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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Daniel 5 JPS Tanakh 1917</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/jps/daniel/5.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/daniel/5.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/daniel/5-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/">Bible</a> > <a href="../">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> > Daniel 5</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../daniel/4.htm" title="Daniel 4">◄</a> Daniel 5 <a href="../daniel/6.htm" title="Daniel 6">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his lords, his consorts and his concubines, might drink therein. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his lords, his consorts and his concubines, drank in them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace; and the king saw the palm of the hand that wrote. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Then the king’s countenance was changed in him, and his thoughts affrighted him; and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon: ‘Whosoever shall read this writing, and declare unto me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall rule as one of three in the kingdom.’ <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then came in all the king’s wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then was king Belshazzar greatly affrighted, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were perplexed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Now the queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house; the queen spoke and said: ‘O king, live for ever! let not thy thoughts affright thee, nor let thy countenance be changed; <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>there is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; and the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made him master of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and astrologers; <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>forasmuch as a surpassing spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and declaring of riddles, and loosing of knots, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will declare the interpretation.’ <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then was Daniel brought in before the king. The king spoke and said unto Daniel: ‘Art thou Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Judah? <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I have heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods is in thee, and that light and understanding and surpassing wisdom is found in thee. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the interpretation thereof; but they could not declare the interpretation of the thing. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But I have heard of thee, that thou canst give interpretations, and loose knots; now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt rule as one of three in the kingdom.’ <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then Daniel answered and said before the king: ‘Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; nevertheless I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>O thou king, God Most High gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty; <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>and because of the greatness that He gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew, and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he raised up, and whom he would he put down. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and his glory was taken from him; <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>and he was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses; he was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; until he knew that God Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and that He setteth up over it whomsoever He will. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thy heart, though thou knewest all this; <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of His house before thee, and thou and thy lords, thy consorts and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified; <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/5-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>then was the palm of the hand sent from before Him, and this writing was inscribed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/5-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE MENE, TEKEL UPHARSIN. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/5-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE, God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/5-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>TEKEL, Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/5-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>PERES, thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/5-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him, that he should rule as one of three in the kingdom. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/5-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/5-31.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.</div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../daniel/4.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Daniel 4"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Daniel 4" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../daniel/6.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Daniel 6"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Daniel 6" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/daniel/5-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /> <table align="center" width="90%" style="max-width:900px"><tr><td> <div id="rcjsload_a957f3"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { var referer="";try{if(referer=document.referrer,"undefined"==typeof referer||""==referer)throw"undefined"}catch(exception){referer=document.location.href,(""==referer||"undefined"==typeof referer)&&(referer=document.URL)}referer=referer.substr(0,700); 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