⁹ if you do not make the dream known to me, ^(A)there is but one sentence for you. You have agreed to speak lying and corrupt words before me till ^(B)the times change. ^(C)Therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that you can show me its interpretation.”

¹¹ “All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces know that if any man or woman goes to the king inside ^(A)the inner court without being called, ^(B)there is but one law—to be put to death, except the one ^(C)to whom the king holds out the golden scepter so that he may live. But as for me, I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.”

²⁸ Peres, your kingdom is divided and given to ^(A)the Medes and ^(B)Persians.”^[a]

¹⁵ Now if you are ready when ^(A)you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the image that I have made, well and good.^[a] But if you do not worship, ^(B)you shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace. And ^(C)who is the god who will deliver you out of my hands?”

^6 (A)They have seen false visions and lying divinations. They say, ‘Declares the Lord,’ ^(B)when the Lord has not sent them, and yet they expect him to fulfill their word.