²⁴ ‘So from his presence the hand was sent and this writing was inscribed. ²⁵ And this is the writing that was inscribed: mene, mene, tekel, and parsin. ²⁶ This is the interpretation of the matter: mene, God has numbered the days of^[a] your kingdom and brought it to an end; ²⁷ tekel, you have been weighed on the scales and found wanting;