'Scales' in the Bible
Have true scales, true weights and measures for all things: I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt;
Take care of them and keep them, till you put them on the scales before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites and the chiefs of the families of Israel, in Jerusalem, in the rooms of the house of the Lord.
If only my passion might be measured, and put into the scales against my trouble!
(Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:)
Put me in the scales, O Lord, so that I may be tested; let the fire make clean my thoughts and my heart.
Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath.
For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales.
Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight.
All a man's ways are clean to himself; but the Lord puts men's spirits into his scales.
True measures and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work.
Unequal weights are disgusting to the Lord, and false scales are not good.
In the hollow of whose hand have the waters been measured? and who is able to take the heavens in his stretched-out fingers? who has got together the dust of the earth in a measure? who has taken the weight of the mountains, or put the hills into the scales?
See, the nations are to him like a drop hanging from a bucket, and like the small dust in the scales: he takes up the islands like small dust.
As for those who take gold out of a bag, and put silver in the scales, they give payment to a gold-worker, to make it into a god; they go down on their faces and give it worship.
And I put it in writing, stamping it with my stamp, and I took witnesses and put the money into the scales.
And you, son of man, take a sharp sword, using it like a haircutter's blade, and making it go over your head and the hair of your chin: and take scales for separating the hair by weight.
Tekel; you have been put in the scales and seen to be under weight.
As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways.
Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do trade in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the market the produce of our fields? making the measure small and the price great, and trading falsely with scales of deceit;
Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?
And when the third stamp was undone, the voice of the third beast came to my ears, saying, Come and see. And I saw a black horse; and he who was seated on it had scales in his hand.