Daniel 5:27
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.”
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BSBPD
“TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“TEKEL; thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Weighed--Thou art weighed in the balances, and hast been found lacking.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Daniel 5:27 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 31:6let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.
- Psalms 62:9Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
- Proverbs 21:2All a man’s ways seem right to him, but the LORD weighs the heart.
- Jeremiah 6:30They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”
- Ezekiel 22:18“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead inside the furnace; they are but the dross of silver.
- Nahum 1:14The LORD has issued a command concerning you, O Nineveh: “There will be no descendants to carry on your name. I will cut off the carved image and cast idol from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible.”
- Matthew 22:11But when the king came in to see the guests, he spotted a man who was not dressed in wedding clothes.
- 1 Corinthians 3:13his workmanship will be evident, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will prove the quality of each man’s work.
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