Zechariah 8:17 Cross References - Thomson

¹⁷ and devise not evil in your hearts every one against his neighbour; and love not a false oath: for all these things I hate, saith the Lord Almighty.

⁵ nor shall transgressors continue in thy presence. Thou Lord, hatest all the workers of iniquity: ⁶ thou wilt destroy all them who speak lies; a bloody and deceitful man the Lord abhorreth.

³ Because the sinner is praised for the desires of his soul; therefore he who committeth injustice is blessed.

²⁹ Devise not evils against thy friend; who sojourneth with thee and confideth in thee.

¹⁴ his depraved heart contriveth mischief. Such a one is continually raising tumults in a city.

¹⁶ Because he delighteth in all those things which God hateth: therefore he is destroyed for the depravity of his soul. ¹⁷ His eye is that of a scorner; his tongue is false; his hands are employed in shedding innocent blood; ¹⁸ his heart contriveth wicked purposes, and his feet are swift to do evil: ¹⁹ as a false witness he spreadeth lies, and soweth discord among brethren.

¹³ The fear of the Lord hateth injustice and insolence and haughtiness and the ways of the wicked: and I have hated the crooked ways of bad men.

² As the Lord liveth" with truth in judgment and justice: then shall the nations bless by him, and by him praise God in Jerusalem.

¹⁴ Jerusalem! wash thy heart from wickedness that thou mayst be saved. How long do ill grounded reasonings for thy troubles remain in thee?

⁴ Though I sent to you my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Do not commit this abominable thing which I hate;

¹ They planned mischief; they contrived evils on their beds, and soon as it was day they executed them; for they did not lift up their hands to God. ² They coveted fields and plundered orphans and tyrannised over houses; they plundered a man and his household; a man and his inheritance; ³ therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold against this tribe I am planning evils, from which you shall not withdraw your necks, nor walk erect suddenly. Because it is an evil time,

¹³ Thine eye is too pure to behold wicked deeds, or to look on the labours of sorrow. Why lookest thou upon despisers? Wilt thou be silent when the wicked swallow up the righteous?

³ Whereupon he said to me, This is the curse which is going forth over the face of the whole earth. Since every thief on the one hand is to be punished with death, and every false swearer on the other hand is to be punished; ⁴ therefore I will bring it out saith the Lord Almighty; and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who sweareth by my name to a falsehood; and it shall lodge in his house, and destroy it with the timber and the stones thereof.

¹⁰ and oppress not the widow, nor the orphan, nor the stranger, nor the poor; and let none treasure up in his heart for evil an injury done by his brother;

⁵ And I will bring to judgment before you and be a swift witness against sorcerers, and against adulteresses, and against them who swear by my name to a falsehood, and against them who deprive the hireling of his wages, and them who oppress the widow, and them who buffet the fatherless, and them who turn aside the cause of the stranger, and them who do not fear me, saith the Lord Almighty.

²⁸ But I say to you, whoever looketh on a married woman so as to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.

³⁵ The good man out of the good treasure of his heart produceth good things; and the bad man, out of his bad treasure produceth bad things.

¹⁹ For out of the heart come malicious surmises, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, calumnies.