The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.

I am poor and expiring from youth: I bore thy terrors; I shall be perplexed.

Therefore I am filled with anguish.
Pain grips me, like the pain of a woman in labor.
I am too perplexed to hear,
too dismayed to see.

Then King Belshazzar was greatly perplexed, his face became even paler, and his nobles were bewildered and alarmed.

How have cattle sighed! Perplexed have been droves of oxen, For there is no pasture for them, Also droves of sheep have been desolated.

For while princes are perplexed, And with their drink are drunken, They have been consumed as stubble fully dried.