“Here is what these words mean: Mene : God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.
If someone dies, will they live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come.
See, I will stir up against them the Medes, who do not care for silver and have no delight in gold.
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.
“This is the inscription that was written: mene, mene, tekel, parsin
in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the Scriptures, according to the word of the Lord given to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.
things known from long ago.