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Daniel 3:30 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" In all things we have trespassed, and not obeyed your commandments or kept them. We haven’t done as you have commanded us, that it might go well with us. "
Daniel 3:30
Verse in Context
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28 In all the things that you have brought upon us, and upon the holy city of our fathers, Jerusalem, you have executed true judgments. For according to truth and justice you have brought all these things upon us because of our sins.
29 For we have sinned and committed iniquity in departing from you.
30 In all things we have trespassed, and not obeyed your commandments or kept them. We haven’t done as you have commanded us, that it might go well with us.
31 Therefore all that you have brought upon us, and everything that you have done to us, you have done in true judgment.
32 You delivered us into the hands of lawless enemies, most hateful rebels, and to an unjust king who is the most wicked in all the world.
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Daniel 3:1
"Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits, and its width six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon."
Daniel 3:2
"Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the local governors, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up."
Daniel 3:3
"Then the local governors, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up."
Daniel 3:4
"Then the herald cried aloud, “To you it is commanded, peoples, nations, and languages,"
Daniel 3:5
"that whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, you fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up."
Daniel 3:6
"Whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace the same hour.”"
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