Writing on the Wall

King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles and drank wine with them.

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 and he was so frightened that his knees knocked together and his legs gave way.

Then all the king's wise men came in, but they could not read the writing or tell the king what it meant.

Then Daniel answered the king, "You may keep your gifts for yourself and give your rewards to someone else. Nevertheless, I will read the writing for the king and tell him what it means.

"This is the inscription that was written:
Mene , Mene , Tekel , Parsin

"This is what these words mean:
Mene : God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.

Tekel: You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.

Peres : Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians."

That very night Belshazzar, king of the Babylonians, was slain, and Darius the Mede took over the kingdom....

Daniel 5:1,5,8,17,25-28,30 NIV

[Yahweh, Let kings consider your ways and seek you]