Daniel 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.
Nota de Estudo
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.
Outras Traduções
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.
Referências Cruzadas
The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
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The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins …
Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt:
And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a …