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Daniel 5:27

World English Bible

TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.

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Daniel 5:27 in other translations

TEKEL; thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

Daniel 5:27 · American Standard Version

Daniel 5:27 in context

  1. 25“This is the writing that was inscribed: ‘MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.’
  2. 26“This is the interpretation of the thing:
    MENE: God has counted your kingdom, and brought it to an end.
  3. 27TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.
  4. 28PERES: your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.”
  5. 29Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.