32. And you have delivered us into the hands of our enemies: traitors, unjust and most wicked, and to a king, unjust and most wicked, even more so than all others on earth.
33. And now we are not able to open our mouths. We have become a shame and a disgrace to your servants and to those who worship you.
34. Do not hand us over forever, we ask you, because of your name, and do not abolish your covenant.
35. And do not withdraw your mercy from us, because of Abraham, your beloved, and Isaac, your servant, and Israel, your holy one.
36. You have spoken with them, promising that you would multiply their offspring like the stars of heaven and like the sand on the seashore.
37. For we, O Lord, are diminished more than all other peoples, and we are brought low throughout all the earth, this day, because of our sins.
38. Neither is there, at this time, a leader, or a ruler, or a prophet, nor any holocaust, or sacrifice, or oblation, or incense, or place of first fruits, in your eyes,
39. so that we may be able to find your mercy. Nevertheless, with a contrite soul and humble spirit, let us be accepted.
40. Just as in the holocausts of rams and bullocks, and as in thousands of fat lambs, so let our sacrifice be in your sight this day, in order to please you. For there is no shame for those who trust in you.
41. And now we follow you wholeheartedly, and we fear you, and we seek your face.
42. Do not put us to shame, but deal with us in agreement with your clemency and according to the multitude of your mercies.
43. And rescue us by your wonders and give glory to your name, O Lord.
44. And let all those be confounded who lead your servants towards evil. May they be confounded by all your power and may their strength be crushed.
45. And may they know that you are the Lord, the only God, and glorious above the world."
46. And they did not cease, those attendants of the king who had cast them in, to heat the furnace with oil, and flax, and pitch, and brush.
47. And the flame streamed forth above the furnace for forty-nine cubits.
48. And the fire erupted and burnt those of the Chaldeans within its reach near the furnace.
49. But the angel of the Lord descended with Azariah and his companions into the furnace; and he cast the flame of the fire out of the furnace.
50. And he made the middle of the furnace like the blowing of a damp wind, and the fire did not touch them, nor afflict them, nor bother them at all.