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Daniel Interprets the Handwriting

Daniel 5:26

In 11 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.Mene sounds like the Aramaic for numbered.
KJV
This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
WEB
“This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE: God has counted your kingdom, and brought it to an end. “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.
LSV
This [is] the interpretation of the thing: Numbered—God has numbered your kingdom, and has finished it.
YLT
This [is] the interpretation of the thing: Numbered — God hath numbered thy kingdom, and hath finished it.
DBY
This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE, God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it;Elohim
DRC
And this is the interpretation of the word. MANE: God hath numbered thy kingdom, and hath finished it.
GNV
This is the interpretation of the thing, MENE, God hath nombred thy kingdome, and hath finished it.
JPS
This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE, God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end.
LXXE
This is the interpretation of the sentence: Mane; God has measured thy kingdom, and finished it.

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Original-language editions

WLC
דְּנָ֖ה פְּשַֽׁר־מִלְּתָ֑א מְנֵ֕א מְנָֽה־אֱלָהָ֥א מַלְכוּתָ֖ךְ וְהַשְׁלְמַֽהּ׃
LXX-Br
Τοῦτο τὸ σύγκριμα τοῦ ῥήματος· Μανὴ, ἐμέτρησεν ὁ Θεὸς τὴν βασιλείαν σου, καὶ ἐπλήρωσεν αὐτήν.

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  • Jeremiah 27:7All nations will serve him and his son and grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will enslave him.
  • Jeremiah 25:11–12And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years. But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land…
  • Isaiah 47:1–15“Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of Chaldea! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate. Take millstones and grind flour; remove your…
  • Daniel 9:2in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the sacred books, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.
  • Jeremiah 50:1–46This is the word that the LORD spoke through Jeremiah the prophet concerning Babylon and the land of the Chaldeans: “Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you…
  • Acts 15:18that have been known for ages.’
  • Isaiah 21:1–10This is the burden against the Desert by the Sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the Negev, an invader comes from the desert, from a land of terror. A dire vision is declared to me: “The traitor still betrays, and…
  • Isaiah 13:1–14This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received: Raise a banner on a barren hilltop; call aloud to them. Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles. I have commanded My sanctified…
  • Job 14:14When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.

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