Isaiah 21:4
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My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight of my desire has turned to horror.
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For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard— like stubble that is fully dry.
At that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. As the king watched the hand that was writing,
“What is more,” Haman added, “Queen Esther invited no one but me to join the king at the banquet she prepared, and I am invited back tomorrow along with the king.
Later, King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.
While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.
In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread in your hearts of the terrifying sights you will see.
I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and not wake up,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
That very night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was slain,