Daniel 5:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

tekel: you have been weighed on the scales and found wanting;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

tekel, You are weighed in the balances and are found wanting;

American Standard Version (1901)

TEKEL; thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

Common English Bible

tekel means that you’ve been weighed on the scales, and you don’t measure up.

Catholic Public Domain Version

THECEL: you have been weighed on the scales and found lacking.

English Standard Version 2016

Tekel, you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting;

Daniel 5:27 Cross References

Job 31:6

let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!—

Psalm 62:9

Those of low estate are but a breath; those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.

Proverbs 16:2

All one’s ways may be pure in one’s own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirit.

Proverbs 21:2

All deeds are right in the sight of the doer, but the Lord weighs the heart.

Jeremiah 6:30

They are called “rejected silver,” for the Lord has rejected them.

Ezekiel 5:1

“And you, O mortal, take a sharp sword; use it as a barber’s razor and run it over your head and your beard; then take balances for weighing, and divide the hair.

Nahum 1:14

The Lord has commanded concerning you: Your name shall be perpetuated no longer; from the house of your gods I will cut off the carved image and the cast image. I will prepare your grave, for you are worthless.

1 Corinthians 3:13

the work of each builder will become visible, for the day will disclose it, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each has done.