I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace.
Parallel translations
- KJV I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in mine house, and flourishing in my palace:
- BSB I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at ease in my house and flourishing in my palace.
- NKJV I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace.
- NASB “I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at ease in my house and happy in my palace.
- NLT “I, Nebuchadnezzar, was living in my palace in comfort and prosperity.
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- Isa 47:7–8You said, ‘I will be a princess forever;’ so that you did not lay these things to your heart, nor did you remember the results.
- Jer 48:11“Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.
- Luke 12:19–20I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.”’
- 1 Th 5:2–3For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.
- Ezek 28:17Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness: I have cast you to the ground; I have laid you before kings, that they may see you.
- Zeph 1:12It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, “Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil.”
- Ezek 29:3Speak and say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the middle of his rivers, that has said, ‘My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.’
- Isa 56:12“Come,” say they, “I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be as today, great beyond measure.”
- Ps 30:6–7As for me, I said in my prosperity, “I shall never be moved.”
- Ezek 28:2–5Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas; yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God —
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