'Balances' in the Bible
righteous balances, righteous weights, a righteous ephah, and a righteous hin ye have; I am Jehovah your God, who hath brought you out from the land of Egypt;
O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together!
He doth weigh me in righteous balances, And God doth know my integrity.
Only -- vanity are the low, a lie the high. In balances to go up they than vanity are lighter.
Balances of deceit are an abomination to Jehovah, And a perfect weight is His delight.
A just beam and balances are Jehovah's, His work are all the stones of the bag.
An abomination to Jehovah are a stone and a stone, And balances of deceit are not good.
And I write in a book, and seal, and cause witnesses to testify, and weigh the silver in balances;
Just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath -- ye have.
Weighed -- Thou art weighed in the balances, and hast been found lacking.
Canaan! in his hand are balances of deceit! To oppress he hath loved.
Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit.
Do I reckon it pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones?