“The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?”
The king exclaims: 'Is not this the great Babylon I have built as a royal residence by my mighty power and for the glory of my majesty?'—representing the pinnacle of human arrogance and the exact moment when judgment intervenes. The repeated assertion of personal credit ('I have built,' 'my mighty power,' 'my majesty') demonstrates complete absence of God-consciousness. His confident rhetorical question immediately precedes divine response.
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