³ While people are saying, “Peace and safety,”^(A) destruction will come on them suddenly,^(B) as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.^(C)

Threefold Woe Over Babylon’s Fall

⁹ “When the kings of the earth who committed adultery with her^(A) and shared her luxury^(B) see the smoke of her burning,^(C) they will weep and mourn over her.^{(D) 10} Terrified at her torment, they will stand far off^(E) and cry:

⁵⁹ I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny.”^(A)

³⁴ In anger his master handed him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.

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,^(G) and he was proclaimed the third highest ruler in the kingdom.^(H)

³⁰ That very night Belshazzar,^(I) king^(J) of the Babylonians,^[d] was slain,^(K)

³⁶ Then the angel^(A) of the Lord went out and put to death^(B) a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian^(C) camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!