Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Then all the color drained from the king's face and he became alarmed. The joints of his hips gave way, and his knees began knocking together.
New American Standard Bible
Then the king’s
King James Version
Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
Holman Bible
his face turned pale,
International Standard Version
While the king watched the back of the hand as it was writing, his facial expression changed. Utterly frightened, he lost control of his own bowels and his knees knocked together.
A Conservative Version
Then the king's countenance was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him. And the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
American Standard Version
Then the king's countenance was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
Amplified
Then the king’s face grew pale, and his thoughts alarmed him; the joints and muscles of his hips and back weakened and his knees began knocking together.
Bible in Basic English
Then the colour went from the king's face, and he was troubled by his thoughts; strength went from his body, and his knees were shaking.
Darby Translation
Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
Julia Smith Translation
The king's brightnesses changing, and his thoughts will terrify him, and the knots of his loins breaking forth, and his knees knocked this upon that
King James 2000
Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his hips were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Then his face changed and his thoughts terrified him, and {his hip joints gave way} and {his knees knocked together}.
Modern King James verseion
Then the king's face was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosened, and his knees knocked against one another.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Then changed the king his countenance, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his body shook, and his knees smote one against another.
New Heart English Bible
Then the king's face was turned pale, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his thighs gave way, and his knees began knocking together.
The Emphasized Bible
Then, as for the king, his bright looks, changed in him, and, his thoughts, terrified him, - and, the joints of his loins, were loosed, and, his knees, smote, one against another.
Webster
Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
World English Bible
Then the king's face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his thighs were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.
Youngs Literal Translation
then 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.
Themes
Conscience » Guilty » Belshazzar
Conviction » Instances of » Belshazzar, when he "saw the part of the hand that wrote,"
Drunkenness » Instances of » Belshazzar
unholy Fear » Exemplified » Belshazzar
Guilty conscience » Belshazzar
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Daniel 5:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Handwriting On The Wall
5 At that very moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the royal palace wall, opposite the lampstand. The king was watching the back of the hand that was writing. 6 Then all the color drained from the king's face and he became alarmed. The joints of his hips gave way, and his knees began knocking together. 7 The king called out loudly to summon the astrologers, wise men, and diviners. The king proclaimed to the wise men of Babylon that anyone who could read this inscription and disclose its interpretation would be clothed in purple and have a golden collar placed on his neck and be third ruler in the kingdom.
Names
Cross References
Daniel 7:28
"This is the conclusion of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts troubled me greatly, and the color drained from my face. But I kept the matter to myself."
Psalm 69:23
May their eyes be blinded! Make them shake violently!
Ezekiel 7:17
All of their hands will hang limp; their knees will be wet with urine.
Daniel 4:5
I saw a dream that frightened me badly. The things I imagined while lying on my bed -- these visions of my mind -- were terrifying me.
Nahum 2:10
Destruction, devastation, and desolation! Their hearts faint, their knees tremble, each stomach churns, each face turns pale!
Ezekiel 21:7
When they ask you, 'Why are you groaning?' you will reply, 'Because of the report that has come. Every heart will melt with fear and every hand will be limp; everyone will faint and every knee will be wet with urine.' Pay attention -- it is coming and it will happen, declares the sovereign Lord."
Daniel 4:19
Then Daniel (whose name is also Belteshazzar) was upset for a brief time; his thoughts were alarming him. The king said, "Belteshazzar, don't let the dream and its interpretation alarm you." But Belteshazzar replied, "Sir, if only the dream were for your enemies and its interpretation applied to your adversaries!
Daniel 5:9-10
Then King Belshazzar was very terrified, and he was visibly shaken. His nobles were completely dumbfounded.
Job 15:20-27
All his days the wicked man suffers torment, throughout the number of the years that are stored up for the tyrant.
Job 20:19-27
For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them; he has seized a house which he did not build.
Psalm 73:18-20
Surely you put them in slippery places; you bring them down to ruin.
Isaiah 5:27
None tire or stumble, they don't stop to nap or sleep. They don't loosen their belts, or unstrap their sandals to rest.
Isaiah 13:7-8
For this reason all hands hang limp, every human heart loses its courage.
Isaiah 21:2-4
I have received a distressing message: "The deceiver deceives, the destroyer destroys. Attack, you Elamites! Lay siege, you Medes! I will put an end to all the groaning!"
Isaiah 35:3
Strengthen the hands that have gone limp, steady the knees that shake!
Daniel 2:1
In the second year of his reign Nebuchadnezzar had many dreams. His mind was disturbed and he suffered from insomnia.
Daniel 3:19
Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with rage, and his disposition changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He gave orders to heat the furnace seven times hotter than it was normally heated.
Hebrews 12:12
Therefore, strengthen your listless hands and your weak knees,