Whom have you mocked and blasphemed? And against whom have you raised your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Even against the Holy One of Israel.

The king spoke and said, Is this not great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power and for the honor of my majesty?

Your words have been strong against Me, says Jehovah. Yet you say, What have we spoken against You?

to do judgment against all, and to rebuke all the ungodly of them concerning all their ungodly works which they ungodly did, and concerning all the hard things ungodly sinners spoke against Him.

A god

then hear in Heaven Your dwelling-place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart You know. For You, You only, know the hearts of all the sons of Adam.

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

Yet they say, Jehovah shall not see, nor shall the God of Jacob observe it.

Great is our LORD, and of great power; There is no limit to His understanding.

I Jehovah search the heart, I try the reins, even to give to each man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

For the Word of God is living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing apart 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 churches will know that I am He who searches the reins and hearts, and I will give to every one of you according to your works.

By him

let me be weighed in an even balance so that God may know my uprightness.

The way of the just is uprightness; O Upright One, weigh the path of the just.

A SHEKEL, You are weighed in the balances and found wanting.

General references

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