Zechariah 5:8

American Standard Version (1901)

And he said, This is Wickedness: and he cast her down into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.

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  • Gen 15:16 : 16 And in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.
  • Ps 38:4 : 4 For mine iniquities are gone over my head: As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
  • Prov 5:22 : 22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
  • Lam 1:14 : 14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; They are knit together, they are come up upon my neck; He hath made my strength to fail: The Lord hath delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.
  • Amos 9:1-4 : 1 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar: and he said, Smite the capitals, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape. 2 Though they dig into Sheol, thence shall my hand take them; and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down. 3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and it shall bite them. 4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.
  • Mic 6:11 : 11 Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
  • Zech 5:7 : 7 (and, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead); and this is a woman sitting in the midst of the ephah.
  • Matt 23:32 : 32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
  • 1 Thess 2:16 : 16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always: but the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

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    5Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth.

    6And I said, What is it? And he said, This is the ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their appearance in all the land

    7(and, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead); and this is a woman sitting in the midst of the ephah.

  • Zech 5:9-10
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    9Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there came forth two women, and the wind was in their wings; now they had wings like the wings of a stork; and they lifted up the ephah between earth and heaven.

    10Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the ephah?

  • Mic 6:10-11
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    10Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a scant measure that is abominable?

    11Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

  • Prov 11:1
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    1A false balance is an abomination to Jehovah; But a just weight is his delight.

  • Prov 20:10
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    10Diverse weights, and diverse measures, Both of them alike are an abomination to Jehovah.

  • Job 31:11
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    11For that were a heinous crime; Yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges:

  • Prov 20:23
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    23Diverse weights are an abomination to Jehovah; And a false balance is not good.

  • Amos 8:4-5
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    4Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

    5saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;

  • Ezek 8:9
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    9And he said unto me, Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here.

  • Jer 6:29
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    29The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: in vain do they go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked away.

  • Dan 5:27
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    27TEKEL; thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

  • Ezek 8:13
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    13He said also unto me, Thou shalt again see yet other great abominations which they do.

  • Prov 16:11
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    11A just balance and scales are Jehovah's; All the weights of the bag are his work.

  • Zech 5:3
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    3Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole land: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off on the one side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off on the other side according to it.

  • Ps 58:2
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    2Nay, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

  • Jer 5:30
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    30A wonderful and horrible thing is come to pass in the land:

  • Amos 5:7
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    7Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,

  • Jer 6:7
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    7As a well casteth forth its waters, so she casteth forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.

  • Rev 18:21
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    21And a strong angel took up a stone as it were a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with a mighty fall shall Babylon, the great city, be cast down, and shall be found no more at all.

  • Ezek 24:11-12
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    11Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that it may be hot, and the brass thereof may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the rust of it may be consumed.

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  • Jer 3:9
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  • Ezek 2:10
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    10And he spread it before me: and it was written within and without; and there were written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

  • Isa 5:18
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    18Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and sin as it were with a cart rope;

  • Deut 25:16
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    16For all that do such things, [even] all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto Jehovah thy God.

  • Deut 25:13
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    13Thou shalt not have in thy bag diverse weights, a great and a small.

  • Ps 55:11
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    11Wickedness is in the midst thereof: Oppression and guile depart not from its streets.

  • Deut 17:4-5
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    4and it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, then shalt thou inquire diligently; and, behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel,

    5then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, who hath done this evil thing, unto thy gates, even the man or the woman; and thou shalt stone them to death with stones.

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    17But thou art full of the judgment of the wicked: Judgment and justice take hold [on thee] .

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    10Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.

  • Ps 7:14
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    14Behold, he travaileth with iniquity; Yea, he hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

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  • Jer 4:18
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    18Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reacheth unto thy heart.

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    17Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen [this], O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.

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    2Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!

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    6And she hath rebelled against mine ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are round about her; for they have rejected mine ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.

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