DA-5:1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of
his lords, and
drank wine before the thousand.
DA-5:2 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to
bring the golden
and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out
of the temple
which [was] in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his
wives, and his
concubines, might drink therein.
DA-5:3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out
of the temple
of the house of God which [was] at Jerusalem; and the king, and
his princes,
his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.
DA-5:4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of
silver, of
brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
DA-5:5 In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and
wrote over
against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the
king's palace: and
the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
DA-5:6 Then the king's countenance was changed, and his
thoughts troubled
him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees
smote one
against another.
DA-5:7 The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the
Chaldeans, and
the soothsayers. [And] the king spake, and said to the wise
[men] of Babylon,
Whosoever shall read this writing, and show me the
interpretation thereof,
shall be clothed with scarlet, and [have] a chain of gold about
his neck, and
shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
DA-5:8 Then came in all the king's wise [men]: but they could
not read the
writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof.
DA-5:9 Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his
countenance was
changed in him, and his lords were astonied.
DA-5:10 [Now] the queen by reason of the words of the king and
his lords came
into the banquet house: [and] the queen spake and said, O king,
live for ever:
let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be
changed:
DA-5:11 There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom [is] the spirit
of the holy
gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and
wisdom, like
the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king
Nebuchadnezzar thy
father, the king, [I say], thy father, made master of the
magicians,
astrologers, Chaldeans, [and] soothsayers;
DA-5:12 Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and
understanding,
interpreting of dreams, and showing of hard sentences, and
dissolving of
doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named
Belteshazzar: now
let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation.
DA-5:13 Then was Daniel brought in before the king. [And] the
king spake and
said unto Daniel, [Art] thou that Daniel, which [art] of the
children of the
captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Jewry?
DA-5:14 I have even heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods
[is] in thee,
and [that] light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found
in thee.
DA-5:15 And now the wise [men], the astrologers, have been
brought in before
me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me
the
interpretation thereof: but they could not show the
interpretation of the
thing:
DA-5:16 And I have heard of thee, that thou canst make
interpretations, and
dissolve doubts: now if thou canst read the writing, and make
known to me the
interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with scarlet, and
[have] a chain
of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the
kingdom.
DA-5:17 Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy
gifts be to
thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet I will read the
writing unto the
king, and make known to him the interpretation.
DA-5:18 O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy
father a
kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour:
DA-5:19 And for the majesty that he gave him, all people,
nations, and
languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew;
and whom he
would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he
would he put
down.
DA-5:20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened
in pride, he
was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from
him:
DA-5:21 And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart
was made like
the beasts, and his dwelling [was] with the wild asses: they fed
him with
grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven;
till he knew
that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and [that]
he appointeth
over it whomsoever he will.
DA-5:22 And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine
heart, though
thou knewest all this;
DA-5:23 But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven;
and they have
brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy
lords, thy
wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou
hast praised the
gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which
see not, nor
hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath [is], and
whose [are] all
thy ways, hast thou not glorified:
DA-5:24 Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this
writing was
written.
DA-5:25 And this [is] the writing that was written, MENE, MENE,
TEKEL,
UPHARSIN.
DA-5:26 This [is] the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God
hath numbered
thy kingdom, and finished it.
DA-5:27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found
wanting.
DA-5:28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes
and Persians.
DA-5:29 Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with
scarlet, and
[put] a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation
concerning him,
that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
DA-5:30 In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans
slain.
DA-5:31 And Darius the Median took the kingdom, [being] about
threescore and
two years old.
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