Daniel 5:5-9, 24-31

Then all at once, a human hand appeared out of thin air, and its finger began writing on the white-washed wall of the palace, illuminated by the lampstand nearby. When the king witnessed this strange hand as it was writing, terror gripped him! The color drained from his face, his knees began to knock together, and he wet himself. The king shouted out, “Bring in the astrologers, wise men, and enchanters.” And when they came before him, he said to all the wise ones of Babylon, “I will make rich and famous anyone who can read this handwriting on the wall and tell me its interpretation. He will wear the purple robes of royalty and wear a golden collar on his neck, and I will make him the third highest ruler in my kingdom.” All the king’s wise men came forward to examine the wall, but not one could read the writing or tell the king what it meant. King Belshazzar grew more and more terrified, his face turned ashen, and all his nobles were dumbfounded.

This is why God sent the hand that wrote the inscription upon the wall. “The words inscribed are: MENE, MENE, TEQEL, PARSIN. And here is what they mean: “MENE: God has NUMBERED the days of your reign and brought it to an end. “TEQEL: God has WEIGHED you in the balance, and you have been found lacking. “PERES: God has DIVIDED UP your kingdom and given it to the Medes and the Persians.” Immediately Belshazzar ordered Daniel to be clothed in a royal purple robe, to have a golden collar placed around his neck, and to be proclaimed the third highest ruler in the kingdom. That very night, the Babylonian King Belshazzar was killed. So Darius the Mede received the kingdom when he was sixty-two years old.