“The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.”
Immediately the word is fulfilled; Nebuchadnezzar is driven from among people, eats grass like cattle, his body is wet with dew, his hair grows like eagle feathers and his nails like bird claws—depicting the literal manifestation of judgment in physical transformation and loss of human consciousness. The specificity of physical degradation emphasizes the totality of humiliation. The imagery of animal-like appearance suggests loss of human dignity.
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