^{2 Ref} Belshazzar, while he was overcome with wine, gave orders for them to put before him the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar, his father, had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem; so that the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, might take their drink from them.

³ Then they took in the gold and silver vessels which had been in the Temple of the house of God at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, took wine from them.

^{4 Ref} They took their wine and gave praise to the gods of gold and silver, of brass and iron and wood and stone.

^{5 Ref} In that very hour the fingers of a man's hand were seen, writing opposite the support for the light on the white wall of the king's house, and the king saw the part of the hand which was writing.

^{6 Ref} Then the colour went from the king's face, and he was troubled by his thoughts; strength went from his body, and his knees were shaking.