26 this is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said, ‘Remove the turban, and lift off the crown.+ This* will not be the same.*+ Put on high even what is low,+ and bring low even the high one.+

27 A ruin, a ruin, a ruin* I shall make it.*+ As for this* also, it will certainly become no [one’s] until he comes who has the legal right,+ and I must give [it]* to him.’+

31 While the word was yet in the king’s mouth, there was a voice that fell from the heavens: “To you it is being said, O Neb·u·chad·nezʹzar the king, ‘The kingdom itself has gone away from you,+

20 But when his heart became haughty and his own spirit became hard, so as to act presumptuously,+ he was brought down from the throne of his kingdom, and his own dignity was taken away from him.+

9 Indeed, the ax is already in position at the root of the trees; every tree, therefore, not producing fine fruit is to be cut down and thrown into the fire.”+