This is the interpretation of the matter: MENE, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end;
Here is, I. The information given to the king, by the queen-mother, concerning Daniel, how fit he was to be consulted in this difficult case. It is supposed that this queen was the widow of Evil-Merodach, and was that famous Nitocris whom Herodotus mentions as a woman of extraordinary prudence.
Commenting on Daniel 5:10-29
This is the interpretation of the thing,.... Or, "word" (z); for they might all seem as one word; or this is the sense of the whole: MENE; as for this word, it signifies, God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it; God had fixed the number of years, how long that monarchy should last, which he was now at the head of, and which was...
God hath fixed the number of years of thine empire, and that number is now complete.