Belshazzar, his son, have not humbled yourself, though you knew all this

 Daniel 5:17-31

Then Daniel answered the king, “You may keep your gifts for yourself and give your rewards to someone else. Nevertheless, I will read the writing for the king and tell him what it means.

“But you, Belshazzar, his son, have not humbled yourself, though you knew all this. Instead, you have set yourself up against the Lord of heaven. You had the goblets from his temple brought to you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you did not honor the God who holds in his hand your life and all your ways. Therefore he sent the hand that wrote the inscription.

“This is the inscription that was written: mene, mene, tekel, parsin

Here is what these words mean: Mene: God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end. 

Tekel: You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting

Peres: Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.

Then at Belshazzar’s command, Daniel was clothed in purple, a gold chain was placed around his neck, and he was proclaimed the third highest ruler in the kingdom. That very night Belshazzar, king of the Babylonians, was slain, and Darius the Mede took over the kingdom, at the age of sixty-two.

They are weights, or units of money: 'a mina, a mina, a shekel, and a half-shekel, Daniel now an old man, is summoned to interpret and he goes to the root meanings of the words:'number', 'weight', 'divide'.The kings' days were indeed numbered. That very night Cyrus the Persian took the impregnable city of Babylon, so the ancient historians tell us, by diverting the course of the River Euphrates and entering along the dry riverbed, while the Babylonians were at a feast of their gods.

Why?

Because of the arrogance, Babylon's great kingdom fell down at night. 

God told us we have to humble and do the right thing, knowing the Lord is the only God in this world.

How?

Give the honor and thanks to the Lord!