He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.
He will fly away like a dream and not be found; he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
the land of gloom like thick darkness, like deep shadow without any order, where light is as thick darkness.”
wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.
He was driven from among the children of mankind, and his mind was made like that of a beast, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, until he knew that the Most High God rules the kingdom of mankind and sets over it whom he will.
Immediately the word was fulfilled against Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from among men and ate grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven till his hair grew as long as eagles' feathers, and his nails were like birds' claws.
The nations roar like the roaring of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind and whirling dust before the storm. At evening time, behold, terror! Before morning, they are no more! This is the portion of those who loot us, and the lot of those who plunder us.
They will pass through the land, greatly distressed and hungry. And when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will speak contemptuously against their king and their God, and turn their faces upward. And they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish. And they will be thrust into thick darkness.
The wicked is overthrown through his evildoing, but the righteous finds refuge in his death.
If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and let not injustice dwell in your tents.
They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope at noonday as in the night.
“Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,
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