3. When the gold vessels taken from the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, had been brought in, and while the king, his nobles, his consorts, and his concubines were drinking
4. wine from them, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.
5. Suddenly, opposite the lampstand, the fingers of a human hand appeared, writing on the plaster of the wall in the king’s palace. When the king saw the hand that wrote,
6. his face became pale; his thoughts terrified him, his hip joints shook, and his knees knocked.