Zechariah 5:8
And he said, This is Sin; and pushing her down into the ephah, he put the weight of lead on the mouth of it.
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- Gen 15:16 : 16 And in the fourth generation they will come back here; for at present the sin of the Amorite is not full.
- Ps 38:4 : 4 For my crimes have gone over my head; they are like a great weight which is more than my strength.
- Prov 5:22 : 22 The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.
- Lam 1:14 : 14 A watch is kept on my sins; they are joined together by his hand, they have come on to my neck; he has made my strength give way: the Lord has given me up into the hands of those against whom I have no power.
- Amos 9:1-4 : 1 I saw the Lord stationed by the side of the altar, giving blows to the tops of the pillars so that the doorsteps were shaking: and he said, I will let all of them be broken with earth-shocks; I will put the last of them to the sword: if any one of them goes in flight he will not get away, not one of them will be safe. 2 Even if they go deep into the underworld, my hand will take them up from there; if they go up to heaven, I will get them down: 3 Though they take cover on the top of Carmel, I will go in search of them and get them out; though they keep themselves from my eyes in the bed of the sea, I will give orders to the great snake there and he will give them a bite: 4 And though they are taken away as prisoners by their attackers, even there will I give orders to the sword to put them to death: my eyes will be fixed on them for evil and not for good.
- Mic 6:11 : 11 Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?
- Zech 5:7 : 7 And I saw a round cover of lead lifted up; and a woman was seated in the middle of the ephah.
- Matt 23:32 : 32 Make full, then, the measure of your fathers.
- 1 Thess 2:16 : 16 Who, to make the measure of their sins complete, kept us from giving the word of salvation to the Gentiles: but the wrath of God is about to come on them in the fullest degree.
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- Zech 5:5-73 verses90%
5 And the angel who was talking to me went out and said to me, Let your eyes be lifted up now, and see the ephah which is going out.
6 And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah which is going out. And he said further, This is their evil-doing in all the land.
7 And I saw a round cover of lead lifted up; and a woman was seated in the middle of the ephah.
- Zech 5:9-102 verses76%
9 And lifting up my eyes I saw two women coming out, and the wind was in their wings; and they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they took the ephah, lifting it up between earth and heaven.
10 And I said to the angel who was talking to me, Where are they taking the ephah?
- Mic 6:10-112 verses74%
10 Am I to let the stores of the evil-doer go out of my memory, and the short measure, which is cursed?
11 Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?
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1 Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight.
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10 Unequal weights and unequal measures, they are all disgusting to the Lord.
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11 For that would be a crime; it would be an act for which punishment would be measured out by the judges:
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23 Unequal weights are disgusting to the Lord, and false scales are not good.
- Amos 8:4-52 verses69%
4 Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,
5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do trade in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the market the produce of our fields? making the measure small and the price great, and trading falsely with scales of deceit;
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9 And he said to me, Go in and see the evil and disgusting things which they are doing here.
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29 The blower is blowing strongly, the lead is burned away in the fire: they go on heating the metal to no purpose, for the evil-doers are not taken away.
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27 Tekel; you have been put in the scales and seen to be under weight.
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13 Then he said to me, You will see even more disgusting things which they do.
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11 True measures and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work.
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3 Then he said to me, This is the curse which goes out over the face of all the land: for long enough has every thief gone without punishment, and long enough has every taker of false oaths gone without punishment.
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2 The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.
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30 A thing of wonder and fear has come about in the land;
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7 You who make the work of judging a bitter thing, crushing down righteousness to the earth;
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7 As the spring keeps its waters cold, so she keeps her evil in her: the sound of cruel and violent behaviour is in her; before me at all times are disease and wounds.
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21 And a strong angel took up a stone like the great stone with which grain is crushed, and sent it into the sea, saying, So, with a great fall, will Babylon, the great town, come to destruction, and will not be seen any more at all.
- Ezek 24:11-122 verses67%
11 And I will put her on the coals so that she may be heated and her brass burned, so that what is unclean in her may become soft and her waste be completely taken away.
12 I have made myself tired to no purpose: still all the waste which is in her has not come out, it has an evil smell.
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9 So that through all her loose behaviour the land became unclean, and she was untrue, giving herself to stones and trees.
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10 And he put it open before me, and it had writing on the front and on the back; words of grief and sorrow and trouble were recorded in it.
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18 Cursed are those who make use of ox-cords for pulling the evil thing, and the bands of a young ox for their sin!
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16 For all who do such things, and all whose ways are not upright, are disgusting to the Lord your God.
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13 Do not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small;
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11 Evil is there; cruel rule and deceit are ever in the streets.
- Deut 17:4-52 verses67%
4 If word of this comes to your ears, then let this thing be looked into with care, and if there is no doubt that it is true, and such evil has been done in Israel;
5 Then you are to take the man or woman who has done the evil to the public place of your town, and they are to be stoned with stones till they are dead.
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10 Have true scales and a true ephah and a true bath.
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14 That man is a worker of evil; the seed of wrongdoing has given birth to deceit.
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7 So then, come back to your God; keep mercy and right, and be waiting at all times on your God.
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18 Your ways and your doings have made these things come on you; this is your sin; truly it is bitter, going deep into your heart.
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58 The reward of your evil designs and your disgusting ways has come on you, says the Lord.
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9 Then he said to me, The sin of the children of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is full of blood and the town full of evil ways: for they say, The Lord has gone away from the land, and the Lord does not see.
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17 Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? is it a small thing to the children of Judah that they do the disgusting things which they are doing here? for they have made the land full of violent behaviour, making me angry again and again: and see, they put the branch to my nose.
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23 A sinner takes an offering out of his robe, to get a decision for himself in a cause.
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16 These are the words of the Lord: See, I will send evil on this place and on its people, even everything which the king of Judah has been reading in the book;
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2 If only my passion might be measured, and put into the scales against my trouble!
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8 And so the wrath of the Lord has come on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has given them up to be a cause of fear and wonder and shame, as your eyes have seen.
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23 Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.
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6 And she has gone against my orders by doing evil more than the nations, and against my rules more than the countries round her: for they have given up my orders, and as for my rules, they have not gone in the way of them.
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5 This is what the Lord has said: An evil, even one evil; see, it is coming.
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14 Then let a full search be made, and let questions be put with care; and if it is true and certain that such a disgusting thing has been done among you;