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

²⁷ tekel: you have been weighed on the scales and found wanting;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ tekel, You are weighed in the balances and are found wanting;

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ TEKEL; thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

Common English Bible

²⁷ tekel means that you’ve been weighed on the scales, and you don’t measure up.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ THECEL: you have been weighed on the scales and found lacking.

Daniel 5:27 Cross References

Job 31:6

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

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.

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.

Jeremiah 6:30

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

Proverbs 16:2

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

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.

Proverbs 21:2

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

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.