Verse 25
Daniel 5:25
Darby Translation
25
And this is the writing that is written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וּ/דְנָ֥ה כְתָבָ֖/א דִּ֣י רְשִׁ֑ים מְנֵ֥א מְנֵ֖א תְּקֵ֥ל וּ/פַרְסִֽין
English Translation
"And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, and PARSIN."
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Chapter 5 Context
1
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his nobles, and drank wine before the thousa...
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Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels that Nebuchad...
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Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God (Elohim)...
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They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of ston...
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In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the...
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Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, and the joints of his loins...
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The king cried aloud to bring in the magicians, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers. The king spoke a...
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Then came in all the king's wise men, but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the kin...
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Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his nobles we...
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10
The queen, by reason of the words of the king and his nobles, came into the banquet-house. The queen...
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There is a man in thy kingdom in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father,...
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forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shew...
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Then was Daniel brought in before the king. The king spoke and said unto Daniel, Art thou that Danie...
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And I have heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods is in thee, and [that] light and understanding...
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And now the wise men, the magicians, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writ...
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But I have heard of thee, that thou canst give interpretations, and solve problems. Now if thou cans...
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Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to...
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O thou king, the Most High God (Elohim) gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father the kingdom, and greatness, a...
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and for the greatness that he gave him, all peoples, nations, and languages, trembled and feared bef...
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But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit hardened unto presumption, he was deposed from the...
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and he was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was...
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And thou, Belshazzar, his son, hast not humbled thy heart, although thou knewest all this;
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but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of the heavens; and they have brought the vessels of his...
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then from before him was sent the part of the hand, and this writing hath been written.
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And this is the writing that is written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
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This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE, God (Elohim) hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished...
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TEKEL, Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting;
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PERES, Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
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Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and [put] a chain of gold about his...
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In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
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And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, [being] about sixty-two years old.
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