They drank the wine and praised the gods made of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood and stone.

5 At that very moment, the fingers of a human hand emerged and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace opposite the lampstand, so that the king could see the back of the hand that was writing. 6 The color drained from the king’s face, his thoughts alarmed him, his hips gave way and his knees began knocking together.