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Daniel - ch 5 v 21 - 31
- and he was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals', and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys; he was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky; until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whoever he will.
- You his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,
- but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which don't see, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.
- Then was the part of the hand sent from before him, and this writing was inscribed.
- This is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
- This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God has numbered your kingdom, and brought it to an end;
- TEKEL; you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.
- PERES; your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
- Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
- In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.
- Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.
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