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1 Samuel 2:3

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“Stop acting so proud and haughty! Don’t speak with such arrogance! For the Lord is a God who knows what you have done; he will judge your actions.

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then hear from heaven where you live, and forgive. Give your people what their actions deserve, for you alone know each human heart.

Let God weigh me on the scales of justice, for he knows my integrity.

How great is our Lord! His power is absolute! His understanding is beyond comprehension!

They are without pity. Listen to their boasting!

Silence their lying lips— those proud and arrogant lips that accuse the godly.

God would surely have known it, for he knows the secrets of every heart.

Don’t raise your fists in defiance at the heavens or speak with such arrogance.’”

How long will they speak with arrogance? How long will these evil people boast?

People may be pure in their own eyes, but the Lord examines their motives.

Don’t excuse yourself by saying, “Look, we didn’t know.” For God understands all hearts, and he sees you. He who guards your soul knows you knew. He will repay all people as their actions deserve.

All who fear the Lord will hate evil. Therefore, I hate pride and arrogance, corruption and perverse speech.

But for those who are righteous, the way is not steep and rough. You are a God who does what is right, and you smooth out the path ahead of them.

“Whom have you been defying and ridiculing? Against whom did you raise your voice? At whom did you look with such haughty eyes? It was the Holy One of Israel!

But I, the Lord, search all hearts and examine secret motives. I give all people their due rewards, according to what their actions deserve.”

In saying that, you boasted proudly against me, and I have heard it all!

“Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and glorify and honor the King of heaven. All his acts are just and true, and he is able to humble the proud.”

Tekel means ‘weighed’—you have been weighed on the balances and have not measured up.

“You have said terrible things about me,” says the Lord. “But you say, ‘What do you mean? What have we said against you?’

For the word of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires.

“The Lord, the Mighty One, is God! The Lord, the Mighty One, is God! He knows the truth, and may Israel know it, too! We have not built the altar in treacherous rebellion against the Lord. If we have done so, do not spare our lives this day.

I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am the one who searches out the thoughts and intentions of every person. And I will give to each of you whatever you deserve.

Then Zebul turned on him and asked, “Now where is that big mouth of yours? Wasn’t it you that said, ‘Who is Abimelech, and why should we be his servants?’ The men you mocked are right outside the city! Go out and fight them!”

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Don’t judge by his appearance or height, for I have rejected him. The Lord doesn’t see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”




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