24 [a]Then was the palm of the hand sent from him, and hath written this writing.

25 And this is the writing that he hath written, [b]MENE, MENE, TEKEL UPHARSIN.

26 This is the interpretation of the thing, MENE, God hath numbered thy kingdom, and hath finished it.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 5:24 After that God had so long time deferred his anger, and patiently waited for thine amendment.
  2. Daniel 5:25 This word is twice written for the certainty of the thing: showing that God had most surely counted: signifying also that God hath appointed a term for all kingdoms, and that a miserable end shall come on all that raise themselves against him.

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