Belshazzar and his court celebrate exuberantly. They try to forget the dire circumstances. They want to feel good about themselves. It seems like nothing can happen to them. Slurring, they praise their idols. Then suddenly something startles them immensely. It makes them tremble with fear. They see something on the wall. Suddenly they see fingers without seeing a hand or other parts of a body. These mysterious fingers write something on the wall. Everyone can see it clearly. We read that the writing is done close to the lampstand, in the bright light.
5 Immediately the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace, opposite the lampstand. And the king saw the hand as it wrote.