Daniel 5:27
25 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.
TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.
28 PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”
29 Then Belshazzar gave the command, and they clothed Daniel in purple, placed a gold chain around his neck, and proclaimed him the third highest ruler in the kingdom.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.
- KJV
- TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
- WEB
- TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.
- ASV
- TEKEL; thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
- DARBY
- TEKEL, Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting;
- BLB
- Tekel—you have been weighed in the balances and found lacking!
- ÅB
- Tekel: Veid er du på vektskål og funnet for lett.
- OTB
- Tekel: Du er veid på vekten og funnet for lett.
- B1930
- Tekel: Veid er du på vektskål og funnet for lett.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 31:6
let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.
Read in contextPsalms 62:9
Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
Read in context1 Corinthians 3:13
his workmanship will be evident, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will prove the quality of each man’s work.
Read in contextEzekiel 22:18–20
“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead inside the furnace; they are but the dross of silver.
Read in contextMatthew 22:11–12
But when the king came in to see the guests, he spotted a man who was not dressed in wedding clothes.
Read in contextJeremiah 6:30
They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”
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