Daniel 5:26
What does Daniel 5:26 mean?
A plain-English look at Daniel 5:26 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end.
KJV
King James Version · 1611This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949This is the sense of the words: Mene; your kingdom has been numbered by God and ended.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862This <FI>is<Fi> the interpretation of the thing: Numbered--God hath numbered thy kingdom, and hath finished it.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And this is the interpretation of the word. MANE: God hath numbered thy kingdom, and hath finished it.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE,God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it;
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Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 13:1
The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
- Isaiah 21:1
The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it cometh from the wilderness, from a terrible land.
- Daniel 9:2
in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years whereof the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.
- Isaiah 47:1
Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
- Jeremiah 27:7
And all the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the time of his own land come: and then many nations and great kings shall make him their bondman.
- Acts 15:18
Saith the Lord, who maketh these things known from of old.
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