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27 tekel’—you have been weighed on the scales [of righteousness] and found deficient; 28 [a]peres’—[b]your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and [c]Persians.”

29 Then Belshazzar gave the command, and Daniel was clothed with purple and a chain of gold was put around his neck, and a proclamation concerning him was issued [declaring] that he now had authority as the third ruler in the kingdom.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 5:28 The singular of upharsin (see v 25).
  2. Daniel 5:28 Foretold in Is 21:2, 5, 9.
  3. Daniel 5:28 Aram Paras.

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