⁶ So now I have placed all these lands under the authority of my servant^(A) Nebuchadnezzar,^(B) king of Babylon. I have even given him the wild animals to serve him.

¹⁴ For this is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: I have put an iron yoke on the neck of all these nations that they might serve King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon,^(A) and they will serve him.^(B) I have even put the wild animals under him.” ’^(C)

²¹ and whose leaves were beautiful and its fruit abundant – and on it was food for all, under it the wild animals lived, and in its branches the birds of the sky lived –