Du har løftet deg opp mot himmelens Herre. Du lot bringe karene fra hans hus for deg, og du, dine stormenn, dine koner og dine medhustruer drikker vin av dem. Du lovpriser guder av sølv, gull, bronse, jern, tre og stein, som verken ser, hører eller forstår. Men Gud, i hvis hånd ditt liv og alle dine veier er, har du ikke æret.
and against the Lord of the heavens thou hast lifted up thyself; and the vessels of His house they have brought in before thee, and thou, and thy great men, thy wives, and thy concubines, are drinking wine with them, and gods of silver, and of gold, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone, that are not seeing, nor hearing, nor knowing, thou hast praised: and the God in whose hand `is' thy breath, and all thy ways, Him thou hast not honoured.