²² And you his son,^{[a] (A)}Belshazzar, ^(B)have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this, ²³ but you have lifted up yourself against ^(C)the Lord of heaven. And ^(D)the vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them. ^(E)And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, ^(F)but the God in whose hand is your breath, and ^(G)whose are all your ways, ^(H)you have not honoured.

⁴ who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, ^(A)proclaiming himself to be God.