Thematic Bible: Balances
Thematic Bible
Balances » Figurative
If only my anguish could be weighed and all my misery be placed on the scales!
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let God weigh me on honest scales and he will know that I am blameless.
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Common people are only a vapor in the wind. Important people are only a delusion. When all of them are weighed on a scale, they amount to nothing. They are less than a vapor in the wind.
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Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the span of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance of the scale?
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TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.
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When he opened the third seal I heard the third beast say: Come! I saw a black horse; and he who sat on him had a pair of scales in his hand.
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Balances » Used for weighing
As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword. Take and use it as a barber's razor to shave your head and beard. Then take scales for weighing and divide the hair.
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let God weigh me on honest scales and he will know that I am blameless.
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Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the span of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance of the scale?
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Truly the nations are like a drop in a bucket! They are regarded as dust on the scales! He weighs the islands as though they were fine dust.
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Balances » False balance used
Jehovah says: The merchants use dishonest scales. They love to cheat people.
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You say: When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit.
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Can I be pure with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful stone weights?
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Balances » Money weighed with
Some pour out gold from their bags and weigh out silver on the scales. They hire a goldsmith to make it into a god. They bow down and worship it.
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I signed and sealed the deed, and called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales.
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Balances » Must be just
Use honest scales, honest weights, and honest measures. I am Jehovah your God who brought you out of Egypt.
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Honest scales and balances are from Jehovah. He sets the standard for the weights of the bag.
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Balances » An abomination
A false scale balance is an abomination to Jehovah. A perfect weight is his delight.
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Many and different weights are an abomination to Jehovah and a false balance is not good.
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Related Topics
- Abominations, To God
- Accuracy
- Balance In Life
- Balances, Dishonest Use
- Balances, For Business
- Balances, Metaphorical Use
- Business Ethics
- Buying and selling
- Cheating
- Covenant breakers
- Deception, Forbidden By God
- Dishonesty