^{1 Ref} Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

^{2 Ref} Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from it.

³ Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from them.

^{4 Ref} They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

^{5 Ref} In the same hour came forth the fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

^{6 Ref} Then the king's face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his loins were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.