Then a herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, you peoples, tribes, and languages,

is you, O king; for you have grown great and powerful, and your greatness has increased and reached to the heavens, and your dominion to the ends of the earth.

behold I [will] send and take a family from the north, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants of it, and against all the nations round about it. And I will utterly destroy them, and make them a horror, and a hissing, and an everlasting reproach.

And all the land shall be a desolation; and they shall serve among the Gentiles seventy years.

And I will bring upon that land all My words which I have spoken against it, [even] all things that are written in this book.

I have made the earth by My great power, and by My outstretched arm, and I will give it to whomsoever it shall seem [good] in My eyes.

[This translation omits this verse.]

But the arrogant man and the scorner, the boastful man, shall not finish anything; who has enlarged his desire as the grave, and like death he is never satisfied, and he will gather to himself all the nations, and will receive to himself all the peoples.

Let every soul submit to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except by God, and the authorities that exist are instituted by God.

Then the king in rage and anger commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

So the decree went forth, and they began to destroy the wise men; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to destroy [them].

And whosoever shall not fall down and worship, in the same hour he shall be cast into the burning fiery furnace.

And he commanded mighty men to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, and to cast [them] into the burning fiery furnace.

Then those men were bound with their coats, caps, and trousers, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace,

Therefore I publish a decree: Every people, tribe, [or] language that shall speak reproachfully against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, [and] Abed-Nego shall be destroyed, and their houses shall be plundered, because there is no other God who shall be able to deliver thus.

The anger of a king is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify him.

Jesus answered, "You would have no authority at all against Me unless it had been given to you from above. Therefore the one who betrayed Me to you has a greater sin."