and the king answered and said, "Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by my mighty power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?"

"Your words have been hard against me, says the LORD. But you say, 'How have we spoken against you?'

to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him."

A god

then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways (for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind),

would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

and they say, "The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob does not perceive."

Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure.

"I the LORD search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds."

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works.

By him

(Let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!)

The path of the righteous is level; you make level the way of the righteous.

TEKEL, you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting;

General references

He said, "If they have come out for peace, take them alive. Or if they have come out for war, take them alive."