26 verses contain “Balance” (in the KJV: 25, in the BSB: 3) — showing 1–26
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Just
balances, just weights, a just
ephah, and a just
hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
You shall maintain
honest scales and weights, an
honest ephah, and an
honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the
overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession.
he shall
calculate the years since its sale, repay the
balance to the man to whom he sold it, and return to his property.
O that my grief were throughly
weighed, and my
calamity laid in the
balances together!
“If only my grief could be
weighed and placed with my
calamity on the scales.
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
A false
balance is
abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
A just weight and
balance are the LORD’S: all the weights of the
bag are his work.
Honest scales and
balances are from the LORD; all the weights in the
bag are His
concern.
Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and
comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and
weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a
balance?
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a
basket, or
weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a
balance?
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a
bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the
balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Surely the nations are like a drop in a
bucket; they are considered a
speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islands like fine dust.
They pour out their bags of gold and
weigh out silver on scales; they
hire a
goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow down and worship.
And I
subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and
weighed him the money in the
balances.
I signed and sealed the deed, called in witnesses, and
weighed out the silver on the scales.
And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a
barber’s
razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy
beard: then take thee
balances to
weigh, and divide the hair.
“As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword, use it as a
barber’s
razor, and
shave your head and
beard. Then take a set of scales and divide the hair.
Ye shall have just
balances, and a just
ephah, and a just bath.
You must use
honest scales, a just
ephah, and a just bath.
TEKEL; Thou art
weighed in the
balances, and art found wanting.
TEKEL means that you have been
weighed on the scales and found deficient.
He is a merchant, the
balances of
deceit are in his hand: he loveth to
oppress.
Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the
ephah small, and the
shekel great, and
falsifying the
balances by
deceit?
asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the
ephah and increase the
shekel; let us
cheat with
dishonest scales.
Shall I count them pure with the wicked
balances, and with the
bag of
deceitful weights?
And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I
beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of
balances in his hand.
And when the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” Then I looked and saw a black horse, and its rider held in his hand a pair of scales.
Weigh thou therefore our wickedness now in the
balance, and their’s also that dwell the world; and so shall thy name no where be found but in Israel.
And unto these things Uriel the
archangel gave them answer, and said, Even when the number of seeds is filled in you: for he hath
weighed the world in the
balance.
For the whole world before thee is as a little grain of the
balance,
yea, as a drop of the morning
dew that falleth down upon the earth.
The lips of talkers will be telling such things as
pertain not unto them: but the words of such as have understanding are
weighed in the
balance.
And
weigh thy words in a
balance, and make a door and bar for thy mouth.
Of exactness of balance and weights; or of getting much or little;
And thus he that a little
afore thought he might command the waves of the sea, (so proud was he beyond the condition of man) and
weigh the high mountains in a
balance, was now cast on the ground, and carried in an
horselitter,
shewing forth unto all the manifest power of God.
