Daniel 5:27

World English Bible (2000)

TEKEL; you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.
  • Job 31:6 : 6 (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);
  • Jer 6:30 : 30 Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them."
  • Ezek 22:18-20 : 18 Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: all of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver. 19 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. 20 As they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it; so will I gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you.
  • Matt 22:11-12 : 11 But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn't have on wedding clothing, 12 and he said to him, 'Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?' He was speechless.
  • 1 Cor 3:13 : 13 each man's work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man's work is.

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    22 You, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,

    23 but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which don't see, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.

    24 Then was the part of the hand sent from before him, and this writing was inscribed.

    25 This is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.

    26 This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God has numbered your kingdom, and brought it to an end;

  • Dan 5:28
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    28 PERES; your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

  • Dan 5:5-6
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    6 Then the king's face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his thighs were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.

  • Dan 4:31
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    31 While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from the sky, [saying], O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: The kingdom has departed from you:

  • Job 36:17
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    17 "But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.

  • Dan 2:36-37
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    36 This is the dream; and we will tell its interpretation before the king.

    37 You, O king, are king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory;

  • Mic 6:10-11
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    10 Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?

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    28 but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and he has made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head on your bed, are these:

    29 as for you, O king, your thoughts came [into your mind] on your bed, what should happen hereafter; and he who reveals secrets has made known to you what shall happen.

    30 But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but to the intent that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your heart.

    31 You, O king, saw, and behold, a great image. This image, which was mighty, and whose brightness was excellent, stood before you; and its aspect was awesome.

    32 As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass,

  • Dan 5:14-15
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    14 I have heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you.

    15 Now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known to me its interpretation; but they could not show the interpretation of the thing.

  • Zech 5:6-8
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    6 I said, "What is it?" He said, "This is the ephah basket that is appearing." He said moreover, "This is their appearance in all the land

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    8 He said, "This is Wickedness;" and he threw her down into the midst of the ephah basket; and he threw the weight of lead on its mouth.

  • Dan 4:24-28
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    24 this is the interpretation, O king, and it is the decree of the Most High, which is come on my lord the king:

    25 that you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field, and you shall be made to eat grass as oxen, and shall be wet with the dew of the sky, and seven times shall pass over you; until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.

    26 Whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree; your kingdom shall be sure to you, after that you shall have known that the heavens do rule.

    27 Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.

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    30 In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.

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    11 Honest balances and scales are Yahweh's; all the weights in the bag are his work.

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    13 You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small.

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    13 You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your covetousness.

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    17 Then Daniel answered before the king, Let your gifts be to yourself, and give your rewards to another; nevertheless I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation.

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    18 This dream I, king Nebuchadnezzar, have seen; and you, Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation, because all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation; but you are able; for the spirit of the holy gods is in you.

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    25 But if you shall still do wickedly, you shall be consumed, both you and your king."

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    23 Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.

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    5 The king answered the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if you don't make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.

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    10 Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

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    24 I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren't aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have striven against Yahweh.