THEOSISDaniel 5:27Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
THECEL: thou art weighed in the balance, and art found wanting.
תְּקֵ֑ל תְּקִ֥ילְתָּה בְמֹֽאזַנְיָ֖א וְהִשְׁתְּכַ֥חַתְּ חַסִּֽיר׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Job 31:6Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity.
- 1 Cor 3:13Every man's work shall be manifest. For the day of the Lord shall declare it, because it shall be revealed in fire. And the fire shall try every man's work, of what sort it is.
- Ps 62 (61):9
- Jer 6:30Call them reprobate silver, for the Lord hath rejected them.
- Ezek 22:18Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: all these are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace: they are become the dross of silver.
- Ezek 22:20As they gather silver, and brass, and tin, and iron, and lead in the midst of the furnace: that I may kindle a fire in it to melt it: so will I gather you together in my fury and in my wrath, and will take my rest, and I will melt you down.
- Matt 22:11And the king went in to see the guests: and he saw there a man who had not on a wedding garment.
- Matt 22:12And he saith to him: Friend, how camest thou in hither not having on a wedding garment? But he was silent.