Daniel 5:26
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New International Version (©2011)
"Here is what these words mean: Mene: God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.

New Living Translation (©2007)
This is what these words mean: [Mene] means 'numbered'--God has numbered the days of your reign and has brought it to an end.

English Standard Version (©2001)
This is the interpretation of the matter: MENE, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end;

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"This is the interpretation of the message: 'MENE '-- God has numbered your kingdom and put an end to it.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
This is the interpretation of the message: MENE means that God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end.

International Standard Version (©2012)
These are the meanings of the words: MENE: God has audited your kingdom—and has ended it.

NET Bible (©2006)
This is the interpretation of the words: As for mene--God has numbered your kingdom's days and brought it to an end.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
This is its meaning: Numbered-God has numbered the days of your kingdom and will bring it to an end.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
This is the interpretation of the matter: MENE; God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it.

American King James Version
This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it.

American Standard Version
This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And this is the interpretation of the word. MANE: God hath numbered thy kingdom, and hath finished it.

Darby Bible Translation
This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE, God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it;

English Revised Version
This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end.

Webster's Bible Translation
This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.

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

Young's Literal Translation
This is the interpretation of the thing: Numbered -- God hath numbered thy kingdom, and hath finished it.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

This is the interpretation of the thing,.... Or, "word" (z); for they might all seem as one word; or this is the sense of the whole:

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This is the interpretation of the thing - It may seem not to have been difficult to interpret the meaning of the communication, when one was able to read the words, or when the sense of the words was understood. But, if the words are placed together, and considered in their abstract form, the whole communication would be so enigmatical that the interpretation would not be likely to occur to anyone without a Divine guidance. This will appear more clearly by arranging the words together, as has been done by Hales:

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Geneva Study Bible

This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.

Wesley's Notes

5:26 MENE - MENE MENE, it is numbered, it is numbered; the words are doubled for the greater confirmation. It relates to the number of the seventy years for the overthrow of the Babylonish empire.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

26. God hath fixed the number of years of thine empire, and that number is now complete.

Daniel 5:26 Parallel Commentaries
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Daniel Interprets the Handwriting
…25And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. 26This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it. 27TEKEL; You are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting. …

Isaiah 13:6 Wail, for the day of the LORD is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty.
Isaiah 13:17 See, I will stir up against them the Medes, who do not care for silver and have no delight in gold.
Jeremiah 27:7 All nations will serve him and his son and his grandson until the time for his land comes; then many nations and great kings will subjugate him.
Jeremiah 50:41 "Look! An army is coming from the north; a great nation and many kings are being stirred up from the ends of the earth.
Daniel 5:25 "This is the inscription that was written: mene, mene, tekel, parsin