Daniel 5:1-5

Belshazzar’s Feast

Belshazzar the king ¹held a great ^afeast for one thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in the presence of the thousand. 2 When Belshazzar tasted the wine, he said to bring the gold and silver ^avessels which Nebuchadnezzar his ¹father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines might drink from them. 3 Then they brought the gold vessels that had been taken out of the temple, the house of God which was in Jerusalem; and the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines drank from them. 4 They ^adrank the wine and praised the gods of ^bgold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone.
5 Suddenly the fingers of a man’s hand came out and began writing opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace, and the king saw the ¹back of the hand that did the writing.

Daniel 5:6

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6 Then the ¹^asplendor of the king’s face changed, and his thoughts alarmed him, and his ^bhip joints ²went slack, and his ^cknees were knocking against each other.

Daniel 5:9

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9 Then King Belshazzar was greatly ^aalarmed, and the ¹^bsplendor of his face changed further, and his nobles were perplexed.

Daniel 5:26-28

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26 This is the interpretation of the ¹message: ‘MENĒ’—God has numbered your kingdom and ^aput an end to it. 27 ‘TEKĒL’—you have been ^aweighed on the scales and found lacking. 28 ‘PERĒS’—your kingdom has been divided and given over to the ^aMedes and ¹Persians.”