Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are truth, and his ways are justice, and he is able to bring low those who walk in pride.
This is a fascinating story. The goal is to demonstrate how helpless is even the greatest of heathens against the God of Israel. The King, very successful, believes his victories come from himself, and not from God. To demonstrate this is not so, God both causes insanity in the King and then cures it.
This is a common theme in the Bible - the first becoming last and the last becoming first, within and without Israel. Similar realizations came to the Pharaoh in Egypt and to King Cyrus, for example, and Jesus spoke of this often.
It is a good thing to walk to Jerusalem, but we must not "walk in pride." As with the King, our accomplishments are due to the Grace of God.
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