Job 21:11-15

11They send out their alittle boys like a flock,
and their children dance.
12They sing to bthe tambourine and cthe lyre
and rejoice to the sound of dthe pipe.
13They espend their days in prosperity,
and in fpeace they go down to gSheol.
14They say to God, hDepart from us!
We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.
15 iWhat is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
And what jprofit do we get if we pray to him?’

Isaiah 21:4-5

4My heart staggers; horror has appalled me;
kthe twilight I longed for
has been turned for me into trembling.
5 lThey prepare the table,
they spread the rugs,
Or  they set the watchman

they eat, they drink.
Arise, O princes;
noil the shield!

Isaiah 22:2

2you who are full of shoutings,
tumultuous city, oexultant town?
Your slain are pnot slain with the sword
or dead in battle.

Ezekiel 26:13

13 qAnd I will stop the music of your songs, and rthe sound of your lyres shall be heard no more.

Ezekiel 32:19-20

19 sWhom do you surpass in beauty?
Go down and tbe laid to rest with the uncircumcised.’
20They shall fall amid those uwho are slain by the sword. Egypt
Hebrew She
is delivered to the sword; drag her away, and wall her multitudes.

Daniel 5:1-4

The Handwriting on the Wall

1 xKing Belshazzar ymade a great feast for a thousand of his zlords and drank wine in front of the thousand.

2 aaBelshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that abthe 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.
3Then they brought in adthe 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. 4They drank wine and aepraised the afgods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

Daniel 5:25-30

25And this is the writing that was inscribed: Mene, Mene, Tekel, and Parsin. 26This 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;
27Tekel, ahyou have been weighed
 Tekel sounds like the Aramaic for  weighed
in the balances and found wanting;
28Peres, your kingdom is divided and given to ajthe Medes and akPersians.”
 Peres (the singular of  Parsin) sounds like the Aramaic for  divided and for Persia


29Then amBelshazzar gave the command, and Daniel anwas clothed with purple, a chain of gold was put around his neck, and a proclamation was made about him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

30 aoThat very night apBelshazzar the aqChaldean king was killed.
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