⁸ Woe to us! Who can deliver us from the power of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with every sort of plague in the wilderness.

²⁵ clogging^[a] their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily. And the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from before Israel, for the ^(A)Lord fights for them against the Egyptians.”

⁴⁷ The king answered and said to Daniel, “Truly, your ^(A)God is God of gods and ^(B)Lord of kings, and ^(C)a revealer of mysteries, for you have been able to reveal this mystery.”

^26 (A)I make a decree, that in all my royal dominion ^(B)people are to tremble and fear before the God of Daniel,

²⁹ Therefore ^(A)I make a decree: Any ^(B)people, nation, or language that speaks anything against the God of ^(C)Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego ^(D)shall be torn limb from limb, and their houses laid in ruins, for there is no other god who is able to rescue in this way.”

³ The Lord has brought it about, and has done as he said. ^(A)Because you sinned against the Lord and did not obey his voice, this thing has come upon you.

²⁰ And whatever else is required for the house of your God, which it falls to you to provide, you may provide it out of the king's treasury.

²¹ “And I, Artaxerxes the king, make a decree to all the treasurers in the province Beyond the River: Whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven, requires of you, let it be done with all diligence,