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Daniel 5:4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

They drank the wine and praised their gods made of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

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Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of the heavens. The vessels from his house were brought to you, and as you and your nobles, wives, and concubines drank wine from them,  you praised the gods made of silver and gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or understand.  But you have not glorified the God who holds your life-breath in his hand and who controls the whole course of your life.  ,


Woe to him who says to wood: Wake up! or to mute stone: Come alive! Can it teach? Look! It may be plated with gold and silver, yet there is no breath  in it at all.


Since, then, we are God’s offspring, we shouldn’t think that the divine nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image fashioned by human art and imagination.


I am the Lord. That is my name, and I will not give my glory to another or my praise to idols.


Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, exalt, and glorify the King of the heavens, because all his works are true and his ways are just.  He is able to humble  those who walk in pride.


They will be turned back and utterly ashamed – those who trust in an idol and say to a cast image, “You are our gods! ”


Daniel determined that he would not defile himself with the king’s food  or with the wine he drank. So he asked permission from the chief eunuch not to defile himself.


So they brought in the gold  vessels that had been taken from the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem,  and the king and his nobles, wives, and concubines drank from them.


At that moment the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and began writing on the plaster of the king’s palace wall next to the lampstand. As the king watched the hand  that was writing,


Therefore, they will now go into exile as the first of the captives, and the feasting  of those who sprawl out will come to an end.


Then all of Adonijah’s guests got up trembling and went their separate ways.





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