BABYLON SEEMED IMPREGNABLE
ITS DOUBLE WALLS BECAME THEIR BOAST
AGAINST THE MEDO-PERSIAN THREAT
SURROUNDING THEM AS IN A NET.
BUT CYRUS WHOM ISAIAH SAID
WOULD ONE DAY WALK EUPHRATES SHORE
BEGAN TO GROW IN POWER AND MIGHT
DESTROYING NATIONS LEFT AND RIGHT.
TO SHOW CONTEMPT FOR YAHWEH'S WORD
BELSHAZZAR THREW A LAVISH FEAST
FOR ALL HIS WIVES AND NOBLE LORDS
DEFYING THREATS FROM PERSIAN HORDES.
WHILE SELF-INDULGENT DEVILTRY
AND DRUNKEN STUPOR FILLED ITS HALLS
THE KING HAD JUDAH'S TEMPLE BOWLS
FILLED UP WITH WINE AS SCRIPTURE SHOWS.
WITH TEMPLE GOBLETS ON DISPLAY
AS OFFERING TO THEIR GODS THAT DAY
A FINGER WROTE UPON THE WALL
A MESSAGE THAT WAS MEANT FOR ALL.
THE KING BEGAN TO SHAKE IN FEAR
SO ASKED HIS WISE MEN TO COME IN
BUT GOD MADE DANIEL UNDERSTAND
THE COMING JUDGMENT HE HAD PLANNED.
THE PROPHET MADE IT VERY CLEAR
BELSHAZZAR'S WEIGHT OF SIN WAS GREAT
AND THAT HIS KINGDOM SOON WOULD END
BY PERSIAN FORCES ROUND THE BEND.
THE PROPHET DANIEL THEN RECEIVED
THE OFFERED PROMISE THAT WAS MADE
THE PURPLE ROBE AND GOLDEN CHAIN
DECLARED HIM AS THE THIRD TO REIGN.
THAT VERY NIGHT THE PERSIANS MARCHED
ALONG THE DRY EUPHRATES BANK
THEN KING AND NOBLES MET THEIR FATE
FULFILLING GOD'S PRE-WRITTEN DATE.
--B Pent
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