Daniel 3:26-56  Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁶ Blessed art thou, O Lord, the God of our fathers, and thy name is worthy of praise, and glorious for ever:

²⁷ For thou art just in all that thou hast done to us, and all thy works are true, and thy ways right, and all thy judgments true.

²⁸ For thou hast executed true judgments in all the things that thou hast brought upon us, and upon Jerusalem the holy city of our fathers: for according to truth and judgment, thou hast brought all these things upon us for our sins.

²⁹ For we have sinned, and committed iniquity, departing from thee: and we have trespassed in all things:

³⁰ And we have not hearkened to thy commandments, nor have we observed nor done as thou hadst commanded us, that it might go well with us.

³¹ Wherefore all that thou hast brought upon us, and every thing that thou hast done to us, thou hast done in true judgment:

³² And thou hast delivered us into the hands of our enemies that are unjust, and most wicked, and prevaricators, and to a king unjust, and most wicked beyond all that are upon the earth.

³³ And now we cannot open our mouths: we are become a shame and reproach to thy servants, and to them that worship thee.

³⁴ Deliver us not up for ever, we beseech thee, for thy name's sake, and abolish not thy covenant.

³⁵ And take not away thy mercy from us for the sake of Abraham thy beloved, and Isaac thy servant, and Israel thy holy one:

³⁶ To whom thou hast spoken, promising that thou wouldst multiply their seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is on the sea shore.

³⁷ For we, O Lord, are diminished more than any nation, and are brought low in all the earth this day for our sins.

³⁸ Neither is there at this time prince, or leader, or prophet, or holocaust, or sacrifice, or oblation, or incense, or place of firstfruits before thee,

³⁹ That we may find thy mercy: nevertheless in a contrite heart and humble spirit let us be accepted.

⁴⁰ As in holocausts of rams, and bullocks, and as in thousands of fat lambs: so let our sacrifice be made in thy sight this day, that it may please thee: for there is no confusion to them that trust in thee.

⁴¹ And now we follow thee with all our heart, and we fear thee, and seek thy face.

⁴² Put us not to confusion, but deal. with us according to thy meekness, and according to the multitude of thy mercies.

⁴³ And deliver us according to thy wonderful works, and give glory to thy name, O Lord:

⁴⁴ And let all them be confounded that shew evils to thy servants, let them be confounded in all thy might, and let their strength be broken.

⁴⁵ And let them know that thou art the Lord, the only God, and glorious over all the world.

⁴⁶ Now the king's servants that had cast them in, ceased not to heat the furnace with brimstone, and tow, and pitch, and dry sticks,

⁴⁷ And the flame mounted up above the furnace nine and forty cubits:

⁴⁸ And it broke forth, and burnt such of the Chaldeans as it found near the furnace.

⁴⁹ But the angel of the Lord went down with Azarias and his companions into the furnace: and he drove the flame of the fire out of the furnace,

⁵⁰ And made the midst of the furnace like the blowing of a wind bringing dew, and the fire touched them not at all, nor troubled them, nor did them any harm.

⁵¹ Then these three as with one mouth praised, and glorified, and blessed God in the furnace, saying:

⁵² Blessed art thou, O Lord the God of our fathers: and worthy to be praised, and glorified, and exalted above all for ever: and blessed is the holy name of thy glory: and worthy to be praised, and exalted above all in all ages.

⁵³ Blessed art thou in the holy temple of thy glory: and exceedingly to be praised, and exceeding glorious for ever.

⁵⁴ Blessed art thou on the throne of thy kingdom, and exceedingly to be praised, and exalted above all for ever.

⁵⁵ Blessed art thou, that beholdest the depths, and sittest upon the cherubims: and worthy to be praised and exalted above all for ever.

⁵⁶ Blessed art thou in the firmament of heaven: and worthy of praise, and glorious for ever.