Coverdale(i)
17 Daniel answered, and sayde before ye kynge: As for thy rewardes, kepe them to thy self, or geue yi rych giftes to another: yet not thelesse, I wil rede the wrytynge vnto ye kinge, and shewe him the interpretacion
18 therof O kinge, God the hyest gaue vnto Nabuchodonosor thy father, ye dignite of a kynge, wt worshipe & honor:
19 so yt all people, kynreddes & tunges stode in awe & feare of him, by reason off the hye estate, that he had lent him. For why: he slewe, whom he wolde: he smote, whom it pleased him. Agayne: whom he wolde, he set vp: and whom he list, he put downe.
20 But because his herte was so proude, and his stomack set fast vnto wylfulnesse: he was deposed from his kyngly trone, and his magesty was taken from him.
21 He was shot out from amonge men, his herte was like a beestes herte, and his dwellynge was with the wylde Asses: he was fayne to eate grasse like an oxe, and his body was wet with the dew off the heauen: till he knewe, that the hyest had power vpon the kyngdomes of men, and setteth ouer them, whom he list.
22 And thou his sonne (o Balthasar) for all this, hast not submitted thine hert, though thou knewest all these thinges:
23 but hast magnified thy selff aboue the LORDE off heauen, so that the vessels off his house were brought before the: that thou, and thy lordes, with thy quene and concubynes, might drynke wyne therout: And hast praysed the Idols of syluer and golde, copper and yron, off wodde & stone: As for the God, in whose honde consisteth thy breth ad all thy wayes: thou hast not loaued him.
24 Therfore is the palme off this honde sent hither from him, to token vp this wrytinge.
25 And this is the scripture, that is written vp: Mane, Thetel, Phares.
26 Now the interpretacion off the thynge is this: Mane, God hath nombred thy kyngdome, and brought it to an ende:
27 Thetel, Thou art weyed in the balaunce, and art founde to light:
28 Phares, Thy kyngdome is delt in partes, and geuen to the Medes and Perses.
29 Then commaunded Balthasar, to cloth Daniel with purple, to hange a cheyne off golde aboute his necke, and to make a proclamacion concernynge him: that he shulde be the ruler off the thirde parte off his kyngdome.
30 The very same night was Balthasar the kynge off the Caldees slayne,
31 and Darius out of Media toke in the kyngdome, beynge lxij. yeare off age.