³ Then they have brought in the vessels of gold that had been taken out of the temple of the house of God that `is' in Jerusalem, and drunk with them have the king and his great men, his wives and his concubines;

^{4 Ref} they have drunk wine, and have praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

^{5 Ref} In that hour come forth have fingers of a man's hand, and they are writing over-against the candlestick, on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king is seeing the extremity of the hand that is writing;