⁹ Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his face was changed in him, and his lords were perplexed.

⁶ Then the king's face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his loins were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.

¹ In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep went from him.

²⁴ We have heard the report of it; our hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of us, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.

² A grievous vision is declared to me; the treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; besiege, Media; all the sighing of it have I made to cease.

³ Therefore are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold on me, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I can't hear; I am dismayed so that I can't see.

⁴ My heart flutters, horror has frightened me; the twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me.

⁶ Wail; for the day of Yahweh is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

⁷ Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt:

⁸ and they shall be dismayed; pangs and sorrows shall take hold [of them]; they shall be in pain as a woman in travail: they shall look in amazement one at another; their faces [shall be] faces of flame.

¹⁵ The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains.

³ When Herod the king heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

⁸ So I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me; for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength.

⁶ Ask now, and see whether a man does travail with child: why do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

⁶ Trembling took hold of them there, Pain, as of a woman in travail.

¹⁴ He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, great lightning bolts, and routed them.

¹¹ Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, And shall chase him at his heels.

¹² His strength shall be famished, Calamity shall be ready at his side.

¹³ The members of his body shall be devoured, The firstborn of death shall devour his members.

¹⁴ He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts. He shall be brought to the king of terrors.