⁵ With my great power and outstretched arm^(A) I made^(B) the earth and its people and the animals^(C) that are on it, and I give^(D) it to anyone I please.

²¹ He was driven away from people and given the mind of an animal; he lived with the wild donkeys and ate grass like the ox; and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until he acknowledged that the Most High God is sovereign^(A) over all kingdoms on earth and sets over them anyone he wishes.^(B)

²² “But you, Belshazzar, his son,^[a] have not humbled^(C) yourself, though you knew all this. ²³ Instead, you have set yourself up against^(D) the Lord of heaven. You had the goblets from his temple brought to you, and you and your nobles, your wives^(E) and your concubines drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand.^(F) But you did not honor the God who holds in his hand your life^(G) and all your ways.^{(H) 24} Therefore he sent the hand that wrote the inscription.

²⁵ “This is the inscription that was written:

²⁶ “Here is what these words mean:

²⁹ Then at Belshazzar’s command, Daniel was clothed in purple, a gold chain was placed around his neck,^(O) and he was proclaimed the third highest ruler in the kingdom.^(P)

³⁰ That very night Belshazzar,^(Q) king^(R) of the Babylonians,^[e] was slain,^{(S) 31} and Darius^(T) the Mede^(U) took over the kingdom, at the age of sixty-two.^[f]

³ This man lived in the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain. ⁴ For he had often been chained hand and foot, but he tore the chains apart and broke the irons on his feet. No one was strong enough to subdue him.