Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote. New Living Translation Suddenly, they saw the fingers of a human hand writing on the plaster wall of the king’s palace, near the lampstand. The king himself saw the hand as it wrote, English Standard Version Immediately the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace, opposite the lampstand. And the king saw the hand as it wrote. Berean Standard Bible At that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. As the king watched the hand that was writing, King James Bible In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. New King James Version In the same hour the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and wrote opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. New American Standard Bible Suddenly the fingers of a human hand emerged and began writing opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace, and the king saw the back of the hand that did the writing. NASB 1995 Suddenly the fingers of a man’s hand emerged and began writing opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace, and the king saw the back of the hand that did the writing. NASB 1977 Suddenly the fingers of a man’s hand emerged and began writing opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace, and the king saw the back of the hand that did the writing. Legacy Standard Bible Suddenly the fingers of a man’s hand came out and began writing opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace, and the king saw the back of the hand that did the writing. Amplified Bible Suddenly the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and began writing opposite the lampstand on [a well-lit area of] the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace, and the king saw the part of the hand that did the writing. Christian Standard Bible At that moment the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and began writing on the plaster of the king’s palace wall next to the lampstand. As the king watched the hand that was writing, Holman Christian Standard Bible At that moment the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and began writing on the plaster of the king’s palace wall next to the lampstand. As the king watched the hand that was writing, American Standard Version In the same hour came forth the fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Contemporary English Version Suddenly a human hand was seen writing on the plaster wall of the palace. The hand was just behind the lampstand, and the king could see it writing. English Revised Version In the same hour came forth the fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. GOD'S WORD® Translation Suddenly, the fingers of a person's hand appeared and wrote on the plaster wall opposite the lamp stand of the royal palace. The king watched as the hand wrote. Good News Translation Suddenly a human hand appeared and began writing on the plaster wall of the palace, where the light from the lamps was shining most brightly. And the king saw the hand as it was writing. International Standard Version At that moment, humanlike fingers of a hand appeared near the lamp stand of the royal palace and wrote on the plaster of the wall. Majority Standard Bible At that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. As the king watched the hand that was writing, NET Bible 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. New Heart English Bible In the same hour came forth the fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Webster's Bible Translation In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. World English Bible In the same hour, the fingers of a man’s hand came out and wrote near the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. The king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionIn that hour fingers of a man’s hand have come forth, and they are writing in front of the lampstand, on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king is seeing the extremity of the hand that is writing; Young's Literal Translation In that hour come forth have fingers of a man's hand, and they are writing over-against the candlestick, on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king is seeing the extremity of the hand that is writing; Smith's Literal Translation In the same moment went forth fingers of a man's hand and wrote before the candlestick upon the lime of the wall of the temple of the king: and the king saw the palm of the hand that wrote. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleIn 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. Catholic Public Domain Version In the same hour, there appeared fingers, as of the hand of a man, writing on the surface of the wall, opposite the candlestick, in the king’s palace. And the king observed the part of the hand that wrote. New American Bible Suddenly, opposite the lampstand, the fingers of a human hand appeared, writing on the plaster of the wall in the king’s palace. When the king saw the hand that wrote, New Revised Standard Version Immediately the fingers of a human hand appeared and began writing on the plaster of the wall of the royal palace, next to the lampstand. The king was watching the hand as it wrote. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleIn that very hour there appeared the fingers of a man's hand, and wrote opposite the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace, and the king saw the palm of the man's hand that wrote. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated And at that moment, the fingers of the hand of a man came out and they wrote next to a lamp on the plaster of the wall in the palace of the King, and the King saw the palm of the hand of the man who wrote OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace; and the king saw the palm of the hand that wrote. Brenton Septuagint Translation In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote in front of the lamp on the plaster of the wall of the king's house: and the king saw the knuckles of the hand that wrote. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Handwriting on the Wall5At that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. As the king watched the hand that was writing, 6his face grew pale and his thoughts so alarmed him that his hips gave way and his knees knocked together.… Cross References Exodus 31:18 When the LORD had finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, He gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God. 2 Kings 19:35 And that very night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies! Isaiah 37:36 Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies! 1 Kings 13:4 Now when King Jeroboam, who was at the altar in Bethel, heard the word that the man of God had cried out against it, he stretched out his hand and said, “Seize him!” But the hand he stretched out toward him withered, so that he could not pull it back. Job 20:24-25 Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow will pierce him. / It is drawn out of his back, the gleaming point from his liver. Terrors come over him. Ezekiel 8:3 He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and carried me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the idol that provokes jealousy was seated. Ezekiel 10:2 And the LORD said to the man clothed in linen, “Go inside the wheelwork beneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with burning coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” And as I watched, he went in. 2 Chronicles 26:19 Uzziah, with a censer in his hand to offer incense, was enraged. But while he raged against the priests in their presence in the house of the LORD before the altar of incense, leprosy broke out on his forehead. Psalm 78:49 He unleashed His fury against them, wrath, indignation, and calamity—a band of destroying angels. Isaiah 29:14 Therefore I will again confound these people with wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of the wise will vanish, and the intelligence of the intelligent will be hidden.” Matthew 24:30 At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. Luke 11:20 But if I drive out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. John 8:6 They said this to test Him, in order to have a basis for accusing Him. But Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with His finger. Acts 12:23 Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died. Acts 13:11 Now look, the hand of the Lord is against you, and for a time you will be blind and unable to see the light of the sun.” Immediately mist and darkness came over him, and he groped about, seeking someone to lead him by the hand. Treasury of Scripture In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. the same. Daniel 4:31,33 While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee… Job 20:5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? Psalm 78:30,31 They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths, … wrote. Daniel 5:8,15,24-28 Then came in all the king's wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof… Colossians 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; Revelation 20:12-15 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works… Jump to Previous Appeared Candlestick Fingers Forth Hand Hour Human Immediately King's Lampstand Opposite Palace Palm Part Plaister Plaster Royal Suddenly Wall Writing WroteJump to Next Appeared Candlestick Fingers Forth Hand Hour Human Immediately King's Lampstand Opposite Palace Palm Part Plaister Plaster Royal Suddenly Wall Writing WroteDaniel 5 1. Belshazzar's impious feast.5. A hand-writing unknown to the magicians, troubles the king. 10. At the commendation of the queen Daniel is brought. 17. He, reproving the king of pride and idolatry, 25. reads and interprets the writing. 30. The monarchy is translated to the Medes At that moment This phrase signifies the immediacy and suddenness of the divine intervention. In the context of the narrative, it underscores the abruptness with which God can act, often when least expected. The Hebrew word for "moment" can imply a specific, divinely appointed time, reminding us that God's timing is perfect and sovereign over all human affairs. the fingers of a human hand appeared and began writing on the plaster of the wall near the lampstand in the royal palace As the king watched the hand that was writing Candlestick.--This, of course, would make both the hand and the writing more distinctly visible to the king. . . . Verse 5. - In the same hour oame forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. The two versions given in the Septuagint here do not seriously differ from each other or from the Massoretic text, only that they both omit "the part of," and represent the king as seeing the hand. Theodotion has ἀστραγάλους, which maybe rendered "finger-joints;" otherwise this version is very like both the Massoretic and the LXX. The Peshitta presents no point of remark. The word translated "lamp" (nebhrashta) became in Talmudic times the equivalent of menoorah, "the golden candlestick." From this it has been supposed that "the candlestick" was the golden candlestick which later proved the crowining glory of Titus's triumph, and is still to be seen carved on his arch. When the other vessels of the house of the Lord were brought to deck the table of the monarch, it would not be unnatural that the golden candlestick should also be brought. In the great hall in which a thousand guests were accommodated, more lamps than one would be required. The Septuagint (text) adds, "over against the king:" this would individualize the lamp referred to; but there does not seem to be any support for this reading, which may be due to the desire to explain the satatus emphaticus. Gesenius derives the word נֶבְרַשְׁתָּא from נור, "light," and אש, "flame." As ו as a consonant was unused in Assyrian, this derivation is by no means impossible We know that the Ninevite monarchs surrounded the great halls of their palaces with bas-reliefs of their victories. The remains of Babylon have not given us anything like the gypsum slabs of Kouyounjik. Yet the Babylonian monarchs not unlikely followed the same praetices as those of Nineveh. The walls were built and plastered, and then the slabs were moved up to them. In the case of Belshazzar, the palace walls might well be fresh; no gypsum slabs had yet recorded his prowess. As he looks to the white plaster, the fingers of a hand come out of the darkness, and write opposite him. "The king," thus it is in the Massoretic text, saw the "part" of the hand that wrote. Pas is the word. Furst renders it "wrist;" Gesenius, "the extremity;" Winer, vola manus," the hollow of the baud;" with this Buxtorf agrees. The balance of meanings seems to be in favour of "hollow of the hand," only it is difficult to understand the position of the hand relatively to the king when he saw the hollow of the hand. The smoke from the numerous lamps would obscure the roof of the hall of the palace; however numerous the lamps, their light would be unable to pierce the darkness, so out of the darkness came the hand.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Atבַּהּ־ (bah-) Preposition | third person feminine singular Strong's Hebrew that moment שַׁעֲתָ֗ה (ša·‘ă·ṯāh) Noun - feminine singular determinate Strong's 8160: A brief time, moment the fingers אֶצְבְּעָן֙ (’eṣ·bə·‘ān) Noun - feminine plural Strong's 677: Something to sieze with, a finger, a toe of דִּ֣י (dî) Pronoun - relative Strong's 1768: Who, which, that, because a human אֱנָ֔שׁ (’ĕ·nāš) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 606: Man, mankind hand יַד־ (yaḏ-) Noun - feminine singular construct Strong's 3028: A hand appeared נְפַ֙קָה֙ (nə·p̄a·qāh) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine plural Strong's 5312: To go or come out or forth and wrote וְכָֽתְבָן֙ (wə·ḵā·ṯə·ḇān) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine plural Strong's 3790: To grave, to write on עַל־ (‘al-) Preposition Strong's 5922: Above, over, upon, against the plaster גִּירָ֕א (gî·rā) Noun - masculine singular determinate Strong's 1528: Chalk, plaster of דִּֽי־ (dî-) Pronoun - relative Strong's 1768: Who, which, that, because the wall, כְתַ֥ל (ḵə·ṯal) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3797: A wall near לָקֳבֵ֣ל (lā·qo·ḇêl) Preposition-l Strong's 6903: In front of, before, because of, because that the lampstand נֶבְרַשְׁתָּ֔א (neḇ·raš·tā) Noun - feminine singular determinate Strong's 5043: A light, plural, a chandelier in דִּ֣י (dî) Pronoun - relative Strong's 1768: Who, which, that, because the royal מַלְכָּ֑א (mal·kā) Noun - masculine singular determinate Strong's 4430: A king palace. הֵיכְלָ֖א (hê·ḵə·lā) Noun - masculine singular determinate Strong's 1965: A large public building, palace, temple As the king וּמַלְכָּ֣א (ū·mal·kā) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular determinate Strong's 4430: A king watched חָזֵ֔ה (ḥā·zêh) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 2370: To gaze upon, mentally to dream, be usual the hand פַּ֥ס (pas) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 6447: Palm (of the hand) that דִּ֥י (dî) Pronoun - relative Strong's 1768: Who, which, that, because was writing, כָתְבָֽה׃ (ḵā·ṯə·ḇāh) Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular Strong's 3790: To grave, to write Links Daniel 5:5 NIVDaniel 5:5 NLT Daniel 5:5 ESV Daniel 5:5 NASB Daniel 5:5 KJV Daniel 5:5 BibleApps.com Daniel 5:5 Biblia Paralela Daniel 5:5 Chinese Bible Daniel 5:5 French Bible Daniel 5:5 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Daniel 5:5 In the same hour came forth (Dan. 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