Zec 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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Shall I count {them} pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? {count...: or, be pure with, etc}
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.
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. {lintel: or, chapiter, or, knop} {cut...: or, wound them}
And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this {is} a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah. {talent: or, weighty piece}
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. {sins: Heb. sin}
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites {is} not yet full.
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.
But we are all as an unclean {thing}, and all our righteousnesses {are} as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.