17 Accept our repentance as our sacrifice to you today, so that we may obey you with all our hearts. No one who trusts you will ever be disappointed.
18-19 Now with all our hearts we promise to obey you, worship you, and come to you in prayer. Treat us with kindness and mercy, and let us never be put to shame.
20 O Lord, rescue us with one of your miracles; bring honour to your name.
21 “Bring disgrace and shame on all who harm us. Take away their might and power and crush their strength.
22 Let them know that you alone are Lord and God and that you rule in majesty over the whole world.”
23 The king's servants who had thrown the three men into the furnace kept the fire hot by feeding it with oil, tar, flax, and brushwood.
24 The flames blazed up to a height of more than twenty metres