Whom hast thou reproached and reviled? And against whom lifted up the voice? Yea, thou dost lift up on high thine eyes Against the Holy One of Israel.

the king hath answered and said, Is not this that great Babylon that I have built, for the house of the kingdom, in the might of my strength, and for the glory of mine honour?

Hard against Me have been your words, Said Jehovah, and ye have said: 'What have we spoken against Thee?'

to do judgment against all, and to convict all their impious ones, concerning all their works of impiety that they did impiously, and concerning all the stiff things that speak against Him did impious sinners.'

A god

then Thou dost hear in the heavens, the settled place of Thy dwelling, and hast forgiven, and hast done, and hast given to each according to all his ways, whose heart Thou knowest, (for Thou hast known -- Thyself alone -- the heart of all the sons of man),

Doth not God search out this? For He knoweth the secrets of the heart.

And they say, 'Jehovah doth not see, And the God of Jacob doth not consider.'

Great is our Lord, and abundant in power, Of His understanding there is no narration.

I Jehovah do search the heart, try the reins, Even to give to each according to his way, According to the fruit of his doings.

for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;

and her children I will kill in death, and know shall all the assemblies that I am he who is searching reins and hearts; and I will give to you -- to each -- according to your works.

By him

He doth weigh me in righteous balances, And God doth know my integrity.

The path for the righteous is uprightness, O upright One, The path of the righteous Thou dost ponder.

Weighed -- Thou art weighed in the balances, and hast been found lacking.

General references

And he saith, 'If for peace they have come out -- catch them alive; and if for battle they have come out -- alive catch them.'