Holy Scripture

Micah 6:11

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 10 and following). Listen, you who are wise, and who will approve of it? The fire is still burning in the house of the wicked, the treasure of impiety, and the measure of anger is not yet full. Shall I justify the wicked scales and the deceitful weights of the bag? In them, her rich ones are filled with iniquit…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Micah

Source: Septuagint

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11Shall the wicked be justified by the balance, or deceitful weights in the bag,

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In context

9The Lord’s voice shall be proclaimed in the city, and he shall save those that fear his name: hear, O tribe; and who shall order the city?

10Is there not fire, and the house of the wicked heaping up wicked treasures, and that with the pride of unrighteousness?

— Micah 6:11 —

12whereby they have accumulated their ungodly wealth, and they that dwell in the city have uttered falsehoods, and their tongue has been exalted in their mouth?

13Therefore will I begin to smite thee; I will destroy thee in thy sins.

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