Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

Am I to let the stores of the evil-doer go out of my memory, and the short measure, which is cursed?

New American Standard Bible

“Is there yet a man in the wicked house,
Along with treasures of wickedness
And a short measure that is cursed?

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Are there still the treasures of wickedness
and the accursed short measure
in the house of the wicked?

International Standard Version

Are there still wicked treasures in the house of the wicked, along with deceitful and abominable measuring standards?

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


“Are there not still treasures gained by wickedness
In the house of the wicked,
And a short (inaccurate) measure [for grain] that is cursed?

Darby Translation

Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure which is abominable?

Julia Smith Translation

Are there yet treasures of injustice in the house of the unjust, and the ephah of leanness being cursed?

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Is there any longer a man [in] the house of the wicked treasures of wickedness, and the ephah of scarcity [which is] accursed?

Modern King James verseion

Are the treasures of wickedness still in the house of the wicked, and the short measure that is hateful?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Should I not be displeased, for the unrighteous good in the houses of the wicked and because the measure is diminished?

NET Bible

"I will not overlook, O sinful house, the dishonest gain you have hoarded away, or the smaller-than-standard measure I hate so much.

New Heart English Bible

Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?

The Emphasized Bible

Even yet, are there, in the house of the lawless one, the treasures of lawlessness, - and the scant measure - accurst?

Webster

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

World English Bible

Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?

Youngs Literal Translation

Are there yet in the house of the wicked Treasures of wickedness, And the abhorred scanty ephah?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אשׁ 
'ish 
Usage: 2

אוצר 
'owtsar 
Usage: 79

רשׁע 
Resha` 
Usage: 30

in the house
בּית 
Bayith 
Usage: 2053

of the wicked
רשׁע 
Rasha` 
Usage: 263

and the scant
רזון 
Razown 
Usage: 3

אפה איפה 
'eyphah 
Usage: 40

References

Hastings

Watsons

Context Readings

The Destruction Of The Wicked

9 The voice of the Lord is crying out to the town: Give ear, you tribes and the meeting of the town. 10 Am I to let the stores of the evil-doer go out of my memory, and the short measure, which is cursed? 11 Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?


Cross References

Amos 3:10

For they have no knowledge of how to do what is right, says the Lord, who are storing up violent acts and destruction in their great houses.

Jeremiah 5:26-27

For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.

Amos 8:5-6

Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do trade in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the market the produce of our fields? making the measure small and the price great, and trading falsely with scales of deceit;

Leviticus 19:35-36

Do not make false decisions in questions of yard-sticks and weights and measures.

Deuteronomy 25:13-16

Do not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small;

Joshua 7:1

But the children of Israel did wrong about the cursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the family of Judah, took of the cursed thing, moving the Lord to wrath against the children of Israel.

2 Kings 5:23-24

And Naaman said, Be good enough to take two talents. And forcing him to take them, he put two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and gave them to his two servants to take before him.

Proverbs 10:2

Wealth which comes from sin is of no profit, but righteousness gives salvation from death.

Proverbs 11:1

Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight.

Proverbs 20:10

Unequal weights and unequal measures, they are all disgusting to the Lord.

Proverbs 20:23

Unequal weights are disgusting to the Lord, and false scales are not good.

Proverbs 21:6

He who gets stores of wealth by a false tongue, is going after what is only breath, and searching for death.

Ezekiel 45:9-12

This is what the Lord has said: Let this be enough for you, O rulers of Israel: let there be an end of violent behaviour and wasting; do what is right, judging uprightly; let there be no more driving out of my people, says the Lord.

Hosea 12:7-8

As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways.

Habakkuk 2:5-11

A curse on the cruel and false one! the man full of pride, who never has enough; who makes his desires wide as the underworld! he is like death; he is never full, but he makes all nations come to him, getting all peoples together to himself.

Zephaniah 1:9

And in that day I will send punishment on all those who come jumping over the doorstep and make their master's house full of violent behaviour and deceit.

Zechariah 5:3-4

Then he said to me, This is the curse which goes out over the face of all the land: for long enough has every thief gone without punishment, and long enough has every taker of false oaths gone without punishment.

James 5:1-4

Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.

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