24. Then the hand was sent from Him and this inscription was written out.
25. "Now this is the inscription that was written out: 'MENĒ, MENĒ, TEKĒL, UPHARSIN.'
26. This is the interpretation of the message: 'MENĒ'-God has numbered your kingdom and put an end to it.
27. 'TEKĒL'-you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.
28. 'PERĒS'-your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians."
29. Then Belshazzar gave orders, and they clothed Daniel with purple and put a necklace of gold around his neck, and issued a proclamation concerning him that he now had authority as the third ruler in the kingdom.
30. That same night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain.