Catholic Public Domain Version
"And this is the interpretation of the words. MANE: God has numbered your kingdom and has finished it. "
— Daniel 5:26, Catholic Public Domain Version
“This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.”
“This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end. ”
“This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God has numbered your kingdom, and brought it to an end;”
“This is the interpretation of the words: As for mene– God has numbered your kingdom’s days and brought it to an end.”
“And this is the interpretation of the word. MANE: God hath numbered thy kingdom, and hath finished it.”
“This is the sense of the words: Mene; your kingdom has been numbered by God and ended.”
“This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.”
But you have lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven. And the vessels of his house have been presented before you. And you, and your nobles, and your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. Likewise, you have praised the gods of silver, and gold, and brass, iron, and wood and stone, who neither see, nor hear, nor feel, yet you have not glorified the God who holds your breath and all your ways in his hand.
Therefore, he has sent the part of the hand which has written this, which has been inscribed.
But this is the writing that has been decreed: MANE, THECEL, PHARES.
And this is the interpretation of the words. MANE: God has numbered your kingdom and has finished it.
THECEL: you have been weighed on the scales and found lacking.
PHARES: your kingdom has been divided and has been given to the Medes and the Persians.
Then, by the king’s command, Daniel was dressed with purple, and a chain of gold was placed around his neck, and it was proclaimed of him that he held power as the third in the kingdom.