Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Daniel 3:77-94 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

77. O ye fountains, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

78. O ye seas and rivers, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

79. O ye whales, and all that move in the waters, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

80. O all ye fowls of the air, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

81. O all ye beasts and cattle, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

82. O ye sons of men, bless the Lord, praise and exalt him above all for ever.

83. O let Israel bless the Lord: let them praise and exalt him above all for ever.

84. O ye priests of the Lord, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

85. O ye servants of the Lord, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

86. O ye spirits and souls of the just, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

87. O ye holy and humble of heart, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

88. O Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever. For he hath delivered us from hell, and saved us out of the hand of death, and delivered us out of the midst of the burning flame, and saved us out of the midst of the fire.

89. O give thanks to the Lord, because he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever and ever.

90. O all ye religious, bless the Lord the God of gods: praise him and give him thanks, because his mercy endureth for ever and ever.

91. Then Nabuchodonosor the king was astonished, and rose up in haste, and said to his nobles: Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered the king, and said: True, O king.

92. He answered, and said: Behold I see four men loose, and walking in the midst of the fire, and there is no hurt in them, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.

93. Then Nabuchodonosor came to the door of the burning fiery furnace, and said: Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, ye servants of the most high God, go ye forth, and come. And immediately Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago went out from the midst of the fire.

94. And the nobles, and the magistrates, and the judges, and the great men of the king being gathered together, considered these men, that the fire had no power on their bodies, and that not a hair of their head had been singed, nor their garments altered, nor the smell of the fire had passed on them.