Whom hast thou defied and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.

The king spake 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, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee?

to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have ungodly wrought, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

A god

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

Will not God search this out? For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

And they say, Jehovah will not see, Neither will the God of Jacob consider.

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

I, Jehovah, 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 active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.

And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he that searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto each one of you according to your works.

By him

(Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know mine integrity);

The way of the just is uprightness: thou that art upright dost direct the path of the just.

TEKEL; thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

General references

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