never alluded to it, so far as was recollected, during her illness. Another lady was liable to periodical paroxysms of delirium, which often attacked her so suddenly that in conversation she would stop in the middle of a story, or even of a sentence, and branch off into the subject of hallucination. On the return of her reason, she would resume the subject of her conversation on which she was engaged at the time of the attack, beginning exactly where she had left off, though she had never alluded to it during her delirium; and on the next attack of delirium she would resume the subject of hallucination With which she had been occupied at the conclusion of the former paroxysm. A similar thing may have occurred to Nebuchadnezzar. He was deprived of reason by a sudden voice from heaven. Nothing was more natural, or would be more in accordance with the laws respecting insanity, than that at the very instant when reason returned he should look up to the place from where the voice had seemed to come.

And mine understanding returned unto me - This shows that he regarded himself as having been a maniac, though doubtless he was ignorant of the manner in which he had been treated. It would seem from the narrative, and from the probabilities of the case, that he found himself driven out from his palace, herding with cattle, and in the deplorable condition in regard to personal appearance which he here describes. Seeing this in fact, and recollecting the prediction, he could not doubt that this was the way in which he had been treated during the period of his distressing malady.

And I blessed the Most High - For his recovery, and in an humble acknowledgment of his dependence. “The acts of praise here referred to are the suitable returns of a mind truly penitent, and deeply sensible of its faults and of its mercies.” - Winkle.

And I praised and honored him - That is, I honored him by rendering thanks for his restoring mercy, by recognizing him as the true God, and by the acknowledging of the truth that he has a right to reign, and that his kingdom is over all.

That liveth for ever - He is the living God, as he is often styled, in contradistinction from all false gods - who have no life; and he lives forever in contradistinction to his creatures on earth, all of whom are destined to die. He will live when all on earth shall have died; he will live forever in the future, as he has lived forever in the past.

Whose dominion is an everlasting dominion - His empire extends through all time, and will continue while eternal ages roll away.

And his kingdom is from generation to generation - The generations of men change, and monarchs die. No human sovereign can extend his own power over the next generation, nor can he secure his authority in the person of his successors. But the dominion of God is unchanged, while the generations of men pass away; and when one disappears from the earth, he meets the next with the same claim to the right of sovereignty, with the same principles of government - carrying forward, through that and successive ages, the fulfillment of his great and glorious purposes.