The Song of the three holy children, which followeth in the third Chapter of Daniel after this place, [And they walked in the midst of the fire, praising God, and blessing the Lord. ] That which followeth is not in the Hebrew; to wit, [Then Azarias stood vp vnto these wordes, [And Nabuchodonofor.] Chapter 1

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CHAP. I.

1 Azarias his praier and confession in the flame, 24 wherewith the Chaldeans about the ouen were consumed, but the three children within it were not hurt. 28 The Song of the three children in the ouen.

¹[And they walked in the midst of the fire, praising God, and blessing the Lord. ] Then Azarias stood vp & prayed on this manner, and opening his mouth in the midst of the fire, said,

²Blessed art thou, O Lord God of our fathers: thy Name is worthy to be praised, and glorified for euermore.

³For thou art righteous in all the things that thou hast done to vs: yea, true are all thy workes: thy wayes are right, and all thy iudgements trueth.³

⁴In all the things that thou hast brought vpon vs, and vpon the holy citie of our fathers, euen Ierusalem, thou hast executed true iudgement: for according to trueth and iudgement, didst thou bring all these things vpon vs, because of our sinnes.

⁵For wee haue sinned and committed iniquitie, departing from thee.

⁶In all things haue we trespassed, and not obeyed thy Commandements, nor kept them, neither done as thou hast commanded vs, that it might goe well with vs.

⁷Wherefore all that thou hast brought vpon vs, and euery thing that thou hast done to vs, thou hast done in true iudgement.

⁸And thou didst deliuer vs into the hands of lawlesse enemies, most hatefull forsakers [of God] and to an vniust King, and the most wicked in all the world.

⁹And now wee can not open our mouthes, we are become a shame, and reproch to thy seruants, and to them that worship thee.

¹⁰Yet deliuer vs not vp wholy for thy Names sake, neither disanull thou thy Couenant:

¹¹And cause not thy mercy to depart from vs: for thy beloued Abrahams sake: for thy seruant Isaacs sake, and for thy holy Israels sake.

¹²To whom thou hast spoken and promised, That thou wouldest multiply their seed as the starres of heauen, and as the sand that lyeth vpon the sea shore.

¹³For we, O Lord, are become lesse then any nation, and bee kept vnder this day in all the world, because of our sinnes.

¹⁴Neither is there at this time, Prince, or Prophet, or leader, or burnt offering, or sacrifice, or oblation, or incense, or place to sacrifice before thee, and to finde mercie.

¹⁵Neuerthelesse in a contrite heart, and an humble spirit, let vs be accepted.

¹⁶Like as in the burnt offering of rammes and bullockes, and like as in ten thousands of fat lambes: so let our sacrifice bee in thy sight this day, and [grant] that wee may wholy goe after thee: for they shall not bee confounded that put their trust in thee.

¹⁷And now wee follow thee, with all our heart, wee feare thee, and seeke thy face.

¹⁸Put vs not to shame: but deale with vs after thy louing kindenesse, and according to the multitude of thy mercies.

¹⁹Deliuer vs also according to thy marueilous workes, and giue glory to thy Name, O Lord, and let all them that doe thy seruants hurt be ashamed.

²⁰And let them be confounded in all their power and might, and let their strength be broken.²⁰

²¹And let them know that thou art Lord, the onely God, and glorious ouer the whole world.

²²And the kings seruants that put them in, ceased not to make the ouen hote with rosin, pitch, towe, and small wood.²²

²³So that the flame streamed forth aboue the fornace, fourtie and nine cubites:

²⁴And it passed through, and burnt those Caldeans it found about the fornace.

²⁵But the Angel of the Lord came downe into the ouen, together with Azarias and his fellowes, and smote the flame of the fire out of the ouen:

²⁶And made the mids of the fornace, as it had bene a moist whistling wind, so that the fire touched them not at all, neither hurt nor troubled them.²⁶

²⁷Then the three, as out of one mouth, praised, glorified, and blessed God in the fornace, saying;

²⁸Blessed art thou, O Lord God of our fathers: and to be praised and exalted aboue all for euer.

²⁹And blessed is thy glorious and holy Name: and to be praised and exalted aboue all for euer.

³⁰Blessed art thou in the Temple of thine holy glory: and to be praised and glorified aboue all for euer.

³¹Blessed art thou that beholdest the depths, and sittest vpon the Cherubims, and to be praised and exalted aboue all for euer.

³²Blessed art thou on the glorious Throne of thy kingdome: and to bee praised and glorified aboue all for euer.

³³Blessed art thou in the firmament of heauen: and aboue all to be praised and glorified for euer.

³⁴O all yee workes of the Lorde, blesse ye the Lord: praise and exalt him aboue all for euer.³⁴

³⁵O ye heauens, blesse ye the Lord: praise and exalt him aboue all for euer.³⁵

³⁶O yee Angels of the Lord, blesse ye the Lord: praise and exalt him aboue all for euer.

³⁷O all ye waters that be aboue the heauen, blesse yee the Lord: praise and exalt him aboue all for euer.

³⁸O all yee powers of the Lord, blesse ye the Lord: praise and exalt him aboue all for euer.

³⁹O yee Sunne and Moone, blesse ye the Lord: praise and exalt him aboue all for euer.

⁴⁰O ye starres of heauen, blesse ye the Lord: praise and exalt him aboue all for euer.

⁴¹O euery showre and dew, blesse ye the Lord: praise and exalt him aboue all for euer.

⁴²O all ye windes, blesse yee the Lord: praise and exalt him aboue all for euer.

⁴³O yee fire and heate, blesse ye the Lord: praise and exalt him aboue all for euer.

⁴⁴O yee Winter and Summer, blesse ye the Lord: praise and exalt him aboue all for euer.

⁴⁵O ye dewes and stormes of snow, blesse ye the Lord: praise and exalt him aboue all for euer.

⁴⁶O ye nights and dayes, blesse ye the Lord: praise and exalt him aboue all for euer.

⁴⁷O ye light and darkenesse, blesse ye the Lord: praise and exalt him aboue all for euer.

⁴⁸O yee yce and colde, blesse ye the Lord: praise and exalt him aboue all for euer.

⁴⁹O ye frost and snow, blesse ye the Lord: praise and exalt him aboue all for euer.

⁵⁰O ye lightnings and clouds, blesse ye the Lord: praise and exalt him aboue all for euer.

⁵¹O let the earth blesse the Lord: praise and exalt him aboue all for euer.

⁵²O ye mountaines and little hils, blesse ye the Lord: praise and exalt him aboue all for euer.

⁵³O all ye things that grow on the earth, blesse ye the Lord: praise and exalt him aboue all for euer.

⁵⁴O yee fountaines, blesse yee the Lord: praise and exalt him aboue all for euer.

⁵⁵O ye seas and riuers, blesse ye the Lord: praise and exalt him aboue all for euer.

⁵⁶O ye whales and all that mooue in the waters, blesse ye the Lord: praise and exalt him aboue all for euer.

⁵⁷O all ye foules of the aire, blesse ye the Lord: praise and exalt him aboue all for euer.⁵⁷

⁵⁸O all ye beasts and cattell, blesse ye the Lord: praise and exalt him aboue all for euer.

⁵⁹O ye children of men, blesse yee the Lord: praise and exalt him aboue all for euer.

⁶⁰O Israel blesse ye the Lord: praise and exalt him aboue all for euer.

⁶¹O ye priests of the Lord, blesse ye the Lord: praise and exalt him aboue all for euer.

⁶²O ye seruants of the Lord, blesse ye the Lord: praise and exalt him aboue all for euer.

⁶³O ye spirits and soules of the righteous, blesse ye the Lord, praise and exalt him aboue all for euer.

⁶⁴O ye holy and humble men of heart, blesse ye the Lord: praise and exalt him aboue all for euer.⁶⁴

⁶⁵O Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, blesse ye the Lord, praise and exalt him aboue all for euer: for hee hath deliuered vs from hell, and saued vs from the hand of death, and deliuered vs out of the mids of the furnace, [and] burning flame: euen out of the mids of the fire hath he deliuered vs.⁶⁵

⁶⁶O giue thanks vnto the Lord, because he is gracious: for his mercie endureth for euer.

⁶⁷O all ye that worship the Lord, blesse the God of gods, praise him, and giue him thankes: for his mercie endureth for euer.

Original 1611 KJV Sidenote References for Prayer of Azariah Chapter 1

³ Psal.25. 10.
²⁰ Or, by thy power and might.
²² Or, Naptha, which is a certaine kind of fat and chalke clay. Plin. lib.2.6.105.
²⁶ Or, coels.
³⁴ Or, highly exalt: and so in the rest.
³⁵ Psal.148.4
⁵⁷ Gr. heauen.
⁶⁴ Or, Saints
⁶⁵ Or, graue.

* Some content courtesy of Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania

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