He shouted, calling for his enchanters and Chaldean diviners: “Whoever reads this writing and tells me its meaning,” he said to the wise men of Babylon, “will be clothed in purple, wear a gold chain around his neck, and be made the third highest ruler in my kingdom.”
Suddenly, a man’s fingers appeared opposite the lampstand and wrote on the plastered wall of the king’s palace. Watching the hand as it wrote, the king turned pale.
While they drank wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, as well as wood and stone.
The gold and silver vessels taken from God’s temple were brought in, and the king, along with his nobles, wives, and concubines, drank from them.
Under the influence of wine, he ordered that the gold and silver vessels his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem be brought in, so that he and his nobles, his wives, and his concubines could drink from them.
The Banquet of Belshazzar King Belshazzar held a grand banquet for his nobles; a thousand of them attended, and he drank wine with them.
All who worship the Lord, bless the God of gods; praise and acknowledge him, for his mercy is everlasting.”
Ananiah, Azariah, Mishael, bless the Lord; praise and exalt him forever. For he has taken us out from the netherworld, he has saved us from the hands of death, freed us from the furnace of burning flames, and rescued us from the midst of the fire.
