The Handwriting on the Wall
1eKing Belshazzar fmade a great feast for a thousand of his glords and drank wine in front of the thousand.
2eBelshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that hthe vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father1 had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them. 3Then they brought in hthe golden vessels that had been taken out of the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them. 4They drank wine and ipraised the jgods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
5kImmediately lthe fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace, opposite the lampstand. And the king saw mthe hand as it wrote. 6nThen the king's color changed, oand his thoughts alarmed him; phis limbs gave way, and qhis knees knocked together.
Footnotes
- 1 5:2 Or predecessor; also verses 11, 13, 18
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