Whom didst thou reproach and revile, and against whom didst thou raise up the voice, and wilt thou lift up thine eyes on high to the Holy One of Israel?

The king answered and said, Is not this great Babel, that I built it for the house of the kingdom by the strength of my power, and for the honor of my majesty?

Your words were strong against me, said Jehovah. And ye said, What did we speak against thee?

To do judgment to all, and to convince all their irreligious of all their works of irreligion which they have impiously acted, and of all the hard things which the sinful irreligious spake against him.

A god

Wilt thou hear in the heavens thy prepared dwelling, and forgive and do, and give to a man according to all his ways? for thou wilt know his heart; for thou wilt know alone the heart of all the sons of men:

Will not God search this out? for he knew the secrets of the heart

And they will say Jah will not see, and the God of Jacob will not understand.

Great our Lord, and great of power: to his understanding no number.

I Jehovah searching the heart, trying the reins, to give to each according to his way, according to the fruit of his doings.

For the word of God living, and effective, and more piercing than any two-mouthed sword, and penetrating even to the division both of soul and spirit, both the joints and marrows, and a critic of the reflections and thoughts of the heart.

And her children will I kill in death; and all the churches shall know that I am he searching the reins and hearts: and I will give to you each according to our works.

By him

He shall weigh me in balances of justice, and God will know mine integrity.

The way to the just one is straightness: being upright, thou wilt prepare the departing of the just one.

Tekel; Thou shalt be weighed in the balances and be found wanting.

General references

And he will say, If for peace they came forth, seize them living; and if for war they came forth, seize them living.