Zechariah · Brenton's English Septuagint
Zechariah 5 Brenton's English Septuagint
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Notes on this text (2)
- Square brackets mark words Brenton supplied for English sense.
- Old Testament only (no New Testament). First printed 1844; the 1851 edition added the deuterocanonical books.
Zechariah is not in PT1904.
1 And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked and behold a flying sickle.
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2 And he said to me, What seest thou? And I said, I see a flying sickle, of the length of twenty cubits, and of the breadth of ten cubits.
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3 And he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole earth: for every thief shall be punished with death on this side, and every false swearer shall be punished on that side.
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4 And I will bring it forth, saith the Lord Almighty, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that swears falsely by my name: and it shall rest in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, and the timber of it, and the stones of it.
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5 And the angel that talked with me went forth, and said to me, Lift up thine eyes, and see this that goes forth.
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6 And I said, What is it? And he said, This is the measure that goes forth. And he said, This is their iniquity in all the earth.
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7 And behold a talent of lead lifted up: and behold a woman sat in the midst of the measure.
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8 And he said, This is iniquity. And he cast it into the midst of the measure, and cast the weight of lead on the mouth of it.
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9 And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, two women coming forth, and the wind was in their wings; and they had stork's wings: and they lifted up the measure between the earth and the sky.
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10 And I said to the angel that spoke with me, Whither do these carry away the measure?
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11 And he said to me, To build it a house in the land of Babylon, and to prepare [a place for it]; and they shall set it there on its own base.
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Cross references (10)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Zechariah 5:2; Ezekiel 2:9–10; Isaiah 8:1; Jeremiah 36:1–6; Revelation 10:8–11
- 2 Zephaniah 1:14; Genesis 6:11–13; Jeremiah 1:11–14; Amos 7:8; Zechariah 4:2
- 3 Exodus 20:15; Isaiah 48:1; Isaiah 43:28; James 5:12; Isaiah 24:6
- 4 Proverbs 3:33; Habakkuk 2:9–11; Malachi 3:5; Leviticus 14:34–45; Job 18:15
- 5 Zechariah 1:9; Zechariah 4:5; Zechariah 1:14; Zechariah 1:19; Zechariah 2:3
- 6 Amos 8:5; Ezekiel 44:10–11
- 7 Revelation 17:1–18; Ezekiel 23:1–49; Jeremiah 3:1–2; Isaiah 15:1; Isaiah 13:1
- 8 Micah 6:11; Matthew 23:32; Zechariah 5:7; Amos 9:1–4; Genesis 15:16
- 9 Hosea 8:1; Daniel 9:26–27; Deuteronomy 28:49; Leviticus 11:19; Matthew 24:28
- 11 Genesis 11:2; Genesis 10:10; Daniel 1:2; Genesis 14:1; Isaiah 11:11
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