Whom hast thou reproached 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 spoke and said, Is this not the great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power and for the glory of my greatness?

Your words have prevailed against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee?

to execute judgment upon all and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have unfaithfully committed and of all the hard words which the unfaithful sinners have spoken against him.

A god

then thou shalt hear in the heavens, in the habitation of thy dwelling place, and forgive and do and give to each one according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the sons of men),

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

Yet they say, JAH shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.

Great is our Lord and of great power; his intelligence is infinite.

I the LORD search the heart; I try the kidneys, even to give each man according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings.

For the word of God is alive and efficient and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

And I will kill her children with death, and all the congregations shall know that I AM he that searches the kidneys and hearts, and I will give unto each one of you according to your works.

By him

let me be weighed in a just balance, that God may know my integrity.

The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.

TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances and art found wanting.

General references

Then he said, If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive.