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Good News Translation
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?
But I, the Lord , will punish you for cheating with weights and with measures.
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?
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
When people had spread all over the world, and daughters were being born,
some of the heavenly beings saw that these young women were beautiful, so they took the ones they liked.
The Lord said to Noah, "Go into the boat with your whole family; I have found that you are the only one in all the world who does what is right.
By the Lord 's help he was a great hunter, and that is why people say, "May the Lord make you as great a hunter as Nimrod!"
whose people were wicked and sinned against the Lord .
and you repented and humbled yourself before me, tearing your clothes and weeping, when you heard how I threatened to punish Jerusalem and its people. I have heard your prayer,
He examines the good and the wicked alike; the lawless he hates with all his heart.
Confuse the speech of my enemies, O Lord! I see violence and riots in the city,
May those who accuse others falsely not succeed; may evil overtake violent people and destroy them.
The sounds of violence will be heard no more; Destruction will not shatter your country again. I will protect and defend you like a wall; You will praise me because I have saved you.
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?
