Daniel 5:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Immediately and suddenly there appeared the fingers of a man's hand and wrote on the plaster of the wall opposite the candlestick [so exposed especially to the light] in the king's palace, and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ 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.

Common English Bible

⁵ Right then the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the king’s palace wall in the light of the lamp. The king saw the hand that wrote.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ 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.

English Standard Version 2016

⁵ 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.

Daniel 5:5 Cross References

Job 20:5

that the exulting of the wicked is short and the joy of the godless is but for a moment?

Proverbs 29:1

One who is often reproved, yet remains stubborn, will suddenly be broken beyond healing.

Jeremiah 50:43

The king of Babylon heard news of them, and his hands fell helpless; anguish seized him, pain like that of a woman in labor.

Daniel 4:31

While the words were still in the king’s mouth, a voice came down from heaven: “O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is declared: The kingdom is taken from you!

Daniel 4:33

Immediately the sentence was fulfilled against Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven away from human society, he ate grass like oxen, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven, until his hair grew as long as eagles’ feathers and his nails became like birds’ claws.

Daniel 5:15

Now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me to read this writing and tell me its interpretation, but they were not able to reveal the interpretation of the matter.

Daniel 5:4

They drank the wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

Daniel 5:6

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

Daniel 5:8

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

Colossians 2:14

erasing the record that stood against us with its legal demands. He set this aside, nailing it to the cross.