Daniel 5:22-31 ▼

22 Yet you, his son, Belshazzar, have not made your heart lowly, even though you knew all this,

23 but you have raised yourself up against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of His house before you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines have been drinking wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which do not see, hear, or know. But the God in whose hand are your life-breath and all your ways, you have not honored.

24 Then the hand was sent from Him, and this writing was inscribed.

25 “Now this is the writing that was inscribed: ‘MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.’

26 This is the interpretation of the message: ‘MENE’—God has numbered your kingdom and put an end to it.

27 ‘TEKEL’—you have been weighed on the scales and found lacking.

28 ‘PERES’—your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”

29 Then Belshazzar said the word, and they clothed Daniel with purple and put a necklace of gold around his neck and issued a proclamation concerning him that he now would be the third powerful ruler in the kingdom.

30 That same night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was killed.

31 So Darius the Mede received the kingdom at about the age of sixty-two.