ECB(i)
16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed Nego answer and say to the sovereign, O Nebukadnets Tsar, we need not respond to you in this decision:
17 and so be it, our Elah whom we serve is able to liberate us from the burning fiery furnace, and liberate us from your hand, O sovereign.
18 And behold, if not, know this, O sovereign, that we neither serve your elahim nor prostrate to the golden image you raised.
19 Then Nebukadnets Tsar fills with fury, and changes the image of his face against Shadrach, Meshach and Abed Nego: he answers and says for them to kindle the furnace seven above the usual kindling.
20 And to the most mighty mighty of valour among his valiant, he says to shackle Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed Nego, and to hurl them into the burning fiery furnace.
21 Then they shackle these mighty in their mantles, their undergarments and their hats and their robes and hurl them midst the burning fiery furnace.
22 So because the utterance of the sovereign is so severe and the furnace exceedingly kindled the flame of the fire severs the mighty who take Shadrach, Meshach and Abed Nego.
23 And these three mighty, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed Nego fall down shackled midst the burning fiery furnace.
24 Then Nebukadnets Tsar the sovereign marvels and rises hastily, and answers, saying to his cousellors, Hurled we not three mighty bound midst the fire? They answer and say to the sovereign, Certainly, O sovereign.
25 He answers and says, Behold, I see four mighty released, walking midst the fire with no damage; and the appearance of the fourth is as the Bar of Elah.
26 Then Nebukadnets Tsar approaches the portal of the burning fiery furnace; and he answers and says, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed Nego, you servants of Elyon Elah, emerge, and come. - then Shadrach, Meshach and Abed Nego emerge from midst the fire.
27 And they gather together, these satraps, prefects and governors and the counsellors of the sovereign, to see these mighty on whose bodies neither the fire domininates nor an hair of their head singes nor their mantles change nor the scent of fire passes on them.
28 Nebukadnets Tsar answers and says, Blessed - Elah of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed Nego who sent his angel to liberate his servants who attend him; and changes the utterance of the sovereign; and gives their bodies that they neither serve nor prostrate to any elah except their own Elah.