39 When they become heated up, I will serve them their banquet
And (A)make them drunk, so that they may rejoice in triumph,
And may (B)sleep a perpetual sleep
And not wake up,” declares the Lord.

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57 “I will (A)make her leaders and her wise men drunk,
Her governors, her officials, and her warriors,
So that they will sleep a (B)perpetual sleep and not wake up,”
(C)Declares the King, whose name is the Lord of armies.

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Belshazzar’s Feast

Belshazzar the king [a]held a great (A)feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in the presence of the thousand. [b]While he tasted the wine, Belshazzar gave orders to bring the gold and silver (B)vessels which his [c]father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives, and his concubines could drink out of them. Then they brought the gold vessels that had been taken out of the temple, the house of God which was in Jerusalem; and the king and his nobles, his wives, and his concubines drank out of them. They (C)drank the wine and praised the gods of (D)gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 5:1 Lit made
  2. Daniel 5:2 Or Under the influence of the wine
  3. Daniel 5:2 Or forefather, and so throughout the ch

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