1. Belshazzar the king hath made a great feast to a thousand of his great men, and before the thousand he is drinking wine;
2. Belshazzar hath said--while tasting the wine--to bring in the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple that [is] in Jerusalem, that drink with them may the king, and his great men, his wives, and his concubines.
3. Then they have brought in the vessels of gold that had been taken out of the temple of the house of God that [is] in Jerusalem, and drunk with them have the king and his great men, his wives and his concubines;
4. they have drunk wine, and have praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.