23. And you have lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and the vessels of His house have been brought 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 your breath is and Whose are all your ways you have not honored and glorified [but have dishonored and disgraced].
24. Then was the part of the hand sent from the presence of [the Most High God], and this writing was inscribed.
25. And this is the inscription that was written, mene, mene, tekel, upharsin–numbered, numbered, weighed, divisions.
26. This is the interpretation of the matter: mene, God has numbered the days of your kingship and brought them to an end;
27. tekel, You are weighed in the balances and are found wanting;
28. peres, Your kingdom and your kingship are divided and given to the Medes and Persians. [Foretold in Isa. 21:2, 5, 9.]
29. Then Belshazzar commanded, and Daniel was clothed with purple and a chain of gold put about his neck, and a proclamation was made concerning him that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
30. During that night Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans was slain,
31. And Darius the Mede took the kingdom; he was about sixty-two years old.