Daniel 5:8 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁸ 6 But I have heard of thee, that thou canst interpret obscure things, and resolve difficult things: now if thou art able to read the writing, and to shew me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with purple, and shalt have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third prince in my kingdom.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ And all the king's wise men came in, but they could not read the writing or make known to the king the interpretation of it.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Then came in all the king’s wise men; but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation.

Common English Bible

⁸ Then all the king’s sages arrived, but they couldn’t read the writing or interpret it for the king.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Then, in came all the wise men of the king, but they could neither read the writing, nor reveal the interpretation to the king.

English Standard Version 2016

⁸ Then all the king’s wise men came in, but they could not read the writing or make known to the king the interpretation.

Daniel 5:8 Cross References

Genesis 41:8

Then at length the chief butler remembering, said: I confess my sin:

Isaiah 47:9

For they are called of the holy city, and are established upon the God of Israel: the Lord of hosts is his name.

Jeremiah 50:35

3 The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands are grown feeble: anguish hath taken hold of him, pangs as a, woman in labour.

Daniel 2:27

5 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of a summer's thrashingfloor, and they were carried away by the wind: and there was no place found for them: but the stone that struck the statue, became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

Daniel 4:18

6 But whereas he commanded, that the stump of the roots thereof, that is, of the tree, should be left: thy kingdom shall remain to thee after thou shalt have known that power is from heaven.

Daniel 4:4

2 Its leaves were most beautiful, and its fruit exceeding much: and in it was food for all: under it dwelt cattle, and beasts, and in the branches thereof the fowls of the air had their abode: and all flesh did eat of it.

Daniel 4:7

5 Nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, and let it be tied with a band of iron, and of brass, among the grass, that is without, and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let its portion be with the wild beasts in the grass of the earth.

Daniel 5:15

3 But hast lifted thyself up against the Lord of heaven: and the vessels of his house have been brought before thee: and thou, and thy nobles, and thy wives, and thy concubines have drunk wine in them: and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and of gold, and of brass, of iron, and of wood, and of stone, that neither see, nor hear, nor feel: but the God who hath thy breath in his hand, and all thy ways, thou hast not glorified.