Daniel 5:9

then the king Belshazzar is greatly troubled, and his countenance is changing in him, and his great men are perplexed.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were astonied.

In Context

8Then coming up are all the wise men of the king, and they are not able to read the writing, and the interpretation to make known to the king;

10The queen, on account of the words of the king and his great men, to the banquet-house hath come up. Answered hath the queen, and said, 'O king, to the ages live; let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor thy countenance be changed:

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Cross References

Job 18:11Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him — at his feet.

Psalms 48:6Trembling hath seized them there, Pain, as of a travailing woman.

Isaiah 21:2A hard vision hath been declared to me, The treacherous dealer is dealing treacherously, And the destroyer is destroying. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Media, All its sighing I have caused to cease.

Jeremiah 30:6Ask, I pray you, and see, is a male bringing forth? Wherefore have I seen every man, His hands on his loins, as a travailing woman, And all faces have been turned to paleness?

Daniel 5:6then the king's countenance hath changed, and his thoughts do trouble him, and the joints of his loins are loosed, and his knees are smiting one against another.

Matthew 2:3And Herod the king having heard, was stirred, and all Jerusalem with him,

Matthew Henry on Daniel 5:2-10

Belshazzar's Feast; The Hand-writing on the Wall. ( b. c. 538.) 1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. 2 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein. 3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God… Read the whole commentary →

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