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um
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huh
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i have waited for you to lead us out of
babylon
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for i was just a boy when i came here
the generation which offended you
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has passed away
and now their children's children
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yearn
to see a home they have never known
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you have spoken through your prophet
jeremiah
when seventy years are completed for
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babylon i will come to you
and fulfill
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my gracious promise
and bring you back to this land
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my heart grows with excitement
but now
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that time has come
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an old man who comes unbidden is often a
fool
unless often come as assassins
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perhaps a foolish assassin
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forgive us my king
do you know whom you address
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he's the king of mammal
ruler of the four quarters of the earth
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and the old persian tongue
he has seized by might of arms
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the birthright
which would otherwise have been denied
him
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he is cyrus the great
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leave us
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who are you old man
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i am daniel
of the tribal benjamin
made captive nearly 70 years ago i never
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could miss her
my king
i've heard of this man
he served ari as well after he captured
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the city in your name
it is said he spent a night in the
lion's den
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the beast would not touch him
is this true
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it is
oh
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i know who you are now tell me while
you're here
i seek to tell their story
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a tale of four kings
one great one foolish
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one who has been deceived and one
who is destined to be regarded as wise
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for all the ages of the world to come
stories from your imagination
no okay
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for i will speak
only the truth
and if you would not wish to hear it
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you must bid me speak nothing
come
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you will give us entertainment while we
eat
bless
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my king
we're expected in babylon this evening
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the palace will be there in the morning
as you wish
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i cannot a king
my king the hebrews eat and drink only
their own food which is prepared
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according to the rituals to do
otherwise even from the hand of the king
is to defile themselves
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you promised me a tale
for in fact
i delayed my journey to listen i will
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hear them now
somebody had my lord
the first king i will speak of is
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nebuchadnezzar king of babylon
when i was just a boy
he threw down the assyrian empire
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my people's ancient nemesis
but the destruction of israel's enemies
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brought us no relief
because in the third year
of nebuchadnezzar's reign he turned his
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gaze upon jerusalem and besieged it
and the lord delivered the king of judea
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into his hand
along with all of his officers nobles
and administrators
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we the exiles arrived in babylon
nebuchadnezzar ordered aspinars as chief
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eunuch
to select some of the israelites
from the royal family and ability young
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men without any physical defect and
showing aptitude for every kind of
learning
one of whom was myself
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oh lord
jerusalem has sinned greatly
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like a widow is she
once great among the nations a queen
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among the people
has become a slave
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her children captive before the foe
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my eyes overflow with tears
for you lord are righteous
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yet we rebelled against your command
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comfort me
o lord
comfort me
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and my brothers
and restore our spirit
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i missed jerusalem
as do i
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i feel that we shall never see her again
have faith my brothers
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i have only begun my studies
but here
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the prophet jeremiah the son of hilkiah
has written that we shall serve the king
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of babylon for 70 years 70 years is a
long time as punishment for our sins and
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even if we were to survive it
we would be very old
very old indeed
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you are summoned for your meal
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why would they only take 10 000 of us
and leave the rest of our people behind
yes
look at who they've taken the scholars
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the princes our military leaders and our
families it's the babylonian way of
conquest you take away the leaders the
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rest can easily be governed they've
changed our names hoping we'll forget
our god and our clothes so we'll look
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like them they've changed everything
about us
we need to make each other a promise
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never to become like them
my brothers such a promise is worthless
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for we are but men
what we need to promise is to always
love our god and be obedient to him
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and in so doing what we become on the
outside will not matter
set it here
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lord stewart
please allow me to ask
what is this meat where is it from and
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and how was it slaughtered
the cattle are from the king's herd
they are fattened along the river and
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strangled before the altars of marduk
before their flesh is carried to the
kitchens
the swine are from the king's pens they
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are fed on choice food
and it is rumored the king's executioner
laces their feed with the entrails of
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his victims so that the king's chosen
may feast and grow strong on the flesh
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of his enemies
it is considered the greatest of
delicacies
to some perhaps
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but not to us
we are forbidden to eat it for the
almighty has commanded us the pig is
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unclean you are not to eat their meat or
touch their carcasses nor can we eat
anything sacrificed to gods other than
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our own but the king cannot he will not
change the customs of his hall to fit
your wishes
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you must know this and we will not ask
him to
but you must eat
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i have been charged with your well-being
if you are seen to be wasting away i'm
afraid of what my lord the king will do
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he will have my head
and we would not wish it so
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therefore
put your servants to the test for ten
days give us nothing but vegetables to
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eat and water to drink
then compare our appearance to that of
the other young men who eat the royal
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food
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ten days
ten days
and if
after that your appearance is found
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wanting
then we will do as you wish
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your request was polite
i'm rather surprised it was honored i
have no doubt
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lord
favorably dispose his heart to heal our
request by the end of ten days
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my companions and i
looked healthier and better nourished
than the young men
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who ate of all four
and so the chief eunuch
allowed us to continue refusing
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the wine and choice fair
and we remained under fire
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the period of our instruction went by
quickly
during those many years we were living
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in a foreign land speaking a foreign
language
and living under a foreign king
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despite this
our hearts belonged only to god
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and at the end of that time
my companions and i
were presented before nebuchadnezzar
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himself the king's executioner aryak
will be in the chamber
if you are found unworthy you will be
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executed on the spot
and so will it
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lord king
i present you the princes of judah
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preserved by the right hand of your
mercy
and tutored by the left hand of your
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wisdom
they are come before you now for
judgment as to their training
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they are belter
shadrach
meshach
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and abednego
who am i
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you are nebuchadnezzar
son and heir of nabu palasa
king of babylon
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you have destroyed nineveh the mighty
seat of assyria and taken from her hand
the scepter of nations
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you are the commander of commanders and
king of kings from the rising of the sun
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unto its setting in the western sea
and beneath heaven there is none more
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powerful than thee
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you
come forth
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why should i allow you
sons of my former enemies to serve in my
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court
because you have spared the lives of our
people
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who were delivered into your hand
and because the word of the prophet
jeremiah has come unto us saying this is
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what the lord god almighty the god of
israel says to all those carried into
exile from jerusalem to babylon
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build houses and settle down
plant gardens and eat what they produce
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marry and have sons and daughters also
seek the prosperity of the city to which
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i have carried you into exile
pray to the lord for it
for if it prospers
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you too will prosper
this is good
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so now even your god commands you to
serve me
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i have no need of lap dogs
would you dare to tell me the truth even
if you knew it would displease me
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lord king it must be so
i will speak only the truth
and when you would not hear it
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you must ask me nothing
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i pronounce them worthy
have their names be written in the book
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of the wise
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nebuchadnezzar's questioning showed
wisdom
a former enemy can be a good counselor
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if they can be trusted and a wise king
is capable of
choosing whom to trust
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for are you not greece's
formerly king of libya and once the
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richest man in the world whose name
alone
signified riches
almost beyond comprehending
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i am he
trusting the words of the
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oracle at delphi
i went to war with cyrus
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and was defeated
cyrus
pardoned me
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and my family
i am eternally grateful
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worthy counsel is rare indeed as
nebuchadnezzar came to learn
at a time when his babylonian
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councillors
his magi
sorcerers
diviners magicians and astrologers
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were unable to help him
no
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where is it my king
some of my counselors the enchanters the
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sorcerers are the astrologers all of
them
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oh king
your wisest subjects have arrived
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command and it is done
i've had a dream that troubles me
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i need to know what it means the king
tell your servants your dream and we
will interpret it for you no
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what need i have wise men who are not
wise
astrologers who read nothing in the
stars magicians who perform children's
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tricks sorcerers who divine nothing
except what i tell them no it is enough
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for the king to dream his dreams it is
up to you to discern and interpret them
but
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my lord if only you would tell us your
dream we could interpret it as we have
always done always
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i know you're trying to gain time
or trick me into revealing what i've
seen either way i'll have none of it but
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there's no man on earth who can do what
the king asks
no king ever asked such a thing before
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only the gods could know these things
and when we ask they don't answer well i
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suggest you try and get them to answer
or beg that they endow you with the
necessary skills to divine it on your
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own for as i am king i swear that when
the sun rises if my dream is not made
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known to me along with its
interpretation you will all be made
shorter by the height of your heads
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you may withdraw
now
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lord ashburnette is it true
it is
why has the king issued such a harsh
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decree why don't you come along with me
and ask him yourself
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lord king
what belt is uh requests an audience
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speak
o king live forever
i have heard your decree
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and i understand that i shall fall
beneath the blade if your dream is not
made known and interpreted i ask only
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for more time
that i might withdraw for a while my
friends and i to pray to our god and see
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if he might not make the dream known to
us
the time is fixed and cannot be altered
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sentences to be carried out at sunrise
you may withdraw
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so long as you return at dawn
as your fate and that of the others is
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one and the same and when you return
be sure to bring your companions with
you
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shall i send guards along my king
no
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no if he says he'll pray
he'll pray not flee
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that much at least i'm sure
even if we were to flee the city
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the whole world would have been against
us
not that it mattered
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i had given my word and intended to keep
it
i would pray
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and hope that the answer came
prepare to bind the prisoners
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once the sun rises there could be no
delay
bring forth the councilors
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oh king
live forever
oh king do not execute these men i beg
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you belt
your death is upon you as well unless
you know my dream and can interpret it i
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am
and i will
praise be to the god of my fathers
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forever and ever
he gives wisdom to the wise and
knowledge to the discerning he reveals
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deep and hidden things and has made
plain all that you have asked for he has
shown me the vision of the king
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then speak
as you lay upon your bed o king
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you looked
and there before you stood a large
statue
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awesome in its appearance
the head of the statue was made of pure
gold
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its chest and arms of silver
its belly and thighs of bronze its legs
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of iron its feet partly of iron and
partly of baked clay
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as you were watching
a rock was cut out
but not by human hands
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it struck the statue on its feet of iron
and clay and smashed them
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then
the iron the clay the bronze the silver
and the gold were all broken to pieces
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at the same time
and the wind swept them away without a
trace
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the rock
that struck the statue
became a mountain
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and filled the whole earth
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you have done what i was told was
impossible
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this mystery has been revealed to me not
because i am wiser than other men but
because god wishes you to understand the
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meaning of your dream
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you know my dream
as if you dreamt it yourself
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what does it mean
you o king
are the king of kings
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the god of heaven has given you dominion
and power and might and glory
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in your hands he has placed mankind
he has made you ruler over the nation
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for you are the head of pure gold
after you another kingdom will rise
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inferior to yours
next a third kingdom one of bronze will
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rule over the whole earth
finally there will be a fourth kingdom
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strong as iron for iron breaks and
smashes things to pieces but just as you
saw that the feet and toes were partly
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of baked clay and partly of iron so this
people will be a mixture and not remain
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united any more than iron mixes with
clay
and in the time of those kings
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the god of heaven will set up a kingdom
that will never be destroyed
it will crush those kingdoms and bring
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them to an end but will itself endure
forever
the almighty has shown the king what
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will take place in the future
the dream is true
and the interpretation is trustworthy
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i am the head of gold
yes o king
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you are the head of pure gold
surely your god is the god of god
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the ruler of kings and the revealer of
mysteries
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let this man be paid honor and present
him with incense
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thus the king made me ruler over the
entire province of babylon
and at my request
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made shadrach meshach
administrators
king nebuchadnezzar made an image of
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gold
90 feet high
all were commanded to fall down
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and worship
and all did as commanded
except for three
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live forever a moment of your precious
time
as your dutiful servants we know the law
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that when the horn sounds we all bow
down and worship your image but these
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jews whom you have set over the affairs
of the province of babylon pay no
attention to you o king none
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they neither worship your gods or serve
the image of gold you have created
nothing
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is this true
you refuse to worship my statue
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o king
we do not need to defend ourselves
before you in this matter
really
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then you shall be thrown into the
furnace and no god will save you from my
hand if we are thrown into the blazing
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furnace
our god will defend us from it
and if he does not
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we want you to know o king that we will
not serve your gods or worship the
statue of enough
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you dare to defy me
let the furnace be heated sevenfold bind
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them and cast them into the fire
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so
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there were three
thrown into the fire
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certainly no king
but now i see four
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and the fourth
the fourth
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looks
like an angel of the gods
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the fire has not harmed your bodies
not a hair is singed
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your robes
there's not even the smell of the fire
on you
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praise be to your god
who sent his angel
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to rescue his servant
you trusted in him
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you defied my commands
you were willing
to give up your lives rather than serve
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any but your own god
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therefore
i decree
any
who speaks ill of the god of shadrach
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meshach abednego
will be cut into little pieces and his
house turned to rubble
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for no other god
can save in this way
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and for a time all was well
until nebuchadnezzar's asleep
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was troubled yet by another dream
it seems like nebuchadnezzar's life
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was rife with dreams and prophecies much
like my own has been
before i was born my grandfather esther
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jesus
was troubled by a dream
where a flood beginning near his throne
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was overflowing the whole earth
when he went to his astrologers and his
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diviners for an interpretation
they told him that his grandson was
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destined to one day
usurp him so he sent his daughter
mundane in exile
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and when a son was born to her he
conspired to have it stolen and exposed
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on a hilltop to die
but a shepherd whose wife had recently
given birth to a stillborn child
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persuaded her husband to trade her dead
infant for the living and the shepherd
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raised the boy
as his own
the king upon being presented with the
dead infant
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repented
of his crime he didn't learn until 10
years later that the boy was actually
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alive
at which time he pardoned the boy
and restored him to his rightful parents
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and for a time
the matter was forgotten
until one day
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years later when you marched into your
grandfather's city at the head of your
troops and seized the throne of medea
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taking the old man captive
and the prophecy was proven true
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all the steel g's
he knew of the prophecy
but he was powerless to overcome it as
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all men are powerless to prevent their
fate
if the prophesizing be true
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listen then
as i tell
of the prophetic vision
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that led to nebuchadnezzar's madness
for when he dreamed that great dream
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his enchanters sorcerers
and astrologers
once again unable to interpret the
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vision
when i was asleep
i had a dream which made me afraid
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the images i saw
terrified me
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belter
i looked and saw before me
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a tree in the middle of the land
a tree grew strong and tall its
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top touched the sky
and it was visible to the ends of the
earth
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its leaves
they were
beautiful
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its fruit was abundant
the beasts of the field took shelter
under it and the birds of the air lived
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in its branches and from it
every creature was fed
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then i looked again
and i saw a messenger coming down from
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heaven
and he cried out aloud
cut down the tree
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trim off its branches
strip its leaves
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scatter its fruit
let the beasts flee from under it and
the birds fly from its branches
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but let the stump and its roots
bound in iron and brass remain in the
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ground in the grass of the field let it
be drenched by the dew from heaven
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let it live
with the animals of the earth and let
its mind
be changed from that of a man
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to the mind of an animal
this
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is the dream that i had
what does it mean
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my lord
if only the dream applied to your
enemies
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and its meaning to your adversaries
the tree which you saw
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which grew large and strong with its top
touching the sky
you o king
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are that tree
you have become great and strong
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your greatness has grown until it
reaches the sky and your dominion
extends to the distant parts of the
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earth
but you saw a messenger
a holy one coming down from heaven
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saying cut down the tree and destroy it
but leave the stump bound with iron and
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bronze in the grass of the field while
its roots remain in the ground
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let him be drenched with the dew of
heaven
let him live like wild animals
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this is the interpretation no king
and this is the decree
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that the most high has issued against my
lord the king
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you will be driven away from people and
live with the wild animals you will eat
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grass like cattle until you acknowledge
that the most high is sovereign over the
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kingdoms of men and gives them to anyone
he wishes
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the command to leave the stump of the
tree with its roots means that your
kingdom will be restored to you when you
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acknowledge
that the most high rules
therefore
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o king
be pleased to accept my advice
renounce your sins by doing what is
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right and your wickedness by being kind
to the oppressed
seek the lord while he may be found
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and
it may be
that your prosperity will continue
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but the memory of kings is often short
and 12 months later when the king was
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walking on the roof of the royal palace
of babylon
in all the world
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is there anything like this
no my king my great wall which mountain
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like cannot be moved i've made with
mortar and brick it's foundations i've
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placed upon the very bosom of the
underworld it's top i've raised mountain
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high
is this not the great babylon that i
have built as my royal palace with my
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mighty power
for the glory
of my majesty
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his words were still on his lips
when a voice came down from heaven
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for your arrogance and your failure to
give glory to the most high
your authority is stripped from you
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go now from this kingdom which you claim
your mind shall be reduced to that of an
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animal and you will wander the land
until you acknowledge the glory of god
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as above your own
immediately what had been said about
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nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled
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hmm
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greatest of those below heaven
he sought to make himself
as great as he who rules above heaven
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and the lord would not have it
because he insisted
on being more than he was made
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he became less than he was made
because he aspired
to be more than a man
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he became less than a man he became
like the wild beasts
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how did he survive alone in the wilds
even in his insanity
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neither the lion nor the bear disturbed
him
though he wandered alone and unarmed and
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slept naked
in the places where they found their
food
because it had been prophesized
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that one day
he would honor the most high
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for seven years he ranged the wild lands
of babylon
but it was not until the full time of
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his exile was completed that he turned
his eyes toward heaven
and declared
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praise me
to the master
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honor
and glory to him forever
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rise nebuchadnezzars
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is an eternal dominion
before him
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all the people of the earth
are regarded as nothing
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he may do as he pleases
with the powers of heaven
and all the people of the earth
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and no one
no one
may say him
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no one
may say him
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beware your place
for i am not
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as i was
let it be recorded
that i
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nebuchadnezer
do praise exalt
and glorify the king of heaven
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because everything he does is right
and all his ways are just
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and those who walk in pride
he is able to humble
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and so nebuchadnezzar returned to his
throne but eventually he was gathered to
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his fathers and a series of new kings
came to the throne none lasting more
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than a short time
you're about to tell about the downfall
of babylon are you not
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i am
well at last we come to the part of the
tale where i have some knowledge to
share but though i had conquered from
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east to west
babylon was the last to resist me and i
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dreaded its siege
for babylon's wealth had allowed her to
lay in enough grain to last for years
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and their towers walls and gates were so
formidable that even untrained men
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could defend them with ease
walls too high to scale
with parapets wide enough for chariots
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to patrol them
in a river-fed moat to cross before even
getting there it was enough to freeze
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the heart of even an old soldier such as
i am
then one night as i lay on the ground
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courting sleep that would not come
a thought came to me from once it came i
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do not know
like some spirit of god whispered in my
ear
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[Music]
the river euphrates
which flowed down to babylon
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raised above its natural level hemmed in
by dams and dikes
but if dams were opened full and the
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dikes were broken
the river which ran straight through the
heart of the city
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would fall to nothing
an army poised and ready to strike could
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march into the city on its dry riverbed
underneath the gates designed to repel
ships when the river was at its normal
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level
and i suddenly realized i've been given
the key
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to defeat the mighty babylon it was as
though in all the world
throughout all of history i was the only
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one that had the thought
all it required
was the right moment to act
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a night
when every man in babylon
from the least
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the king himself would drink himself ill
in honor of their gods who were not but
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worthless idols and could not protect
them
listen no king
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and i will tell of the second king of my
story
belshazzar
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king of babylon
both foolish
and wicked
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of equal measure
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goodbye
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thank you enough
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we still have our threefold walls with
their battlements
and within our granaries we have grain
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enough to endure a seed of 10 years our
watchmen have seen the persians digging
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my lord
they seem quite concerned about this my
king
yes yes they will look to build a siege
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ramp against the city
but first
they must build a causeway across the
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moat that alone will take months
[Music]
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in the meantime
let us feast
and toast marduk
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the patron god babylon
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these cups have a taste
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and i will not have it so
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bring me the golden vessels from the
temple of jerusalem but my king
is it wise to use the vessels my king
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these cops are considered sacred
are they not my perhaps in jerusalem
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by that pathetic desert deity of judah
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but here they are spoiled for our gods
and they would have me use them as i see
fit
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bring them
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yes
you see these vessels
in jerusalem they were used for the
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worship of their god
now
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instead of the blood of bulls and rams
let them flow with foaming wine
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for i am not a devourer of blood i am a
devourer of drink
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and choice fear
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to marduk
the god of our city
and to our idols of gold and silver
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bronze and iron
wood and stone
partake of our pleasures
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and protect our city
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whoever reads this
and tells me what it means
shall be clothed in purple
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and have a gold chain placed around his
neck
and be made third highest ruler in the
kingdom
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and all the king's wise men came in
but they could not interpret the
inscription or tell the king what it
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meant
so bowshazar became
even more terrified
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but judean once told nebuchadnezzar your
forefather
of his dreams
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he succeeded when everyone else had
failed
this man daniel
whom the king called belteshazzar
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he could tell you what this writing
means
does he still live
he does
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bring him to me quickly but do not harm
him
we shall soon learn if this hebrew can
do as you say
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nothing it would seem is too sacred not
to be profaned under the influence of
wine
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nothing
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how can i be of service highness
are you
daniel one of the exiles my father
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brought back from judah really
i am told you are able to give
interpretations
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and solve difficult problems
if you can read the writing on that wall
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you will be clothed in purple
have a chain of gold placed around your
neck
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and be made third highest ruler in the
kingdom
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long ago
i told your forefather
nebuchadnezzar
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that i would speak to him only the truth
and that if he rather not hear it
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he should ask me nothing
perhaps it would be better
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if you asked me nothing
no
it is unseemly for a king to be baffled
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by a message in his own hall
no human hand has scribed it
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no other tongue can interpret it
tell me what it means
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be it for good
oriole
okay
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the most high god
gave your father nebuchadnezzar
greatness
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and glory
but when his heart became arrogant
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he was deposed from his throne
and stripped of his glory until he
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acknowledged
that the most high is sovereign over the
kingdoms of men
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even though you knew all this
you should have appealed to him
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instead
you set yourself up against the lord of
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heaven
you had the goblets of his temple
brought to you and praised the gods of
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bronze and iron wood and stone instead
of him
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these vessels
were made for the service of the most
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high
and you have used them to pour wine
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for your harlots
would you humble the almighty
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by desecrating
his possessions
would you bind him like a captive
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and beat him like a slave would you
pluck out his eyes
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and have him beg for straps of food
beneath your table
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this you would do if you could
and the almighty knows it
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this is his answer to you
the lord god
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will strike you down like an enemy
for he has bidden his angel to uncheat
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his sword
these then
are the words he has written
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god
has numbered the days of your reign
and brought it to an end
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you have been weighed in the scales
and found wanting
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our sin
your kingdom is divided
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and given to the medes
and persians
this very night
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your life
will be demanded of you
and before the sun rises
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your flesh will grow cold
thus saith the lord
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your line is ended
your rule is over
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your kingship
is no more
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there nothing to be done
no
in your arrogance
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you have doomed not only yourself
but your house
your line
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your inheritance
your city
and
your kingdom
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choose now where you will spend
your last few hours
but knowing your fate
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who now will only
who now
will fear you
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will the least of your slaves comfort
you
or will they desert you
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seeking
to avoid the fate
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which is yours
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let it be as i have commanded
let this man be clothed in purple
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a chain of gold placed around his neck
for i am not dead yet
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[Applause]
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taken in his name
as he is commanded i shall assume the
crown
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you know who stands before you
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you're darius
the mead persian
uncle and
father-in-law to cyrus who has
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my stratagem
taken this city
by right of conquest
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you are now a king
yes
and you're an official babylon
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why should i not kill you
it is true i served babylon
in the days of nebuchadnezzar
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whom i serve truly and well
but her latter kings
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i did not serve
until tonight
how is this possible
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it is a reward
we're letting belshazzar know
that you were about to take the city
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who told you have we had trade on our
ranks
it was revealed to me by my god
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who sent his angel describe the writing
on that wall
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it is true
he read the inscription
and revealed the message
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he told the king that he would die this
very night
though brought here as an exile in my
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youth
by birth
i am a hebrew
from the kingdom of judea
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and i serve the god of my
forefathers the most high
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reveals to me what he sees fit
you might believe your god revealed my
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coming to you
if i was to lie
would this be the lie i would choose
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who else could have revealed your
deepest secret
and known ahead of time that you would
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succeed or known with certainty
that you would slay
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belshazzar and how could you have done
so
if the lord had not decreed
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or is it not by the hand of the most
high
that both
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victories
and disasters come
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i would have you put this gift to
divination in my service
yet how do i know i can trust you hebrew
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i will speak to you honestly my king
and when you would not hear the truth
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you must ask me nothing
so be it
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i see by your insignia you were made
third in all of babylon that is not the
persian way
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but below me i have three administrators
all of equal rank
yet i shall name you one of the three
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what are the other councillors
slay them
if they were loyal to the former master
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they're no good to me
if they were disloyal to him
then they will be disloyal to me
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ah darius
he's twice my uncle by blood and
marriage
54:45
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and serves me well as co-counsel to my
empire as it pleased darius to appoint
54:50
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120 say traps to rule throughout the
kingdom
with administrators above them
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one of whom was me
but before long i so distinguished
myself that
darius planned to set me over the whole
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kingdom
which would cause great envy among the
others yes okay
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so they called the meeting in secret the
plan for my destruction
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are we safe yes did anyone see you no
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why are we meeting so far from the city
you think it would be wise for this
meeting to be overheard by anyone are
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you sure you weren't followed
not unless whatever's following has
wings
we don't have much time
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daniel being put over us if we allow it
to stand
means our demise once he's in charge
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he'll be looking into everything we do
perhaps
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perhaps we should eliminate him how
a hunting accident he doesn't hunt
56:00
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a sudden illness or a drowning who would
believe it
maybe we can ensnare him how there is no
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corruption in him
nor any negligence he is as diligent as
he is skillful there must be some way he
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claims he's so effective because three
times a day his heart inclines to the
city of god there's a spirit of
excellence in him in every test he has
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proven faithful no one is that honest
from the contrary i had a man tried to
bribe him once
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and a very generous bribe at that he
would have no part of it
such a man is dangerous
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how long before he learns that we've
been generous with ourselves and covered
the thefts with false accounts
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we'll never be able to find any basis
for charges against him unless it has
something to do with that god of his
that invisible god of his no altars no
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shrines no idols laying claim to every
good thing yet somehow not responsible
for the bad i've seen him
56:51
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praying before his window on his knees
facing jerusalem morning noon and night
always the same then perhaps we need to
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make him stop he won't do it
then perhaps we need to make sure he
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continues
you say there is nothing anyone can do
to stop his prayers
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no nothing
what if the penalty for this devotion of
his
was death
57:15
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if we could forbid his prayers for an
entire month under penalty of immediate
execution don't be ridiculous i'll just
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stop praying no he won't
i know him
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he can't keep himself from praying to
that god of his for one day let alone a
month
well i still don't see how it will never
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work the king knows that daniel and his
people pray continuously
and only to one god
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which is why
we need to disguise our purpose
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more fitting testimony to your honesty
could not have been made
57:49
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had there been any infidelity in your
record
they would have discovered it
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indeed they could find nothing i miss in
my work
either willfully nor through negligence
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or lack of care so they tried to trip me
up with my prayers
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but since worship of the most high was
not prohibited by the laws of the realm
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they had to conceal their purpose
like poison
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and a cup of honey
o king it has come to our attention that
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there are those among your subjects who
still cling to the old gods of babylon
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in the hopes that their line of kings
may yet be restored and have not
submitted to your rule
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who are they
then i may bring them before me and
destroy them
it is not that simple of a matter to
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detect them o king for their devious and
work to hide their trees in his thoughts
and if you come before me without a plan
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for discovering them
we would dare not do so o king indeed we
have labored to construct a plan whereby
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the loyalty of all may be tested then
speak of it
if o king you were to issue an edict
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that none in babylon nor anywhere in the
empire may pray to anyone be to god or
man
59:08
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except to you for a period of 30 days
but what of the gods of persia whom i
serve and obey well you alone o king
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would be free to pray to them and offer
them sacrifice
you would stand as a priest
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before all the peoples and in this way
ingratiate yourself to the gods
themselves because for an entire month
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all of their worship would come from you
thus their worship will continue through
you and the old gods of babylon will be
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starved for worship lessening their
power
how would you enforce it's needed no one
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would be allowed to go before any altar
or shrine for the entire period except
for you and anyone found violating the
59:46
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decree would be thrown into the lion's
den before sundown on the very day of
the events in this way that reason would
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be discovered and eliminated in a single
stroke
1:00:00
1:00:07
i approve your plan
i darius commander be made so
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1:00:12
in anticipation of your approval o king
we have taken the liberty of drafting
the edict and bringing it along well
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1:00:19
done
bring it here that i may fix my seal
1:00:19
1:00:33
let all the world hear and obey
1:00:33
1:00:39
so darius found no need to consider it
further
darius had a great deal of experience as
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1:00:45
a soldier
but very little as a ruler until babylon
fell
1:00:45
1:00:50
one sign
the order could not be changed
let every order be upheld for the law
1:00:50
1:00:57
cannot be countermanded
and the laws cannot contradict
themselves
1:00:57
1:01:03
let each law be fixed unchangeable for
the king cannot air and once a law is
written
1:01:03
1:01:09
even the king himself cannot change it
such is the law of the persian
1:01:09
1:01:16
daniel
the king seal is barely dry already
you've defied his law
1:01:16
1:01:23
you made your choice
you chose your guard over your king
1:01:23
1:01:28
take him away
1:01:28
1:01:39
o king
it is my sad duty to inform you that
someone has already defied your decree
1:01:39
1:01:49
bring him to me
bring forth the prisoner
1:01:49
1:02:05
daniel
he is one of the exiles from judah
he pays no attention to you o king
1:02:05
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or to the decree you have put in writing
he still prays three times a day
1:02:12
1:02:18
what sort of foolishness is this
daniel's my chief advisor
no one is above the law yes sadly o king
1:02:18
1:02:26
no one is above the law
bring forth the tablet
1:02:26
1:02:36
is this not the edict from the king
signed with your own seal
1:02:36
1:02:43
let it be known that for the next 30
days anyone who prays to any god or man
1:02:43
1:02:50
other than darius the king
shall be thrown into the lion's den on
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1:02:55
the same day the offense is discovered
by my hand and seal
1:02:55
1:03:00
darius the king
ruler of the medes and persians
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1:03:12
call my counselors together
we will begin the trial
1:03:12
1:03:17
okay
live forever
there is no need of the trial
1:03:17
1:03:23
i am guilty
knowing the king's command
i have disobeyed it
1:03:23
1:03:30
the commands of the king are immutable
and once
cannot be changed
1:03:30
1:03:37
i shall command my wise men to make
every effort
to search on some reason the law may be
1:03:37
1:03:42
found unenforceable
i do not think they will find one
1:03:42
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let them search your king but only for a
short time
because your own law commands that
1:03:48
1:03:55
sentence be carried out the day of the
offense
already
1:03:55
1:04:01
the shadows are starting to grow longer
and you have only until sunset
1:04:01
1:04:08
darius was angry with himself or
allowing himself to be fooled
1:04:08
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seeing that their purpose
was not for his honor and glory
but rather for my destruction
1:04:13
1:04:22
when so darius had the law book searched
to discover if there might be some legal
1:04:22
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way to spare my life
1:04:29
1:04:41
it is as i expected
why didn't i consult you before passing
that accursed law
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now i'm forced to abide by my own decree
a king who will not enforce his own laws
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cannot be a king
your enemies know this
and use it to their advantage
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do not grieve o king
the most high does not want you to
deliver me
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if he grants me deliverance
it will be by his own hand not yours
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it is a privilege
he reserves unto himself
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and now it is time working
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that i may not break your laws a second
time
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i will walk with you daniel
one last time
as you wish your king
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for those who have schemed to bring
about my death
i will say only this
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my forefather abraham came from this
land
and the most high set unto him
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i will make you into a great nation
i will bless those who bless you
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and whoever curses you
i will curse
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they have truly cursed me
and may yet live
to reap the fruits of that curse
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a cup of wine from the king's own hand
i cannot drink it oh king
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it is blessed to your gods not mine
not so daniel
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i have gone to your people and asked for
wine which was blessed by them
from the cup i have poured no libation
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one less gesture of friendship
my king
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goodbye my friend
farewell
but perhaps not goodbye
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we have yet to see what the dawn will
bring
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hero is real
lord our god
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the lord is one
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he is angry with us
it will fade
by tomorrow morning daniel will be a
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distant memory
and the king will need us again
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uh
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no no take it away
all of it
tonight i honor daniel
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in silence
fasting
now leave me
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god
have mercy on me
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if you my soul takes
i'm in the refuge of lines
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surrounded by ravenous beasts
with teeth are spears
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tongues
are sharp as swords
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i call upon your name o lord
from the depths of the people
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hear my plea
come near you say
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do not fear
o lord
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take up my face
redeem my life
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oh a divine plan my friend
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a toast
to the lions who show no partiality to a
hebrew over any other man
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uh
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i
like stone the lord
at all times
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his praise
be ever on my lips
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but those
who seek the lord
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will lack for no good thing
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a righteous man
may have many troubles
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but the lord rescues him from them
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you have rescued me
from the mouth of lions
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and i will declare your name
to my brothers
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in the congregation
i will praise you
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out of my way
daniel
servant of the living god
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has your god been able to save you
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o king
live forever
my god has sent his angel
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and he shut the mouth
of the lions
they have not hurt me
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because i was found innocent in his
sight
come forth
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behold
there is no sign of wound on him
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for he is trusted in his god
surely your god is above all men
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for while you and the lions then
you are in his hand
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how much
must the man pay if he steals another
man's treasure
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with his hands perhaps
but what if that man who is robbed is
the king
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and the treasure is prized possession
is there any penalty less than death
which will do
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if so speak now and let me consider it
but okay
he is a hebrew why should you put such
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trust in him this hebrew is the greatest
treasure i possess
he speaks to his god and more
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importantly as god speaks to him
you have deceived me as your purpose
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you fashioned my own words as a snare
about my feet knowing my edit could not
be reversed
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but the living god
the god of daniel
has delivered him out of my hand
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for six days they have hungered
but today
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they shall feed
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i have spread a neck for my feet
i was
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bowed down in distress
they have dug a pit
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in my path
but they have fallen into it themselves
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i dares issue a decree
that in every part of my kingdom people
must fear
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and
reverence the god of daniel
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for he is the living god
and he endures forever
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his kingdom will not be destroyed
his dominion will never end
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he rescues and he saves
he performs signs and wonders in the
heavens
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and on the earth
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he has rescued daniel
from the power of the lions
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and so i serve darius
throughout his reign
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however my heart
still longed to see jerusalem
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for 70 years i had waited
and i knew our time was near
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lord
for your prophet jeremiah
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when seventy years are completed for
babylon i will come to you
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and fulfill
my gracious promise
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and bring you back to this land
my heart grows with excitement
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but now
that time has come
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and so your journey has led you here
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you've spoken of three kings
nebuchadnezzar the mighty
balchazar the foolish
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darius
who was deceived
who is this fourth king
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it is he of whom these scrolls speaker
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it is one chosen by the most high
to perform great and mighty deeds
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before he was ever knitted in his
mother's womb
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then o king
the words which were written
more than 150 years ago
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for these are the words
of the prophet isaiah
son of um from the east
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i summon a ravenous bird of prey
from a farm off land
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to fulfill my purpose
what i have said
i will bring about
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what i have planned
that will i do
a bird of prayer
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the lord's chosen will carry out his
purpose against babylon
his arm will be against the babylonians
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he pursues them unscathed
by a path
he has not traveled before
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true i've never saw the regions of the
euphrates
or further westward until i came in
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conquest and yet you chased your enemies
uninjured
they had no power to rally
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you were not led into ambush
and you were safe as far as you chose to
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pursue them were you not it's true
this is what the lord says to his
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anointed
cyrus whose right hand i take hold
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cyrus
it mentions me by name it does
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to cyrus
whose right hand i take hold of
to subdue nations before him and to
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strip kings of their armor
to open doors before him
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so that gates
will not be shut
i will go before you and will level the
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mountains
i will break down gates of bronze and
cut through bars of iron
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i will give you the treasures of
darkness which is stored in secret
places so that you may know that i am
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the lord
god of israel
who summons you
by name
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and when you captured babylon
their treasures
were the richest in the world
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were they not
indeed they were
increases will testify
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yes
quite the most magnificent
o king if i may
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please continue
cyrus
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for the sake of jacob my servant
of israel my chosen i summon you by name
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and give you a place of honor
though you do not acknowledge me
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i am the lord
i will strengthen you though you have
not acknowledged me
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so that from the rising of the sun to
the place of its setting men may know
there is none beside me
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i am the lord
there is no other
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and do you understand
that the most high has the power to
raise up kings
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and to throw them down
yes
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i do
my professor
and that you o king like a polished
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arrow
hidden in the quiver of the almighty
carefully preserved for its day of use
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yes
i was to explain my unlikely birth
or my survival
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or successes
how else might it be explained
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all my life
i had always thought of myself as
favored by my gods
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is it possible that i've been favored by
yours
you have answered your own question or
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king
for nearly two centuries the message in
this scroll has awaited your coming
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this is what the lord says
i am the lord
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who has made all things
who alone stretched out the heavens
who spread out the earth by myself
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who foils the signs of false prophets
and makes fools of diviners who
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overthrows the learning of the wise
and turns it into nonsense
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who says of jerusalem
it shall be inhabited
of the towns of judea
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they shall be built and of their ruins
i will restore them
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who says
of cyrus
he is my shepherd
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and i will accomplish
all that i please
he will say of jerusalem
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let it be rebuilt and of the temple let
its foundation be laid
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he even calls me a shepherd
i who was saved by a shepherd's hand
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and i was raised in a shepherd's house
it's i who refer to myself
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as a shepherd of my people
who else could have known us the power
of god or his prophet
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seventy years are over my king
seventy years since i was taken from the
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land of my birth
babylon has been punished
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you have punished her
only one thing remains
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for you to free her
oh king
the words
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of the scrolls
are in a tongue foreign to us
should we not at least confirm them
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no
oh friend have you heard nothing
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do you not recognize the truth when you
hear it
or do you suppose this daniel would
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spend a lifetime
arranging events
in the hopes of one day deceiving me
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your god has called me a shepherd
and so to your people i shall be
to rescue them from wolves and tyrants
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to gather them gently
and to relieve them from bondage
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and provide for their return
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and so say i cyrus king of the persians
let jerusalem be rebuilt
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the lord god of heaven has given me all
the kingdoms of the earth
and has appointed for me to build a
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temple in jerusalem in judea
any one of his people among you
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may his god be with you
let him go to jerusalem in judea and
build a temple of the lord the god of
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israel
all my ears i had never known envy
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but that day
i came closer to tasting it than i ever
have
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for i would never see the temple i so
yearn to see
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however my heart was joyous as my
brothers and sisters departed on their
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journey home
while i remained in babylon
awaiting the day when i too would be
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gathered to my ancestors
and remember me also o lord
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ensure mercy
according to your great love
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Music]
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oh
[Music]
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[Music]
uh
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Music]
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you
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