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So he listened to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.

So the steward took away their dainties, and the wine that they should drink, and gave them pulse.

Then the king commanded to call the sacred scholars, and the psychics, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king.

So the decree went forth, and the wise men were to be slain; and they sought Daniel and his companions to be slain.

he answered and said to Arioch the king's captain, Why is the decree so urgent from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.

Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, were broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors; and the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.

If it is [so], our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:

Then the king was exceeding glad, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.

So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

I came near to one of those that stood by, and asked him the truth concerning all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.

And I saw in the vision; now it was so, that when I saw, I was in Shushan the palace, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in the vision, and I was by the river Ulai.

So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was frightened, and fell on my face: but he said to me, Understand, O son of man; for the vision belongs to the time of the end.

So I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me; for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength.

So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mound, and take a well-fortified city: and the forces of the south shall not stand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to stand.

So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she became pregnant, and bore him a son.

So I bought her to me for fifteen [pieces] of silver, and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley;

and I said to her, You shall abide for me many days; you shall not prostitute, and you shall not be any man's wife: so I will also be toward you.

As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me: I will change their glory into shame.