ECB(i)
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DANI EL INTERPRETS THE INSCRIBING
Then Dani El answers and says in front of the sovereign, Your gifts are yours and give your largess to another; however I call out the inscribing to the sovereign and have him know the interpretation. 18 You, O sovereign, Elyon Elah gave Nebukadnets Tsar your father a sovereigndom and greatness and esteem and majesty: 19 and from the greatness he gave him, all people, nations and tongues became agitated and terrified in front of him: whom he willed, he severed; and whom he willed, enlivened; and whom he willed, he lifted; and whom he willed, he abased: 20 and when he lifted his heart and empowered his spirit in seething he was deposed from the throne of his sovereigndom, and his esteem passed from him 21 - expelled from the sons of men; and his heart was equated to live beings, and his whirling was with the onagers: they fed him with herbage as bulls, and his body was dyed with the dew of the heavens; until he knew that Elyon Elah is dominator in the sovereigndom of men, and that he raises over it whomever he wills. 22 And you his bar, O Bel Shats Tsar, have not abased your heart even though you know all this; 23 and you lift yourself against the Master of the heavens; and they bring the vessels of his house in front of you; and you and your nobles, your mistresses and your concubines drink fermentation in them; and you laud the elahim of silver and gold, of copper, iron, timber and stone, which neither see nor hear nor know: and Elah in whose hand your breath is, and whose all your ways are, you esteem not. 24 Then the palm of the hand is sent in front of him; and this inscribing is signed: 25 and this is the inscribing that is signed, MENE/NUMBERED, MENE/NUMBERED, TEKEL/BALANCED, UPHARSIN/SPLIT. 26 This is the interpretation of the utterance: MENE/NUMBERED; Elah numbers your sovereigndom, and shalams: 27 TEKEL/BALANCED; You are balanced in the balances, and found deficient: 28 PERES/SPLIT; Your sovereigndom is split, and given to the Maday and Persians.
DANI EL INTERPRETS THE INSCRIBING
Then Dani El answers and says in front of the sovereign, Your gifts are yours and give your largess to another; however I call out the inscribing to the sovereign and have him know the interpretation. 18 You, O sovereign, Elyon Elah gave Nebukadnets Tsar your father a sovereigndom and greatness and esteem and majesty: 19 and from the greatness he gave him, all people, nations and tongues became agitated and terrified in front of him: whom he willed, he severed; and whom he willed, enlivened; and whom he willed, he lifted; and whom he willed, he abased: 20 and when he lifted his heart and empowered his spirit in seething he was deposed from the throne of his sovereigndom, and his esteem passed from him 21 - expelled from the sons of men; and his heart was equated to live beings, and his whirling was with the onagers: they fed him with herbage as bulls, and his body was dyed with the dew of the heavens; until he knew that Elyon Elah is dominator in the sovereigndom of men, and that he raises over it whomever he wills. 22 And you his bar, O Bel Shats Tsar, have not abased your heart even though you know all this; 23 and you lift yourself against the Master of the heavens; and they bring the vessels of his house in front of you; and you and your nobles, your mistresses and your concubines drink fermentation in them; and you laud the elahim of silver and gold, of copper, iron, timber and stone, which neither see nor hear nor know: and Elah in whose hand your breath is, and whose all your ways are, you esteem not. 24 Then the palm of the hand is sent in front of him; and this inscribing is signed: 25 and this is the inscribing that is signed, MENE/NUMBERED, MENE/NUMBERED, TEKEL/BALANCED, UPHARSIN/SPLIT. 26 This is the interpretation of the utterance: MENE/NUMBERED; Elah numbers your sovereigndom, and shalams: 27 TEKEL/BALANCED; You are balanced in the balances, and found deficient: 28 PERES/SPLIT; Your sovereigndom is split, and given to the Maday and Persians.