Daniel 5:3-5

The Voice

³ A little later his servants returned carrying in the gold^[a] vessels that had been taken from the temple, the house of the one True God in Jerusalem. The king, his officials, his wives, and his concubines began to drink from them. ⁴ As they drank the wine, they offered praise to their idols crafted in gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

⁵ Suddenly the fingers of a hand—a human hand—appeared and began to write on the plaster of one of the palace walls lit by a nearby lampstand. The king stood transfixed, watching the hand as it wrote.