“I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at ease in my house and flourishing in my palace.

Twelve months later he was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon.

Suddenly the fingers of a man’s hand emerged and began writing opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace, and the king saw the back of the hand that did the writing.

Then the king went off to his palace and spent the night fasting, and no entertainment was brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.