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Contemporary English Version
Micah 6:11
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Can I excuse wicked scalesor bags of deceptive weights?
Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, And with a bag of deceitful weights?
Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitfull weights?
Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights?
"Can I justify dishonest balances, And a bag of fraudulent weights?
Can I forgive people who cheat others with wrong weights and scales?
"Can I [be guiltless and] justify deceptive scales And a bag of dishonest weights?
Shall I iustifie the wicked balances, and the bag of deceitfull weightes?
"Can I justify wicked scales And a bag of deceptive weights?
Can I purify wicked scalesAnd a bag of deceptive weights?
Can I excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights?
Should I declare innocent wicked scales and a bag of fraudulent weights?
Shall I be pure with the unjust balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
Some people carry special weights that they use to cheat people when they weigh their goods. Should I pardon them?
How can they justify themselves with the wicked scales and with the bag of deceitful weights?
How can I forgive those who use false scales and weights?
Shall I regard as pure the one with scales of wickedness, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
Shall I declare wicked balances to be pure, or a bag of stones of fraud?
Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?
'Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?'
Should I iustifie the false balaunces, and the bagge of deceitfull weightes?
Shall the wicked be justified by the balanced, or deceitful weights in the bag,
Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, And with a bag of deceitful weights?
Whether Y schal iustifie the wickid balaunce, and the gileful weiytis of litil sak,
Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
Shall I count [them] pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
I do not condone the use of rigged scales, or a bag of deceptive weights.
Shall I count pure those with the wicked scales, And with the bag of deceitful weights?
How can I tolerate your merchants who use dishonest scales and weights?
Can I make a man not guilty who lies and has false weights in his bag?
Can I tolerate wicked scales and a bag of dishonest weights?
Shall I be pure with lawless balances? or with bag of deceitful weights?
Shall I justify wicked balances, and the deceitful weights of the bag?
Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights?
Do I reckon [it] pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones?
Or shulde I iustfie the false balaunces and the bagge of disceatfull weightes,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
count them pure: or, be pure
the wicked: Hosea 12:7
the bag: Proverbs 16:11
Reciprocal: Exodus 20:15 - General Exodus 34:7 - that will by no means clear the guilty Deuteronomy 25:13 - in thy bag Job 31:6 - Let me be weighed in an even balance Proverbs 11:1 - A false balance is Proverbs 20:10 - both Jeremiah 5:27 - so are Ezekiel 22:13 - thy dishonest Ezekiel 45:10 - General Amos 8:5 - making James 2:6 - Do
Cross-References
More and more people were born, until finally they spread all over the earth. Some of their daughters were so beautiful that supernatural beings came down and married the ones they wanted.
The Lord told Noah: Take your whole family with you into the boat, because you are the only one on this earth who pleases me.
where the people were evil and sinned terribly against the Lord .
The Lord tests honest people, but despises those who are cruel and love violence.
Confuse my enemies, Lord! Upset their plans. Cruelty and violence are all I see in the city,
Chase those cruel liars away! Let trouble hunt them down.
Violence, destruction, and ruin will never again be heard of within your borders. "Victory" will be the name you give to your walls; "Praise" will be the name you give to your gates.
Evil pours from your city like water from a spring. Sounds of violent crimes echo within your walls; victims are everywhere, wounded and dying.
God said, "Ezekiel, it's bad enough that the people of Judah are doing these disgusting things. But they have also spread violence and injustice everywhere in Israel and have made me very angry. They have disgraced and insulted me in the worst possible way.
You traded with other nations and became more and more cruel and evil. So I forced you to leave my mountain, and the creature that had been your protector now chased you away from the gems.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Shall I count [them] pure with the wicked balances,.... These are the words either of the prophet, or rather of God, signifying that he could not, and would not, allow, countenance, and approve of persons that used false scales or balances; or justify and reckon them just, as they would be thought to be, but condemn them, and pronounce them very wicked men, and deserving of punishment here and hereafter:
and with the bag of deceitful weights? or "stones" o; which were used in weighing goods, and which were deceitful, when a heavier was used in buying, and a lighter in selling. So the Targum,
"and with the bag, in which are weights greater and lesser;''
condemned in Deuteronomy 25:13.
o אבני מרמה "lapidum doli", Piscator; "lapidum fraudis", Montanus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Shall I count them pure? - Rather, (as the English margin) “Shall I be pure?” The prophet takes for the time their person and bids them judge themselves in him. If it would defile me, how are ye, with all your other sins, not defiled? All these things were expressly forbidden in the law. “Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in mete-yard, in weight or in measure. Just balances, just weights, a just ephah and a just him, shall ye have” Leviticus 19:35-36; and, “Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small. For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteousness are an abomination unto the Lord thy God” (Deuteronomy 25:13, Deuteronomy 25:15-16, add Proverbs 11:1; Proverbs 16:11; Proverbs 20:10). Yet are not these things common even now?
