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Daniel 5:4

New American Bible - revised edition

wine from them, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.

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All the guests of Adonijah got up trembling, and went each their way,

They shall be turned back in utter shame who trust in idols; Who say to molten images, “You are our gods.”

I am the Lord, Lord is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to idols.

But Daniel was resolved not to defile himself with the king’s food or wine; so he begged the chief chamberlain to spare him this defilement.

you have rebelled against the Lord of heaven. You had the vessels of his temple brought before you, so that you and your nobles, your consorts and your concubines, might drink wine from them; and you praised the gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, that neither see nor hear nor have intelligence. But the God in whose hand is your very breath and the whole course of your life, you did not glorify.

When the gold vessels taken from the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, had been brought in, and while the king, his nobles, his consorts, and his concubines were drinking

Suddenly, opposite the lampstand, the fingers of a human hand appeared, writing on the plaster of the wall in the king’s palace. When the king saw the hand that wrote,

Therefore, now they shall be the first to go into exile, and the carousing of those who lounged shall cease.

Ah! you who say to wood, “Awake!” to silent stone, “Arise!” Can any such thing give oracles? It is only overlaid with gold and silver, there is no breath in it at all.

Since therefore we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the divinity is like an image fashioned from gold, silver, or stone by human art and imagination.




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