Zechariah 5:8

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And he saith, `This `is' the wicked woman.' And he casteth her unto the midst of the ephah, and casteth the weight of lead on its mouth.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 15:16 : 16 and the fourth generation doth turn back hither, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.'
  • Ps 38:4 : 4 For mine iniquities have passed over my head, As a heavy burden -- too heavy for me.
  • Prov 5:22 : 22 His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden.
  • Lam 1:14 : 14 Bound hath been the yoke of my transgressions by His hand, They are wrapped together, They have gone up on my neck, He hath caused my power to stumble, The Lord hath given me into hands, I am not able to rise.
  • Amos 9:1-4 : 1 I have seen the Lord standing by the altar, and He saith: `Smite the knob, and the thresholds shake, And cut them off by the head -- all of them, And their posterity with a sword I do slay, Not flee to them doth the fleer, Nor escape to them doth a fugitive. 2 If they dig through into sheol, From thence doth My hand take them, And if they go up the heavens, From thence I cause them to come down. 3 And if they be hid in the top of Carmel, From thence I search out, and have taken them, And if they be hid from Mine eyes in the bottom of the sea, From thence I command the serpent, And it hath bitten them. 4 And if they go into captivity before their enemies, From thence I command the sword, And it hath slain them, And I have set Mine eye on them for evil, And not for good.
  • Mic 6:11 : 11 Do I reckon `it' pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones?
  • Zech 5:7 : 7 And lo, a cake of lead lifted up; and this `is' a woman sitting in the midst of the ephah.'
  • Matt 23:32 : 32 and ye -- ye fill up the measure of your fathers.
  • 1 Thess 2:16 : 16 forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always, but the anger did come upon them -- to the end!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Zech 5:5-7
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    5And the messenger who is speaking with me goeth forth, and saith unto me, `Lift up, I pray thee, thine eyes, and see what `is' this that is coming forth?'

    6And I say, `What `is' it?' And he saith, `This -- the ephah that is coming forth.' And he saith, `This `is' their aspect in all the land.

    7And lo, a cake of lead lifted up; and this `is' a woman sitting in the midst of the ephah.'

  • Zech 5:9-10
    2 verses
    76%

    9And I lift up mine eyes, and see, and lo, two women are coming forth, and wind in their wings; and they have wings like wings of the stork, and they lift up the ephah between the earth and the heavens.

    10And I say unto the messenger who is speaking with me, `Whither `are' they causing the ephah to go?'

  • Mic 6:10-11
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    10Are there yet `in' the house of the wicked Treasures of wickedness, And the abhorred scanty ephah?

    11Do I reckon `it' pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones?

  • 1Balances of deceit `are' an abomination to Jehovah, And a perfect weight `is' His delight.

  • 10A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah, Even both of them `are' an abomination to Jehovah.

  • 11For it `is' a wicked thing, and a judicial iniquity;

  • 23An abomination to Jehovah `are' a stone and a stone, And balances of deceit `are' not good.

  • Amos 8:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

    4Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land,

    5Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit.

  • 9And He saith to me, `Go in, and see the evil abominations that they are doing here.'

  • 29The bellows have been burnt, By fire hath the lead been consumed, In vain hath a refiner refined, And the wicked have not been drawn away.

  • 27Weighed -- Thou art weighed in the balances, and hast been found lacking.

  • 13And He saith unto me, `Again thou dost turn, thou dost see great abominations that they are doing.'

  • 11A just beam and balances `are' Jehovah's, His work `are' all the stones of the bag.

  • 3And he saith unto me, `This `is' the execration that is going forth over the face of all the land, for every one who is stealing, on the one side, according to it, hath been declared innocent, and every one who hath sworn, on the other side, according to it, hath been declared innocent.

  • 2Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.

  • 30An astonishing and horrible thing hath been in the land.

  • 7Ye who are turning to wormwood judgment, And righteousness to the earth have put down,

  • 7As the digging of a well, is `for' its waters, So she hath digged `for' her wickedness, Violence and spoil is heard in her, Before My face continually `are' sickness and smiting.

  • 21And one strong messenger did take up a stone as a great millstone, and did cast `it' to the sea, saying, `Thus with violence shall Babylon be cast, the great city, and may not be found any more at all;

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    11And cause it to stand on its coals empty, So that its brass is hot and burning, Melted hath been in its midst its uncleanness, Consumed is its scum.

    12`With' sorrows she hath wearied herself, And the abundance of her scum goeth not out of her, In the fire `is' her scum.

  • 9And it hath come to pass, from the vileness of her fornication, that the land is defiled, and she committeth fornication with stone and with wood.

  • 10and He spreadeth it before me, and it is written in front and behind, and written on it `are' lamentations, and mourning, and wo!

  • 18Wo `to' those drawing out iniquity with cords of vanity, And as `with' thick ropes of the cart -- sin.

  • 16for the abomination of Jehovah thy God `is' any one doing these things, any one doing iniquity.

  • 13`Thou hast not in thy bag a stone and a stone, a great and a small.

  • 11Mischiefs `are' in its midst. Fraud and deceit depart not from its street.

  • Deut 17:4-5
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    67%

    4and it hath been declared to thee, and thou hast heard, and hast searched diligently, and lo, truth; the thing is established; this abomination hath been done in Israel --

    5`Then thou hast brought out that man, or that woman, who hath done this evil thing, unto thy gates -- the man or the woman -- and thou hast stoned them with stones, and they have died.

  • 17And the judgment of the wicked thou hast fulfilled, Judgment and justice are upheld -- because of fury,

  • 10Just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath -- ye have.

  • 14Lo, he travaileth `with' iniquity, And he hath conceived perverseness, And hath brought forth falsehood.

  • 7Canaan! in his hand `are' balances of deceit! To oppress he hath loved.

  • 18Thy way and thy doings have done these to thee, This `is' thy vexation, for `it is' bitter, For it hath struck unto thy heart.

  • 58Thy devices and thine abominations, Thou hast borne them, an affirmation of Jehovah.

  • 9And He saith unto me, `The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah `is' very very great, and the land is full of blood, and the city hath been full of perverseness, for they have said: Jehovah hath forsaken the land, and Jehovah is not seeing.

  • 17And He saith unto me, `Hast thou seen, son of man? hath it been a light thing to the house of Judah to do the abomination that they have done here, that they have filled the land with violence, and turn back to provoke Me to anger? and lo, they are putting forth the branch unto their nose!

  • 23A bribe from the bosom the wicked taketh, To turn aside the paths of judgment.

  • 16Thus said Jehovah, Lo, I am bringing in evil unto this place and on its inhabitants, all the words of the book that the king of Judah hath read,

  • 2O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together!

  • 8and the wrath of Jehovah is on Judah and Jerusalem, and He giveth them for a trembling, for an astonishment, and for a hissing, as ye are seeing with your eyes.

  • 23Declaring righteous the wicked for a bribe, And the righteousness of the righteous They turn aside from him.

  • 6And she changeth My judgments into wickedness more than the nations, And My statutes more than the lands that `are' round about her, For against My judgments they have kicked, And My statutes -- they have not walked in them.

  • 5Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Evil, a single evil, lo, it hath come.

  • 14and thou hast enquired, and searched, and asked diligently, and lo, truth; the thing is established; this abomination hath been done in thy midst: