Zechariah 5:8
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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- Zech 5:5-73 verses90%
5 ¶ Then 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.
6 And I said, What [is] it? And he said, This [is] an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This [is] their resemblance through all the earth.
7 And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this [is] a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.
- Zech 5:9-102 verses76%
9 Then 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.
10 Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the ephah?
- Mic 6:10-112 verses74%
10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure [that is] abominable?
11 Shall I count [them] pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
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1 ¶ A false balance [is] abomination to the LORD: but a just weight [is] his delight.
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10 ¶ Divers weights, [and] divers measures, both of them [are] alike abomination to the LORD.
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11 For this [is] an heinous crime; yea, it [is] an iniquity [to be punished by] the judges.
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23 ¶ Divers weights [are] an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance [is] not good.
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4 ¶ Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
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9 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
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29 The 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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27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
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13 ¶ He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, [and] thou shalt see greater abominations that they do.
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11 ¶ A just weight and balance [are] the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag [are] his work.
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3 Then said he unto me, This [is] the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off [as] on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off [as] on that side according to it.
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2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
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30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
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7 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
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7 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually [is] grief and wounds.
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21 And 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.
- Ezek 24:11-122 verses67%
11 Then 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.
12 She hath wearied [herself] with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum [shall be] in the fire.
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9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
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10 And he spread it before me; and it [was] written within and without: and [there was] written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
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18 ¶ Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
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16 For all that do such things, [and] all that do unrighteously, [are] an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
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13 ¶ Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
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11 Wickedness [is] in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
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4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard [of it], and enquired diligently, and, behold, [it be] true, [and] the thing certain, [that] such abomination is wrought in Israel:
5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, [even] that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
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17 But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold [on thee].
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10 Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
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14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
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7 ¶ [He is] a merchant, the balances of deceit [are] in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
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18 Thy way and thy doings have procured these [things] unto thee; this [is] thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.
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58 Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD.
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9 Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah [is] exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.
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17 Then 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 returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.
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23 ¶ A wicked [man] taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
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16 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, [even] all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read:
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2 Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
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8 Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
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23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
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6 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that [are] round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
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5 Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.
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14 Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, [if it be] truth, [and] the thing certain, [that] such abomination is wrought among you;