Micah 6:10
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
Micah 6:10 in other translations
| BSB | Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed? |
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| WEB | Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed? |
| ASV | Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a scant measure that is abominable? |
| YLT | Are there yet in the house of the wicked Treasures of wickedness, And the abhorred scanty ephah? |
| DARBY | Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure which is abominable? |
| BBE | Am I to let the stores of the evil-doer go out of my memory, and the short measure, which is cursed? |
| Webster | Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable? |
What does Micah 6:10 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Micah 6:9-16
God, having showed how necessary it was that they should do justly, here shows how plain it was that they had done unjustly. This voice of the Lord says to all, Hear the rod when it is coming, before you see it, and feel it. Hear the rod when it is come, and you are sensible of the smart; hear what counsels, what cautions it speaks. The voice of God is to be heard in the rod of God. Those who are dishonest in their…
Micah 6:10 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Micah 6:10
- Amos 3:10
For they know not to do right, saith the Lord, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
- Jeremiah 5:26-27
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
- Proverbs 20:10
Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.
- Amos 8:5-6
Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
- Proverbs 21:6
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
- Joshua 7:1
But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the Lord was kindled against the children of Israel.
- Hosea 12:7-8
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.
- Proverbs 20:23
Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord; and a false balance is not good.
- James 5:1-4
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
- Proverbs 10:2
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
- Ezekiel 45:9-12
Thus saith the Lord God; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord God. Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer. And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
- Leviticus 19:35-36
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jos 7:1; 2Ki 5:23,24; Pr 10:2; 21:6; Jer 5:26,27; Am 3:10
Hab 2:5-11; Zep 1:9; Zec 5:3,4; Jas 5:1-4
and.
Le 19:35,36; De 25:13-16; Pr 11:1; 20:10,23; Eze 45:9-12; Ho 12:7,8
Am 8:5,6
scant measure. Heb. measure of leanness.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain
Context
- Micah 6:9
The Lord’s voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.
- Micah 6:10
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
- Micah 6:11
Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
Micah 6:10 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¿Hay aún en casa del impío tesoros de impiedad, y medida escasa que es detestable? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Y a-t-il encore des trésors de méchanceté dans la maison du méchant, et un épha petit, chose maudite? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Sind noch im Hause des Gesetzlosen Schätze der Gesetzlosigkeit und das knappe, verfluchte Epha? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Adhuc ignis in domo impii thesauri iniquitatis, et mensura minor iræ plena. |