Daniel 6:18-20

Common English Bible

¹⁸ The king then went home to his palace and fasted through the night. No pleasures^[a] were brought to him, and he couldn’t sleep. ¹⁹ At dawn, at the first sign of light, the king rose and rushed to the lions’ pit.

²⁰ As he approached it, he called out to Daniel, worried: “Daniel, servant of the living God! Was your God—the one you serve so consistently—able to rescue you from the lions?”