Prayer of Azaria & Song of the Three 1

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¹And they walked in the midst of the flame, and praised God, and blessed the Lord.

²Forsooth Azariah stood, and prayed thus; and he opened his mouth in the midst of the fire, and said,

³Lord, God of our fathers, thou art blessed, or Blessed art thou, Lord God of our Fathers, and worthy to be praised, and thy name is glorious into worlds;

⁴for thou art rightful in all things which thou didest to us, and all thy works be true; and thy ways be rightful or right, and thy dooms be true.

⁵For thou hast done true dooms, by or after all things which thou broughtest in on us, and on Jerusalem, the holy city of our fathers; for in truth and in doom, thou broughtest in all these things for our sins.

⁶For we sinned, and did wickedly, going away from thee,

⁷and we trespassed in all things, and we heard not, neither kept thy commandments, neither we did as thou commandedest to us, that it should be or that it were well to us.

⁸Therefore thou didest by thy very doom all things which thou broughtest in on us, and all things which thou didest to us;

⁹and thou hast betaken us in the hands of enemies, wicked men, and worst trespassers, and to the unjust king, and worst over all earth.

¹⁰And now we may not open the mouth; we be made shame and reproof to thy servants, and to them that worship thee.

¹¹We beseech, give thou or betake not us to enemies without end, for thy name, and destroy thou not thy testament,

¹²and take thou not away thy mercy from us, for Abraham, thy darling or thy dearworthy, and Isaac, thy servant, and Israel, or Jacob, thine holy;

¹³to which thou spakest, promising that thou shouldest multiply their seed as the stars of heaven, and as gravel which is in the brink of the sea.

¹⁴For why, Lord, we be made little, more than all folks or all heathen men, and we be low in all earth today or we be meek in each land this day, for our sins.

¹⁵And in this time is no prince or there is not in this time prince, and duke, and prophet, neither burnt sacrifice, neither sacrifice, neither offering, neither incense, neither place of first fruits before thee, that we may find thy mercy;

¹⁶but be we received in contrite soul, and in spirit of meekness.

¹⁷As in burnt sacrifice of rams, and of bulls, and as in thousands of fat lambs, so our sacrifice be made today in thy sight, that it please thee; for no shame or confusion is to them that trust in thee.

¹⁸And now we pursue thee in all the heart, and we dread thee, and we seek thy face.

¹⁹Shame thou not us, but do with us by or after thy mildness, and by or after the multitude of thy mercy.

²⁰And deliver thou us in thy marvels, and give thou glory to thy name, Lord; and all men be ashamed, that show evils to thy servants;

²¹be they shamed in all thy might or power, and the strength of them be all-broken or broken altogether;

²²and they shall know, that thou art the Lord God alone, and glorious on the roundness of lands or of earths.

²³And the ministers of the king, that had sent them, ceased not to make hot the furnace with cement or with naphtha, and hards of flax or of hemp, and pitch, and scions or cuttings of vines.

²⁴And the flame was shed or poured out over the furnace by nine and forty cubits,

²⁵and brake out, and burnt them that it found of Chaldees beside the furnace. and brake out, and burnt whom of Chaldees it found beside the furnace.

²⁶Forsooth the angel of the Lord came down with Azariah and his fellows, into the furnace, and smote out the flame of the fire from the furnace;

²⁷and made the midst of the furnace as the wind of dew blowing; and utterly the fire touched not them, neither made sorry or sorrowful, neither did anything of dis-ease or brought in anything of heaviness.

²⁸Then these three as of one mouth praised and glorified God, and blessed God in the furnace, and said,

²⁹Lord God of our fathers, thou art blessed or Blessed are thou, Lord God of our fathers, and worthy to be praised, and glorious, and above enhanced into worlds;

³⁰and blessed is the name of thy glory, which name is holy, and worthy to be praised, and above enhanced or raised into all worlds.

³¹Thou art blessed or Blessed art thou in the holy temple of thy glory, and above praiseable, and glorious into worlds.

³²Thou art blessed or Blessed art thou in the throne of thy realm, and above praiseable, and above enhanced or raised into worlds.

³³Thou art blessed or Blessed art thou, that beholdest depths of waters or deepnesses, and sittest up on cherubim, and praiseable, and above enhanced or raised into worlds.

³⁴Thou art blessed or Blessed art thou in the firmament of heaven, and praiseable, and glorious into worlds.

³⁵All works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord; praise ye, and above enhance or raise ye him into worlds.

³⁶Angels of the Lord, bless ye the Lord; praise ye, and above enhance or raise ye him into worlds.

³⁷Heavens, bless ye the Lord; praise ye, and above enhance or raise ye him into worlds.

³⁸All waters that be above heavens, bless ye the Lord; praise ye, and above enhance or raise ye him into worlds.

³⁹All the virtues of the Lord, bless ye the Lord; praise ye, and above enhance or raise ye him into worlds.

⁴⁰Sun and moon, bless ye the Lord; praise ye, and above enhance or raise ye him into worlds.

⁴¹Stars of heaven, bless ye the Lord; praise ye, and above enhance or raise ye him into worlds.

⁴²Rain and dew, bless ye the Lord; praise ye, and above enhance or raise ye him into worlds.

⁴³Each spirit of God, bless ye the Lord; praise ye, and above enhance or raise ye him into worlds.

⁴⁴Fire and heat, bless ye the Lord; praise ye, and above enhance or raise ye him into worlds.

⁴⁵Cold and summer, bless ye the Lord; praise ye, and above enhance or raise ye him into worlds.

⁴⁶Dews and white frost, bless ye the Lord; praise ye, and above enhance or raise ye him into worlds.

⁴⁷Black frost and cold, bless ye the Lord; praise ye, and above enhance or raise ye him into worlds.

⁴⁸Ices and snows, bless ye the Lord; praise ye, and above enhance or raise ye him into worlds.

⁴⁹Nights and days, bless ye the Lord; praise ye, and above enhance or raise ye him into worlds.

⁵⁰Light and darkness, bless ye the Lord; praise ye, and above enhance or raise ye him into worlds.

⁵¹Lightnings and clouds, bless ye the Lord; praise ye, and above enhance or raise ye him into worlds.

⁵²The earth bless the Lord; praise it, and above enhance or raise it him into worlds.

⁵³Mountains and little hills, bless ye the Lord; praise ye, and above enhance or raise ye him into worlds.

⁵⁴All burgeoning things in earth, bless ye the Lord; praise ye, and above enhance or raise ye him into worlds.

⁵⁵Wells, bless ye the Lord; praise ye, and above enhance or raise ye him into worlds.

⁵⁶Seas and floods, bless ye the Lord; praise ye, and above enhance or raise ye him into worlds.

⁵⁷Whales, and all things that be moved in waters, bless ye the Lord; praise ye, and above enhance or raise ye him into worlds.

⁵⁸All birds of the air, bless ye the Lord; praise ye, and above enhance or raise ye him into worlds.

⁵⁹All wild beasts and tame beasts, bless ye the Lord; praise ye, and above enhance or raise ye him into worlds.

⁶⁰Sons of men, bless ye the Lord; praise ye, and above enhance or raise ye him into worlds.

⁶¹Israel, bless the Lord; praise it, and above enhance or raise it him into worlds.

⁶²Priests of the Lord, bless ye the Lord; praise ye, and above enhance or raise ye him into worlds.

⁶³Servants of the Lord, bless ye the Lord; praise ye, and above enhance or raise ye him into worlds.

⁶⁴Spirits and souls of just men, bless ye the Lord; praise ye, and above enhance or raise ye him into worlds.

⁶⁵Holy men and meek of or in heart, bless ye the Lord; praise ye, and above enhance or raise ye him into worlds.

⁶⁶Hananiah, Azariah, and Mishael, bless ye the Lord; praise ye, and above enhance or raise ye him into worlds. The which Lord ravished or delivered us from hell, and saved from the hand of death, and delivered us from the midst of flame burning or from the middle of the burning flame, and ravished us from or out of the midst of the fire.

⁶⁷Acknowledge ye to the Lord, for he is good; for his mercy is into the world.

⁶⁸All religious men or All religious, bless ye the Lord, God of gods; praise ye, and acknowledge to him, for his mercy is into all worlds.