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will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you. And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen. Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations. Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord God, be it known

unto you be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel. Thus saith the Lord God; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities, I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded. And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by. And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden, and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited. Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the Lord build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate I the Lord have spoken it, and I will do it.

Thus saith the Lord God, I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them.

THE PRAYER OF DANIEL AND HIS COMPANIONS.

DAN. ii. 13-18, 1

And sthe decree went forth that the wise men should be slain; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain.yle.

Then Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioeh the captain of the king's guard, which was gone forth to slay the wise menn of Babylon: he answered and saids to Arioch the king's captain, Why is the decree so hasty from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel. Then &Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would give him time, and that he would show the king the interpretation of the dream. Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

THE ANSWER TO THEIR PRAYER.

DAN. ii. 19.

Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision.

DANIEL'S THANKSGIVING.

DAN. ii. 20-23.

Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven, and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his and he changeth the times and the seasons he removeth kings, and setteth up kings he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding: he revealeth the deep and secret things he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him. I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom. and might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee: for thou hast now made known unto us the king's matter.

THE THANKSGIVING OF KING NEBU

CHADNEZZAR.

DAN. iv. 29-37.

At the end of twelve months, the king walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty? While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee. And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will. The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his

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