Whoever does not bow down and pay homage will immediately<n id="1" /> be thrown into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire!&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then Daniel (whose name is also Belteshazzar) was upset for a brief time;<n id="1" /> his thoughts were alarming him. The king said, &#8220;Belteshazzar, don&#8217;t let the dream and its interpretation alarm you.&#8221; But Belteshazzar replied, &#8220;Sir,<n id="2" /> if only the dream were for your enemies and its interpretation applied to your adversaries!

<p class="bodytext">Now in that very moment<n id="1" /> this pronouncement about<n id="2" /> Nebuchadnezzar came true.<n id="3" /> He was driven from human society, he ate grass like oxen, and his body became damp with the dew of the sky, until his hair became long like an eagle&#8217;s feathers, and his nails like a bird&#8217;s claws.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="bodytext">At that very moment the fingers of a human hand appeared<n id="1" /> and wrote on the plaster of the royal palace wall, opposite the lampstand.<n id="2" /> The king was watching the back<n id="3" /> of the hand that was writing.

Now if you are ready, when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, trigon, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music<b>,b> you must bow down and pay homage to the statue that I had made. If you don&#8217;t pay homage to it, you will immediately be thrown into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire. Now, who is that god who can rescue you from my power?&#8221;<n id="1" />