...saith the Lord, &c. I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them. — Ezek. xi. 5. Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts...troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed. — Dan. v. 6. A book of remembrance was written before him, for them that feared the Lord,...

...stroke from the God of the Jews, which should terminate his power and his life. For, ( v. 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. " We...

...debauchery. A hand writes three words in unknown characters on the wall, and he becomes " speechless." " 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." Observe Judas. He " repented himself," carried back...

...Persians." Daniel v. The moment this great monarch cast his eyes upon this miraculous writing, " his countenance was changed, and " his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins " were loosed, andhisknees smote one against another." How much greater cause, then, has the profane and worldly...

...drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. 5 In , they are increased that eat them : and what good is there to the owners thereof, EXPOSITION. cou plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. 6 Then...

...astonishment seized on Belshazzar, when he saw the hand-writing on the wall — " His countenance was changed, his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another."* Even so will it be with thee, when this writing...

...wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. 5 If In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of of his reign. Herodotus represents the last king of Babylon as being the son of the great...

...of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone." But " in the same hour came forth the finger of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick' upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace;" at the sight of which " the king's countenance was changed,...

...troubled, ye careless ones : strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins. DAN. v. 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. HAS. iii. 16 : When I heard, my belly trembled ; my...

...consuming his bounty upon their lusts, and profaning the vessels of his sanctuary, in the same hour there came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over...the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the palace, and the king saw the part of the hand, which wrote. Though he knew not the awful import of...