Daniel 5:18-28

18O thou king, the Most High 1God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty;

19and for the greatness that he gave him, all peoples, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew, and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he exalted, and whom he would he humbled.

20But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit hardened unto presumption, he was deposed from the throne of his kingdom, and they took his glory from him;

21and he was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses; they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the Most High 2God ruleth over the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.

22And thou, Belshazzar, his son, hast not humbled thy heart, although thou knewest all this;

23but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of the heavens; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou and thy nobles, thy wives and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the 3gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know; and the 4God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:

24then from before him was sent the part of the hand, and this writing hath been written.

25And this is the writing that is written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.

26This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE, 5God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it;

27TEKEL, Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting;

28PERES, Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.