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Because you have (A)taken many nations as spoil,
All that is left of the peoples will take you as spoil—
Because of human bloodshed and violence [a]done to the land,
To the town and all its inhabitants.

“Woe to him who is greedy for (B)evil gain for his house
To (C)put his nest on high,
To be delivered from the hand of evil!
10 You have counseled a (D)shameful thing for your house
By cutting off many peoples;
So you are (E)sinning against your own soul.

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  1. Habakkuk 2:8 Lit of the land

And I will punish on that day all who leap on the temple threshold,
Who fill the house of their [a]Lord with (A)violence and deceit.

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  1. Zephaniah 1:9 Or lord

Then he said to me, “This is the (A)curse that is going forth over the face of the whole [a]land; surely everyone who (B)steals will be [b]purged away according to [c]the writing on one side, and everyone who (C)swears will be [d]purged away according to the writing on the other side. I will (D)make it go forth,” declares Yahweh of hosts, “and it will (E)enter the house of the (F)thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by My name; and it will spend the night within that house and (G)consume it with its timber and stones.”

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  1. Zechariah 5:3 Or earth
  2. Zechariah 5:3 Lit free (from covenant community), cf. Gen 24:8, 41
  3. Zechariah 5:3 Lit it
  4. Zechariah 5:3 Lit free (from covenant community), cf. Gen 24:8, 41