Instead, there is gaiety and gladness,
Killing of cattle and slaughtering of sheep,
Eating of meat and drinking of wine:
“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we may die.”

Belshazzar the king held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in the presence of the thousand.

If from human motives I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

Arise

Lift up a standard on the

bare hill,

Raise your voice to them,

Wave the hand that they may enter the doors of the nobles.

Thus says the Lord to Cyrus His anointed,
Whom I have taken by the right hand,
To subdue nations before him
And to loose the loins of kings;
To open doors before him so that gates will not be shut:

Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers!

The Lord has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes,
Because His purpose is against Babylon to destroy it;
For it is the vengeance of the Lord, vengeance for His temple.

General references

Then all the guests of Adonijah were terrified; and they arose and each went on his way.

That same night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain.