Wisdom & Truth Verses

Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their {other} garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. {coats: or, mantles} {hats: or, turbans}

And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort. {I make...: Chaldee, a decree is made by me} {any...: Chaldee, error} {cut...: Chaldee, made pieces}

Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and {let} his portion {be} with the beasts in the grass of the earth:

Let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him.

Whose leaves {were} fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it {was} meat for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation:

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}.

And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down.

Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written.

And this {is} the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.

TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.