American Standard Version (ASV):
Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were perplexed.
King James Version (KJV):
Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were astonied.
American Standard Version (ASV):
[ Now] the queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house: the queen spake and said, O king, live for ever; let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed.
King James Version (KJV):
[Now] the queen, by reason of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banquet house: [and] the queen spake and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed:
American Standard Version (ASV):
In the same hour came forth the fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
King James Version (KJV):
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.
American Standard Version (ASV):
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.
King James Version (KJV):
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.
American Standard Version (ASV):
The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spake and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and show me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
King James Version (KJV):
The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. [And] the king spake, and said to the wise [men] of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and [have] a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
American Standard Version (ASV):
Then came in all the king’s wise men; but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation.
King James Version (KJV):
Then came in all the king’s wise [men]: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof.
American Standard Version (ASV):
Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from them.
King James Version (KJV):
Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which [was] at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.
American Standard Version (ASV):
They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
King James Version (KJV):
They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
American Standard Version (ASV):
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
King James Version (KJV):
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
American Standard Version (ASV):
Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink therefrom.
King James Version (KJV):
Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which [was] in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.