Daniel 5:22-29

22“You are his successor, O Belshazzar, and you knew all this, yet you have not humbled yourself.

23For you have proudly defied the Lord of heaven and have had these cups from his Temple brought before you. You and your nobles and your wives and concubines have been drinking wine from them while praising gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone—gods that neither see nor hear nor know anything at all. But you have not honored the God who gives you the breath of life and controls your destiny!

24So God has sent this hand to write this message.

25“This is the message that was written: Mene, Mene, Tekel, and Parsin.

26This is what these words mean: Mene means ‘numbered’—God has numbered the days of your reign and has brought it to an end.

27Tekel means ‘weighed’—you have been weighed on the balances and have not measured up.

28Parsin means ‘divided’—your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”

29Then at Belshazzar’s command, Daniel was dressed in purple robes, a gold chain was hung around his neck, and he was proclaimed the third highest ruler in the kingdom.