Whom have thou defied and blasphemed? And against whom have thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high? [Even] against the Holy One of Israel.

The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?

Your words have been stout against me, says LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee?

to execute judgment against all, and to convict all the irreverent of them about all the works of their own irreverence that they have done irreverently, and about all the harsh things that irreverent sinners spoke against him.

A god

then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling-place, and forgive, and do, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart thou know (for thou, even thou only, know the hearts of all the sons of men),

will not God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

And they say, LORD will not see, nor will the God of Jacob consider.

Great is our LORD, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite.

I, LORD, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

For the word of God is living, and potent, and sharper, above every two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division both of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and discernible of the thoughts and intentions of the hear

And I will kill her children in death. And all the congregations will know that I am he who searches the inner feelings and hearts. And I will give to you--to each--according to your works.

By him

(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

The way of the just is uprightness. Thou who are upright directs the path of the just.

TEKEL, thou are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.

General references

And he said, Whether they come out for peace, take them alive, or whether they come out for war, taken them alive.