Daniel 5:30 Cross References - Rotherham

³⁰ In that night, was slain––Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldeans.

⁴ My heart fluttereth, A horror, terrifieth me,––My twilight of pleasure, hath he turned for me into a time of trembling. ⁵ [Ye thought] to prepare the table––spread the mat––eat––drink! . . . Arise, ye chieftains, anoint the shield! ⁶ For, thus, hath My Lord said, unto me,––Go, set the watchman, What he seeth, let him tell! ⁷ When he seeth, A train of horsemen in double rank, A train of asses, A train of camels, Then shall he hearken attentively, with diligent heed. ⁸ Then cried he, A lion! On the watch, O My Lord, had I, been standing continually, by day, And, at my post, had I, been stationed whole nights; –– ⁹ When lo! here was a train of men coming, With horsemen in double rank,––And one began and said, Fallen! fallen! is Babylon, And, all the images of her gods, are smashed to the ground!

⁹ Yet shall there come to thee––both these, in a moment, in one day, Loss of children and widowhood,––To their full, have they come on thee, Spite of the mass of thine incantations, Spite of the great throng of thy spells.

¹¹ Polish the arrows, Lay hold of the shields,––Yahweh hath roused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, For, against Babylon, his purpose is, to destroy her,––For it is, The avenging of Yahweh, The avenging of his temple.

³¹ Runner to meet runner, shall they run, And teller to meet teller,––To tell the king of Babylon, That captured, is his city at the end!

³⁹ When they are heated, I will spread their banquets, And let them drink that they may become uproarious, So shall they sleep an age–abiding sleep and not wake,––Declareth Yahweh.

⁵⁷ Then will I make drunk––Her princes and her wise men, Her governors, and her deputies, and her heroes, And they shall sleep an age–abiding sleep, and not wake,––Declareth the King, Yahweh of hosts, is his name.

¹ Belshazzar the king, made a great feast, to a thousand of his nobles,––and, before the thousand, was drinking, wine. ² Belshazzar, gave word, at the flavour of the wine, to bring the vessels of gold and silver, which Nebuchadnezzar his father, had brought forth, out of the temple which was in Jerusalem,––that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines, might drink therein.