ECB(i)
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.
29 Then Belte Shats Tsar says to enrobe Dani El with purple, with a necklace of gold around his neck; and announces concerning him, to become the third dominator in the sovereigndom.
30 In that night, Bel Shats Tsar the sovereign of the Kesediym is severed.