Parallel Verses

Amplified

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

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;

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 “This is the inscription that was written, ‘mene, mene, tekel, upharsin [numbered, numbered, weighed, and divided].’ 26 This is the interpretation of the message: ‘mene’—God has numbered the days of your kingdom and put an end to it; 27 tekel’—you have been weighed on the scales [of righteousness] and found deficient;



Cross References

Jeremiah 27:7

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

Job 14:14


“If a man dies, will he live again?
I will wait all the days of my struggle
Until my change and release will come.

Isaiah 13:1-14

The [mournful, inspired] oracle (a burden to be carried) concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw [in a prophetic vision]:

Isaiah 21:1-10

The [mournful, inspired] oracle (a burden to be carried) concerning the Desert of the Sea (the seasonally flooded plains just south of Babylon):

As windstorms in the Negev (the South) sweep through,
So it (God’s judgment) comes from the desert, from [the hostile armies of] a terrifying land.

Isaiah 47:1-15

“Come down and sit in the dust,
O virgin daughter of Babylon;
Sit on the ground [in abject humiliation]; there is no throne for you,
O daughter of the Chaldeans,
For you will no longer be called tender and delicate.

Jeremiah 25:11-12

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

Jeremiah 50:1-46

The word that the Lord spoke concerning Babylon and concerning the land of the Chaldeans through Jeremiah the prophet:

Daniel 9:2

in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the books the number of years which, according to the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass before the desolations [which had been] pronounced on Jerusalem would end; and it was seventy years.

Acts 15:18


Says the Lord,
Who has been making these things known from long ago.

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