³ and said to the king, ^(A)“May the king live forever! Why should my face not be sad, when ^(B)the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates are burned with ^(C)fire?”

⁴ Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in Aramaic, ^(A)“O^[a] king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will give the interpretation.”

⁹ They spoke and said to King Nebuchadnezzar, ^(A)“O king, live forever!