दानिएल 5:6
Then the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
अध्ययन टिप्पणी
Study Note
Belshazzar's reaction to the mysterious handwriting on the wall — his countenance changed, thoughts troubled him, loins loosened, knees knocked together — is one of Scripture's most vivid portraits of a powerful man's sudden terror. The physiological specificity (loosened loins, knocking knees) evokes Near Eastern literary descriptions of warriors overcome by divine dread and corresponds to the ancient understanding of the loins as the seat of physical strength and boldness. The scene follows immediately from the king's profanation of the Temple vessels (5:2-4), establishing that his terror is a response to the sacrilege and an anticipation of divine judgment. The 'mene, mene, tekel, upharsin' inscription (5:25-28) exposes the hollow security of the world's greatest empire when weighed in God's scales.
अन्य अनुवाद
Then the king’s countenance was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
then the king's countenance hath changed, and his thoughts do trouble him, and the joints of his loins are loosed, and his knees are smiting one against another.
Then the colour went from the king's face, and he was troubled by his thoughts; strength went from his body, and his knees were shaking.
क्रॉस संदर्भ
Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: …
And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a …
Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt:
None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins …
Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded …
Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.