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12 For thus faith the Lord, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing ftream: then fhall ye fuck, ye fhall be borne upon her fides, and be dandled upon her knees. 13 As one whom his mother comforteth, fo will I comfort you: and ye fhall be comforted in Jerufalem. 14 And when ye fee this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones fhall flourish like an herb and the hand of the Lord fhall be known toward his fervants, and his indignation toward his enemies.

15 For behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

16 For by fire, and by his fword, will the Lord plead with all flesh, and the flain of the Lord fhall be many.

17 They that fanctify themselves, and purify themfelves in the gardens, behind one tree in the midft, eating fwine's flesh, and the abomination, and the moufe, fhall be confumed together, faith the Lord.

18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it fhall

come, that I will gather all nations and tongues, and they fhall come and fee my glory.

19 And I will fet a fign among them, and I will fend those that escape of them, unto the nations, to Tarfhifh, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they fhall declare my glory among the Gentiles.

20 And they fhall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the Lord, out of all nations, upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon fwift beafts, to my holy mountain Jerufalem, faith the Lord, as the children of Ifrael bring an offering in a clean veffel into the house of the Lord.

21 And I will also take of them for priests, and for Levites, faith the Lord.

22 For as the new heavens, and the new earth which I will make, fhall remain before me, faith the Lord, fo fhall your seed and your natne remain.

23 And it fhall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one fabbath to another, shall

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all flesh come to worship | have tranfgreffed against me: before me, faith the Lord. for their worm fhall not die,

24 And they fhall go neither fhall their fire be forth, and look upon the quenched, and they shall be carcafes of the men that an abhorring unto all flesh.

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From the Book of DANIEL.

CHAP. III. Ebuchadnezzartheking made an image of gold, whofe height was threefcore cubits, and the breadth thereof fix cubits he fet it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

2 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king fent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the fheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had fet up.

3 Then the princes, the governors, and captains, the judges, the treafurers, the counfellors, the fheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together unto the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had fet up; and they ftood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had fet up. 4 Then an herald cried

aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages,

5 That at what time ye hear the found of the cornet, flute, harp, fackbut, pfaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of mufick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath fet up.

6 And whofo falleth not down and worshippeth, fhall the fame hour be caft into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.

7 Therefore at that time when all the people heard the found of the cornet, flute, harp, fackbut, pfaltery, and all kinds of mufick, all the people, the nations, and the languages fell down and worfhipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had fet up.

8 Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near and accufed the Jews.

9 They fpake and faid to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever.

10 Thou,

10 Thou, O king, haft mufick, ye fall down and made a decree, that every worship the image which I man that shall hear the found have made, well: but if ye of the cornet, flute, harp, worship not, ye fhall be caft fackbut, pfaltery, and dulci- the fame hour into the midst mer, and all kinds of mufick, of a burning fiery furnace; fhall fall down and worship and who is that God that the golden image: fhall deliver you out of my hands?

II And whofo falleth not down and worshippeth, that he fhould be caft into the midst of a burning fiery fur

nace.

12 There are certain Jews whom thou haft fet over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Mefhach, and Abed-nego: these men, O king, have not regarded thee, they ferve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.

16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, anfwered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.

17 If it be fo, our God whom we ferve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, ✪ king.

18 But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we 13 Then Nebuchadnez- will not ferve thy gods, nor zar in his rage and fury com- worship the golden image manded to bring Shadrach, which thou haft fet up. Mefhach, and Abed-nego: then they brought these men before the king.

19 Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his vifage was 14 Nebuchadnezzar fpake changed against Shadrach, and faid unto them, Is it Mefhach, and Abed-nego: true, O Shadrach, Meshach, therefore he fpake and comand Abed-nego? do not ye manded that they fhould heat ferve my gods, nor worship the furnace one seven times the golden image which I more than it was wont to be have fet up? heated.

15 Now if ye be ready. 20 And he commanded that at what time ye hear the moft mighty men that the found of the cornet, flute, were in his army, to bind harp, fackbut, pfaltery, and Shadrach, Meshach, and A-dulcimer, and all kinds of bed-nego, and to caft them Hh

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21 Then these men were bound in their coats, their hofen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were caft into the midft of the burning fiery furnace.

moft high God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, came forth of the midst of the fire.

27 And the princes, governors and captains, and the king's counfellors being gathered together, faw thefe

22 Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace ex-men, upon whofe bodies the ceeding hot, the flame of the fire had no power, nor was fire flew thofe men that took an hair of their head finged, up Shadrach, Mefhach, and neither were their coats Abed-nego. changed, nor the smell of fire had paffed on them.

23 And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

24 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was aftonished, and rofe up in hafte, and fpake and faid unto his counsellors, Did not we caft three men bound into the midft of the fire? They answered and faid unto the king, True, O king.

25 He answered and faid, Lo, I fee four men loofe, walking in the midft of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the fon of God.

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28 Then Nebuchadnezzar fpake and faid, Bleffed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who hath fent his angel, and delivered his fervants that trufted in him, and have changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not ferve nor worship any God, except their own God.

29 Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation and language, which fpeak any thing amifs against the God of Snadrach, Mefhach, and Abed-nego, fhall be cut in pieces, and their houfes fhall be made a dung

26 Then Nebuchad-hill because there is no other came near to the God that can deliver after mouth of the burning fiery this fort. furnace, and fpake and said, 30 Then the king proShadrach, Meshach, and A-moted Shadrach, Mefhach,

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Elfhazzar the king made a great feaft to a thou-bring in the aftrologers, the fand of his lords, and drank Chaldeans, and the foothwine before the thousand.

fayers: and the king spake and faid to the wife men of Babylon, Whofoever fhall read this writing, and shew

2 Belshazzar, whiles he tafted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and filver veffels which his father Ne-me the interpretation thereof, buchadnezzar had taken out of the temple, which was in Jerufalem, that the king and his princes, his wives and his concubines might drink therein.

3 Then they brought the golden veffels that were taken out of the temple of the houfe of God, which was at Jerufalem; and the king and his princes, his wives and his concubines drank in them.

4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of filver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

5 In the fame hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaifter of the wall of the king's palace; and the king faw the part of the hand that

wrote.

6 Then the king's countenance was changed, and

fhall be clothed with fearlet, and have a chain of gold a bout his neck, and fhall be third ruler in the kingdom.

8 Then came in all the king's wife men, but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof.

9 Then was king Belfhazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were aftonished.

10 ¶ Now the queen by reafon of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banquet-house, and the queen fpake and faid, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed.

II There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the fpirit of the holy gods, and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wif

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