Daniel 4:14-16

New Living Translation

“Cut down the tree and lop off its branches!
    Shake off its leaves and scatter its fruit!
Chase the wild animals from its shade
    and the birds from its branches.
¹⁵ But leave the stump and the roots in the ground,
    bound with a band of iron and bronze
    and surrounded by tender grass.
Now let him be drenched with the dew of heaven,
    and let him live with the wild animals among the plants of the field.
¹⁶ For seven periods of time,
    let him have the mind of a wild animal
    instead of the mind of a human.