Zechariah 5:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Gen 15:16 : 16 But in the fourth generation they shall come here again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.
  • Ps 38:4 : 4 For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
  • Prov 5:22 : 22 His own iniquities shall capture the wicked, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins.
  • Lam 1:14 : 14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are woven together, and come upon my neck: he has made my strength to fall, the Lord has 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, Strike the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake; and cut them in the head, all of them. I will slay the last of them with the sword; he who flees from them shall not flee away, and he who escapes of them shall not be delivered. 2 Though they dig into hell, from there my hand will take them; though they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down. 3 And though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there; and though they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, from there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them. 4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies, from there I will command the sword, and it shall slay them; and I will set my eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.
  • Mic 6:11 : 11 Shall I count them pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
  • Zech 5:7 : 7 And, behold, there was lifted up a lead cover: and this is a woman sitting in the midst of the ephah.
  • Matt 23:32 : 32 Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers' guilt.
  • 1 Thess 2:16 : 16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always; but the wrath has come upon them to the utmost.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    5Then the angel who talked with me went forth, and said to me, Lift up now your eyes, and see what this is that goes forth.

    6And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goes forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance throughout the earth.

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

  • Zech 5:9-10
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    9Then I lifted up my 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 heavens.

    10Then I said to the angel who talked with me, Where do they carry the ephah?

  • Mic 6:10-11
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    74%

    10Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the short measure that is abominable?

    11Shall I count them 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 the LORD, but an accurate weight is His delight.

  • Prov 20:10
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    10Diverse weights and diverse measures, both of them are alike an abomination to the LORD.

  • Job 31:11
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    11For this would be a heinous crime; yes, it is an iniquity to be judged.

  • Prov 20:23
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    23Diverse weights are an abomination to the LORD, and a false balance is not good.

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

    5Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, making the ephah small and the shekel large, and falsifying the balances with deceit?

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

  • Jer 6:29
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    29The bellows blow fiercely, the lead is consumed by the fire; the refiner melts in vain, for the wicked are not removed.

  • Dan 5:27
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    27TEKEL: You have been weighed in the balances, and found wanting.

  • Ezek 8:13
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    13He said also to me, Turn yet again, and you shall see greater abominations that they do.

  • Prov 16:11
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    11A just weight and balance are the LORD's; all the weights in the bag are His work.

  • Zech 5:3
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    3Then he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole earth: for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on this side; and everyone who swears shall be cut off according to it on that side.

  • Ps 58:2
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    2Yes, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

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

  • Amos 5:7
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    7You who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

  • Jer 6:7
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    7As a fountain casts out her waters, so she casts out her wickedness; violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually are grief and wounds.

  • 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.

  • Ezek 24:11-12
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    67%

    11Then set it empty on its coals, that its bronze may be hot and may burn, and that its filthiness may be melted in it, that its scum may be consumed.

    12She has wearied herself with lies, and her great scum did not go out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.

  • Jer 3:9
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    9And it came to pass through the frivolity of her whoredom, that she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

  • Ezek 2:10
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    10And he spread it before me; and it was written on the inside and on the outside: and there was written in it lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

  • Isa 5:18
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    18Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as if with a cart rope:

  • Deut 25:16
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    16For all who do such things, and all who act unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD your God.

  • Deut 25:13
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    13You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a large and a small.

  • Ps 55:11
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    11Wickedness is in the midst of it; deceit and guile do not depart from its streets.

  • Deut 17:4-5
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    4and it is told to you, and you have heard of it and diligently inquired, and indeed it is true and certain that such an abomination has been committed in Israel,

    5then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has committed this wicked thing, and shall stone them with stones until they die.

  • Job 36:17
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    17But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you.

  • Ezek 45:10
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    10You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.

  • Ps 7:14
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    14Behold, he travails with iniquity, and has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

  • Hos 12:7
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    7He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand; he loves to oppress.

  • Jer 4:18
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    18Your way and your deeds have procured these things for you; this is your wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reaches to your heart.

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    58You have borne your lewdness and your abominations, says the LORD.

  • Ezek 9:9
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    9Then he said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD has forsaken the earth, and the LORD does not see.

  • Ezek 8:17
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    17Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it a trivial 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.

  • Prov 17:23
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    23A wicked man takes a bribe out of the bosom, to pervert the ways of justice.

  • 2 Kgs 22:16
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    16Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon its inhabitants, all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read:

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    2Oh, that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

  • 2 Chr 29:8
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    8Therefore, the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as you see with your eyes.

  • Isa 5:23
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    23Who justify the wicked for a reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

  • Ezek 5:6
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    6And she has changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries around her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.

  • Ezek 7:5
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    5Thus says the Lord GOD: An evil, a singular evil, behold, has come.

  • Deut 13:14
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    14Then shall you inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done among you;