Daniel

²²And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thy heart, though thou knewest all this, ²³but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou and thy lords, thy wives and thy concubines, have drunk wine from them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified. ²⁴Then was the part of the hand sent from before him, and this writing was inscribed. ²⁵And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. ²⁶This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end; ²⁷TEKEL; thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. ²⁸PERES; thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.