KJV King James Version
This [is] the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
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Daniel 5:26
This [is] the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
And this is the interpretation of the message: MENE means that God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.
WEB World English Bible
This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God has numbered your kingdom, and brought it to an end;
ASV American Standard Version
This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
This is the interpretation of the thing: Numbered—God hath numbered thy kingdom, and hath finished it.
Surrounding context — Daniel 5
23 But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath [is], and whose [are] all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:
24 Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written.
25 And this [is] the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
26 This [is] the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
29 Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and [put] a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
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Isaiah 47:1-15Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: [there is] no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.Jeremiah 27:7And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.Jeremiah 25:11-12And this whole land shall be a desolation, [and] an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.Jeremiah 50:1-46The word that the LORD spake against Babylon [and] against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.Isaiah 21:1-10The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; [so] it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.Daniel 9:2In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.Acts 15:18Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.Isaiah 13:1-14The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.Job 14:14If a man die, shall he live [again]? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
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