 | Edward Payson - 1828 - 522 pages
...him, that he had no reason to expect messages of mercy from the invisible world ; and therefore his countenance was changed and his thoughts 'troubled...loins were loosed and his knees smote one against another. Nor were his terrors without foundation ; for after the hand was withdrawn, the words, MENE,... | |
 | Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - 1828 - 734 pages
...characters on the wall. What followed ?—" His countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another;" the ceremonies of submission performed by his nobles, and the topics of consolation suggested... | |
 | Extracts - 1828 - 786 pages
...What was it that made Belshazzar's countenance to change? Why did his thoughts trouble him, so lluit the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. when he saw the handwriting against the wall, in the midst of all his mirth and jollity? Was... | |
 | William Jay - 1828 - 408 pages
...power to charm : and though he was ignorant of the meaning of the inscription, he foreboded evil ; and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. If a man IN PROSPERITY. was at the most enchanting banquet, with a sword hanging over his... | |
 | Joseph Fincher - 1829 - 442 pages
...the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts...loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. IN PRESERVING DANIEL WHEN CAST INTO THE DEN OF LIONS. DAN. vi. 10—17. Now when Daniel knew... | |
 | Esther Copley - 1829 - 742 pages
...remained, and though the king could not decipher it, his guilty conscience foreboded something amiss. His thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his...loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another ! Poor guilty wretch ! Ah, how little could the splendour and luxury, the magnificence and... | |
 | Sir Walter Raleigh - 1829 - 580 pages
...him certain words which he understood not; wherewith so great a fear and amazement seized him, as a the joints of his loins were loosed, and his "knees smote one against the other. Which passion when he had in some part recovered, he cried out for his Chaldeans, astrologians, and... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1830 - 304 pages
...plaster of the wall of the king's palace : and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. 6 Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts...loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. 7 The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans and the soothsayers. And... | |
 | John Nelson (Primitive Methodist preacher.) - 1830 - 454 pages
...of a man's hand, and the writing on the opposite wall, that his thoughts terrified him, the girdles of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against the other ? Did his terror arise from a fear of man ? That cannot be ; for he was surrounded by his guards and... | |
 | William Thorn - 1831 - 400 pages
...upon the plaister of the king's ' palace : and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. ' Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts...loins were loosed, ' and his knees smote one against another. In that night was ' the king of the Chaldeans slain,' (DAN. v. 5, 6, 30.) Although the verb... | |
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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. 
