nd of death, and delivered us out of the midst of the
burning flame, and saved us out of the midst of the fire.

3:89. O give thanks to the Lord, because he is good: because his mercy
endureth for ever and ever.

3:90. O all ye religious, bless the Lord, the God of gods: praise him,
and give him thanks, because his mercy endureth for ever and ever.

3:91. Then Nabuchodonosor, the king, was astonished, and rose up in
haste, and said to his nobles: Did we not cast three men bound into the
midst of the fire? They answered the king, and said: True, O king.

3:92. He answered, and said: Behold, I see four men loose, and walking
in the midst of the fire, and there is no hurt in them, and the form of
the fourth is like the son of God.

3:93. Then Nabuchodonosor came to the door of the burning fiery furnace,
and said: Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, ye servants of the most high
God, go ye forth, and come. And immediately Sidrach, Misach, and
Abdenago, went out from the midst of the fire.

3:94. And the nobles, and the magistrates, and the judges, and the great
men of the king, being gathered together, considered these men, that the
fire had no power on their bodies, and that not a hair of their head had
been singed, nor their garments altered, nor the smell of the fire had
passed on them.

3:95. Then Nabuchodonosor breaking forth, said: Blessed be the God of
them, to wit, of Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, who hath sent his angel,
and delivered his servants that believed in him: and they changed the
king's word, and delivered up their bodies, that they might not serve
nor adore any god except their own God.

3:96. By me, therefore, this decree is made: That every people, tribe,
and tongue, which shall speak blasphemy against the God of Sidrach,
Misach, and Abdenago, shall be destroyed, and their houses laid waste:
for there is no other God that can save in this manner.

3:97. Then the king promoted Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, in the
province of Babylon.

3:98. Nabuchodonosor, the king, to all peoples, nations, and tongues,
that dwell in all the earth, peace be multiplied unto you.

Nabuchodonosor, etc... These last three verses are a kind of preface to
the following chapter, which is written in the style of an epistle from
the king.

3:99. The most high God hath wrought signs and wonders towards me. It
hath seemed good to me, therefore, to publish

3:100. His signs, because they are great: and his wonders, becau