Chapter 102

¹ Then the king spoke, and they brought the men who had accused Daniel, and they themselves and their sons and their wives were cast into the den of lions; and they had not reached the floor of the den before the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones to pieces.

² Those, then, who trust in a man, a king, and who dig a pit for their neighbor, shall themselves fall into it to their destruction.

³ As also then it came about in the case of the three young men: the fire did not overpower those who were in the furnace, but it consumed the Chaldeans outside as it swept through them.

⁴ For justly do the eyes of God assign to men a fitting judgment.

⁵ As it also befell Haman in the meantime, when he wished to destroy Mordecai and his race in a single day: having prepared a gallows of fifty cubits for him, he himself with his whole household was hanged upon it.

⁶ Now those who accused Daniel and handed him over as food to the beasts were themselves destroyed by the lions.