To you, O God of my fathers,

    I give thanks and praise,

blessed be the name of God forever and ever,

    to whom belong wisdom and might.

He changes times and seasons;

    he removes kings and sets up kings;

he gives wisdom to the wise

    and knowledge to those who have understanding;

he reveals deep and hidden things;

    he knows what is in the darkness,

    and the light dwells with him.

for his dominion is an everlasting dominion,

    and his kingdom endures from generation to generation;

all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing,

    and he does according to his will among the host of heaven

and among the inhabitants of the earth;

and none can stay his hand

    or say to him, “What have you done? 

Verses from Daniel 2 and 4 ESV