Frost and chill, bless the Lord;
praise and exalt him above all forever.
Hoarfrost and snow, bless the Lord;
praise and exalt him above all forever.
—Daniel 3:69-70
I came across this on Wednesday reading ahead the responsorial psalm (canticle?) as part of the daily readings for Thursday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time (November 27, Thanksgiving Day). In the reading form, the words for Dn 3:70 were translated slightly differently: “Ice and snow, bless the Lord”—“ice” instead of “hoarfrost.”
This is from the Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Holy Youths: Hananiah, Azariah, and Mishael (Dn 3:88), “these three in the furnace with one voice sang, glorifying and blessing God” (Dn 3:51) in thanksgiving after the angel of the Lord protected them from harm (Dn 3:49-50).
More: Daniel (introduction followed by English-language text) in the Bible on the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops website, Thomas J. Tobin, then-Bishop (now Emeritus) of Providence, Rhode Island on being left cold by these words during Morning Prayer (2022), reflection on “The Fiery Furnace Prayer” (2024) at Franciscan Media, “Icon Types From the Daniel Cycle” post (2015) on the excellent non-“religious,” art-historical Icons and Their Interpretation blog.