Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
This is the sense of the words: Mene; your kingdom has been numbered by God and ended.
New American Standard Bible
This is the interpretation of the
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:
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;
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.
Themes
Glory » The reward for not glorifying God
Government » God setting up and removing kings
Heathen » Divine revelations given to » Belshazzar
Pride/arrogance » The reward for pride
Symbols and similitudes » Handwriting on the wall
Walls » Miracles connected with » Handwriting on the wall of belshazzar's palace
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Daniel 5:26
Verse Info
Context Readings
Daniel Deciphers And Interprets The Writing
25 And this is the writing which was recorded, Mene, tekel, peres. 26 This is the sense of the words: Mene; your kingdom has been numbered by God and ended. 27 Tekel; you have been put in the scales and seen to be under weight.
Cross References
Jeremiah 27:7
And all the nations will be servants to him and to his son and to his son's son, till the time comes for his land to be overcome: and then a number of nations and great kings will take it for their use.
Job 14:14
If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.
Isaiah 13:1-14
The word of the Lord about Babylon which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw.
Isaiah 21:1-10
The word about the waste land. As storm-winds in the South go rushing through, it comes from the waste land, from the land greatly to be feared.
Isaiah 47:1-15
Come and take your seat in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; come down from your seat of power, and take your place on the earth, O daughter of the Chaldaeans: for you will never again seem soft and delicate.
Jeremiah 25:11-12
All this land will be a waste and a cause of wonder; and these nations will be the servants of the king of Babylon for seventy years.
Jeremiah 50:1-46
The word which the Lord said about Babylon, about the land of the Chaldaeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.
Daniel 9:2
In the first year of his rule, I, Daniel, saw clearly from the books the number of years given by the word of the Lord to the prophet Jeremiah, in which the making waste of Jerusalem was to be complete, that is, seventy years.
Acts 15:18
Says the Lord, who has made these things clear from the earliest times.