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Daniel 5:22-29

22But you his son,1 O Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, even though you knew all this. 23Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised your gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you have failed to glorify the God who holds in His hand your very breath and all your ways. 24Therefore He sent the hand that wrote the inscription.

25Now this is the inscription that was written:

MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN.

26And this is the interpretation of the message:

MENE2 means that God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end. 27TEKEL3 means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient. 28PERES4 means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”

29Then Belshazzar gave the command, and they clothed Daniel in purple, placed a gold chain around his neck, and proclaimed him the third highest ruler in the kingdom.

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Notes

  1. 1. Daniel 5:22 Or descendant or successor or grandson ↩
  2. 2. Daniel 5:26 Mene sounds like the Aramaic for numbered. ↩
  3. 3. Daniel 5:27 Tekel sounds like the Aramaic for weighed. ↩
  4. 4. Daniel 5:28 Peres (the singular of Parsin) sounds like the Aramaic for divided and for Persia. ↩

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