Daniel 4:15-17

Common English Bible

¹⁵ But leave its deepest root in the earth,
    bound with iron and bronze in the field grass.
Dew from heaven is to wash it,
    and it must live with the animals in the earth’s vegetation.
¹⁶ Its^[a] human mind is to be changed:
    it will be given the mind of an animal.
    Seven periods of time will pass over it.
¹⁷ This sentence is by the watchers’ decree;
    this decision is the holy ones’ word
        so that all who live might know
        that the Most High dominates human kingship.
The Most High gives kingship to anyone he wants
    and sets over it the lowest of people.’