young springaldes without any blemish, but fair and well favored, instructed in all wisdom, cunning and understanding: which were able to stand in the king's palace, to read and to learn for to speak Chaldeish.

I, Nebuchadnezzar, being at rest in mine house, and flourishing in my palace,

So after twelve months, the king walked up and down in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon,

In the very same hour there appeared fingers, as it had been of a man's hand writing, right over against the candlestick upon the plain wall in the king's palace: and the king saw the palm of the hand that wrote.

So the king went in to his palace, and kept him sober all night, so that there was no table spread before him, neither could he take any sleep.

The tents of his palace shall he pitch betwixt the two seas, upon the hill of the noble Sanctuary, for he shall come to the end of it, and then shall no man help him.