And he will go through the land in bitter trouble and in need of food; and when he is unable to get food, he will become angry, cursing his king and his God, and his eyes will be turned to heaven on high;

Violent waves of the sea, streaming with their shame, wandering stars for whom the darkest night is kept in store for ever.

Chased

He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night.

The sinner is overturned in his evil-doing, but the upright man has hope in his righteousness.

But he will put a stop to them, and make them go in flight far away, driving them like the waste of the grain on the tops of the mountains before the wind, and like the circling dust before the storm.

That very hour the order about Nebuchadnezzar was put into effect: and he was sent out from among men, and had grass for his food like the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hair became long as eagles' feathers and his nails like those of birds.

And he was sent out from among the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts', and he was living with the asses of the fields; he had grass for his food like the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he was certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives power over it to anyone at his pleasure.

General references

Their fruit will be cut off from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.