25 The word that occurred to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Je·hoiʹa·kim+ the son of Jo·siʹah, the king of Judah, that is, the first year of Neb·u·chad·rezʹzar the king of Babylon;

2 For Egypt,+ concerning the military force of Pharʹaoh Neʹcho* the king of Egypt,+ who happened to be by the river Eu·phraʹtes at Carʹche·mish,+ whom Neb·u·chad·rezʹzar the king of Babylon defeated in the fourth year of Je·hoiʹa·kim+ the son of Jo·siʹah, the king of Judah:

1 In the third year of the kingship of Je·hoiʹa·kim+ the king of Judah, Neb·u·chad·nezʹzar the king of Babylon* came to Jerusalem and proceeded to lay siege to it.+

3 Neb·u·chad·nezʹzar the king made an image+ of gold, the height of which was sixty cubits [and] the breadth of which was six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Duʹra in the jurisdictional district of Babylon.+

33 At that moment+ the word itself was fulfilled upon Neb·u·chad·nezʹzar, and from mankind he was being driven away, and vegetation he began to eat just like bulls, and with the dew of the heavens his own body got to be wet, until his very hair grew long just like eagles’ [feathers] and his nails like birds’ [claws].+

37 “Now I, Neb·u·chad·nezʹzar, am praising and exalting and glorifying the King of the heavens,+ because all his works are truth and his ways are justice,*+ and because those who are walking in pride he is able to humiliate.”+