²⁷ Tekel; you have been put in the scales and seen to be under weight.

⁹ 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.

⁶ (Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:)

³⁰ They will be named waste silver, because the Lord has given them up.

¹⁸ Son of man, the children of Israel have become like the poorest sort of waste metal to me: they are all silver and brass and tin and iron and lead mixed with waste.

¹⁹ For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have all become waste metal, see, I will get you together inside Jerusalem.

²⁰ As they put silver and brass and iron and lead and tin together inside the oven, heating up the fire on it to make it soft; so will I get you together in my wrath and in my passion, and, heating the fire with my breath, will make you soft.

¹¹ But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a guest's robe;

¹² And he says to him, Friend, how came you in here not having a guest's robe? And he had nothing to say.

¹³ Every man's work will be made clear in that day, because it will be tested by fire; and the fire itself will make clear the quality of every man's work.