20. As you have worked wonders before,so rescue us now!Build up your reputation, Lord!
21. Let all who mistreat your servantsbe humiliated.Let them be put to shameand lose all their authority;may their strength be smashed.
22. Let them know that you aloneare the Lord God,more honoredthan anyone else in the world.
23. Now the king’s aides, who had thrown them into the furnace, were constantly feeding the fire with petroleum, tar, kindling, and dry sticks.
24. Flame shot out of the furnace to a height of more than seventy feet,
25. spreading out and burning the Babylonians who stood near the furnace.
26. But the Lord’s angel came down among Azariah and his friends and waved the fiery flames out of the furnace.