<p class="poetry">You people of Israel should tell those nations this:p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;These gods did not make heaven and earth.p> <p class="poetry">They will disappear<n id="1" /> from the earth and from under the heavens.&#8217;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The wise men replied to the king, &#8220;There is no man on earth who is able to disclose the king&#8217;s secret,<n id="1" /> for no king, regardless of his position and power, has ever requested such a thing from any magician, astrologer, or wise man.

I hereby decree<n id="1" /> that any people, nation, or language group that blasphemes<n id="2" /> the god of Shadrach, Meshach, or Abednego will be dismembered and his home reduced to rubble! For there exists no other god who can deliver in this way.&#8221;