31 Messenger races to meet messenger,(A)
and herald to meet herald,
to announce to the king of Babylon
that his city has been captured
from end to end.

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31 One courier(A) follows another
    and messenger follows messenger
to announce to the king of Babylon
    that his entire city is captured,(B)

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30 That very night Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans was killed, 31 [a]and Darius the Mede(A) received the kingdom at the age of 62.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 5:31 Dn 6:1 in Hb

30 That very night Belshazzar,(A) king(B) of the Babylonians,[a] was slain,(C) 31 and Darius(D) the Mede(E) took over the kingdom, at the age of sixty-two.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 5:30 Or Chaldeans
  2. Daniel 5:31 In Aramaic texts this verse (5:31) is numbered 6:1.