3. So they brought the gold cups that had been taken from the Temple of God in Jerusalem. And the king and his royal guests, his wives, and his slave women drank from them.
4. As they were drinking, they praised their gods, which were made from gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
5. Suddenly the fingers of a person’s hand appeared and began writing on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote.
6. King Belshazzar was very frightened. His face turned white, his knees knocked together, and he could not stand up because his legs were too weak.