Daniel 10:15

La Bible Ostervald

Pendant qu'il m'adressait ces paroles, je tenais mon visage contre terre, et je restais muet.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Et comme il me tenait ces discours, je mis mon visage contre terre, et je me tus.

Darby's French Translation
Et comme il parlait avec moi selon ces paroles, je tournai ma face vers la terre, et je devins muet.

Louis Segond (1910)
Tandis qu'il m'adressait ces paroles, je dirigeai mes regards vers la terre, et je gardai le silence.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I set: Daniel 10:9, Daniel 8:18, Ezekiel 24:27, Ezekiel 33:22, Luke 1:20

Reciprocal: Numbers 24:4 - falling Mark 9:6 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when he had spoken such words unto me,.... As before related, concerning the contest between him and the prince of Persia; and especially concerning what would befall the people of the Jews in the latter day:

I set my face toward the ground; not being able to look up; his eyes were fixed upon the earth like one confounded and thunderstruck, filled with amazement and wonder:

and I became dumb; not able to speak a word, as is the case of persons sometimes in surprise, or through excess of any of the passions: this arose either from the majesty of the angel; or rather from the nature and importance of the things he said; or from a consciousness of his own impurity, and so of his unworthiness to converse with so exalted a creature, and to be favoured with such secrets. The Arabic version is, "and I supplicated"; very wrongly.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And when he had spoken such words ... - Daniel was naturally overcome by the communication which had been made to him. The manner in which the prayer was answered seems to have been entirely different from what he had expected. The presence of a heavenly being; the majesty of his appearance; the assurance that he gave that he had come to answer his prayer; and the fact that he had important revelations to make respecting the future, overcame him, and he laid his face upon the ground in silence. Is there any one of us who would not be awed into profound silence if a heavenly messenger should stand before us to disclose what was to occur to us, to our families, to our friends, to our country, in far-distant years?

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 15. I set my face toward the ground — He was standing upright, Daniel 10:11, and he now bent his body in reverence, and looked down upon the ground.

And became dumb. — Found himself unable to speak.