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But they could find no grounds for complaint or any corruption, because he was faithful, and no negligence or corruption could be found in him. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>The men said, “We shall not find any ground for complaint against this Daniel unless we find it in connection with the law of his God.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>So the presidents and satraps conspired and came to the king and said to him, “O King Darius, live forever! </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>All the presidents of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the counselors and the governors are agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce an interdict, that whoever prays to anyone, divine or human, for thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be thrown into a den of lions. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Now, O king, establish the interdict and sign the document, so that it cannot be changed, according to the law of the Medes and the Persians, which cannot be revoked.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>Therefore King Darius signed the document and interdict.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Daniel in the Lions’ Den</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>Although Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he continued to go to his house, which had windows in its upper room open toward Jerusalem, and to get down on his knees three times a day to pray to his God and praise him, just as he had done previously. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>The conspirators came and found Daniel praying and seeking mercy before his God. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Then they approached the king and said concerning the interdict, “O king! Did you not sign an interdict, that anyone who prays to anyone, divine or human, within thirty days except to you, O king, shall be thrown into a den of lions?” The king answered, “The thing stands fast, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be revoked.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Then they responded to the king, “Daniel, one of the exiles from Judah, pays no attention to you, O king, or to the interdict you have signed, but he is saying his prayers three times a day.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>When the king heard the charge, he was very much distressed. He was determined to save Daniel, and until the sun went down he made every effort to rescue him. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Then the conspirators came to the king and said to him, “Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no interdict or ordinance that the king establishes can be changed.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>Then the king gave the command, and Daniel was brought and thrown into the den of lions. The king said to Daniel, “May your God, whom you faithfully serve, deliver you!” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>A stone was brought and laid on the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet and with the signet of his lords, so that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting; no food was brought to him, and sleep fled from him.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Daniel Saved from the Lions</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>Then, at break of day, the king got up and hurried to the den of lions. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>When he came near the den where Daniel was, he cried out anxiously to Daniel, “O Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God whom you faithfully serve been able to deliver you from the lions?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>Daniel then said to the king, “O king, live forever! </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>My God sent his angel and shut the lions’ mouths so that they would not hurt me, because I was found blameless before him; and also before you, O king, I have done no wrong.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>Then the king was exceedingly glad and commanded that Daniel be taken up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no kind of harm was found on him, because he had trusted in his God. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>The king gave a command, and those who had accused Daniel were brought and thrown into the den of lions—they, their children, and their wives. Before they reached the bottom of the den the lions overpowered them and broke all their bones in pieces.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>Then King Darius wrote to all peoples and nations of every language throughout the whole world: “May you have abundant prosperity! </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>I make a decree, that in all my royal dominion people should tremble and fear before the God of Daniel:</span></p><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text">For he is the living God,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">enduring forever.</span></span><br /><span class="text">His kingdom shall never be destroyed,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and his dominion has no end.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>He delivers and rescues,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">he works signs and wonders in heaven and on earth;</span></span><br /><span class="text">for he has saved Daniel</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">from the power of the lions.”</span></span></p></div> <p class="first-line-none"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>So this Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus the Persian.</span></p> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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