25. “Now this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL UPARSIN.
26. This is the interpretation of the inscription: MENE: God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.
27. TEKEL: You have been weighed in the balances and found wanting.
28. PERES: Your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”
29. Then at Belshazzar’s command, they clothed Daniel with purple, put a chain of gold around his neck, and issued a proclamation about him that he would have the authority as third ruler in the kingdom.
30. On that very night King Belshazzar of the Chaldeans was slain.