Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
This is the meaning of the thing: A MINA, God has numbered your kingdom and finished it.
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;
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 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 that was written, A MINA, A MINA, A SHEKEL, AND HALF-MINAS. 26 This is the meaning of the thing: A MINA, God has numbered your kingdom and finished it. 27 A SHEKEL, You are weighed in the balances and found wanting.
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 27:7
And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his own land comes. And then many nations and great kings shall enslave him.
Job 14:14
If a man die, shall he revive? All the days of my warfare I will wait, until my change comes.
Isaiah 13:1-14
The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw:
Isaiah 21:1-10
The burden against the desert of the sea: As tempests in the south pass, it comes from the desert, from a terrible land.
Isaiah 47:1-15
Come down, and sit on the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground. There is no throne for you, O daughter of the Chaldeans. For you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
Jeremiah 25:11-12
And this whole land shall be a ruin and a waste. And these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Jeremiah 50:1-46
The Word that Jehovah spoke against Babylon, against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.
Daniel 9:2
in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood the number of the years by books, which came of the Word of Jehovah to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
Acts 15:18
All His works are known to God from eternity.