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[[File:Greek triptych Louvre MI793.jpg|thumb|300px|Greek [[triptych]] c. 1550, with the Three Holy Children in the left panel.]]
The '''Prayer of Azariah and the Song of the Three Holy Children''' is a lengthy passage that appears after [[Book of Daniel|Daniel]] 3:23 in [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] and [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodox]] Bibles, as well as in the ancient Greek [[Septuagint]] translation. Article VI of the [[Thirty-Nine Articles]] of the [[Church of England]] has it listed as non-canonical (but still, with the other Apocryphal texts, "the Church doth read for example of life and instruction of manners",<ref>[http://www.episcopalian.org/pbs1928/articles/AnglicanTeaching/042.htm Article VI at episcopalian.org] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928122338/http://www.episcopalian.org/pbs1928/articles/AnglicanTeaching/042.htm |date=2007-09-28 }}</ref> and the Anglican Church uses it liturgically). The passage is omitted from most [[Protestant]] [[Bible]]s as an [[apocrypha]]l addition.
The passage includes three main components. The first is the penitential prayer of Daniel's friend Azariah (called Abednego in Babylonian, according to {{bibleverse||Daniel|1:6–7|NIV}}) while the [[Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego|three youths]] were in the [[Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego#Fiery furnace|fiery furnace]]. The second component is a brief account of a radiant figure who met them in the furnace yet who was unburned. This is said to be an angel, or interpreted by Christians as a [[Typology (theology)|prefigurement]] or [[theophany]] of Jesus Christ, in the same vein as [[Melchisedek]]. The third component is the hymn of praise they sang when they realized their deliverance. The hymn includes the refrain, "Praise and exalt Him above all forever...", repeated many times, each naming a feature of the world.
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