"Just nowthe wisemen[and] the conjurerswere broughtin beforeme that they might readthisinscriptionand makeits interpretationknownto me, but they couldnot declarethe interpretationof the message.
"Stand[fast] nowin your spellsAnd in your manysorceriesWith whichyou have laboredfrom your youth;Perhapsyou will be ableto profit,Perhapsyou may causetrembling.
Thisis the dream[which] I, KingNebuchadnezzar,have seen.Now you, Belteshazzar,tell[me] its interpretation,inasmuchas noneof the wisemenof my kingdomis ableto makeknownto me the interpretation;but you are able,for a spiritof the holygodsis in you.'
"Now I have heardaboutyou that a spiritof the godsis in you, and that illumination,insightand extraordinarywisdomhave been foundin you.
