Daniel 5:22-28

22 And you his son,[1] Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this, 23 but you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven. And the vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose hand is your breath, and whose are all your ways, you have not honored.

24 “Then from his presence the hand was sent, and this writing was inscribed. 25 And this is the writing that was inscribed: Mene, Mene, Tekel, and Parsin. 26 This is the interpretation of the matter: Mene, God has numbered[2] the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end; 27 Tekel, you have been weighed[3] in the balances and found wanting; 28 Peres, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”[4]

Footnotes

  1. Or successor
  2. Mene sounds like the Aramaic for numbered
  3. Tekel sounds like the Aramaic for weighed
  4. Peres (the singular of Parsin) sounds like the Aramaic for divided and for Persia

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