The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.
The same hour ... he was driven from men - as a maniac, fancying himself a wild beast. It is possible a conspiracy of his nobles may have cooperated toward his having been "driven" forth as an outcast.
His hairs were grown like eagles' feathers - matted together, as the hair-like thick plumage of the ossifraga eagle. The "nails," by being left uncut for years, would become like "claws."