And bringing them to the magistrates they said, "These men, being Jews, are agitating our city;

And the crowd rose up together against them; and the magistrates tore their clothes and ordered [men] to beat [them] with rods.

who, having received such a command, cast them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.

But as they were stretching him out with the thongs, Paul said to the centurion standing there, "Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and uncondemned?"

Then the commander came and said to him, "Tell me, are you a Roman?" He said, "Yes."

For the end. Destroy not; by David, for a memorial. If you do indeed speak righteousness, [then] do you judge rightly, you sons of men?

For you work iniquities in [your] hearts in the earth; your hands plot unrighteousness.

A Psalm of Asaph. God stands in the assembly of gods; and in the midst [of them] will judge gods.

How long will you judge unrighteously, and accept the persons of sinners? Pause.

Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with You, which frames mischief by an ordinance?

The ungodly [man] flees when no one pursues, but the righteous is confident as a lion.

And the king said, But I see four men loose, and walking in the midst of the fire, and there has no harm happened to them; and the appearance of the fourth is like the Son of God.

Then Nebuchadnezzar drew near to the door of the burning fiery furnace, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, [and] Abed-Nego, you servants of the Most High God, proceed forth, and come here. So Shadrach, Meshach, [and] Abed-Nego, came forth out of the midst of the fire.

And the king departed to his house, and lay down fasting, and they brought him no food; and his sleep departed from him. But God shut the mouths of the lions, and they did not molest Daniel.

Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste to the den of lions.

"Behold, I am sending you forth like sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be as wise as serpents and innocent as doves.