He was also told that he would dwell with the beasts and eat grass as the oxen for seven years until he knew that God was the ruler of all and that the glory for everything belonged to God, not him. What God said would happen came to pass exactly as he said it would. The King ended up eating grass and the hairs on his body grew like eagles feathers and his nails like birds claws. But , it worked. Nebuchadnezzar finally blessed, praised, and honoured God like he should have done in the first place.
He realized that God can bring anyone down from walking in pride. He learned a hard lesson. This, like many other things that happened to people are left on record that we can also learn from them. No matter how high, powerful or rich we are, all the glory for what we have and are, belongs to God. We are not to lift ourselves up in any way or think more highly of ourselves than we are. (Romans 12:3) The only one worthy of praise, honour and glory is God.