Bible verse

Daniel 5:27

TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.

Daniel 5:27 · BSB

Daniel 5:27 in context

The verses around it, from Daniel 5.

23 Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised your gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you have failed to glorify the God who holds in His hand your very breath and all your ways.

24 Therefore He sent the hand that wrote the inscription.

25 Now this is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN.

26 And this is the interpretation of the message: MENE means that God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.

27 TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.

28 PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”

29 Then Belshazzar gave the command, and they clothed Daniel in purple, placed a gold chain around his neck, and proclaimed him the third highest ruler in the kingdom.

30 That very night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was slain,

31 and Darius the Mede received the kingdom at the age of sixty-two.

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Daniel 5:27 in other translations

KJV

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

ASV

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

ERV

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

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