(Let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!)
Tekel, you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting;
The Lord judges the peoples; judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me. Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous— you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God!
And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
Talk no more so very proudly, let not arrogance come from your mouth; for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights?
The path of the righteous is level; you make level the way of the righteous.
A just balance and scales are the Lord's; all the weights in the bag are his work.
Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!
From your presence let my vindication come! Let your eyes behold the right! You have tried my heart, you have visited me by night, you have tested me, and you will find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.
for the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
Far be it from me to say that you are right; till I die I will not put away my integrity from me. I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.
“Oh that my vexation were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
“The Mighty One, God, the Lord! The Mighty One, God, the Lord! He knows; and let Israel itself know! If it was in rebellion or in breach of faith against the Lord, do not spare us today
But God's firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.”
Of David. Vindicate me, O Lord, for I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted in the Lord without wavering.
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