Löydetty 1909 Tulokset: King Zedekiah
Sentence from the most High this dream forbodes, and the king’s grace the subject of it. (Daniel 4, 21)
Deign, my lord king, to be advised by me; with almsgiving, with mercy to the poor, for fault and wrong-doing of thine make amends; it may be he will condone thy guilt. (Daniel 4, 24)
All this king Nabuchodonosor underwent. (Daniel 4, 25)
And before the words had died on his lips, came a voice from heaven: King Nabuchodonosor, here is thy doom! Pass away from thee it must, that royal power of thine; (Daniel 4, 28)
What wonder if I, Nabuchodonosor, praise this King of heaven, extol and glorify him, so faithful to his promise, so just in his dealings? Proud minds none can abase as he.✻ (Daniel 4, 34)
Now turn we to king Baltassar, that made great cheer for courtiers of his a thousand, each man drinking wine as his rank entitled him.✻ (Daniel 5, 1)
And he, in his cups, would have the spoils of the old temple at Jerusalem brought in, cups of gold, cups of silver that his father Nabuchodonosor had carried away; king and court, wife and concubine should drink from them. (Daniel 5, 2)
Brought in they were, all the spoils of Jerusalem; king and courtier, wife and concubine, drank from those vessels; (Daniel 5, 3)
Then, in that hour, an apparition came to them. They saw the fingers of a man’s hand writing on the plaster of the palace wall, full in the lamp’s light; joints of a hand that wrote there the king could not choose but see. (Daniel 5, 5)
But when they came into the banqueting-hall, never a wise head among them could read the characters, nor tell the king what they meant; (Daniel 5, 8)
whereupon king Baltassar was in a great taking of fear, his cheeks paler yet, and his princes were no easier in mind than himself. (Daniel 5, 9)
But now all this ado brought the queen-mother down into the banqueting-hall; Long life to the king’s grace! cried she; here is no need for daunted hearts and pale looks! (Daniel 5, 10)
