So they brought in the gold goblets that had been taken from the temple of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines drank from them. As they drank the wine, they praised the gods(A) of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone.(B)

Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote. His face turned pale(C) and he was so frightened(D) that his legs became weak(E) and his knees were knocking.(F)

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