24. So God sent the hand that wrote on the wall.
25. “These are the words that were written on the wall: ‘Mene, mene, tekel, and parsin.’
26. “This is what the 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. Parsin: Your kingdom is being divided and will be given to the Medes and the Persians.”
29. Then Belshazzar gave an order for Daniel to be dressed in purple clothes and to have a gold chain put around his neck. And it was announced that Daniel was the third highest ruler in the kingdom.
30. That very same night Belshazzar, king of the Babylonian people, was killed.
31. So Darius the Mede became the new king when he was sixty-two years old.