Daniel 5

O banquete do rei Belsazar. A mão misteriosa

1 O rei Belsazar deu um grande *Et 1.3;Is 22.12-14banquete a mil dos seus grandes e bebeu vinho na presença desses mil. 2 Belsazar, enquanto tomava o vinho, mandou que fossem trazidos os *Dn 1.2;2Rs 24.13;25.15;Ed 1.7-11vasos de ouro e de prata que seu pai, Nabucodonosor, havia tirado *Dn 5.23do templo que estava em Jerusalém, para que *Dn 5.4,23bebessem por eles o rei e seus grandes, suas mulheres e suas concubinas. 3 Então, trouxeram os vasos de ouro que haviam sido tirados do templo da Casa de Deus, que estava em Jerusalém, e por eles beberam o rei e seus grandes, suas mulheres e suas concubinas. 4 *Dn 5.23;Is 42.8Bebiam vinho e louvavam os deuses de *Dn 3.1;Sl 115.4;135.15;Is 40.19-20;Hc 2.19ouro, de prata, de cobre, de ferro, de pau e de pedra.

5 Na *Dn 4.31,33mesma hora, saíram os dedos de mão de homem e escreveram defronte do candeeiro na caiadura da parede do palácio real. O rei via *Dn 5.24a parte da mão que escrevia. 6 Então, o *Dn 5.9-10;Dn 7.28semblante do rei se mudou, e os seus *Dn 4.5,19pensamentos o perturbaram; as juntas dos seus *Sl 69.23;Na 2.10lombos se relaxaram, e os seus *Ez 7.17;21.7joelhos batiam um no outro. 7 O rei chamou, em alta voz, que se introduzissem *Dn 5.11,15;Dn 4.6-7;Is 44.25;47.13os encantadores, os caldeus e os feiticeiros. Falou o rei e disse aos sábios de Babilônia: Qualquer que ler esta escritura e me mostrar a *Dn 2.6sua interpretação será *Dn 5.16,29;Gn 41.42-44vestido de púrpura, trará uma *Ez 16.11cadeia de ouro ao pescoço e terá *Dn 5.16,29;Dn 2.48;6.2-3o terceiro lugar de poder no reino. 8 Então, entraram todos os sábios do rei; porém *Dn 5.15;Dn 2.10;4.7;Gn 41.8não puderam ler a escritura, nem fazer saber ao rei a interpretação. 9 Nisso, ficou o rei Belsazar *Dn 5.6;Dn 2.1;Jó 18.11;Is 21.2-4;Jr 6.24muito perturbado, e se lhe mudou *Is 13.6-8o semblante, e os seus grandes estavam perplexos.

Daniel é requisitado

10 Ora, a rainha, por causa das palavras do rei e dos seus grandes, entrou na casa de banquete; falou a rainha e disse: *Dn 3.9;6.6Ó rei, vive eternamente! Não te perturbem os *Dn 5.6teus pensamentos, nem se mude o teu semblante. 11 No teu reino, há *Dn 2.47;Gn 41.11-15um homem que tem em si *Dn 5.14;Dn 4.8-9,18o espírito dos deuses santos, e, nos dias de teu pai, se acharam nele luz e *Dn 1.17entendimento, e sabedoria, como a sabedoria dos deuses; o rei Nabucodonosor, teu pai, o rei, digo, teu pai, fê-lo *Dn 2.48chefe dos mágicos, dos encantadores, dos caldeus e dos feiticeiros; 12 porquanto um *Dn 5.14;Dn 6.3espírito excelente, e conhecimento, e inteligência, interpretação de sonhos, declaração de enigmas e *Dn 5.16solução de dúvidas se acharam em Daniel, a quem o rei pôs o nome de *Dn 1.7;4.8Beltessazar. Seja chamado, pois, Daniel, e ele mostrará a interpretação.

13 Então, foi Daniel introduzido à presença do rei. Falou o rei e disse a Daniel: És tu aquele Daniel, um dos *Dn 2.25;6.13;Ed 4.1;6.16,19-20filhos do cativeiro de Judá, que o rei, meu pai, *Dn 1.1-2trouxe de Judá? 14 Tenho ouvido a teu respeito que há em ti o *Dn 5.11espírito dos deuses, e que se acham em ti luz, inteligência e excelente sabedoria. 15 Agora mesmo, foram introduzidos à minha presença *Dn 5.7os sábios, os encantadores, para que lessem esta escritura e me fizessem saber a interpretação dela; porém *Dn 5.8;Is 47.12não me puderam mostrar a interpretação da coisa. 16 Mas tenho *Dn 5.11ouvido a teu respeito que tu podes dar interpretações e solver dúvidas. Se, pois, puderes ler a escritura e me fazer saber *Gn 40.8a interpretação dela, *Dn 5.7,29serás vestido de púrpura, trarás uma cadeia de ouro ao pescoço e terás o terceiro lugar de poder no reino.

17 Então, respondeu Daniel e disse na presença do rei: Sejam para ti as *2Rs 5.16tuas dádivas, e dá a outrem os teus prêmios; contudo, eu lerei ao rei a escritura e lhe farei saber a interpretação. 18 *Dn 5.21;Dn 4.2O Altíssimo Deus, ó rei, *Dn 2.37-38;4.17deu a teu pai, Nabucodonosor, o reino, e *Jr 25.9;27.5-7grandeza, e glória, e majestade; 19 e, por causa da grandeza que lhe deu, todos os povos, nações e línguas tremiam e temiam diante dele; *Dn 2.12-13;3.6;11.3,16,36a quem queria matava; e a quem ele queria conservava em vida; a quem queria exaltava; e a quem queria abatia. 20 Quando, porém, o seu coração *Dn 4.30-31;Êx 9.17;Jó 15.25;Is 14.13-15se elevou, e o seu espírito *2Rs 17.14;2Cr 36.13se endureceu, de sorte que se houve arrogantemente, foi ele *Jó 40.11-12;Jr 13.18deposto do seu trono real, e tiraram-lhe a sua glória; 21 *Dn 4.16,33;Jó 30.3-7e foi expulso dentre os filhos dos homens, o seu coração foi feito como o dos animais, e a sua morada era com os *Jó 39.5-8jumentos monteses; *Dn 4.33foi sustentado de feno, como boi, e o seu corpo foi molhado do orvalho do céu, até que conheceu que o *Dn 4.34-35;Êx 9.14-16;Sl 83.17-18;Ez 17.24Altíssimo Deus domina no reino dos homens e a quem quiser constitui sobre ele. 22 *Sl 119.46Tu, Belsazar, que és seu filho, *Êx 10.3;2Cr 33.23;36.12não humilhaste o coração, embora soubesses tudo isso; 23 porém *Dn 5.3-4;2Rs 14.10;Is 2.12;37.23;Jr 50.29te elevaste contra *Dn 4.37o Senhor do céu. Trouxeram perante ti os *Dn 5.3vasos da casa dele, e por eles bebestes vinho, tu e teus grandes, tuas mulheres e tuas concubinas; *Dn 5.4e louvaste os deuses de prata, de ouro, de cobre, de ferro, de pau e de pedra, *Sl 115.4-8;Is 37.19;Hc 2.18-19que não veem, nem ouvem, nem sabem; e ao Deus, em *Jó 12.10cuja mão está o teu fôlego *Jó 31.4;Sl 139.3;Pv 20.24;Jr 10.23e de quem são todos os teus caminhos, a ele não glorificaste. 24 Então, foi *Dn 5.5a parte da mão enviada de diante dele, e foi inscrita esta escritura.

Daniel interpreta a escritura

25 Esta é a escritura que foi inscrita: MENE, MENE, TEQUEL, PARSIM. 26 Esta é a sua interpretação. MENE: Deus contou o teu reino *Is 13.6,17;Jr 27.7;50.41-43e o acabou. 27 TEQUEL: *Jó 31.6;Sl 62.9Pesado na balança e achado em falta. 28 PERES: Está dividido o teu reino e entregue aos *Dn 5.31;Dn 6.8,28;Is 21.2;45.1-2medos e aos persas.

29 Então, Belsazar deu as suas ordens; vestiram de *Dn 5.7,16púrpura a Daniel e puseram-lhe ao pescoço uma cadeia de ouro, e fez-se uma proclamação a respeito dele, que tivesse o terceiro lugar de poder no reino.

30 Naquela noite, foi *Is 21.4-9;47.9;Jr 51.11,31,39,57morto *Dn 5.1-2Belsazar, rei caldeu. 31 *Dn 6.1;9.1Dario, o medo, recebeu o reino, tendo mais ou menos sessenta e dois anos de idade.

1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. 2 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.*5.2 father: or, grandfather*5.2 taken: Chaldee, brought forth 3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them. 4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

5 In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. 6 Then the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.*5.6 countenance: Chaldee, brightnesses*5.6 was changed: Chaldee, changed it*5.6 joints: or, girdles: Chaldee, bindings, or, knots 7 The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.*5.7 aloud: Chaldee, with might*5.7 scarlet: or, purple 8 Then came in all the king’s wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof. 9 Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were astonied.*5.9 countenance: Chaldee, brightnesses

10 Now the queen, by reason of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banquet house: and the queen spake and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed: 11 There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;*5.11 father: or, grandfather 12 Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation.*5.12 interpreting: or, of an interpreter*5.12 dissolving: or, of a dissolver*5.12 doubts: Chaldee, knots 13 Then was Daniel brought in before the king. And the king spake and said unto Daniel, Art thou that Daniel, which art of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Jewry?*5.13 father: or, grandfather 14 I have even heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods is in thee, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee. 15 And now the wise men, the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the interpretation thereof: but they could not shew the interpretation of the thing: 16 And I have heard of thee, that thou canst make interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom.*5.16 make interpretations: Chaldee, interpret, etc

17 Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation.*5.17 rewards: or, fee 18 O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour: 19 And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down. 20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:*5.20 in pride: or, to deal proudly*5.20 deposed: Chaldee, made to come down 21 And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.*5.21 his heart…: or, he made his heart equal, etc 22 And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this; 23 But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified: 24 Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written.

25 And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. 26 This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. 27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. 28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. 29 Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

30 In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. 31 And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.*5.31 being…: Chaldee, he as the son of, etc*5.31 about: or, now