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Is not the one who does these things great? But truth is great, and stronger than all things.
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The whole earth calls upon truth, and heaven blesses it. All God's works quake and tremble, and with him there is nothing unrighteous.
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Wine is unrighteous, the king is unrighteous, women are unrighteous, all human beings are unrighteous, all their works are unrighteous, and all such things. There is no truth in them and in their unrighteousness they will perish.
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But truth endures and is strong forever, and lives and prevails forever and ever.
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With it there is no partiality or preference, but it does what is righteous instead of anything that is unrighteous or wicked. Everyone approves its deeds,
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and there is nothing unrighteous in its judgment. To it belongs the strength and the kingship and the power and the majesty of all the ages. Blessed be the God of truth!"
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When he stopped speaking, all the people shouted and said, "Great is truth, and strongest of all!"
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Then the king said to him, "Ask what you wish, even beyond what is written, and we will give it to you, for you have been found to be the wisest. You shall sit next to me, and be called my Kinsman."
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Then he said to the king, "Remember the vow that you made on the day when you became king, to build Jerusalem,
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and to send back all the vessels that were taken from Jerusalem, which Cyrus set apart when he began to destroy Babylon, and vowed to send them back there.
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You also vowed to build the temple, which the Edomites burned when Judea was laid waste by the Chaldeans.