Daniel 5:5 - The Scriptures 1998

⁵ At that moment the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and wrote opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the sovereign’s palace. And the sovereign saw the part of the hand that 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.

Daniel 5:5 Cross References

Job 20:5

that the singing of the wrong is short-lived, and the joy of the defiled one is but for a moment?

Proverbs 29:1

One often reproved, hardening his neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing.

Jeremiah 50:43

“The sovereign of Baḇ

Daniel 4:31

The word was still in the sovereign’s mouth, when a voice fell from the heavens, “Sovereign Neḇ

Daniel 4:33

In that hour the word was executed on Neḇ

Daniel 5:15

“And the wise ones, the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing and make known to me its interpretation, but they were unable to show the interpretation of the word.

Daniel 5:4

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

Daniel 5:6

Then the sovereign’s colour changed, and his thoughts alarmed him, so that the joints of his hips were loosened and his knees knocked against each other.

Daniel 5:8

So all the sovereign’s wise ones came, but they were unable to read the writing, or to make known its interpretation to the sovereign.

Colossians 2:14

having blotted out the certificate of debt against us – by the dogmas – which stood against us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the stake.