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The Lord All-Powerful says, ‘I will send that scroll to the houses of thieves and people who lie when they use my name to make promises. That scroll will settle there and destroy even the stones and wooden posts of their houses.’”

The Woman and the Bucket

The angel who was talking to me went outside and said, “Look! What do you see coming?”

I said, “I don’t know. What is it?”

He said, “That is a measuring bucket.” He also said, “That bucket is for measuring the sins[a] of the people in this country.”

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 5:6 sins The Hebrew text has “their eye,” but with a minor change of one character it becomes “their guilt.”

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