Daniel 5:4-9

4They drank the wine and praised the gods made of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood and stone.

5At that very moment, the fingers of a human hand emerged and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace opposite the lampstand, so that the king could see the back of the hand that was writing.

6The color drained from the king’s face, his thoughts alarmed him, his hips gave way and his knees began knocking together.

7The king called loudly to summon the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the diviners. The king said to the wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this writing and tells me what it means will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain around his neck, and will have authority as the third ruler in the kingdom!”

8Then all the king’s wise men came in, but they could not read the inscription nor tell the king what it meant.

9So King Belshazzar became even more terrified and his face grew pale. His nobles were baffled.