MKJV(i)
18 O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honor.
19 And for the majesty that He gave him, all people, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. He killed whom he would, and whom he would he kept alive. And whom he would, he set up; and whom he would, he put down.
20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was put down from the throne of his kingdom, and they took his glory from him.
21 And he was driven from the sons of men. And his heart was made like the animals, and his dwelling was with the wild asses. They fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the heavens, until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that He appoints over it whomever He will.
22 And you his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this.
23 But you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of Heaven. And they have brought the vessels of His house before you; and you, and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver, and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see, nor hear, nor know. And you have not glorified the God in whose hand is your breath and all your ways.
24 Then the part of the hand was sent from Him. And this writing was written.
25 And this is the writing that was written, A MINA, A MINA, A SHEKEL, AND HALF-MINAS.
26 This is the meaning of the thing: A MINA, God has numbered your kingdom and finished it.
27 A SHEKEL, You are weighed in the balances and found wanting.
28 HALF-MINAS, Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.
29 Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet and a golden chain around his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
30 In that night Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans was killed.
31 And Darius the Mede took the kingdom, being a son of sixty-two years.