18. Then the king went to his palace and passed the night fasting, and no instruments of music were brought before him. And his sleep fled from him.
19. Then the king arose very early in the morning and went in haste to the den of lions.
20. When he came to the den, he cried with a voice full of sorrow to Daniel. And the king spoke and said to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God whom you serve continually been able to deliver you from the lions?”
21. Then Daniel said to the king, “O king, live forever!
22. My God has sent His angel and has shut the lions’ mouths so that they have not hurt me, because innocence was found in me before Him; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”
23. Then the king was exceeding glad for him and commanded that they take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of harm was found on him, because he believed in his God.