Daniel 8:18

Louis Segond

Comme il me parlait, je restai frappé d'étourdissement, la face contre terre. Il me toucha, et me fit tenir debout à la place où je me trouvais.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Et comme il parlait avec moi, je m'assoupis ayant le visage contre terre; puis il me toucha, et me fit tenir debout dans le lieu o� je me tenais.

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Et comme il me parlait, je m'assoupis la face contre terre; mais il me toucha et me fit tenir debout � la place o� j'�tais.

Darby's French Translation
Or, comme il parlait avec moi, j'�tais dans une profonde stupeur, ma face contre la terre; et il me toucha et me fit tenir debout � la place o� j'�tais.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I was: Daniel 8:17, Daniel 8:27, Daniel 10:8, Daniel 10:9, Luke 9:32, Luke 22:45

he touched: Daniel 10:10, Daniel 10:16, Daniel 10:18, Genesis 15:12, Job 4:13, Ezekiel 2:2, Zechariah 4:1, Acts 26:6

set me upright: Heb. made me stand upon my standing

Reciprocal: Genesis 2:21 - General Genesis 17:3 - General Numbers 24:4 - falling Job 33:15 - deep Song of Solomon 5:2 - sleep Daniel 9:21 - touched Daniel 10:15 - I set Matthew 17:7 - touched Luke 24:5 - they Revelation 1:17 - I fell

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now as he was speaking with me,.... Addressing him in the above manner:

I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground; through fear he fell prostrate to the ground, and swooned away, which issued in a deep sleep; and so was unfit to attend to the explanation of the vision the angel was sent to give him; and which was not through indifference to it, or neglect of it; but through human weakness, his nature not being able to bear up under such circumstances, which struck him with such fear and dread:

but he touched me, and set me upright; he jogged him out of his sleep, and took him, and raised him up, and set him on his feet; or, "on his standing" m; which Ben Melech explains, as he "was standing at first"; and so in a better posture to attend to what was about to be revealed unto him.

m על עמדי "super stare meum", Montanus, Gejerus; "super stationem meam", Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Now, as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground - Overcome and prostrate with the vision. That is, he had sunk down stupified or senseless. See Daniel 10:9. His strength had been entirely taken away by the vision. There is nothing improbable in this, that the sudden appearance of a celestial vision, or a heavenly being, should take away the strength. Compare Genesis 15:12; Job 4:13, following; Judges 6:22; Judges 13:20, Judges 13:22; Isaiah 6:5; Luke 1:12, Luke 1:29; Luke 2:9; Acts 9:3, Acts 9:8. “But he touched me, and set me upright.” Margin, as in Hebrew, “made me stand upon my standing.” He raised me up on my feet. So the Saviour addressed Saul of Tarsus, when he had been suddenly smitten to the earth, by his appearing to him on the way to Damascus: “Rise, and stand upon thy feet,” etc., Acts 26:16.