Daniel 5:26
This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
Daniel 5:26 in other translations
| BSB | 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. |
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| WEB | “This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE: God has counted your kingdom, and brought it to an end. |
| ASV | This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end. |
| YLT | This is the interpretation of the thing: Numbered--God hath numbered thy kingdom, and hath finished it. |
| DARBY | This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE,God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it; |
| BBE | This is the sense of the words: Mene; your kingdom has been numbered by God and ended. |
| Webster | This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. |
What does Daniel 5:26 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Daniel 5:18-31
Daniel reads Belshazzar's doom. He had not taken warning by the judgments upon Nebuchadnezzar. And he had insulted God. Sinners are pleased with gods that neither see, nor hear, nor know; but they will be judged by One to whom all things are open. Daniel reads the sentence written on the wall. All this may well be applied to the doom of every sinner. At death, the sinner's days are numbered and finished; after death…
Daniel 5:26 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Daniel 5:26
- Isaiah 47:1-15
Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate. Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers. Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man. As for our redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel. …
- Jeremiah 27:7
And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.
- Jeremiah 25:11-12
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the Lord, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
- Acts 15:18
Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
- Daniel 9:2
In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
- Isaiah 21:1-10
The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land. A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it. My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me. …
- Jeremiah 50:1-46
The word that the Lord spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet. Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces. For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast. In those days, and in that time, saith the Lord, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the Lord their God. …
- Isaiah 13:1-14
The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see. Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles. I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness. The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts mustereth the host of the battle. …
- Job 14:14
If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
9:2; Job 14:14; Isa 13:1-14:32; 21:1-10; 47:1-15; Jer 25:11,12
Jer 27:7; 50:1-51:64; Ac 15:18
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Context
- Daniel 5:25
And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
- Daniel 5:26
This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
- Daniel 5:27
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
Daniel 5:26 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | La declaración del negocio es: MENE: Contó Dios tu reino, y halo rematado. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Voici l’interprétation des paroles. Mené: Dieu a compté ton royaume, et y a mis fin. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Dies ist die Deutung der Sache: Mene-Gott hat dein Königtum gezählt und macht ihm ein Ende. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et hæc est interpretatio sermonis. Mane: numeravit Deus regnum tuum, et complevit illud. |