Zechariah 5:8
He then said,“This woman represents wickedness,” and he pushed her down into the basket and placed the lead cover on top.
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- Gen 15:16 : 16 In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit.”
- Ps 38:4 : 4 For my sins overwhelm me; like a heavy load, they are too much for me to bear.
- Prov 5:22 : 22 The wicked will be captured by his own iniquities, and he will be held by the cords of his own sin.
- Lam 1:14 : 14 נ(Nun) My sins are bound around my neck like a yoke; they are fastened together by his hand. He has placed his yoke on my neck; he has sapped my strength. The Lord has handed me over to those whom I cannot resist.
- Amos 9:1-4 : 1 I saw the Lord standing by the altar and he said,“Strike the tops of the support pillars, so the thresholds shake! Knock them down on the heads of all the people, and I will kill the survivors with the sword. No one will be able to run away; no one will be able to escape. 2 Even if they could dig down into the netherworld, my hand would pull them up from there. Even if they could climb up to heaven, I would drag them down from there. 3 Even if they were to hide on the top of Mount Carmel, I would hunt them down and take them from there. Even if they tried to hide from me at the bottom of the sea, from there I would command the Sea Serpent to bite them. 4 Even when their enemies drive them into captivity, from there I will command the sword to kill them. I will not let them out of my sight; they will experience disaster, not prosperity.”
- Mic 6:11 : 11 I do not condone the use of rigged scales, or a bag of deceptive weights.
- Zech 5:7 : 7 Then a round lead cover was raised up, revealing a woman sitting inside the basket.
- Matt 23:32 : 32 Fill up then the measure of your ancestors!
- 1 Thess 2:16 : 16 because they hinder us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they constantly fill up their measure of sins, but wrath has come upon them completely.
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5 Vision Seven: The Ephah After this the angelic messenger who had been speaking to me went out and said,“Look, see what is leaving.”
6 I asked,“What is it?” And he replied,“It is a basket for measuring grain that is moving away from here.” Moreover, he said,“This is their‘eye’ throughout all the earth.”
7 Then a round lead cover was raised up, revealing a woman sitting inside the basket.
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9 Then I looked again and saw two women going forth with the wind in their wings(they had wings like those of a stork) and they lifted up the basket between the earth and the sky.
10 I asked the messenger who was speaking to me,“Where are they taking the basket?”
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10 “I will not overlook, O sinful house, the dishonest gain you have hoarded away, or the smaller-than-standard measure I hate so much.
11 I do not condone the use of rigged scales, or a bag of deceptive weights.
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1 The LORD abhors dishonest scales, but an accurate weight is his delight.
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10 Diverse weights and diverse measures– the LORD abhors both of them.
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11 For I would have committed a shameful act, an iniquity to be judged.
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23 The LORD abhors differing weights, and dishonest scales are wicked.
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4 Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land.
5 You say,“When will the new moon festival be over, so we can sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, so we can open up the grain bins? We’re eager to sell less for a higher price, and to cheat the buyer with rigged scales!
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9 He said to me,“Go in and see the evil abominations they are practicing here.”
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29 The fiery bellows of judgment burn fiercely. But there is too much dross to be removed. The process of refining them has proved useless. The wicked have not been purged.
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27 As for teqel– you are weighed on the balances and found to be lacking.
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13 He said to me,“You will see them practicing even greater abominations!”
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11 Honest scales and balances are from the LORD; all the weights in the bag are his handiwork.
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3 The speaker went on to say,“This is a curse traveling across the whole earth. For example, according to the curse whoever steals will be removed from the community; or on the other hand(according to the curse) whoever swears falsely will suffer the same fate.”
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2 No! You plan how to do what is unjust; you deal out violence in the earth.
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30 “Something horrible and shocking is going on in the land of Judah:
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7 The Israelites turn justice into bitterness; they throw what is fair and right to the ground.
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7 As a well continually pours out fresh water so it continually pours out wicked deeds. Sounds of violence and destruction echo throughout it. All I see are sick and wounded people.’
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21 Then one powerful angel picked up a stone like a huge millstone, threw it into the sea, and said,“With this kind of sudden violent force Babylon the great city will be thrown down and it will never be found again!
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11 Set the empty pot on the coals, until it becomes hot and its copper glows, until its uncleanness melts within it and its rot is consumed.
12 It has tried my patience; yet its thick rot is not removed from it. Subject its rot to the fire!
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9 Because she took her prostitution so lightly, she defiled the land through her adulterous worship of gods made of wood and stone.
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10 He unrolled it before me, and it had writing on the front and back; written on it were laments, mourning, and woe.
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18 Beware, those who pull evil along using cords of emptiness are as good as dead, who pull sin as with cart ropes.
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16 For anyone who acts dishonestly in these ways is abhorrent to the LORD your God.
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13 You must not have in your bag different stone weights, a heavy and a light one.
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11 Disaster is within it; violence and deceit do not depart from its public square.
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4 When it is reported to you and you hear about it, you must investigate carefully. If it is indeed true that such a disgraceful thing is being done in Israel,
5 you must bring to your city gates that man or woman who has done this wicked thing– that very man or woman– and you must stone that person to death.
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17 But now you are preoccupied with the judgment due the wicked, judgment and justice take hold of you.
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10 You must use just balances, a just dry measure(an ephah), and a just liquid measure(a bath).
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14 See the one who is pregnant with wickedness, who conceives destructive plans, and gives birth to harmful lies–
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7 The Lord Refutes Israel’s False Claim of Innocence The businessmen love to cheat; they use dishonest scales.
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18 “The way you have lived and the things you have done will bring this on you. This is the punishment you deserve, and it will be painful indeed. The pain will be so bad it will pierce your heart.”
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58 You must bear your punishment for your obscene conduct and your abominable practices, declares the LORD.
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9 He said to me,“The sin of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great; the land is full of murder, and the city is full of corruption, for they say,‘The LORD has abandoned the land, and the LORD does not see!’
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17 He said to me,“Do you see, son of man? Is it a trivial thing that the house of Judah commits these abominations they are practicing here? For they have filled the land with violence and provoked me to anger still further. Look, they are putting the branch to their nose!
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23 A wicked person receives a bribe secretly to pervert the ways of justice.
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16 “This is what the LORD has said:‘I am about to bring disaster on this place and its residents, all the things in the scroll which the king of Judah has read.
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2 “Oh, if only my grief could be weighed, and my misfortune laid on the scales too!
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8 The LORD was angry at Judah and Jerusalem and made them an appalling object of horror at which people hiss out their scorn, as you can see with your own eyes.
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23 They pronounce the guilty innocent for a payoff, they ignore the just cause of the innocent.
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6 Then she defied my regulations and my statutes, becoming more wicked than the nations and the countries around her. Indeed, they have rejected my regulations, and they do not follow my statutes.
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5 “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: A disaster– a one-of-a-kind disaster– is coming!
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14 You must investigate thoroughly and inquire carefully. If it is indeed true that such a disgraceful thing is being done among you,