15 Now if you are ready, (A)at the moment you hear the sound of the horn, flute, [a]lyre, trigon, psaltery and bagpipe and all kinds of music, to fall down and worship the image that I have made, very well. But if you do not worship, you will [b]immediately be (B)cast into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire; and (C)what god is there who can deliver you out of my hands?”

16 (D)Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego replied to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to give you an answer concerning this matter. 17 [c]If it be so, our (E)God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the furnace of blazing fire; [d]and (F)He will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 3:15 V 5, notes 1, 2, 3
  2. Daniel 3:15 Or in the same hour
  3. Daniel 3:17 Or If our God...is able
  4. Daniel 3:17 Or then