Dan 5:1-6, 9, 26-28 | ESV | STEP | King Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his lords and drank wine in front of the thousand .

1 ^aKing Belshazzar ^bmade a great feast for a thousand of his ^clords and drank wine in front of the thousand.

2 ^dBelshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that ^ethe vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father ^{▼▼Or predecessor; also verses 11, 13, 18} had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them. 3 Then they brought in ^gthe golden vessels that had been taken out of the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them. 4 They drank wine and ^hpraised the ⁱgods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

5 ^jImmediately ^kthe fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace, opposite the lampstand. And the king saw ^lthe hand as it wrote. 6 ^mThen the king’s color changed, ⁿand his thoughts alarmed him; ^ohis limbs gave way, and ^phis knees knocked together.

Daniel 5:9

9 Then King Belshazzar was greatly ^qalarmed, and his ^rcolor changed, and his ^slords were perplexed.

Daniel 5:26-28

26 This is the interpretation of the matter: Mene, God has numbered ^{▼▼ Mene sounds like the Aramaic for numbered} the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end; 27 Tekel, ^uyou have been weighed ^{▼▼ Tekel sounds like the Aramaic for weighed} in the balances and found wanting; 28 Peres, your kingdom is divided and given to ^wthe Medes and ^xPersians.” ^{▼▼ Peres (the singular of Parsin) sounds like the Aramaic for divided and for Persia}