Daniel 5:27

Modern English Version

Tekel: you have been weighed in the balances and are found wanting.

Cross References

Job 31:6

let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know my integrity.

Psalm 62:9

Surely men of low degree are but a vapor; men of high degree are a lie; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than vapor.

Proverbs 16:2

All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirit.

Proverbs 21:2

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the hearts.

Jeremiah 6:30

Men will call them rejected silver, because the Lord has rejected them.

Ezekiel 5:1

“As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword. Take and cause it to pass upon your head and upon your beard as a barber’s razor. Then take balances to weigh and divide the hair.

Nahum 1:14

The Lord has given a command concerning you: “No longer will your name go forth. I will cut off the carved image and metal image from the house of your gods. I will prepare your grave, for you are despised.”

1 Corinthians 3:13

each one’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each has done.