Zechariah 5:8

King James Version 1611 (Original)

And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 15:16 : 16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
  • Ps 38:4 : 4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
  • Prov 5:22 : 22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
  • Lam 1:14 : 14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.
  • Amos 9:1-4 : 1 I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. 2 Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; 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 he 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 count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
  • Zech 5:7 : 7 And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sitteth 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 might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

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    7And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.

  • Zech 5:9-10
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    9Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the 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 the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?

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    1A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.

  • Prov 20:10
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    10Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.

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    11For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

  • Prov 20:23
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    23Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.

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

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    9And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.

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    29The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.

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

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  • Prov 16:11
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    11A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work.

  • Zech 5:3
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    30A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;

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    7Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

  • Jer 6:7
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  • Rev 18:21
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    21And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.

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    11Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.

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    13Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.

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    11Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

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