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	Well the Bible tells us about a man

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	Who ruled Babylon and	all it's	land

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	Around the city he built a wall

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	And declared that Babylon would	never	fall

He had concubines and wives

He called his Babylon "Paradise"

On his throne he drank and ate

But for Belshazzer it was getting late

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	For he was weighed in the balance and found wanting

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	His kingdom was divided, couldn't stand

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	He was	weighed in the balance and found wanting

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	His houses were	built upon the sand

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The people feast and drank their wine

And praised the false gods of his time

All holy things were scorned and mocked

But suddenly all their mocking stopped

For on the wall there appeared a hand

Nothing else, there was no man

And but, the hand began to write

And Belshazzar couldn't hide his fright

For he was weighed in the balance and found wanting

His kingdom was divided, couldn't stand

He was weighed in the balance and found wanting

His houses were built upon the sand

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Well no one around could understand

What was written by the mystic hand

Belshazzar tried but couldn't find

A man who could give him piece of mind

But Daniel the prophet, the man of God

He saw the writing on the wall in blood

Belshazzar asked him what it said

And Daniel turned to the wall and read

"My friend your weighed in the balance and found wanting

Your kingdom was divided, it can't stand

Your weighed in the balance and found wanting

Your houses were built upon the sand"

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Here is the scripture from the Bible (KJV) that

"Belshazzer" by Johnny Cash is based on:

Daniel 5:1-Belshazzar the king made a great

feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine

before the thousand.

Daniel 5:4-8- They drank wine and praised the gods

of gold, and silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of

stone.

In the same hour came forth fingers of a man, and

wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster

of the wall of the king's palace: and Belshazzar saw

the part of the hand that wrote.

Then the king's countenance was charged,

and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his

loins were loosed, and his knees smote against one another.

Belshazzar cried out loud to bring in the astrologers, the

Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spoke, and said

Whoever can read this writing and explain it to me, you will

be clothed in scarlet, and have a chain of gold around his neck

and be the third ruler of Babylon.

Then the wise men were brought in and could not read

the writing.

Daniel 5:12-An excellent spirit, the knowledge, and understanding,

and showing of hard sentences and his name was Daniel. (He was

brought before the king)

Daniel 5: 24-28 - Then was the part of the hand sent from him;

and this writing was written.

Mene, Mene, Tekel, Opharsin.

This is the translation: Mene; God hath numbered thy kingdom

and finished it.

Tekel; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

Opharsin; Thy kingdom is divided.

For further reading, stop by Daniel 5 and check it out!

Tyler