Daniel 5:25
23 Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised your gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you have failed to glorify the God who holds in His hand your very breath and all your ways.
24 Therefore He sent the hand that wrote the inscription.
Now this is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN.
26 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.
27 TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Now this is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN.
- KJV
- And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
- WEB
- “This is the writing that was inscribed: ‘MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.’
- ASV
- And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
- DARBY
- And this is the writing that is written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
- BLB
- And this [is] the inscription that was written: Mene, MENE, TEKEL, and PARSIN.
- ÅB
- Og dette er den skrift som er skrevet her: Mene, mene, tekel, ufarsin[^2].
- OTB
- Her er skriften som ble skrevet: Mene, Mene, Tekel, Parsin.
- B1930
- Og dette er den skrift som er skrevet her: Mene, mene, tekel, ufarsin. / < d.e. tellet, tellet, veid, og de deler.>