Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

This is the interpretation of the message: ‘MENĒ’—God has numbered your kingdom and put an end to it.

King James Version

This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.

Holman Bible

This is the interpretation of the message:

MENE means that God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end.

International Standard Version

These are the meanings of the words: MENE: God has audited your kingdom and has ended it.

A Conservative Version

This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE, God has numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end.

American Standard Version

This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end;

Amplified

This is the interpretation of the message: ‘mene’—God has numbered the days of your kingdom and put an end to it;

Bible in Basic English

This is the sense of the words: Mene; your kingdom has been numbered by God and ended.

Darby Translation

This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE, God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it;

Julia Smith Translation

This the interpretation of the word: Mene; God numbered thy kingdom and completed it.

King James 2000

This is the interpretation of the matter: MENE; God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it.

Lexham Expanded Bible

"This [is] the explanation of the matter: 'Mene'--God has numbered your kingdom and brought an end [to] it.

Modern King James verseion

This is the meaning of the thing: A MINA, God has numbered your kingdom and finished it.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Now the interpretation of the thing is this: Mene, God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end.

NET Bible

This is the interpretation of the words: As for mene -- God has numbered your kingdom's days and brought it to an end.

New Heart English Bible

This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God has numbered your kingdom, and brought it to an end;

The Emphasized Bible

This, is the interpretation of the thing, - M'ne, God hath reckoned up thy reign, and ended it:

Webster

This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.

World English Bible

This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God has numbered your kingdom, and brought it to an end;

Youngs Literal Translation

This is the interpretation of the thing: Numbered -- God hath numbered thy kingdom, and hath finished it.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
דּן 
Den (Aramaic) 
Usage: 58

פּשׁר 
P@shar (Aramaic) 
Usage: 32

of the thing
מלּה 
Millah (Aramaic) 
Usage: 23

מנא 
mene' (Aramaic) 
Usage: 3

God
אלהּ 
'elahh (Aramaic) 
God, god
Usage: 95

מנה מנא 
M@na' (Aramaic) 
Usage: 5

מלכוּ 
Malkuw (Aramaic) 
Usage: 57

and finished
שׁלם 
Sh@lam (Aramaic) 
Usage: 3

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Smith

Watsons

Context Readings

Daniel Deciphers And Interprets The Writing

25 “Now this is the inscription that was written out: ‘MENĒ, MENĒ, TEKĒL, UPHARSIN.’ 26 This is the interpretation of the message: ‘MENĒ’—God has numbered your kingdom and put an end to it. 27 ‘TEKĒL’—you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.

Cross References

Jeremiah 27:7

All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will make him their servant.

Job 14:14

“If a man dies, will he live again?
All the days of my struggle I will wait
Until my change comes.

Isaiah 13:1-14

The oracle concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.

Isaiah 21:1-10

The oracle concerning the wilderness of the sea.
As windstorms in the Negev sweep on,
It comes from the wilderness, from a terrifying land.

Isaiah 47:1-15

Come down and sit in the dust,
O virgin daughter of Babylon;
Sit on the ground without a throne,
O daughter of the Chaldeans!
For you shall no longer be called tender and delicate.

Jeremiah 25:11-12

This whole land will be a desolation and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Jeremiah 50:1-46

The word which the Lord spoke concerning Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, through Jeremiah the prophet:

Daniel 9:2

in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, observed in the books the number of the years which was revealed as the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet for the completion of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.

Acts 15:18

Says the Lord, who makes these things known from long ago.

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