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Daniel 5:27
Weighed--Thou art weighed in the balances, and hast been found lacking.
Daniel 5:27 · Young's Literal Translation
Daniel 5:27 in other translations
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.
TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.
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In context
24 `Then from before Him sent is the extremity of the hand, and the writing is noted down;
25 and this is the writing that is noted down: Numbered, Numbered, Weighed, and Divided.
26 This is the interpretation of the thing: Numbered--God hath numbered thy kingdom, and hath finished it.
27 Weighed--Thou art weighed in the balances, and hast been found lacking.
28 Divided--Divided is thy kingdom, and it hath been given to the Medes and Persians.'
29 Then hath Belshazzar said, and they have clothed Daniel with purple, and a bracelet of gold is on his neck, and they have proclaimed concerning him that he is the third ruler in the kingdom.
30 In that night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans is slain,
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