10Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
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For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? …
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. …
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-16)God, having shown them how necessary it was that they should do justly, here shows them how plain it was that they had done unjustly; and since they submitted not to his controversy, nor went the right way to have it taken up, here he proceeds in it. Observe, I. How the action is entered against them, Mic. 6:9. God speaks to the city , to Jerusalem, to Samaria. His voice cries to it by his servant…
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