His beard touched the earth.
His brows were like briars.
His eyes were hollow, and grey as the kite’s.
Eagle-hued he was.
At last he recovered his “wit,” and believed in God.
Then soon was he restored to his seat.
But thou, Belshazzar, hast disregarded these signs, and hast blasphemed the Lord, defiled his vessels, filling them with wine for thy wenches, and praising thy lifeless gods.
For this sin God has sent thee this strange sight, the fist with the fingers writing on the wall.
These are the words: “Mene, Tekel, Peres.
Mene.— God has counted thy kingdom and finished it.