Daniel 5:5

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.

Cross References

Job 20:5

no wicked people have been happy for long.

Proverbs 29:1

If you get more stubborn every time you are corrected, one day you will be crushed and never recover.

Jeremiah 50:43

The king of Babylonia hears the news, and his hands hang limp. He is seized by anguish, by pain like a woman in labor.

Daniel 4:31

Before the words were out of his mouth, a voice spoke from heaven, “King Nebuchadnezzar, listen to what I say! Your royal power is now taken away from you.

Daniel 4:33

The words came true immediately. Nebuchadnezzar was driven out of human society and ate grass like an ox. The dew fell on his body, and his hair grew as long as eagle feathers and his nails as long as bird claws.

Daniel 5:15

The advisers and magicians were brought in to read this writing and tell me what it means, but they could not discover the meaning.

Daniel 5:4

and praised gods made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

Daniel 5:6

He turned pale and was so frightened that his knees began to shake.

Daniel 5:8

The royal advisers came forward, but none of them could read the writing or tell the king what it meant.

Colossians 2:14

he canceled the unfavorable record of our debts with its binding rules and did away with it completely by nailing it to the cross.