35And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
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I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.
But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! …
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 34-37)We have here Nebuchadnezzar’s recovery from his distraction, and his return to his right mind, at the end of the days prefixed, that is, of the seven years. So long he continued a monument of God’s justice and a trophy of his victory over the children of pride, and he was made more so by being struck mad than if he had been in an instant struck dead with a thunderbolt; yet it was a mercy to him th…
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