ULT DAN Chapter 5

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5 King Belshazzar made a great feast for his nobles, a thousand, and he drank wine before the thousand. 2 Belshazzar said in the taste of the wine to bring the vessels of gold and silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out from the temple that, was in Jerusalem so that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines might drink from them. 3 Then they brought the vessels of gold that he had taken out from the temple of the house of God that, was in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines drank from them. 4 They drank wine, and they praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

5 In that moment, the fingers of the hand of a man came out, and they were writing, before the lampstand, on the plaster of the wall of the palace of the king. And the king was seeing the palm of the hand that was writing. 6 Then the king, his splendors changed, for him, and his thoughts alarmed him. And the joints of his loins were loosened, and his knees knocked, this to this. 7 The king called out in strength to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the diviners. The king answered and was saying to the wise men of Babylon that, “Any man who reads this writing and shows me its interpretation shall wear purple, and a chain of gold, shall be around his neck, and he shall rule, as the third in the kingdom.” 8 Then all of the wise men of the king were coming in, but they were not being able to read the writing or to make the king know the interpretation. 9 Then King Belshazzar was being alarmed greatly, and his splendors were changing upon him, and his nobles were being perplexed.

10 The queen came in to the house of the banquet because of the words of the king and his nobles. The queen answered and said, “O king, live to eternities! May your thoughts not alarm you, and may your splendors not be changed. 11 There is a man in your kingdom in whom, is the spirit of the holy gods. And in the days of your father, light and understanding and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods were found in him. And King Nebuchadnezzar, your father, your father the king, set him up, as chief of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, diviners, 12 all before that an excellent spirit and knowledge and understanding, interpreting of dreams and solving of riddles and loosening of knots, were found in him, Daniel, whom the king made his name Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation.”

13 Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king answered and was saying to Daniel, “Are you Daniel, who, is from the sons of the captivity of Judah that my father the king brought from Judah? 14 Now I have heard about you that the spirit of the gods, is in you and light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you. 15 And now, the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me that they might read this writing and make me know its interpretation, but they are not being able to show the interpretation of the matter. 16 But I, I have heard about you, that you are able to interpret interpretations and to loosen knots. And now, if you are able to read the writing and to make me know its interpretation, you shall wear purple and a chain of gold, shall be around your neck and you shall rule, as the third in the kingdom.”

17 Then Daniel answered and was saying before the king, “Let your gifts be for yourself, and give your rewards to another. Nevertheless, I will read the writing to the king and make him know the interpretation. 18 As for you, O king, the Most High God gave the kingdom and greatness and honor and majesty to Nebuchadnezzar your father. 19 And from the greatness that he gave to him, all peoples, nations, and languages were trembling and fearing from before him. Whom he was wishing, he was killing, and whom he was wishing, he was letting live. And whom he was wishing, he was lifting up, and whom he was wishing, he was humbling. 20 But because his heart lifted, itself up and his spirit became strong to be proud, he was brought down from the throne of his kingdom and they removed his glory from him. 21 And he was driven from the sons of man, and his heart resembled with an animal, and his dwelling, was with the wild donkeys. They fed him grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the heavens, until that he knew that the Most High God, is ruler over the kingdom of man and whom that he wishes, he sets up over it. 22 But you, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, all before that you knew all of this. 23 But you have lifted yourself up against the Lord of the heavens. And the vessels of his house have been brought before you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines have been drinking wine from them, and the gods of silver and gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which are not seeing and are not hearing and are not knowing, you have praised, but the God who, your breath, is in his hand and all of your ways, are to him, you have not honored. 24 Then from before him the palm of a hand was sent, and this writing was inscribed.

25 And this, is the writing that was inscribed: ‘Mene,’ ‘Mene,’ ‘Tekel,’ and ‘Parsin.’ 26 This, is the interpretation of the matter. ‘Mene’: God has numbered your kingdom and ended it. 27 ‘Tekel’: you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient. 28 ‘Peres’: your kingdom has been divided and given to the Mede and the Persian.”

29 Then Belshazzar spoke, and they clothed Daniel, with purple and a chain of gold around his neck, and they made a proclamation about him, that he would be the third ruler in the kingdom. 30 In it, in the night, Belshazzar, the king, of the Chaldeans, was killed, 31 and Darius the Mede received the kingdom as a son of 62 years.

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