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Daniel 4:37
ESV Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are right and his ways are just; and those who walk in pride he is able to humble.
NIV Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, because everything he does is right and all his ways are just. And those who walk in pride he is able to humble.
NASB Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, exalt, and honor the King of heaven, for all His works are true and His ways just; and He is able to humble those who walk in pride.'
CSB Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, exalt, and glorify the King of the heavens, because all his works are true and his ways are just. He is able to humble those who walk in pride.
NLT 'Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and glorify and honor the King of heaven. All his acts are just and true, and he is able to humble the proud.'
KJV Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.

What does Daniel 4:37 mean?

Nebuchadnezzar's decree (Daniel 4:1) ends with the warm attitude with which he began (Daniel 4:1–3). He honors the Lord God, submitting to His rule by calling Him "the King of heaven." Rather than insisting on his own supremacy, Nebuchadnezzar admits that God—not himself, the king of Babylon—is always right and always good. This lesson in humility apparently convinced Nebuchadnezzar that God was justified to sentence him to temporary isolation and animal-like insanity.

The king concludes with the reminder that God can humble the arrogant. The closing verses of Nebuchadnezzar's decree suggest that he had become a believer in the One True God. Some Bible teachers believe Daniel 7:4 refers to Nebuchadnezzar as a lion with the wings of an eagle that "was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man, and the mind of a man was given to it." They see this verse as evidence that he was truly converted. However, this probability is open to much debate. What is sure is that the formerly aggressive, temperamental King Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 2:5; 3:15) had been deeply affected by his experience. Sadly Nebuchadnezzar's successor, Belshazzar, shows no signs of following in whatever faith his predecessor might have had (Daniel 5:21–23).
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