26. This is the interpretation of the matter: Mene, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end;
27. Tekel, you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting;
28. Peres, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”
29. Then Belshazzar gave the command, and Daniel was 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. That very night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was killed.