21. he was cast out from human society and his heart was made like that of a beast; he lived with wild asses, and ate grass like an ox; his body was bathed with the dew of heaven, until he learned that the Most High God is sovereign over human kingship and sets over it whom he will.
22. You, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this;
23. you have rebelled against the Lord of heaven. You had the vessels of his temple brought before you, so that you and your nobles, your consorts and your concubines, might drink wine from them; and you praised the gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, that neither see nor hear nor have intelligence. But the God in whose hand is your very breath and the whole course of your life, you did not glorify.
24. By him was the hand sent, and the writing set down.
25. “This is the writing that was inscribed: Mene, Tekel, and Peres. These words mean:
26. Mene, God has numbered your kingdom and put an end to it;
27. Tekel, you have been weighed on the scales and found wanting;