Daniel 10:16

La Bible Ostervald

Et voici, quelqu'un qui ressemblait aux fils de l'homme toucha mes lèvres. Alors j'ouvris la bouche, je parlai et je dis à celui qui se tenait devant moi: Mon seigneur, par la vision l'angoisse m'a saisi, et je n'ai conservé aucune force.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Et voici, [quelqu'un ayant] la ressemblance d'un homme toucha mes l�vres, et ouvrant ma bouche, je parlai, et je dis � celui qui �tait aupr�s de moi : mon Seigneur ! mes jointures se sont rel�ch�es par cette vision, et je n'ai conserv� aucune vigueur.

Darby's French Translation
Et voici, comme la ressemblance des fils des hommes toucha mes l�vres. Et j'ouvris ma bouche et je parlai, et je dis � celui qui se tenait devant moi: Mon seigneur, par la vision les douleurs m'ont saisi, et je n'ai conserv� aucune force.

Louis Segond (1910)
Et voici, quelqu'un qui avait l'apparence des fils de l'homme toucha mes l�vres. J'ouvris la bouche, je parlai, et je dis � celui qui se tenait devant moi: Mon seigneur, la vision m'a rempli d'effroi, et j'ai perdu toute vigueur.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

like: Daniel 10:5, Daniel 10:6, Daniel 10:18, Daniel 8:15, Daniel 9:21, Ezekiel 1:26, Philippians 2:7, Philippians 2:8, Revelation 1:13

touched: Daniel 10:10, Isaiah 6:7, Jeremiah 1:9, Ezekiel 3:27, Ezekiel 33:22, Luke 1:64, Luke 21:15

my Lord: Daniel 10:17, Daniel 12:8, Exodus 4:10, Exodus 4:13, Joshua 5:14, Judges 6:13, Judges 6:15, Judges 13:8, John 20:28

my sorrows: Daniel 10:8, Daniel 10:9, Daniel 7:15, Daniel 7:28, Daniel 8:17, Daniel 8:27, Ecclesiastes 1:18

Reciprocal: Numbers 12:6 - in a vision Numbers 24:4 - falling Jeremiah 8:18 - my Ezekiel 1:28 - I fell Ezekiel 2:9 - an hand Daniel 4:19 - was astonied Daniel 8:18 - he touched Daniel 12:5 - other two Matthew 17:6 - General Luke 5:8 - Depart Luke 22:43 - strengthening Luke 24:5 - they 2 Corinthians 12:9 - for

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And, behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men,.... Not the man clothed with linen, or Christ; but either the same angel, Gabriel, who appeared more manifestly to him in a human form; or another of the attendants of Christ, who also had the similitude of a man:

touched my lips; with his hand, as the Prophet Isaiah's were, by a seraph, with a live coal from the altar, Isaiah 6:7, thereby restoring him to his speech, and giving him freedom and boldness to make use of it; and removing from him his impurity, and a sense of it, which occasioned his silence:

then I opened my mouth, and spake freely, and yet with all becoming modesty:

and said unto him that stood before me, O lord; the angel that appeared in the likeness of a man, and stood before the prophet, and touched his lips, whom he calls "lord"; not because of sovereignty and dominion over him, which belong to Christ, as the Creator of all things, and Head of the church; but for honour's sake, being a noble and exalted creature:

by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me; on sight of the glorious object represented to him in the vision, pains seized his body in all parts of it, sharp and pungent, like those of a woman in travail. Gussetius y interprets it of the knuckle bones, which turned in the pan of them, like the hinges of a door, of which the word is used, Proverbs 26:14, and this through the tendons being loosed by the dissipation of the spirits; and this sense the Vulgate Latin version gives countenance to,

my joints are dissolved; the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, are, "my inward parts or bowels are turned in me: and I have retained no strength"; Proverbs 26:14- :.

y Comment. Ebr. p. 713.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And, behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips - In the form of a man. The reference here is undoubtedly to Gabriel appearing to Daniel in human form. Why he does not name him is unknown; nor is there any intimation whether he changed his form as he now approached the prophet. It would seem not improbable that, seeing the effect of his presence and his words on Daniel, he laid aside some of the manifestations of awe and majesty in which he had at first appeared to him, and approached him as a man, and placed his hands on his lips - as a sign that he should speak, or as imparting power to him to speak. See the notes at Isaiah 6:6-7.

I opened my mouth, and spake - His fear was removed, and he was now able to address the heavenly messenger.

O my lord - A title of respectful address, but without indicating the rank of him to whom it is applied.

By the vision my sorrows are turned upon me - The word rendered “sorrows” (צירים tsı̂yrı̂ym) means, properly, “writhings, throes, pains,” as of a woman in travail, Isaiah 13:8; Isa 21:3; 1 Samuel 4:19; and then any deep pain or anguish. Here it refers to “terror or fright,” as so great as to prostrate the strength of Daniel. The word rendered “are turned” (נהפכוּ neh^epekû - from הפך hâphak) means, in Niphal. to turn one’s self about, to turn back. The same phrase which is used here occurs also in 1 Samuel 4:19, “her pains turned upon her;” that is, came upon her. Perhaps we should express the idea by saying that they rolled upon us, or over us - like the surges of the ocean.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 16. Like the similitude of the sons of men. — I think Gabriel is here meant, who appeared to Daniel in a human form; and so in Daniel 10:18, and see also Daniel 9:21.

Touched my lips — Before this he was unable to speak.

By the vision — The vision that I have already had, and of which I have not a proper knowledge has greatly afflicted me, because I see it intimates grievous calamities to my people. See Daniel 9:26.