Daniel 5:25-31 - The Inscription's Interpretation

²⁵ “This is the inscription that was written, ‘mene, mene, tekel, upharsin [numbered, numbered, weighed, and divided].’

²⁶ This is the interpretation of the message: ‘mene’—God has numbered the days of your kingdom and put an end to it; ²⁷ ‘tekel’—you have been weighed on the scales [of righteousness] and found deficient; ²⁸ ‘peres’—your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”

²⁹ Then Belshazzar gave the command, and Daniel was clothed with purple and a chain of gold was put around his neck, and a proclamation concerning him was issued [declaring] that he now had authority as the third ruler in the kingdom.

³⁰ During that same night Belshazzar the [last] Chaldean king was slain [by troops of the invading army]. ³¹ So Darius the Mede received the kingdom; he was about the age of sixty-two.