²⁷ TEKEL; thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

⁹ Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: In the balances they will go up; They are together lighter than vanity.

⁶ (Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know mine integrity);

³⁰ Refuse silver shall men them, because Jehovah hath rejected them.

¹⁸ Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross unto me: all of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver.

¹⁹ Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye are all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

²⁰ As they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you.

¹¹ But when the king came in to behold the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a wedding-garment:

¹² and he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding-garment? And he was speechless.

¹³ each man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself shall prove each man's work of what sort it is.