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Then he said to me: “This is the curse which is to go forth over the whole land. According to it, every thief and every perjurer[a] will be expelled. I will send it forth—oracle of the Lord of hosts—so that it will come to the house of the thief, and into the house of the one who swears falsely by my name.(A) It shall lodge within each house, consuming it, timber and stones.”

Sixth Vision: The Basket of Wickedness. Then the angel who spoke with me came forward and said to me, “Raise your eyes and look. What is this that comes forth?”

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Footnotes

  1. 5:3 Thief…perjurer: a pair of miscreants representing all those who disobey God’s covenant (see note on v. 2) and who must therefore be punished according to covenant curses.