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27 tekel, You are weighed in the balances and are found wanting;

28 [a]peres, Your kingdom and your kingship are divided and given to the Medes and Persians. [Foretold in Isa. 21:2, 5, 9.]

29 Then Belshazzar commanded, and Daniel was clothed with purple and a chain of gold put about his neck, and a proclamation was made concerning him that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 5:28 The singular of upharsin (see Dan. 5:25).

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