In
the book of Daniel we are told how the weary king, after his night of fasting and sleepless humiliation at being tricked by his courtiers, rose early and came with haste to the den of lions into which Daniel had been thrust, and "cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel," saying, "O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions?
