24. So because of that, God sent the hand that wrote on the wall.
25. These are the words that were written on the wall: mene, mene, tekel, uparsin.
26. “This is what these words mean: Mene : God has counted the days until your kingdom will end.
27. Tekel : You have been weighed on the scales and found not good enough.
28. Uparsin : Your kingdom is being taken from you. It will be divided among the Medes and Persians.”
29. Then Belshazzar gave an order for Daniel to be dressed in purple clothes. A gold chain was put around his neck, and he was appointed the third highest ruler in the kingdom.
30. That very same night, Belshazzar, king of the Babylonians, was killed.
31. A man named Darius the Mede became the new king. Darius was about 62 years old.