Daniel 2

² So the king gave orders to summon the magicians, mediums, sorcerers, and Chaldeans^[a] to tell the king his dreams. When they came and stood before the king,

 

 

5b “My word is final: If you don’t tell me the dream and its interpretation, you will be torn limb from limb,^[c] and your houses will be made a garbage dump.

 

¹⁰ The Chaldeans answered the king, “No one on earth can make known what the king requests. Consequently, no king, however great and powerful, has ever asked anything like this of any magician, medium, or Chaldean.

 

 

Daniel 2

 

¹⁷ Then Daniel went to his house and told his friends Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah about the matter, ¹⁸ urging them to ask the God of the heavens for mercy concerning this mystery, so Daniel and his friends would not be destroyed with the rest of Babylon’s wise men. ¹⁹ The mystery was then revealed to Daniel in a vision at night, and Daniel praised the God of the heavens.

 

 

¹⁸ urging them to ask the God of the heavens for mercy concerning this mystery, so Daniel and his friends would not be destroyed with the rest of Babylon’s wise men.

 

 

 

 

 

urging them to ask the God of the heavens for mercy concerning this mystery

 

 

Acts 12:5 ⁵ So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was praying fervently to God for him.

 

 

¹⁹ The mystery was then revealed to Daniel in a vision at night, and Daniel praised the God of the heavens

 

 

Daniel praised the God of the heavens ²⁰ and declared:

May the name of God
be praised forever and ever,
for wisdom and power belong to him.
²¹ He changes the times and seasons;
he removes kings and establishes kings.
He gives wisdom to the wise
and knowledge to those
who have understanding.
²² He reveals the deep and hidden things;
he knows what is in the darkness,
and light dwells with him.
²³ I offer thanks and praise to you,
God of my fathers,
because you have given me
wisdom and power.
And now you have let me know
what we asked of you,
for you have let us know
the king’s mystery.^[f]

 

 

 

 

May the name of God
be praised forever and ever,
for wisdom and power belong to him.

 

 

²¹ He changes the times and seasons;
he removes kings and establishes kings.
He gives wisdom to the wise
and knowledge to those
who have understanding.

 

 

²² He reveals the deep and hidden things;
he knows what is in the darkness,
and light dwells with him.

 

 

 

 

 

Psalm 139:

⁹ If I live at the eastern horizon
or settle at the western limits,^[a]
10 even there your hand will lead me;
your right hand will hold on to me.
¹¹ If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me,
and the light around me will be night”—
¹² even the darkness is not dark to you.
The night shines like the day;
darkness and light are alike to you.

 

 

1 Timothy 6

¹⁵ God will bring this about in his own time. He is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings, and the Lord of lords, ¹⁶ who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see, to him be honor and eternal power. Amen.

 

 

 

²³ I offer thanks and praise to you,
God of my fathers,
because you have given me
wisdom and power.
And now you have let me know
what we asked of you,
for you have let us know
the king’s mystery.