25. Azariah stood up in the midst of the fire and prayed aloud:
26. “Blessed are you, and praiseworthy,O Lord, the God of our ancestors,and glorious forever is your name.
27. For you are just in all you have done;all your deeds are faultless, all your ways right,and all your judgments proper.
28. You have executed proper judgmentsin all that you have brought upon usand upon Jerusalem, the holy city of our ancestors.By a proper judgment you have done all thisbecause of our sins;