³⁰ The king said thoughtfully, ‘Is not this the great Babylon which I myself have built as the royal residence and seat of government by the might of my power and for the honor and glory of my majesty?’ ³¹ While the words were still in the king’s mouth, a voice came [as if falling] from heaven, saying, ‘O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is declared: “The kingdom has been removed from you,

² she with whom the kings of the earth have ^[a]committed acts of immorality, and the inhabitants of the earth have become intoxicated with the wine of her immorality.”^(A)