Daniel 5:6
Good News Translation
He turned pale and was so frightened that his knees began to shake.

New Revised Standard Version
Then the king’s face turned pale, and his thoughts terrified him. His limbs gave way, and his knees knocked together.

Contemporary English Version
He was so frightened that his face turned pale, his knees started shaking, and his legs became weak.

New American Bible
his face became pale; his thoughts terrified him, his hip joints shook, and his knees knocked.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then was the king's countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him: and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees struck one against the other.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Then was the king's countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him: and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees struck one against the other.

the king's.

Daniel 5:9 Wherewith king Baltasar was much troubled, and his countenance was changed: and his nobles also were troubled.

Daniel 2:1 In the second year of the reign of Nabuchodonosor, Nabuchodonosor had a dream, and his spirit was terrified, and his dream went out of his mind.

Daniel 3:19 Then was Nabuchodonosor filled with fury: and the countenance of his face was changed against Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, and he commanded that the furnace should be heated seven times more than it had been accustomed to be heated.

Job 15:20-27 The wicked man is proud all his days, and the number of the years of his tyranny is uncertain. . . .

Job 20:19-27 Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build. . . .

Psalm 73:18-20 But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down. . . .

Isaiah 21:2-4 A grievous vision is told me: he that is unfaithful dealeth unfaithfully: and he that is a spoiler, spoileth. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Mede: I have made all the mourning thereof to cease. . . .

countenance.

Daniel 5:9 Wherewith king Baltasar was much troubled, and his countenance was changed: and his nobles also were troubled.

was changed.

Daniel 5:10 Then the queen, on occasion of what had happened to the king, and his nobles, came into the banquet-house: and she spoke, and said: O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, neither let thy countenance be changed.

Daniel 4:5,19 Till their colleague, Daniel, came in before me, whose name is Baltassar, according to the name of my god, who hath in him the spirit of the holy gods: and I told the dream before him. . . .

Daniel 7:28 Hitherto is the end of the word. I, Daniel, was much troubled with my thoughts, and my countenance was changed in me: but I kept the word in my heart.

so that.

Psalm 69:23 Let their eyes be darkened that they see not; and their back bend thou down always.

Isaiah 13:7,8 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every heart of man shall melt, . . .

Isaiah 21:3,4 Therefore are my loins filled with pain, anguish hath taken hold of me, as the anguish of a woman in labour: I fell down at the hearing of it, I was troubled at the seeing of it. . . .

joints.

Isaiah 5:27 There is none that shall faint, nor labour among them: they shall not slumber nor sleep, neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken.

Chal.

Isaiah 35:3 Strengthen ye the feeble hands, and confirm the weak knees.

Ezekiel 7:17 All hands shall be made feeble, and all knees shall run with water.

Ezekiel 21:7 And when they shall say to thee: Why mournest thou? thou shalt say: For that which I hear: because it cometh, and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be made feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and water shall run down every knee: behold it cometh, and it shall be done, saith the Lord God.

Nahum 2:10 She is destroyed, and rent, and torn: the heart melteth, and the knees fail, and all the loins lose their strength: and the faces of them all are as the blackness of a kettle.

Hebrews 12:12 Wherefore, lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble knees:

Context
The Handwriting on the Wall
5In the same hour there appeared fingers, as it were of the hand of a man, writing over against the candlestick, upon the surface of the wall of the king's palace: and the king beheld the joints of the hand that wrote. 6Then was the king's countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him: and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees struck one against the other.7And the king cried out aloud to bring in the wise men, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spoke, and said to the wise men of Babylon: Whosoever shall read this writing, and shall make known to me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with purple, and shall have a golden chain on his neck, and shall be the third man in my kingdom.…
Cross References
Psalm 22:14
I am poured out like water; and all my bones are scattered. My heart is become like wax melting in the midst of my bowels.

Psalm 69:23
Let their eyes be darkened that they see not; and their back bend thou down always.

Ezekiel 7:17
All hands shall be made feeble, and all knees shall run with water.

Ezekiel 21:7
And when they shall say to thee: Why mournest thou? thou shalt say: For that which I hear: because it cometh, and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be made feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and water shall run down every knee: behold it cometh, and it shall be done, saith the Lord God.

Daniel 5:5
In the same hour there appeared fingers, as it were of the hand of a man, writing over against the candlestick, upon the surface of the wall of the king's palace: and the king beheld the joints of the hand that wrote.

Daniel 5:9
Wherewith king Baltasar was much troubled, and his countenance was changed: and his nobles also were troubled.

Daniel 5:10
Then the queen, on occasion of what had happened to the king, and his nobles, came into the banquet-house: and she spoke, and said: O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, neither let thy countenance be changed.

Daniel 7:28
Hitherto is the end of the word. I, Daniel, was much troubled with my thoughts, and my countenance was changed in me: but I kept the word in my heart.

Nahum 2:10
She is destroyed, and rent, and torn: the heart melteth, and the knees fail, and all the loins lose their strength: and the faces of them all are as the blackness of a kettle.

Daniel 5:5
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