Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
TEKEL; thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
WEB
TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.
YLT
Weighed--Thou art weighed in the balances, and hast been found lacking.
DBT
TEKEL, Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting;
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentDaniel — A Hebrew exile at Babylonian and Persian courts sees empires rise and fall, a Son of Man coming with clouds, and seventy weeks locating Messiah in time. The canon's densest apocalyptic text — and its most interpretively contested.
- Author
- Daniel (traditional — Jesus cites ‘Daniel the prophet’ in Matt 24:15); critical scholarship dates composition to the 2nd c. BC Maccabean period (§7.9 — both surfaced)
- Date
- Traditional: 6th c. BC. Critical: c. 165 BC. Site default: traditional; critical view surfaced at depth 2