49 Then all the guests of Adonijah trembled and rose, and each went his own way.

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They drank wine and (A)praised the (B)gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

(C)Immediately (D)the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace, opposite the lampstand. And the king saw (E)the hand as it wrote. (F)Then the king's color changed, (G)and his thoughts alarmed him; (H)his limbs gave way, and (I)his knees knocked together.

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My heart staggers; horror has appalled me;
    (A)the twilight I longed for
    has been turned for me into trembling.
(B)They prepare the table,
    they spread the rugs,[a]
    they eat, they drink.
Arise, O princes;
    (C)oil the shield!

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 21:5 Or they set the watchman

28 (A)The wicked flee when no one pursues,
    but (B)the righteous are bold as a lion.

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