25 “This is what was written: ‘Number, number, weight, divisions.’
26 And this is what it means: number, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end;
27 weight, you have been weighed on the scales and found to be too light;
28 divisions, your kingdom is divided up and given to the Medes and Persians.”
29 Immediately Belshazzar ordered his servants to dress Daniel in a robe of royal purple and to hang a gold chain of honour round his neck. And he made him the third in power in the kingdom.
30 That same night Belshazzar, the king of Babylonia, was killed;
31 and Darius the Mede, who was then 62 years old, seized the royal power.