And he said to me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a flying (A)scroll. Its length is twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 5:2 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters

And he said to me, “What do you see?” I said, “I see, and behold, (A)a lampstand all of gold, with a bowl on the top of it, and (B)seven lamps on it, with seven lips on each of the lamps that are on the top of it.

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14 (A)The great day of the Lord is near,
    near and hastening fast;
the sound of the day of the Lord is bitter;
    (B)the mighty man cries aloud there.

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And the Lord said to me, (A)“Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said,

“Behold, I am setting (B)a plumb line
    in the midst of my people Israel;
    (C)I will never again pass by them;

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11 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, (A)“Jeremiah, what do you see?” And I said, “I see an almond[a] branch.” 12 Then the Lord said to me, “You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it.”

13 The word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see (B)a boiling pot, facing away (C)from the north.” 14 Then the Lord said to me, (D)“Out of the north disaster[b] shall be let loose upon all the inhabitants of the land.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 1:11 Almond sounds like the Hebrew for watching (compare verse 12)
  2. Jeremiah 1:14 The Hebrew word can mean evil, harm, or disaster, depending on the context; so throughout Jeremiah

11 Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence. 12 And God (A)saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, (B)for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth. 13 And God said to Noah, (C)“I have determined to make an end of all flesh,[a] for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

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  1. Genesis 6:13 Hebrew The end of all flesh has come before me

for (A)her sins are heaped high as heaven,
    and (B)God has remembered her iniquities.

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And (A)in their greed they will exploit you (B)with false words. (C)Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

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