<p class="poetry">Do not ignore me in my time of trouble!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Listen to me!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">When I call out to you, quickly answer me!p>

<p class="poetry">A voice says, &#8220;Cry out!&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">Another asks,<n id="1" /> &#8220;What should I cry out?&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">The first voice responds:<n id="2" /> &#8220;All people are like grass,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and all their promises<n id="4" /> are like the flowers in the field.p>

<p class="poetry">For whenever I prophesy,<n id="1" /> I must cry out,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Violence and destruction are coming!&#8221;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">This message from the <sc>Lordsc><n id="4" /> has made mep> <p class="poetry">an object of continual insults and derision.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">But Daniel replied to the king, &#8220;Keep your gifts, and give your rewards to someone else! However, I will read the writing for the king and make known its<n id="1" /> interpretation.

<p class="poetry">To you, O <sc>Lordsc>, I call out for help,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">for fire<n id="2" /> has burned up<n id="3" /> the grassy pastures,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">flames have razed<n id="5" /> all the trees in the fields.p>

Is this not the time of the wheat harvest? I will call on the <sc>Lordsc> so that he makes it thunder and rain. Realize and see what a great sin you have committed before the <sc>Lordsc> by asking for a king for yourselves.&#8221;p>

Then you<n id="1" /> will invoke the name of your god, and I will invoke the name of the <sc>Lordsc>. The god who responds with fire will demonstrate that he is the true God.&#8221;<n id="2" /> All the people responded, &#8220;This will be a fair test.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>