¹⁷ Nhưng chúng ta chắc sẽ làm trọn mọi lời đã ra từ miệng chúng tôi, sẽ đốt hương và làm lễ quán cho nữ vương trên trời, như chúng tôi cùng tổ phụ, vua, quan trưởng chúng tôi đã làm trong các thành của Giu-đa và các đường phố Giê-ru-sa-lem; vì lúc bấy giờ chúng tôi có bánh đặng no mình, hưởng phước, chẳng thấy tai vạ gì.

² Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them.

³ Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from them.

⁴ They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

⁵ In the same hour came forth the fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.