Micah 6:11

You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them; for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me;

A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.

A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.

“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.

if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases,

But there is forgiveness with you, therefore you are feared.

You show loving kindness to thousands, and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them. The great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Armies is your name:

Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.

You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, one heavy and one light.

Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

“You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath.

TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.

To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him.

Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to Yahweh of Armies; and all those who sacrifice will come and take of them, and cook in them. In that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of Yahweh of Armies.

for our God is a consuming fire.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”

Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.

and of cassia five hundred, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; and a hin of olive oil.

The priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh, and he will be forgiven concerning whatever he does to become guilty.”

“ ‘You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.

You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. I am Yahweh.”

Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away with them.

“The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows; and Israel shall know: if it was in rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh (don’t save us today),

Joshua said to the people, “You can’t serve Yahweh, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins.

“Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, for Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.

When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year’s end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king’s weight.

then hear in heaven, and act, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

“Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!

Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.

For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.

Honest balances and scales are Yahweh’s; all the weights in the bag are his work.

Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.

The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the wicked against the honorable.

The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.

“The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand. They are knit together. They have come up on my neck. He made my strength fail. The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,

By the abundance of your commerce, your insides were filled with violence, and you have sinned. Therefore I have cast you as profane out of God’s mountain. I have destroyed you, covering cherub, from the middle of the stones of fire.

I prayed to Yahweh my God, and made confession, and said, “Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments,

Ephraim surrounds me with falsehood, and the house of Israel with deceit. Judah still strays from God, and is unfaithful to the Holy One.

“But I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt. I will yet again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn feast.

They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;

Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”

Therefore, because you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

Saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;

Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.

(and behold, a talent of lead was lifted up); and this is a woman sitting in the middle of the ephah basket.”

He said, “This is Wickedness;” and he threw her down into the middle of the ephah basket; and he threw the weight of lead on its mouth.

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.

saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of robbers’!”

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.

that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”

He taught, saying to them, “Isn’t it written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations?’ But you have made it a den of robbers!”