Daniel 4:31

While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee.

From Background Notes [BN] for February 2nd & 3rd written by Pastor Bob Brown:

“The words were still in the king’s mouth,” the text tells us, when “a voice came from heaven” that pronounced the predetermined decree, revealed by Daniel, should the king refuse atonement.

 
Here are the words every power-hungry person hates to hear: “Departed,” “driven away,” and “made to eat.” This is the language of things out of control, where the achievements of human society must yield once more to the wildness of the field where animals, not humans, are king. For twelve months, the king delayed his decision, but immediately God executed his decree (4:33). What followed was madness and its attendant signs. Think of the recluse Howard Hughes in 1976 whose appearance made him unrecognizable: long hair, beard, fingernails and toenails. Money, power, and influence had been his Babylon.  [BN, 6]

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