4. They drank wine, and praised the g-ds of gold, and of silver, of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
5. In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's yad (hand), and wrote opposite the menorah upon the plaster of the wall of the king's heikhal, and the king saw the part of the yad that wrote.
6. Then the king's countenance was changed, and his machsh'vot troubled him, so that the joints of his hips were loosed, and his knees knocked together.
7. The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Kasdim (Chaldeans), and the soothsayers. And the king spoke, and said to the chachamim of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this mikhtav (writing), and show me the pesher (interpretation, explanation) thereof, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the malchut.
8. Then came in all the king's chachamim, but they could not read the mikhtav (writing), nor make known to the king the pesher (interpretation, explanation) thereof.
9. Then was king Belshatzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his nobles were perplexed.
10. Now the malkah (queen) by reason of the words of the king and his nobles came into the banquet house; and the malkah (queen) spoke and said, O king, live forever; let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed.
11. There is a man in thy malchut, in whom is the Ruach Elohin Kadishin (Ruach Elohim HaKadosh) and in the days of thy forefather ohr and seichel and chochmah, like the chochmah of HaElohim, was found in him; the king Nevuchadnetzar thy forefather, the king, I say, thy forefather, made him chief of the magicians, enchanters, Kasdim (Chaldeans), and soothsayers;