7. They answered once more and said, “Let the king tell the dream to his servants and we will make the explanation known.”
8. The king answered and said, “Certainly I know that you are trying to gain time because you have seen that this matter is firmly decreed by me,
9. for if you do not make the dream known to me, your verdict is fixed, and you have conspired to say a lying and deceitful word to me until the circumstances will change. Therefore, tell me the dream, and I will know that you can tell me its explanation.”
10. The astrologers answered the king and said, “There is not a man on earth that is able to reveal the word of the king; in fact, no great and powerful king has ever asked a thing like this of any magician or conjurer or astrologer.
11. And the thing that the king is asking is too difficult and there is no one who can reveal it to the king except the gods whose dwelling is not with mortals.”
12. Because of this the king became angry, and he became very much enraged, and he said that all the wise men of Babylon are to be destroyed.
13. And the decree was issued, and the wise men were on the verge of being executed, and they searched for Daniel and his companions to be executed.
14. Then Daniel responded prudently and discretely to Arioch, the commander of the imperial guard of the king, who had gone out to execute the wise men of Babylon.
15. He asked and said to Arioch, the royal official of the king, “Why is the decree from the king so severe?” Then Arioch explained the matter to Daniel.
16. And Daniel went in and requested from the king that he would give him time, and he would tell the king the explanation.
17. Then Daniel went to his home, and he made the matter known to Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, his companions,
18. and told them to seek mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his companions, along with the remainder of the wise men of Babylon, would not be killed.
19. Then in a vision of the night the mystery was revealed to Daniel; then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.
20. Daniel said: “Let his name, the name of God, be blessed throughout the ages, for the wisdom and the power are his.
21. And he changes the times and the seasons, and he deposes kings and he sets up kings; he gives wisdom to wise men and knowledge to men who know understanding.
22. He reveals the deep and the hidden things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.